Posted on 06/15/2007 5:58:42 PM PDT by kellynla
White House spokesman Tony Snow ran into a little more than he perhaps was expecting when he appeared on the Laura Ingraham show, as she relentlessly asked the American public's No. 1 question: What is the U.S. government doing to stop the invasion from Mexico?
"Sixty-nine percent of Americans, 85 percent of the GOP, 55 percent of the Democrats want the border enforced," said Ingraham. "Does that affect you guys, or do you guys just blow it off?"
Snow repeated, several times, the Bush administration's talking points on the issue – how the failed comprehensive immigration reform bill, which fell far short on its last test in the U.S. Senate, would secure the borders, require illegal aliens to pay a fine and require them to "keep their noses clean," and learn English.
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But Ingraham, who worked as a speechwriter for two years in the Reagan administration and later served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas before launching "The Laura Ingraham Show" in 2001, wasn't letting him off the hook.
"Eight-five of the GOP doesn't like what the White House is doing on this," she said. "You're talking the base of this party."
Ingraham, after graduating from Dartmouth, also worked at the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education before serving as notes editor for Law Review. She also worked as a white-collar criminal defense attorney, and is an author, columnist and commentator.
Her latest book, "Shut Up & Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics … and the U.N. are Subverting America," is a best-seller.
She pointed out, when Snow noted that illegals probably are not creating a huge impact on job availability, that following a recent raid on a Del Monte plant in Oregon to arrest illegal aliens employed there, the plant was flooded with applicants seeking the jobs.
"Tony, why don't people believe you?" she asked. "The majority of your party, people who voted for President Bush … They see the conservative coalition dissolving before their eyes."
Snow noted that another $4.4 billion is being tossed on the table to try and win back some of the support. According to reports, the money is to be used to beef up border security and add some new efforts, such as unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor the border.
Those efforts, he said, would demonstrate a commitment to securing the border.
"You keep repeating that, but nobody believes you," she said. "Nobody buys that this administration is serious about the border."
As WND has reported, Bush already has asked the Senate to resurrect the failed immigration bill – and soon.
The plan would allow millions of illegal aliens now within U.S. borders to pay a fine and become legal. But opponents like Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., say the legislation "still unfairly burdens taxpayers, doesn't ensure secure borders and guarantees amnesty" for illegal aliens.
It had floundered in its second Senate vote, a procedural move that would have accelerated the Senate's handling of the White House-backed plan. The divided Senate refused by a wide margin to limit debate on the plan. The 45-50 vote was 15 short of the 60 votes needed to move the legislation along.
Democrats then set the bill aside and took up other proposed legislation.
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That's the basic purpose of this Bill....who cares about the American peoples' wishes? Corporate donors want the low-wage labor they are currently using NOT to be messed with, and the Congress will shove it up the taxpayers' a$# as usual...
“Trust but verify”.....but only after letting us have our way.
CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
Thanks for providing an audio link. I tried to stay awake and catch the re-run of her show last night, but just couldn’t do it.
I listened to that interview when it was first broadcast. One thing that caught my attention was that I thought Snow said that 78 miles of fence were already built, not just a few miles. I have not seen or heard that anywhere else. Anyone else catch this? Or did I get it wrong?
This issue transcends party. If we flush our sovereignty down the toilet, the rest won't matter.
House rejects security fence at the border
...only 13 miles of fence have been built.
Pong...
Melted Snow, eh?
Snow was taken to the wood shed.
Unbelievable how our "public servants" could give a rat's behind what 85% of the base thinks.
“I thought Snow said that 78 miles of fence were already built”
The last report I received from the neighbors down south was according to Duncan Hunter only 14 miles of fencing had been constructed. Here is the link to a picture of the actual fencing construction and report from Hunter’s website.
http://www.house.gov/hunter/fence1.htm
Bingo.
Unfortunately, we don’t get her live in Tucson anymore, so I frequently miss her show. She’s great!!
We need a Federal bounty on illegals and those who hire them. Let’s get the free market working in our favor for a change. $100 a head for illegals deported and $5000 an employer for those successfully prosecuted. No more messing around.
They call us bigots and vigilantes, yet when Snow was speaking the other day, he mentioned “more boots on the ground.” That to me sounds more like Stalin’s army than anything else. Plus we all know it’s a lie and the only boots will be plucking the brave Border Patrol off to prison cells.
bttt!
Where are these poor, underpaid illegal’s going to get $5,000 apiece. What is the impact on our property taxes, state and local taxes which will have to be increased to deal with the increased populations due to the ‘extended’ families they will be bringing in? What impact will they have on our overcrowded prisons and jails...6-7% of any population ends up in prison or jail. What is the impact on our already overburdened charity hospitals? NO one has said a word about these things.
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