Posted on 01/13/2009 2:06:15 AM PST by Man50D
President Bush has extensively discussed his immigration reform policy in exit interviews and given a $60,000 bonus to a Border Patrol chief who has been criticized for not supporting Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean – but he refuses to talk about whether pardons could be in store for the imprisoned agents.
In a Jan. 6 interview with John Gizzi, political editor of Human Events, Bush said he regrets that the comprehensive immigration bill he endorsed did not prevail.
"Well, I'm sorry it didn't pass, because I felt strongly that the comprehensive approach to immigration reform was necessary for border enforcement, as well as recognizing that there are people willing to do work Americans won't do," Bush said. "[W]ithout the law, by the way, we did put fence up, and the border is becoming more secure. People are now recognizing the truth that there are fewer crossings, and we've ended the catch and release and issues like that."
Bush expressed concern for illegal aliens who risk their lives to come to the United States.
"I don't like it when the law is so antiquated that people who are willing to do hard work become contraband, they get stuffed in the bottom of 18-wheelers in order to come and do a job that others aren't willing to do. I don't think that's right," he said.
Only two days later, the Washington Times reported Bush awarded a $61,200 bonus to Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, who has been criticized by members of his own agency for refusing to support Ramos and Compean after they were sentenced to 11 and 12-year prison sentences, respectively, for shooting at an illegal alien drug dealer while he attempted to smuggle 750 pounds of marijuana across the border.
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I agree. Every good thing he did in office--and there were many--is nullified by his position in this matter, and his failure to pardon two innocent men whose lives have been ruined for just doing their jobs.
I agree.
This sickens me.
Texas 2 ping!
What a sad disappointment this President George Bush has been!
It's not quite that bad:
I don't remember anything like 'lovesick teenagers' back then;
we got them in 2008 and on the wrong side.
What is absolutely true is that anyone, on any side, should have known way back then that GWB was going to be hard core pro-illegal immigration, hard core pro-mexico.
Bush has as many buddies south of the border as he has in the north and I'd guess his lowest moments in office were when he realized that he couldn't carry Fox any farther and that McCain couldn't push his amnesty over the top.
Otherwise, apart from his unwillingness to play hardball against the dems (and grinning while he got pummeled), he did OK in most regards.
"I don't like it when the law is so antiquated that people who are willing to do hard work become contraband, they get stuffed in the bottom of 18-wheelers in order to come and do a job that others aren't willing to do. I don't think that's right," he said.
GW Bush's innermost thoughts and boy are they stupid
Now you know what he has been thinking for the last eight years
This is a sovereign nation...You and your daddy obviously don't care about that>
You defend Iraq's borders but not America's
I smell it, too. Either there is more here than meets the eye, or this man is obstinate to an unhealthy degree.
In other words Ramos and Compean don't get a pardon because GW resents the right wing in America>
Just look what we had to do to get two conservative Supreme Court judges
This buffoon was going to appoint an absolute nothing to the Supreme Court because she (Harriet Meirs) was a long time crony
GW was always a cheesy liberal with an overlay of free marketism
GW got his unencumbered free market in derivatives and OTC credit default swaps and they are killing us
Good question. Is he blackmailed or does he a fetish or some other reason to take the side of illegal aliens/drug dealers? These agents should never have been charged.
Better yet, go to hell lying coward.
Fine.
Don’t talk about it.
Just do it.
I keep hearing stuff like this and something about them being dirty agents. What exactly does this mean? What did they actually do (supposedly) that was so wrong and where is the proof to that effect? All I know is that we seem to be rewarding the drug dealers and punishing the law enforcers. Now...I realize that for the past (what?) fifteen years or so...everything in this world and especially in this country has been backasswards from what it should be...but I thought I ‘at least’ had this case figured out.
Care to shed some light on it for me?
I keep hearing stuff like this and something about them being dirty agents. What exactly does this mean? What did they actually do (supposedly) that was so wrong and where is the proof to that effect? All I know is that we seem to be rewarding the drug dealers and punishing the law enforcers. Now...I realize that for the past (what?) fifteen years or so...everything in this world and especially in this country has been backasswards from what it should be...but I thought I ‘at least’ had this case figured out.
Care to shed some light on it for me?
I keep hearing stuff like this and something about them being dirty agents. What exactly does this mean? What did they actually do (supposedly) that was so wrong and where is the proof to that effect? All I know is that we seem to be rewarding the drug dealers and punishing the law enforcers. Now...I realize that for the past (what?) fifteen years or so...everything in this world and especially in this country has been backasswards from what it should be...but I thought I ‘at least’ had this case figured out.
Care to shed some light on it for me?
I keep hearing stuff like this and something about them being dirty agents. What exactly does this mean? What did they actually do (supposedly) that was so wrong and where is the proof to that effect? All I know is that we seem to be rewarding the drug dealers and punishing the law enforcers. Now...I realize that for the past (what?) fifteen years or so...everything in this world and especially in this country has been backasswards from what it should be...but I thought I ‘at least’ had this case figured out.
Care to shed some light on it for me?
Sorry for the computer hiccups!
What base? I only voted for the lesser of two evils. Bush vs. Albert Bore and Bush vs. Hanoi Effin Kerry.
I had no choice in the matter.
Well he sure wasn't very obstinate to the DemocRats for the past four years. If only he had been. With the exception of homeland security and having kept us safe from another attack on US soil, I'd say his values and priorities are somewhat skewed.
>>>>>”I don’t like it .... people who are willing to do hard work .... a job that others aren’t willing to do. I don’t think that’s right,”<<<<<<
You don’t like it?
Well how about this my amigo Jorge:
Illegals have kept the wage rate for unskilled and semi-skilled labor at about ****50 percent of the wage growth of all other jobs in America since 1980****.
Americans ***can’t afford*** to take the “job that others aren’t willing to do.”
The worse thing to happen to America, and the Republican party: George W Bush. I know, some may say Zero, but he is an unknown at this time, we know what GWB has done.
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