Posted on 11/14/2004 11:08:06 PM PST by goldstategop
It didn't take long for President Bush to betray those who returned him to office for another four years.
The first big insult to his base came this week when he moved to resurrect his ugly plan to relax rules against illegal immigration – as if they weren't relaxed enough.
Bush reportedly met privately in the Oval Office with Sen. John McCain to discuss re-igniting his badly misguided initiative to grant legal status to millions of immigrants who broke the law to enter the United States.
McCain is one of the Senate's most outspoken supporters of expanding guest-worker programs and has introduced his own bill to offer a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants – in other words, another amnesty program like those that have failed so badly in the past. It's time for the American people to rise up, once again, and denounce this plan as vociferously as possible – not just to defeat it, but to put a stake through its heart once and for all.
The leader in Congress on this issue is Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who characterized Bush's plan for what it is:
An amnesty by any other name is still an amnesty, regardless of what the White House wants to call it. Their amnesty plan was dead on arrival when they sent it to the Congress in January, and if they send the same pig with lipstick back to Congress next January, it will suffer the same fate.
Let's hope he is right. But, more importantly, let's be sure he is right by lending him the nationwide support he needs to ensure defeat of this dangerous proposal.
Why dangerous? Because this nation is at war. It is an unconventional war waged by monsters who have in the past used our lax immigration policies to attack us here at home – and they are certain to do so again.
As astonishing as it is to believe, U.S. borders actually became more porous following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks and the incorporation of immigration enforcement agencies within the Department of Homeland Security.
It should surprise no one that illegal immigration into the U.S. has accelerated in the last year, since Bush proposed a temporary worker program that amounts to a limited amnesty program that would allow millions to remain in the U.S. legally.
In the coming 12 months, some 3 million more illegal aliens will enter the country – "enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day for a year." According to Time magazine, this year's influx of illegal aliens is the largest wave since 2001, and illegal immigration now represents triple the number of immigrants who enter the country legally.
While new security procedures guard our airports from illegal entry, thousands of aliens walk across or drive across the Mexican border with impunity every day.
The illegal immigrants include a growing number of people categorized as "other than Mexicans," including many from nations with populations hostile to the United States – Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran and Iraq.
Americans overwhelmingly want to crack down on illegal immigration, but the government elite don't seem to want to fix the problem. Even those caught violating the border multiple times are not punished, according to the report.
Besides the security nightmare this invasion creates, illegal immigration is driving up the cost of living for American citizens and making our communities less safe.
Why does this trend continue without any real national debate? Why are our laws ignored not only by the criminal invaders but by our elected officials? Why do both political parties pretend there is no problem?
The response from the American people should be this:
Let's try enforcing the old laws before we pass any new ones.
Let's try beefing up the Border Patrol.
Let's try pressuring the companies hiring these illegal aliens to hire legal Americans.
Let's try denying taxpayer-supported social services to lawbreakers.
Let's try deportations.
Let's try enforcing criminal laws against illegal aliens just as we prosecute American citizens.
Let's encourage states and local governments to cooperate with immigration to uproot the illegals – especially those who continue to break the law.
Let's try putting the National Guard at our borders.
Let's try bringing home more than 100,000 American troops currently guarding Germany from some unknown threat and place those troops where they can make a difference – protecting America from an ongoing invasion.
Maybe the president, living in his ivory tower, doesn't realize the effects this national plague is having on ordinary Americans. It's about time he heard from us.
btt!
Post a picture of the bubble you live in, it would be interesting to all of us.
Wow, brother. I really wish that you don't look upon my family as an invader. I have lived in Queens, NYC. So, yeah...I'm singing Kumbaya.
Wait, I take that back. Instead, I'm singing "Heaven" by Los Lonely Boys.
It's a big nation and a big world. We're just renting space for now in hopes that meek hearts might inherit the world. I really wish that you didn't have such a sour attitude about this. But tell me, isn't "dougherty" a name of Celtic origin?
Dude, you're gonna love this. I just did a Google search:
http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/d/bl_name-DOCHERTY.htm
Definition: From the word "dochartach" meaning 'obstructive.' Docherty is the most common Scottish form of this surname, while Doherty and Dougherty are usually of Irish derivation.
Surname Origin: Scottish, Irish
Alternate Surname Spellings: Doherty, Dougherty, Daugherty, O'Doherty, Dogherty
Just about what we could expect from your ilk.
I agree 1000%. There's absolutely nothing cute about buchanan and he never was the answer...much to the chagrin of your ilk as you put it.
I think it's a reasonable encapsulation.
In a sentence, how would you characterize his stance?
Tell that to Holland. Legislators over there have just publically stated the jihad has arrived thanx to Muslim immigration and it's time to shut the doors.
"how would you characterize his stance?"
Sorry .. I'm not privy to that information. Why don't you ask the President or his aides.
I agree 1000%.
Then why'd you bother to post, other than the fact that you're either half in the bag, or have a room temperature IQ?
I just want to know how happy I am that you recognize your own irrelevance. It's important to give support to the lost...they don't have much else going for them.
They will address this when the first nuclear device rips through an American city, maybe, only maybe. Until then just keep repeating to yourself, "Everything possible is being done to protect you", Tom Ridge.
I don't think so.
My experience is that conservatives are not anti-Mexican. Conservatives tend to be more informed when it comes to economics then the typical Buchanan/Tancredo third party crowd.
Conservatives are intelligent enough to recognize the negative impact of protectionism, increased minimum wages, subsiding unprofitable industries, punitive penalties on employers, etc...
Conservative Republicans have supported free trade and opposed restrictive labor union laws.
Conservative Republicans recognize the necessity of an adequate labor supply to sustain our economic prosperity.
The anti-immigrant crowd tried to oppose the President's reelection and they lost. Now they are trying to say that conservatives don't support one of his long standing positions. They are simply wrong. They are in denial that they are a very tiny minority and getting smaller every year.
Are you sure about that? In my area construction is still done primarily by Americans, mostly blacks, whites and legal immigrants. We have no need for illegal immigration and are doing just fine without it.
Do you have any official estimte on what percentage of border jumpers get caught? All I've seen are from union leaders trying to increase their budgets.
Maybe they ought to import Christian Africans next time? Maybe they ought to ban contraception and abortion right away?
Maybe the worldly will get too caught up in their own woes and turn to suicide as an answer?
Maybe they ought to get on their soft knees and rub some callouses off their hearts and onto their knees and beg for God's forgiveness for waging war against the unborn?
I think that we often assist evil and dig our own pitfalls. But I believe that God gives us the Graces to help ourselves when we turn back to Him and have the wisdom and humility to ask Him for help.
Hee hee ... your answer is tantamount to running up the white flag.
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