[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Tancredo, who supports some form of guest worker program but who has been a vocal critic of the administration's efforts to increase border security and stop illegal immigration...

That's one way to spin it, I guess...

Also, given that 14 million Americans cannot find a full-time job, we should avoid amnesties, guest worker programs, etc., and truly start deporting the illegals so that we can protect American workers' wages and have a lower American unemployment rate.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Fun with illegal immigration PING!

[Red Badger]

I feel so much safer now that those parrot smugglers are behind bars.......

[AreaMan]

I really have to question whether Pres. Bush REALLY believes the "jobs Americans won't do" line or if this was the line a committee of political hacks just came up with.

I am saddened, although not surprised, that money has trumped national security and sovereignty.

[EagleMamaMT]

LOL! God bless you, Tom. Give 'em h*ll!

Tolerance, thanks for posting this! It was great! :)

[Slings and Arrows]

Under the headline "Apparently There Are No Jobs Available That American Parrots Won't Do," Tancredo said he was surprised to learn of the "incredible success that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers enjoyed in apprehending smugglers attempting to illegally smuggle 150 Lilac Crowned and Mexican Redhead Amazon Parrots into the United States."

No Norwegian Blues? Lovely plumage...

[JohnnyZ]

Also, given that 14 million Americans cannot find a full-time job

That's total BS and you know it.

[Cosmo]

Is there a "Conservative Parrot" ping list? I know my wife would love to be on it. See, she's got this thing for birds, and for years she's bugged me for a parrot. I've tried to explain to her that the Jack russells and the Manx cats like parrots, too. This approach has done little disuade her. But I figure if I keep her occupied with reading about parrots, she won't have time to bug me for one.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Or, as glen Beck would say, " Happy Ramahanakwanzmas!"

[Conservative Canuck]

It's not a silly as it sounds. While I agree the borders need to be protected from illegal humans (pleasse don't send them here), there are many danges posed by animals. Ever heard of Bird Flu, Congressman? How about West Nile Virus? Leptospirosis? All carried and transmitted by birds.

See this link for more info: http://www.stanford.edu/~chyba/bioterrorism_and_disease/transcripts/ostroff_cisac_transcript.html

[7.62 x 51mm]

This would be a funny article if it weren't so true and scary and maddening.

[monday]

"incredible success that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers enjoyed in apprehending smugglers attempting to illegally smuggle 150 Lilac Crowned and Mexican Redhead Amazon Parrots into the United States."

Just the tip of the iceberg. Thousands of illegal Mexican Parrots flood American pet stores each year. Just like illegal Mexican drugs and illegal Mexican aliens they too cause huge damage to the American economy. Oh, the horror... the horror..... sob...

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"...if somebody who is here working wants to be a citizen, they can get in line like those who have been here legally..."

It is high time that the President and everyone else begin to understand that the line to wait for citizenship has to be formed on the south side of the US/Mexican border. Those on this side illegally should be deported and not allowed in the line for some period of time - say 5 or 10 years, and then only if they have remained south of the border.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Eaker]

Ping

[subterfuge]

The EXCUSE that we need ILLEGALS to "do jobs Americans won't do" is a farce! How long do illegal immingrants intend to do these jobs? Forever? No. AT most they will do these jobs for a generation and their offspring will not be doing them at all, since that is the American Dream.

So, inevitably, the stream of illegals coming to the US MUST NEVER END. It MUST continue indefinately so that no American born passed 1980 will EVER have to work at McDonalds or clean a toilet!