Bush's 'open door' slammed

Washington Times ^ | Friday, April 19, 2002 | By Jerry Seper

[JohnHuang2]

President Bush is the leading obstacle to controlling illegal immigration in this country and his "open door" border policy is a threat to national security, the Republican chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus said yesterday.

Rep. Tom Tancredo told editors and reporters in a luncheon meeting at The Washington Times that Mr. Bush is out of step with the majority of Americans who want immigration reform and that his "altruistic views" on the subject were an open invitation to new terrorist attacks.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, April 19, 2002

Quote of the Day by kattracks 4/19/02

[Marine Inspector]

Ping

[RLK]

Bush is crusading for an open door because he has an empty head.

[PRND21]

WASHINGTON, April 18 — By a unanimous vote, the Senate passed a bill today to increase the security of the nation's borders, to improve enforcement of immigration laws and to restrict the admission of visitors from countries that support terrorism.

The vote was 97 to 0.

The House has passed two bills with very similar provisions and is expected to accept the changes made by the Senate.

President Bush supports the legislation and has described border security as one of his top priorities.

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Tancredo - Grandstanding at it's worst.

[DoughtyOne]

[america-rules]

"Border defense needs to be closely coordinated, and overseen by responsible officials with both the resources and the commitment to do their jobs."

Lets be real.. True border control would require at least 500,000 to maybe 1,000,000 border agents. The cost of doing this would be crazy so what do we do. We here control the borders, control the borders but nothing about the dollars it would take to really make it happen. You say use the military like O'Rielly keeps harping on but the numbers are the same so we'd need half a million more military troops with probably 150 Billion dollars added to the defense budget?

[DoughtyOne]

How dare you post the truth on this forum!!!

[Pelham]

bump

[Pelham]

Sounds like the Michael Medved "Just give up, it can't be done" line.

[brat]

Tell it like it is, Rep. Tancredo!

[goldstategop]

We need a "Closed Door" policy in the aftermath of 9-11. We will continue to make sure individuals inimical to the U.S don't slip in and create more havoc. We have too many injured and dead to continue business as usual when it comes to our national immigration policy and control over this country's borders.

[Sabertooth]

Lets be real.. True border control would require at least 500,000 to maybe 1,000,000 border agents. The cost of doing this would be crazy so what do we do? We hear control the borders, control the borders but nothing about the dollars it would take to really make it happen.

Listen again...

They Will
Deport Themsleves

1. Make the Illegals and their Co-conspirators, their employers, pay for the necessary expenditures through Total Asset Forfeiture. Seize businesses that knowingly hire Illegals, and auction them off. Proceeds go to enforcement against Illegals in the American Interior.

2. You want manpower? After 9/11, many Americans were looking for ways to volunteer... How about creating a Border Patrol Reserve. A lot of patriotic, over-40 types woul be only too happy to serve

3. We need to make up our minds to win the War against Illegals before the shooting starts in earnest. The same snivelers saying we can't win against Illegals once said we couldn't win against Terror.

We're America, and we can win any war we want to win. Get used to it.

[MissAmericanPie]

Bravo Sabertooth, all you have listed is pure common sense.

[MissAmericanPie]

Tancredo would be ten times a better President we any we have ever had.

[skeeter]

Maybe we ought to send those contributions earmarked for the Bush campaign to Tancredo's office instead. That'd get Rove's attention.

[Tauzero]

"the Senate passed a bill today to increase the security of the nation's borders, to improve enforcement of immigration laws and to restrict the admission of visitors from countries that support terrorism."

Fine words, but what do the bills actually do?

[Tauzero]

"You say use the military like O'Rielly keeps harping on but the numbers are the same so we'd need half a million more military troops with probably 150 Billion dollars added to the defense budget?"

Gee, that sure sounds like a lot.

As a cost-saving measure, we could use minefields.

[rintense]

Guess what, Sabertooth. I completely agree with you.

[Tancredo Fan]

"Closed borders, open borders. I used to think it was Karl Rove [the White House political strategist] and his outreach to Hispanics," Mr. Tancredo said. "But no, it's Mr. Bush. He's driving the issue himself. He believes in open borders.

"He made promises to Fox and wants to keep Fox in power," he said.

The globalist one-term wonder gets slapped down again. Good. Thanks for the ping :-D