Posted on 03/24/2005 7:52:05 AM PST by mikemikemikecubed
Edited on 03/24/2005 5:24:25 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WACO, Texas -- President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes." He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law. More than 1,000 people -- including 30 pilots and their private planes -- have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol. Mr. Bush said after yesterday's continental summit, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University, that he finds such actions unacceptable. "I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America," Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law in a rational way." The Minuteman Project was born out of a long-held perception among many residents that more Border Patrol agents are needed to handle the flow of illegal immigrants. Mr. Bush was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats earlier this month for failing to add 2,000 agents to the Border Patrol, as set out in the intelligence overhaul legislation he signed in December. The president's 2006 budget allows enough money to add only 210 agents for the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. Mr. Bush said he will "continue to push for reasonable, common-sense immigration policy." He has proposed legislation to grant guest-worker status to millions of illegal aliens already in the United States. The legislation has attracted scant support in Congress, where it is widely regarded as another amnesty that will encourage even more illegal immigration.
My mother says that all the time. Back in the Sixties, she had get all kinds of character references to get a guest worker visa to come here. One of my friends is about to become a US citizen. He's from Barbados and goes bananas over illegal immigration. Not only is it cutting ahead but it costs BIG TIME MONEY to get naturalized in the US. I don't know any legal immigrants who want illegal aliens getting a free ride.
This country has already been attacked by illegal aliens -- On 9/11/2001 by the visa overstayers that had around 60 drivers licenses from various states, and by the Washington, DC sniper John Lee Malvo.
I did not say I agree, but that is what I believe he is thinking. But I would like to see the tax law changed at once to one where a sales tax instead of an income tax is imposed. In this way the treasury would immediately begin to tax those who are paid under the table.
I personally would like to see a closed border and relaxation of legal immigration for a period of absorbtion. But I agree with some other posters that the retirement of the baby boomers will hold some shocks for this country. I am already retired, and look forward to my old chums joining me. But from what I hear, the company will suffer when enough of the old generation leaves. There has been a great gap in hiring and that gap now represents a loss of the recipe in the case of many companies. (I don't see how cheap labor helps, but our institutions require substantial growth to continue to operate.)
A million a year plus massive illegal immigration is an enormous amount for any country to take in. That reasoning, which we hear frequently that it's small in comparison to the population can also be turned around to highlight how those same percentages could mean 10 million annually in China, or 1% of a billion. Do you think China needs another 10 million people a year added to its population ?
In 1924 we gave mass immigration a rest and it's long past time to do it again. That legislation proved to be very successful at assimilating those immigrants into the mainstream of American life.
And of course that is what you're hoping for.
Social Security Fix
-Terri Schiavo those on SS
-Fill the country with Mexicans who can live 100 per house
and then tax the frijole out of them
-Social Security will now have mucho dinero in it for politicans to continue stealing from
All depends on your view of whats really wrong with Social Security...whats really wrong is there wont be any money for it for politicans to steal from unless it's fixed :)
imo
Yep, it's coming fast.
Your mother is right.
We "tried" to bring a relative here from the Cayman's.
Eventually gave up.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010906-12.html
SEPTEMBER 6, 2001
Literally days before 9/11/01 Presidente Fox was in conversation with President Bush about immigration. Then 9/11 happened and everything was put on hold to return now.
Agreed......however a lawsuit filed (& hopefully won) by the Garcia family sure takes the 'racecard' out of play.
Tx also has several families, most hispanic, demanding US investigations of their daughters *disappearances* while visiting mexico.
I've said for awhile, many hispanics are also fed up with the crime & the invasion. (& 47% of them voted FOR prop 200 in AZ)
Exactly whom do you think Bush was referring to as "vigilantes" at this press conference?
Charles Bronson?
Bush is wrong. If the government isn't doing their jobs, the people have to do their jobs for them.
Choosing not to participate in an obvious voting farce that could only result in losing one's liberty, seems extremely rational to me.
Agreed. I was being sarcastic. You could also write yourself in (or Jim Rob or whoever). That would also give the "winner" a lessor percentage of the overall vote.
Goodbye troll.
3 out of 4 of your posts are on this thread, and all of them are the ramblings of an idiot.
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