Posted on 03/13/2009 6:30:02 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Condoleezza Rice said Friday that one of her deepest regrets from her time as secretary of state was the failure of the Bush administration to achieve real reform of immigration laws.
"We need immigration reform. I don't care if it's for the person who crawls across the desert to earn $5 an hour, or for Sergey Brin, who came here from Russia and founded Google," she said at an economic summit at Stanford University. "As a country, we can't have people living in the shadows. It's just wrong. It's not only ineffective, it's wrong."
She said immigrants were critical to the country's financial health, and that reform was needed to fuel the next round of economic growth.
"If we ever lose that and start to believe somehow that it is instead a threat to us to have those people come here, we are going to lose one of the strongest elements not only of our national wealth, but also of our national soul," she said. "One of my biggest regrets was that we were not able to get immigration reform."
Rice's remarks came as she kicked off a daylong conference on the challenges facing the U.S. and global economies. Rice returned to Stanford earlier this month as a political science professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution after exiting the Bush administration in January.
Speaking to a crowd that included George Shultz, also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former secretary of state, Rice said the global fiscal crisis could shake international confidence in free trade, fiscal discipline and other hallmarks of the financial system the United States has promoted abroad.
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“Rice/Steele, 2012!”
Stomach cramps.
You forgot the sarcasm tag, methinks...
Burp.
I used to respect Condi so much. I was duped.
You’re joking.
Right?
Half joking, half crying.
Condoleezza Rice said Friday that one of her deepest regrets from her time as secretary of state was the failure of the Bush administration to achieve complete destruction of our borders and sovereignty.
God bless her! ;^)
Crawling across the desert?
Give them skateboards!
If they sneak in the back door, un-announced, and looking for handouts, they should learn quickly what the 2nd Amendment is about.....illegal entrants are treated just the way they should be; as CRIMINALS WHO ARE TRESPASSING, AND DESERVE NOTHING.
But, then, that's just me, I guess.....
I think Condi forgets she was Secretary of State, not Homeland Security. Actually, Condi was a disaster as SECState. I don’t thik we’ve had a good SECState since George Shultz.
Rice, another one of the dim bulbs that failed to light the idiotic Bush Regime.
NO MORE BUSHES!!!!!!!!
Better yet they can just stay home!
why have laws at all??
That's why there's a process for people to emmigrate here LAWFULLY and just because they're here now doesn't mean we need to legalize them after the fact. Don't want them in the shadows? Have them come out, report themselves, go home and come back the proper way.
Isn’t that something. the scum of the country club ignores people who vote for them or might vote for them to take care of people who will never vote for them. If there was any place to go I might crawl out of this country.
No one should be allowed to live in Washington for more than two years...there’s obviously something in the ether there that destroys brain cells.
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