Bush Signs Border Security Law (no amnesty!)

yahoo.com ^ | AP

[rintense]

(AP)

"We must know what our visitors are doing, and when they leave," he said before signing the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act in a Rose Garden ceremony.

The bill provides for 200 new investigators and 200 inspectors for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It requires foreign visitors to carry passports and visas that are tamper-resistant, and also gives border patrol agents a pay increase.

Under the legislation, the INS is required to establish a foreign-student tracking system that records where they've been accepted into school, when their student visas were issued and when they enrolled.

That provision addresses the avenue used by several Sept. 11 hijackers, who entered the United States on student visas.

The bill would also require that passports issued after 2003 be tamper-resistant and that visitors carry documents that can be read by machine and identify the bearer with biometrics, such as face recognition or retinal scanning technology.

Bush said he was sorry Congress didn't include in the bill a measure that would have extended a deadline for giving hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants the chance to apply for residency without leaving the United States.

[Xenalyte]

Bush said he was sorry Congress didn't include in the bill a measure that would have extended a deadline for giving hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants the chance to apply for residency without leaving the United States.

Any thanks for not including the amnesty bill is due to the Congress, not Bush.

Do you really think he meant that?

[Twodees]

Since you put it the way you did, let's also recognize that if Bush was as hell bent on advancing conservative principles as you all say he is, he would have vetoed the farm bill, CFR and the education bill. But he didn't. Therefore....

[rintense]

Very true.

[Twodees]

When Bush does something good, it isn't dismissed, it's simply not made over like the second coming because the good he does is always the bare minimum sort of thing. Of course he refused Kyoto. Who wouldn't have except a Gore or Clinton? Sure he dumped the ICC. Only a communist would have signed on to that monstrosity. He hasn't done anything remarkable yet, except those remarkably liberal things he's pulled. When he does something remarkably conservative, I'll be lavish in my praise of him, you watch.

Until then, I'm not gong to take on over him because he eats his vegetables and refrains from picking his nose when the camera is on him. You fans of his do enough of that sort of thing. His signing of this bill isn't some grand accomplishment, you know.

[TLI]

I am just thankful there are intelligent people watching all this so I can get information... thanks!