Posted on 02/08/2018 9:03:08 AM PST by EdnaMode
Former President George W. Bush was supportive of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Thursday, as he told an audience at a summit in Abu Dhabi that the U.S. needs to “welcome” them.
Beyond that, he said at the summit hosted by the Milken Institute, a California-based economic think tank, that Americans should be thanking the illegal immigrants for doing jobs they refuse to do.
"Americans don’t want to pick cotton at 105 degrees, but there are people who want put food on their family’s tables and are willing to do that,” he said, according to The Associated Press. "We ought to say thank you and welcome them.”
Bush, who was critical of President Trump’s approach to DACA, said “America’s their home,” referring to the program’s recipients.
Trump announced in September he was ending the program with a six-month delay to allow Congress to come up with a permanent fix. That deadline of March 5 is rapidly approaching, he continues to warn lawmakers.
Bush acknowledged the U.S. immigration system is “broken” and explained that he “tried [to fix it], but unsuccessfully.”
“It is important for our economy and also important for our soul that the immigration system functions well,” he said.
Speaking of the U.S.’s relationship with Mexico, he said it’s “vital for our economy and for our stability. We’ve got to enforce our borders and we’ve got to enforce our laws.”
In Abu Dhabi of all places! Jerk goes overseas to lecture us like Obama and the Pope.
Someone needs to ask Bush if he allows anyone who wants, to live in his house.
First off, Bush's comments are pure BS because no one has picked cotton via manual labor in the United States for at least 50 years
Cotton is harvested and bailed by combine tractors and mostly automated equipment, which highlights the absurdity of importing unskilled, illiterate non English speaking manual labor into a high tech society based on increasingly automated methods of production
Seems to me that Bush's comments undercut the basic premises of his argument which is ultimately self defeating
I personally worked in a lot more than 105 degree weather ( for minimum wage, no less) doing a wide variety of jobs when I was young, including cotton farming so I'm calling BS on GW on this one too.
I dare Bush to try to produce a cotton picking illegal alien because it ain't gonna happen
Most illegals are working in non agricultural jobs and are displacing young Americans from entry level jobs like landscaping, construction, restaurant and other starter jobs that high school kids use to start their work careers
Illegals have destroyed the high paying skilled trades jobs that were the backbone of the working class American dream - and that's a fact
I'm a big proponent of merit based immigration to attract the worlds best and brightest to our economy. I'm also an employer so I like low wages as much as anyone, but I'm also smart enough to see that the economic dislocations created by the two tier legal/ illegal economy is unnecessarily destroying the foundations of the American economy
Probably intentionally
Precisely. Been saying this for a decade, illegal immigration is the modern-day slave trade. The elites require a class of people who are “happy” out there in the fields picking cotton, or changing their kids’ diapers, or scrubbing their toilets, or mowing their laws. First they had slavery, then Jim Crow, then illegal immigration. Maybe they’ll finally give it up once robots get good enough, but somehow I doubt it.
Why doesn’t the useless bush embarrassment of a family move to saudi arabia and stfu? What a family of useless malignant weasels.
I was just thinking along those lines the other day, but really, we haven’t had a President who even nominally placed America’s interests above the rest of the world’s since Ronald Reagan. Basically it’s been 30 years.
“Americans don’t want to pick cotton at 105 degrees...”
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Remember the Bush administration’s talking point, ‘we need people who will do the jobs that Americans won’t do’? It was misleading at best. Americans can and will do those jobs, especially at beginner and entry level.
Which brings up an observation I have made. Notice how the younger generations like the Millennials are characterized as lazy, unmotivated and entitled? Is it a coincidence that Millennials were growing up in an environment were lower end / entry level jobs are being filled with illegals?
I was born in 1962. When I was a teen or working my way through college, I worked as a dishwasher, cutting grass for condominiums and laid sod for new home construction. It was tiring and back breaking work by I loved it. I look back at those days in fondness and sometimes I wish I could do that again as opposed to sitting in an office cubicle.
Bottom line is that these types of entry level/manual labor jobs BUILDS work ethic, character and goal setting.....things that our younger generations have trouble with. Hves illegal aliens hurt the work ethic of our youth? I think so and that there is a strong correlation to it. We may not be making fun of Millenials now if those dish washing / lawn cutting / sod laying jobs were available to them when they were in and just out of high school.
Something to think about.
So why is Chimpy McBushHitler opening his low-energy yap?
I always gave W the benefit of the doubt.
No more.
What an ASSHOLE.
Is Bush still shacking up with Barrack?
Can you imagine asking a Black to pick cotton? You’d be lynched!
He probably has illegal aliens that clean his house, it’s guaranteed that his brother’s Mexican wifes family has illegal aliens in it.
neither he or his dad were my first choice, sorry I voted for the rinos
“I wish you could just shut your big yapper!”
I am sooooo embarrassed that I voted for that idiot TWICE!
May God forgive me.
That comment makes him sound like a complete fool. I also regret voting for him twice.
Bush didn’t say a word while obamaramalamadingdong was in orifice. Now he opens his yap. He is showing his true self.
Bush reveals that he feels no love for this country. After the lies and the mess he made in Iraq, some people wonder what is the definition of a “war criminal” and wouldn’t it apply to him.
What a POS he turned out to be. Now he’s shilling for the Arabs (probably looking for weapons of mass destruction). Let’s face it families, Bush, Clinton, and Obama are all in bed together. Said it all when GWB said of Bill Clinton,”he’s my brother from another mother”. Recall how the RATS used to dump all over him and he never fought back. One thing Jesse Jackson said that was true,”out da Bushs”.
FR was Dubya’s number one fan club when he was president.
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