Posted on 05/18/2008 12:17:10 PM PDT by Bob J
Immigration is one of those challenging issues that touch on many aspects of American life. I have always believed that our border must be secure and that the federal government has utterly failed in its responsibility to ensure that it is secure. If we have learned anything from the recent immigration debate, it is that Americans have little trust that their government will honor a pledge to do the things necessary to make the border secure.
As president, I will secure the border. I will restore the trust Americans should have in the basic competency of their government. A secure border is an essential element of our national security. Tight border security includes not just the entry and exit of people, but also the effective screening of cargo at our ports and other points of entry.
But a secure border will contribute to addressing our immigration problem most effectively if we also:
Recognize the importance of building strong allies in Mexico and Latin America who reject the siren call of authoritarians like Hugo Chavez, support freedom and democracy, and seek strong domestic economies with abundant economic opportunities for their citizens.
Recognize the importance of pro-growth policies -- keeping government spending in check, holding down taxes, and cutting unnecessary regulatory burdens -- so American businesses can hire and pay the best.
Recognize the importance of a flexible labor market to keep employers in business and our economy on top. It should provide skilled Americans and immigrants with opportunity. Our education system should ensure skills for our younger workers, and our retraining and assistance programs for displaced workers must be modernized so they can pursue those opportunities
Recognize the importance of assimilation of our immigrant population, which includes learning English, American history and civics, and respecting the values of a democratic society.
Recognize that America will always be that "shining city upon a hill," a beacon of hope and opportunity for those seeking a better life built on hard work and optimism. Border security and our failed immigration system are more examples of an ailing Washington culture in need of reform to regain the trust of Americans. In too many areas -- from immigration and pork barrel spending to Social Security, health care, energy security and tax relief -- business-as-usual politics prevents addressing the important challenges facing our nation.
This is the one, this is the biggee.
I do have one question for the few really thinking anti-McCainiacs out there. Would it be possible to make how McCain has staked himself out on this to WORK FOR US and possibly get MOST or ALL WE WANT on this issue?
Let’s see if there are any working brain cells out there...
Our immigration laws don’t need to be reformed. They need to be enforced. The politicians who support illegal immigration need to be replaced.
Where is the flying pig?????
No.
Well, I read it very carefully, and it doesn’t really make any commitments at all. Empty platitudes, and nothing more. It’s about as meaningfully specific as Obama’s promise to “change” America.
So we have to revert to McCain’s actual record. (As we have to revert to Obama’s record.)
Besides, now there’s a new problem. How is McCain going to stuff the McCain-Kennedy bill down our throats with Kennedy in the hospital?
Am I the only one who remembers the Republican debate in which McCain said he does not, in any form or fashion, support English being the official language of America? Or his in your face support of Amnesty for illegals?
Sorry, I wasn’t finished.
Short of throwing him in Guantanamo and waterboarding him, no.
Does this freakin' idiot fail to realize that he IS the federal government???
As has been said, the Paultards have nothing on McCain's drones.
Funny, because as a Senator McCain has done precious little to accomplish that goal. And he has certainly been in a position for a couple of decades, do bring his 'good friends' from the other aisle over to assist him, but has failed to do so. Instead, he pairs with Ted Kennedy to grant a pathway for citizenship to 30 million illegals and another 30 million of their closest friends and relatives.
Why Bob? When we have you to do the thinking for us.
You call ... we'll haul.
Are his lips moving??? If they are, then he's lying.
Rather than listening to more of his oral flatus, I'll see what his actual record says.
BJ, you’re back so soon. Boy this must have have taken all of 10 minutes to write up. It says NOTHING, is meaningless and besides this is the best line in the whole load of crapola.
“I have always believed that our border must be secure”
Now that is a funny one. Soon he will tell us that he believes in Global Warming and the tooth fairy.
Post the one about his wife’s shoplifting charge, please.
“Am I the only one who remembers the Republican debate in which McCain said he does not, in any form or fashion, support English being the official language of America? Or his in your face support of Amnesty for illegals?”
thanks, needs to be repeated to BJ
“Does this freakin’ idiot fail to realize that he IS the federal government???”
And lets not forget what he tried to get passed in the middle of the night.
Roundhouse punch.
“Immigration is one of those challenging issues that touch on many aspects of American life.”
He starts out bad. It’s not “immigration” that is the problem.
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