President sprinkles Spanish into his pitch to Hispanic business leaders (Wants Amnesty Bill Passed)

AP ^ | March 6, 2002 | SCOTT LINDLAW

[sarcasm]

WASHINGTON - Sprinkling his speech with Spanish, President Bush wooed Hispanic voters Wednesday by renewing his support for an amnesty bill for illegal immigrants.

"We've got a spirit of amistad," Bush told 200 Hispanic business leaders at the White House, using the Spanish word for friendship.

[Regulator]

Perhaps the $$ are flowing freely to all in the club on this....

[ArneFufkin]

These threads are always an embarassment to Free Republic. Anyone who fears that a newly arrived immigrant from Mexico will take their job should get the hell off of Free Republic and learn a marketable, professional skill.

When I drive through a fast food order line, when I pass a landscaping crew, when I see that the overnight stock crew at Cub Foods are comprised entirely of Hispanics - I don't despair. I celebrate America. People working hard, in the most dismal and back breaking entry-level service jobs, to build a life and future for themselves and their families. American stuff.

These people are here. There is a problem at hand. The Bush plan is saying ... apply for citizenship, come out of your hiding places and illegal status, make your application for citizenship legally and you can remain here in a special residency status. What an evil, back stabbing outrage that common sense approach demands, and by the way, I'm never voting for Bush again.

We've got plenty of room in America for people willing to work hard to support their families. Plenty of room. It's a shame all these hard working Mexicans never discovered Free Republic, they have no idea what a miserable Gulag of oppression and enslavement the United States of America has become. They, their family and friends are grateful, happy and optimistic, what a bunch of dumb-ass suckers. They're not even real conservatives.

If anyone here fears that a newly arrived, Spanish speaking Mexican is poised to take YOUR job, that's far more a pathetic indictment on YOU than a transgression on part of the Mexican. Cry everyone a river, someone was bitter and threatened when your raggedy-assed ancestors stumbled off the boat too. BAH!!

[FITZ]

I wish he wouldn’t speak in Spanish because it’s so bad. The Mexicans may interpret his awful Spanish to say, “All my United State are belong to you!”

LOL!! But that might be the correct interpretation.

[FITZ]

We've got plenty of room in America for people willing to work hard to support their families. Plenty of room.

I have a feeling you live very far from the border and don't have too many illegals in your area. You haven't seen the county hospitals and housing projects or the welfare offices in the SW if you really believe they are all here to work hard.

[FITZ]

Yes....and? I'm trying to figure out how this amnesty bill helps them succeed.

Mexico has greater oil reserves than the US, it has the second most oil of any country in the Western Hemisphere, it has a large land mass, excellent climate and weather, coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific. It competes with Germany in number of billionaires ---there is absolutely no good excuse for it to send so many of it's citizens to the US except that it prefers to hang on to the enormous corruption and backward form of government.

[koba]

If Mexico sends all their poor people here they can hang on to their backward government and their corruption indefinately. If those illegals stayed in Mexico perhaps they would have put more pressure on the Mexican government to improve? America has become the corrupt Mexican government's safety valve. What happens to the U.S. if that safety valve springs a major leak?

[healey22]

It's a shame all these hard working Mexicans never discovered Free Republic, they have no idea what a miserable Gulag of oppression and enslavement the United States of America has become.

The oppressed party here is the American Citizen who has become a slave to increased taxes for prisons, healthcare, in-state tuition, housing, etc. for Mr. Vincente Fox's citizens.

[ArneFufkin]

You haven't seen the county hospitals and housing projects or the welfare offices in the SW if you really believe they are all here to work hard.

Well FITZ, that's YOUR political problem that YOUR State and local politicians provide these services to non-citizens against YOUR will. What are you doing about it? How are you working within the system to change these entitlements? How are you making an impact, how are you addressing this affront to fairness?

You don't have to live in Arizona, California or Texas. If the politicians there don't respect or value your needs, your efforts .... your money ... you shouldn't choose to live there.

[koba]

Right now the problem is mainly confined to the Southwest. What about 20 years from now? Where will the situation spread to? As far as illegal immigration goes, you can run, but you can't hide.

[koba]

Fox can't take care of them, he wants the U.S. taxpayer to take care of them. Is "Jorge" Bush going to oblige the Fox?

[WRhine]

Perhaps the $$ are flowing freely to all in the club on this....

That is the only rational explanation. It's why I believe the best politicians are those that our successful in private enterprise and enter politics later in life after proving themselves in the business arena. Our Critters in Congress are, for the most part, overgrown kids that never grew up or had a job outside of government.

[FITZ]

What Fox is demanding and Bush seems to be obeying is that a Mexican leader can send us ANY amount of his citizens he does not want in his own country. Mexico needs to get to work and end the terrible corruption, change it's economic system and political system ----- or do you believe the only solution to every Mexican's situation is to move to the US?

[FITZ]

The local taxpayers are crushed here ---now we are getting massive amounts of federal money to attempt to salvage the economic mess here along the border that's been created. We have county hospitals that were about to go bankrupt in spite of very high property taxes to support it. Schools are in huge trouble because local taxes cannot be raised more. Bush is sending in large amounts of money though --so we'll go on providing free health care and education, food stamps and the rest to non-citizens.

[koba]

Our politicians don't want to grow up---they just want to make sure the taxpayers are grown up enough to foot the bill for all their ideas!

[FITZ]

America has become the corrupt Mexican government's safety valve. What happens to the U.S. if that safety valve springs a major leak?

That's exactly what is going on. The level of corruption and crime in Mexico has become extraordinary. People are moving to the US in large droves, what they leave behind are even worse off towns as cities because they are losing the ones who have held things together. There is getting to be much instability in Mexico with such a large number of people packing up and pulling out. It's sad because Mexico is a very wealthy country in oil and other resources ---there's no excuse at all for it to be such a crappy place for it's citizens.

[usadave]

Healey22 and I tried to organize a protest when Vincente Fox was in DC last summer. We were joined by slightly less than millions.

Maybe a better idea would be to have many coordinated protests going on at the same time across the United States. In this way, Americans wouldn't have to travel as far in order to be able to join in one of the protests.

[FITZ]

Many Americans (Anglo and Hispanic) are leaving these areas. It's not helping either because that's the taxbase leaving.

[ArneFufkin]

I choose to neither run nor hide. The 24 year old Mexican working the fry vat at Carl Jrs. tonight could very well see his grandson graduate with honors from Law School or earn his Army Ranger beret in his lifetime. His grandaughter could be an engineer, an architect, a doctor. No, I'll hang around, thank you, and watch America work its beautiful mojo. Yes, I'll fight the cynical politicians who wish to deny that fry cook's opportunity to see his grandchildren reach success in America beyond his wildest hopes as he he waited for that bus home from the burger joint night after night 35 years earler. I won't passively allow creeps like Paul Wellstone, Roger Moe and the other liberal do-gooders to kill American dreams with their fools gold and patronizing poison. But I know, after the Mexicans move up the ladder over the next 75 years, it'll then be Nigerians or Brazilians or Indians or Malaysians coming to America in waves ... angering and worrying the Mexican-Americans greatly. Ain't that America?

[usadave]

The American people are not going to let the United States go down the commode.

I seriously doubt that most will even notice.

I honestly believe that a large number of Americans, especially those in states that have yet to experience the negative impact of out of control illegal immigration on their schools, hospitals, jobs, and neighborhoods, still can't comprehend the devastation that illegal immigration can bring to a particular geographic area. It is something that people may have to experience firsthand before the ugliness of it really starts to sink in.