Bush decries border project

Washington Times ^ | March 24, 2005 | James G. Lakely

[mikemikemikecubed]

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.

[inquest]

Either Bush slandered the Minuteman Project as vigilantes, or he failed to defend his counrtymen against slanders by some smart-alecky Mexican reporter that U.S. citizens were "hunting" illegal immigrants at the border. Either way, he was completely derelict in his duty.

[hushpad]

Those in control do not give a damn<<<

Yep. But I refuse to let apathy set in. any way that I can currently fight against Government Tyranny I will. If I can persuade others, I will. If others can show me a better way, a way that works, I'll consider those things as well.

So far, nothing has worked and I will continue my small part, I will not finance tyranny.

[dmanLA]

"His (Bush's) ideas on this issue are just ignorant and stupid."

I don't think is either ignorant or stupid. He KNOWS exactly what he is doing. Which is even more infuriating!

[raybbr]

+ =

[eskimo]

Either way, he was completely derelict in his duty.

You must be correct. There are no party groupie apologists showing up to try to spin this treasonous crap into some ingenious plan to preserve our Republic.

[speed_addiction]

So. . . what are you saying? Open borders are just fine, so long as a Republican president throws the gates open?

What I am saying is voting 3rd party last year would have done nothing but hand the keys to the Whitehouse to Kerry and the borders would be in no better shape. The War on Terror, the economy and tax code would be a lot worse.

I never said I agree with the President here.

[La Enchiladita]

Latin Vote, that's it and that's all.

George P. Bush, who is half Mexican and identifies himself as 'La Raza,' will one day run for president of Mexamerica.

[eskimo]

So far, nothing has worked and I will continue my small part, I will not finance tyranny.

I hope many will not vote to allow it to continue, either.

[La Enchiladita]

They get better treatment as illegals ... at least in Mexifornia.

Here's what I will do... I'll go to Mexico, then sneak back across the border into the U.S. (if I can get past those 'vigilantes')... and then... life will be good!!!

[ezfindit]

"It's the Republican party that has changed, and that left me".

Yes indeed! And they keep moving in the wrong direction....

[international american]

BTTT

[eskimo]

The party is going to pay a heavy price come 2006.

That's probably already in the script for the next two elections. Same old plot.

[international american]

Bush is only paying attention to 1/2 of your tagline.

[La Enchiladita]

there is something going on behind the scenes...

Well... I don't know but, IMO, it has to do with family ties.

[La Enchiladita]

I wasn't going to say this, but now I must.

This past week, the President left Terri's fate up to the courts and our laws. And so she will die. Supposedly because we are "a nation of laws."

But this same President tacitly endorses millions of illegal immigrants breaking our existing immigration laws -- like them or not, Mr. President -- and proposes changing our reasonable and time-honored laws to accommodate this one special group of people.

Which advocacy appears more dear to him?

You can't make me more bitter than I am, so go ahead and flame.

[hedgetrimmer]

A family member that may have a conflict of interest protecting the rights of his fellow Americans and a business interest promoting a hemispheric trade pact modelled on the European Union of Socialist States?

Florida FTAA, Inc. is the private-public entity led by Governor Jeb Bush, City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and officials throughout the State of Florida with the mission that Miami, Florida become the site of the Permanent Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Florida FTAA is chaired by Ambassador Charles E. Cobb, Jr. and managed by President Jorge L. Arrizurieta. The administrative offices are located at the Biltmore Hotel Conference Center of the Americas in Coral Gables, Florida.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050315/fltu018_2.html

[La Enchiladita]

... only if you can prove Mexican citizenship...

[Travis McGee]

RINO or Rat? We have the choice of the frog in the pot: simmer until boiling at a lower temperature, or go right to full boil.

The end result is the same. If the frog doesn't figure it out and hop out in time, he's dead.

[COEXERJ145]

The party is going to pay a heavy price come 2006.

You wish. Most Americans are not so dense they vote single issue and those that allow a single issue to dominate everything else rarely vote.

Too bad though you won't be around to discuss it anymore although I'm sure we'll hear from you again.