Compassion is not a good tool without a prompting instance to utilize it.
It isn't a good legislative or administrative tool.
President Bush could give himself his own opportunity to demonstrate that compassion that an honest conservative holds and to satisfy the mass of conservatives and deal with the immigration crisis.
He should follow the Eisenhower Plan.
First he announces that since a consensus does not exist, he has no choice but to enforce the law. Take an outstanding military man and put him in charge of BP & ICE and give him a free hand to implement the existing laws.
Then, wait ONE WEEK, no more and no less. After the controversy has arisen but not been answered, announce that he is implementing the second half of his administration's form of the Eisenhower-Bush Plan.
At that point set up a Special Master with staff to quickly hear and recommend the form of Compassionate Conservatism that he made a center-point of his Presidency.
If the laws are being strongly enforced, if the fence is going in, if the catch-and-release is stopped, if the illegal employment is getting hammered by the existing laws and if deportations of the illegals are underway, then I don't have a single problem with extensive charitable mercy by a commission headed by a special magistrate recommending that this family, or this person, based upon the facts, be granted resident status, special treatment, or protection from a deportation that would be a gross injustice.
Now, keep in mind I am not recomending a judicial proceeding that can get mired in appeals and reviews. Instead, the Pardon and Commutation powers of the President will be used to simply grant that charitable and brotherly treatment that the President feels so strongly about as a former border state Governor and as a man with strong ties to cross border sentiments.
The first part of the plan cleans up the mess underway and brings it to a stop. It is strong because it draws on history. The second half of the plan satisfies his adminstration's critics on the left that will arise as soon as the first half is annouced as the general public has had years to be convinced of his charitable leanings in this issue.
First hundreds and then thousands of instances of just and compassionate treatment can blunt the issue that millions aren't being allowed to economically devistate our economy and tax base. Criminals, scofflaws, and people that should not be here can be safely ignored by a magistrate heading a commission of this nature.
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I actually like and admire a good number of the economic driven illegal immigrants that I have come into contact with in the construction trades. I understand that many of these people would be a credit to our immigration history if given the chance.
The chance consists of being allowed to stay when to bulk of the problem is being addressed the way it should have been by the last 21 years of government functionary refusal to deal with the issue attitude.
I don't care if we pardon, commute or specialy treat a hundred thousand or a million or two of them under this process -- we are a big nation and we can deal with it.
Once the process starts, half the twelve million will go home of their own accord knowing that their chances are non-existant due to the nature of how and why they are here.
This Eisenhower Bush plan doesn't need Congress, two appointments take care of it. No new laws are needed. It is implementable without even getting a new appointment of a BP-ICE head confirmed.
George, I have been very dissappointed. Be bold. Make me proud.
All aspects are realistic and practical. There is only one real obstacle. George Bush. He *wants* the Mexican influx.
What motivates him and his reasoning processes is unknown to me, and in some ways I don’t care. But I don’t believe it is “compassion”. And in a way it doesn’t matter.
As you have outlined, we know how to keep them out. What we don’t know is how to get Bush and our government to actually do it.
He put an airborne general in charge and put employers back in their place--and put illegals way back in their place.
Bush has no intention of enforcing the border. Never has; never will.
Tancredo asking, "Why do they fear enforcement?"
Because they're all on the take from businessmen who slash their labor costs by hiring illegals--it's that simple.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
THANKS FOR SANITY in this mess.
While Eisenhower’s plan might not be as effective today (because even Mexico has better methods to move about the country than it did in the ‘50’s), it sure makes more sense than does simple catch and release:
>”Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
The sea voyage was “a rough trip, and they did not like it,” says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.<
About 1000 clones of old Bill Jordan would solve all this crap.....
Congrats to all who called and harassed their polidiots and congresscritters in person on that Immigration BS bill.
Keep up the heat......... IMHO we get rid of the sugar on the counter we get rid of the sugar ants that are drawn to it.
Fine and imprison those who employ illegals from any country !
Maybe we call this operation “Sugar Ant”...........:o)
I'm sthere are lots of agents still serving from 53 years ago, huh?
“As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.”
And those were the ‘good old days’.
Tardping?
I've been thinking that this is the problem with Bush, he has good intentions but bad administrative skills, mainly because he refuses to see the negative in his enemies.
I've been thinking that this is the problem with Bush, he has good intentions but bad administrative skills, mainly because he refuses to see the negative in anyone, including his enemies.
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