Posted on 03/15/2002 1:36:05 AM PST by JohnHuang2
U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday denied he was considering legalizing over three million undocumented Mexicans living in the United States, government news agency Notimex reported.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Bush said he hoped to work with Mexico on the matter, but said he would follow the will of the U.S. people.
"I don't think the wish of Americans is for an amnesty," said Bush, who added he had spoken about the issue with President Vicente Fox.
Bush and Fox are to meet March 22 during the UN Conference on Financing Development in Monterrey, where they will discuss immigration and post-Sept. 11 border security.
Just days before the terrorist attacks, Fox reportedly had been close to inking a deal that would have granted legal status to an estimated 3.5 million undocumented Mexicans and worker visas to many more.
"We've been working very closely with Mexico," said Bush.
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow thousands of Mexicans living in the United States to apply for visas without returning to Mexico. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate.
Bush called the measure "a good step" and urged its fast approval as a show of good faith to its southern neighbor.
The hotel and restaurant industries had been pushing hard for the bill, arguing they would be short staffed if thousands of their Mexican employees were forced to return home to apply for visas.
"What we need to do is find a way to guarantee that the wishes of employers are in balance with those of the workers," said Bush.
Several Republican lawmakers, however, have voiced opposition to loosening any immigration laws before a top-to-bottom overhaul of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Border Patrol.
Bush reiterated his administration's priority of achieving a safe and orderly border, and said he was confident he and Fox could agree on a plan.
"We've had a good dialogue and I don't think it's something that requires a law," said Bush.
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In the words of the industry-- "We'll keep a light on for you."
No BLANKET AMNESTY. Don't subsidize the people who brought you illegal immigration.
Good Lord! I haven't been called that in years!
Do we know one another?
Well,it's nice to know that at least YOU understand this bill, and can see that this isn't a blanket amnesty like the rest claim that it is.
Well heck -- you're Luis Gonzo-alez, FReeper, and I'm F16Fighter, FReeper...Ain't that enough? ;-)
Think about what you are saying, if Gore won we would all be facing East every sunrise.
John, David is on his way home, he spent the past week at Walter Reed Army Hospitable, while where he received his Purple Heart and was visited by Dole, Rummy, and the witch of NY.
"It's not amnesty...."
Will any of these illegal immigrants be deported? No. It's amnesty by another name.
The left well understands the game of semantics (which is all that Political Correctness is); Bush takes his queues from the neo-cons and their ilk, many of whom are former Troskeyites. They well know the art of snowing the sheeple through the art of changing names.
The sheeple don't like "amnesty"? Call it a guest worker program, or an application for temporary vistor's visa (it will be permanent in fact, not temporary, and therefore a de facto amnesty, but the sheeple are too stupid to realize that and connect the dots).
It's the same old game. Don't like property seizure and government funded housing? Call it "urban renewal". Don't like confiscatory taxation? Call it a "progressive income tax". Don't like being bullied by leftist goons? Call it "political correctness". When people wise up to that, call it "hate speech" and "hate crime" laws; designed to enforce "tolerance" and "diversity". Don't like abortion? Call it "choice". Don't like illegal aliens? Call them "undocumented workers". Don't like racial quotas? Call it hiring or admittance "goals" or "objectives".
Bottom line: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Bush's pet project here is really "amnesty" whatever name that Bush and his flacks here and in Washington choose to call it. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." (or in this case, foul).
215 posted on 3/18/02 7:35 AM Pacific by Twodees
Is that a fact?
"Right, pinkie. And when your doctor is giving you a prostate exam and you suddenly notice that both his hands are on your shoulders, then that's bound to be his finger in your butt because he says so, right?"
200 posted on 3/18/02 2:36 AM Pacific by Twodees
"You're getting your historical "facts" on Reagan from the same sources you used to write that ridiculous treatise on how everything wrong with the US government is historically the fault of everyone except the GOP. Pitiful."
202 posted on 3/18/02 3:01 AM Pacific by Twodees
"I'm taking a chance replying to you because you appear to be an imbecile. Prove me wrong in my initial impression of you."
204 posted on 3/18/02 4:12 AM Pacific by Twodees
"Drop this snide tone of yours about the left fooling everyone but you, Luis. I don't buy it and neither does anyone else with two brain cells to rub together. That's your cue to become furious and start your usual round of profane responses. Go for it."
205 posted on 3/18/02 4:31 AM Pacific by Twodees
Perhaps you should change your handle to TwoFaced...
p-f-f-f-f-t
I like discussion and debate, but some folks got only their own viewpoint and everything else is an illusion to them. You are one of those folks. C-ya around. Plenty of smart people on freeps to talk to.
1-202-456-1414
After everything we've all seen and heard, during 8 years of Clinton, you'd think it would be harder for a politician to con us this way. Sadly, it seems that it's as easy as it ever was.
And to Hell with Our Beloved FRaternal Republic's Founding Law?
To Hell with US??!!
Who is this moron?
One-term George the Second?
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