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 dont want to pick cotton at 105 degrees, but there are people who want put food on their familys 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 Trumps approach to DACA, said Americas their home, referring to the programs 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 its vital for our economy and for our stability. Weve got to enforce our borders and weve got to enforce our laws.
And here I thought it was the retarded Bush...
Hmmmmm...
The elites never have to deal with the crime and squalor caused by mass immigration, nor are their jobs ever at risk of being displaced my immigrant labor.
To the elites, an illegal immigrant is Jose who mows their lawn or Maria who washes their linen. And unlike uppity middle and working class Americans with their naïve notions of representative constitutional government, the Third World hired help just does as its told without ever demanding a seat at the table of power and influence.
Never thought I would see the day an American ex President shilling for the economic exploitation of marginalized unskilled labor
How depressing
He should aspire to greater things for the future of the country he once led
No comments about the Obama presidency?
No Woodrow? Historically, most conservatives saw Wilson as the first real modern style liberal.
Bush to Americans on Illegal Immigrants: You Should Be Thanking and Welcoming Them
The only thing I would like to tell them is . . .
GOODBYE!
I can; the alternative would have been infinitely worse...
This conversation with me was either before or during Clinton first term but the clear inference was that both Clinton as Gov. and Bush I government were involved.
Bush should be careful. He sounds like Obama moralizing India or arabs on immigration. Some pundits have said that any small town in France or England have more terrorists than in Abu Dahbi
A name... we need a name...
Bush is taking talking points from Obama.
I remember Obama speaking no worse speech to India about islamic immigration.
In fact Bush’s speech is even worse because he dare not moralize Abu Dahbi but breaks bricks on America’s back only, McCain style
He is a traitor Rino worse than Obama!!!
He says we have to enforce our laws, but think we should enforce DACA, which contradicts our laws. Thats pretty silly.
Good post, except for the first word.
Jorge Arbusto needs to just move to Mexico and be done with it.
GTFOOMC, Dubya!
why should any american be thank full and welcome any emigrant? They just cost me money to come here and i don’t know jack sh-t about them.
George Bush's possible motives: he wants CHEAP LABOR for so-called 'ELITES', he's a self-hating white person, or he has the creepy hunger of little men - a need for the adulation of losers..
Or all three?
Maybe like Nancy Pelosi's pathetic grandson, Bush has learned to hate his own skin color? Or maybe, being a Bush, he needs grateful losers around him to make him feel like a big man.
Either way it's disgusting... Old Southern Racists loved having 'grateful niggers' singing and dancing for them and cleaning their homes and stepping and fetching... it was disgusting. Same pattern - not quite as extreme.
George W Bush wants to destroy the American culture for his own insecutities - have our home overrun by too many illegals to assimilate. What a jerk. A mentally ill jerk.
There was zero difference between Jeb! and Hillary. Two sides of the same coin. Trump’s election was divine providence.
They most assuredly were, and brought to light by a legitimate USAF special ops pilot who was involved in buying the light Moody planes for them and was hounded.... hounded by fedgov to the point of threatening death on him and his family.
All so they could get laundered money (and a few pounds of coke on the side for recreation) to run ops. Name of the guy escapes me. Book for sale on Amazon, and he is still alive and his family. Not fanciful. Incorporates the true story of Barry Seals used by air america et al. And GHWB gave him up to the colombians who murdered him in Lousiana. For real.
Even cites a meeting at mena airport with GHWB future atty general Barr. during billy boy’s gubnership dontcha know, and uh... whitewater real estate laundry. Just disgusting people and greedy grubbing scum.
W needs to park his White, GOPe Privilege....
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