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To: Rb ver. 2.0
“Or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all.”

So what are you waiting for, sir?

3 posted on 05/29/2007 10:16:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
Yes. The President needs to remember that famous phrase: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck."

It applies to Amnesty too!
43 posted on 05/29/2007 10:24:44 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: mewzilla
“The fundamental question is, will elected officials have the courage necessary to put a comprehensive immigration plan in place,”

No, the fundamental question is will elected officials enforce the laws already on the books before they ask us to admit 20 or 30 or 40 million new citizens, many of whom may not be candidates to become good citizens, most of whom do not speak English and a large share of whom are likely to cost society more in taxpayer financed benefits than they can ever hope to contribute in taxes.

There is a middle ground between deporting everyone and giving everyone amnesty. You, Mr. President, need to find that middle ground and not just cater to one extreme by demonizing your opposition.

Let's start by telling the truth-- selling American citizenship for token fines is still amnesty. You might be a little more honest by calling it conditional amnesty, but it is amnesty nevertheless.

You might get a little more support by giving middle America, on whom most of the costs of your legislation will fall, at least as much input in writing it as the Mexican govenment, MALDEF, MECHA, La Raza and other pressure groups who will reap most of the benefits from what the rest of us will be forced to pay for.

114 posted on 05/29/2007 10:44:23 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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He has had almost 2 full terms and then has the nerve to throw that BS at us?
He makes me sick.


238 posted on 05/29/2007 11:36:13 AM PDT by sheana
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To: mewzilla

Wait. I’m confused. I thought they “solved this problem once and for all” in 1986.

Fool me once...


503 posted on 05/29/2007 8:10:26 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican party is dead! Let's start over.)
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