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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This says something about the effect of minimum wage laws. People come across the border to work for $5/hour but if they were legal citizens they would organize & demand $10 (or whatever is set as minimum wage). So, employing illegals is an underground effort to circumvent the minimum wage rules.
People often say illegal immigrants take jobs citizens won’t take. But, US citizens can go on welfare. The countries these people are coming from don’t have welfare or healthcare for anybody (as we do). Americans don’t take these jobs 1) because they don’t pay “minimum wage” and 2) they can go on welfare. So, in fact, we set up this “need” for illegal immigrant workers by making it comfortable for citizens to eschew any work and get paid more and that we take care of the illegals when they come here.
It’s as if the word “illegal” doesn’t even exist....
That would be the liberals dream ticket for the republican party.
They picked the last republican presidential nominee and look how that turned out.
Republicans can refuse to deal with this problem and cede more and more Hispanic voters to the Democrats, or they can forthrightly declare that they are in favor of legal immigration to the U.S. and stringent border security.
The Business Roundtable Crowd shortchanged the whole border question, which only showed everyone how out of touch they and the Washington party were with the Country. However, it should be noted that strident Wetback baiters like Tom Tancredo did poorly in the Republican primary.
Best,
Chris
But what does she care - she will have a life of wealth and liesure
That’s what i have said all along...it doesn’t effect the people in her circles.
Rice/Steele, 2012!
The Castle doctrine applies to me also.
C’mon, Condi, please...
Crawls across the desert?
But we will have a good piano player if that means anything.
I would bet my last dollar that Condi Rice voted for Obama.
And for the same reason Colin Powell did, because he was black.
But she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and seems to be more interested in the global community than America. That saddens me.
Yes, I didn’t find that out until it was too late. She is more concerned about the global community than the United States of America. That saddens me.
I figured that out too late. I couldn’t wrap my head around that fact that people who called themselves Republicans have no idea what a Republic means. She cares more for the worldly rights than the US of A.
I used to respect Rice & Steele and they have both really let me down.
She’s intelligent but this didn’t surprise me. She was part of Bush’s cabal and every one of those elitist punks was more than willing to dump all of the problems of mass illegal immigration on us plebeians. They have the habits of typical liberals, they make themselves feel generous by donating your goods to their favorite oppressed class. In this case they are donating our neighborhoods, our schools, our culture to Mexico. I had to go listen to Terry Anderson’s last show just to cheer myself up.
Because liberals don’t give a rat’s butt about working Americans. And that includes the liberal phonies who masqueraded as “conservatives” in the Bush administration, including the Coyote-In-Chief himself.
” However, it should be noted that strident Wetback baiters like Tom Tancredo did poorly in the Republican primary.”
“Wetback baiters” Fools of your ilk aren’t needed.
I agree with you, Condi...BUTTTTT....
America, “She can’t take it anymore, Captain !”
We need to control the Chaos, we need to slow down the pace,
and we need to decide the “Number” of Immigrants, NOT let them decide.
Evidently there was some Secretary of State pressure on Bush during his last few Condi Years.
Now we got another President that won’t Listen....America, ONCE MORE and with GREAT VIGOR !............
NO AMNESTY !,
Control the Border. (click, click) Ya listening ?
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