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.
Just can't reply with a cheap attack now can you?
The way I see it, those people on the border are not vigilantes. What we really need on the border is some real vigilantes ala The Committees of Vigilance in San Francisco circa 1856. Think about it, if enough people went down and started raising holy hell Bush would be forced to put troops on the border, if for no other reason than to restore order.
When you all are serious and ready to shut down the border "by any means necessary" give me a call. These little games you're playing now won't make any difference or change a thing.
Go back to Tijuana, monkey boy.
One is tempted to compare George Bush the Second's globalism to that of his father.
The biggest difference is that GWB's success (so far) has been fueled by more Big Biz types who have very significant economic stakes in the game.
Robert Blake?
Then why is he proposing amnesty?
Of course the Bush haters on this site could care less for the facts and would rather just attack and flame.
Then, what are the facts? What, exactly, is and has for the last 4 years ... Bush done to curb illegal immigration?
Pretty much. But, if Bush gives the order to start arresting these patriots, he'll walk into a hornet's nest of dissent. He will have no more of his "political capital" left. I doubt he'll be able to pass anything important in the next 3 years because Republican party will be split internally. He'll be a dud. Bush's immigration policies will destroy the middle class of this country.
Apparently not.
The caveat is his referring to "....a rational way...."; making the enforcement of the law a subjective matter. Rational to whom is a question begging to be asked and answered.
Actually, the Homeland Security Czar's highest priority after 9/11 was to assure faster transit of NAFTA trucks.
Yeah, but he said he was going to do it ... and you voted for him anyway.
What kind of conservative are you?
Immigrants? By immigrant, do you mean those illegal aliens invading our country?
Do you also refer to a bank robbery as a withdrawl of funds, same as you would when a legal withdrawl is made?
Interesting.
We are idiots as you say, but only because we are not all lined up shoulder to shoulder along the border, armed with catapults capable of hurling a human from there to Mexico City.
You were about an inch away from being nuked. I don't think too many people on this thread are in a very good mood given the subject.
Constantly. Did you read the thread this AM about the shootout in Nuevo Laredo that had lead flying across the frontier into Laredo Texas?
"I'm against vigilantes in America" is right up there with "Let them eat cake," considering that Bush is refusing to protect the border in time of war.
The American middle class is all that stands between the world and totalitarian globalist hell.
That's precisely why they want it destroyed.
Racial/group politics is a page from the Democratic play-book. And it is a really good strategy! /sarc That is why 5 of the last 7 Presidents have been Republicans and why the Democrats have ceded massive majorities in both Houses of Congress to the Republicans. Hispandering is about as brilliant as pandering to blacks.
Republicans became the majority party by sticking to our values and principles and practicing color-blind politics.
It would not be brilliant to repeat the Democrat's mistakes because lots of conservatives will abandon the Republican party if they persist in hispandering. You can't replace us with Hispanics when 6 out of 10 vote Democrat. The math just doesn't work.
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