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Bush: No passports at borders
Fox.com ^ | 4/15 | Fox News

Posted on 04/15/2005 6:49:37 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility

WASHINGTON — Plans requiring passports from people entering the United States don't pass muster with President Bush

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: border; bordersecurity; bush; bushamnesty; illegal; illegalaliens; immigration; minuteman; passports
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To: international american
He's correct.

Approximately 60% of illegals where legally admitted.
141 posted on 04/15/2005 8:19:52 AM PDT by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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To: TheForceOfOne

The solution is to put so much heat on Bush, that he adds 20000 border patrolmen. You can't impeach him for wanting to flood the country with illegals. Aside from the Iraq war, he rates a d minus as President.


142 posted on 04/15/2005 8:21:43 AM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: wk4bush2004

They may be helkpful, but requiring one for a day trip for a family will cost Americans hundreds of dollars, maybe even in the thousands for an extended family as well as the months it takes to get one. Same for Canadians. It will kill cross border tourism and it won't be worth the cost to make short trips into each other's countries. It would be better tomake entering all of North America more difficult.


143 posted on 04/15/2005 8:22:27 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

oooh..looky here, we have another word-twister.

Its easy to take the first sentence from anything and turn it into something else that fits our agenda.


144 posted on 04/15/2005 8:24:16 AM PDT by Dr. Marten (gei wo ziyou, haishi gei wo si wan! (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
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To: international american
What did he say?

Did you read the article?

145 posted on 04/15/2005 8:27:02 AM PDT by Mo1 ("Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it" ~ Pope John Paul II)
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To: doc30

That's why passports should be required to go to any country outside of the US and vice versa.


146 posted on 04/15/2005 8:29:41 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
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To: MEGoody
I'm behind this 100%. . .if we know that the agent let an illegal (or illegals) walk right by. But it is not fair to hold border patrol agents responsible for illegals who get through because there aren't enough agents.

Who is to determine how many agents are needed? The border patrol? That's a bit self serving to allow a bunch of union bureaucrats make that call. They certainly seem alert enough to know how many have entered the country. If they can count 'em, how come they can't stop 'em?

147 posted on 04/15/2005 8:29:48 AM PDT by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

It is so easy to get a fraudulent passport, complete with visas that all you then ask for a passport? We need a US ID card that cannot be falsified and one that identifies us immediately as a citizen of these United States. If you don't have one, you get deported. I also like the idea of a tall border-long fence, a la Israel.


148 posted on 04/15/2005 8:30:04 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: Major_Risktaker

We have checkpoints that don't work. Why keep doing the same thing over and over if its not working?


149 posted on 04/15/2005 8:30:33 AM PDT by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: international american
I agree with adding even more border agents.

The country is already flooded with illegals and it started way before he was president.

If this is your reason for giving him such low marks then all presidents before him get the same grade.

Offering solutions no matter how feasible is more valuable than a remarks only meant to demean one many of us care a great deal for and respect.
150 posted on 04/15/2005 8:32:57 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne
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To: OXENinFLA

Thanks for the link.


151 posted on 04/15/2005 8:33:01 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: Coop

"Did anyone read this article?"

Yes, and I was stunned to read this:


"The White House did not say why the president was unaware of the plans his administration announced just a week earlier."


So George is unaware of his own administration's border protection plans? Wow - that inspires confidence! [/sarcasm


152 posted on 04/15/2005 8:36:45 AM PDT by Blzbba ("Under every stone lurks a politician. " Aristophanes, 410 BC)
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To: Alex Marko

"Jeb in 2012"

Anyone that would vote another Bush in as president is a fool.


153 posted on 04/15/2005 8:36:47 AM PDT by politicalwit (USA...A Nation of Selective Law Enforcement.)
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To: Marine Inspector

It's amazing how simple the solution is, I don't know why people have such an aversion to valid government issued documentation. Anyone who is afraid to identify themselves to border authority automatically makes their intentions suspect.


154 posted on 04/15/2005 8:40:55 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: politicalwit

To bad that Kerry guy didn't win huh, the border would be secure and the war in Iraq would be over.


155 posted on 04/15/2005 8:53:00 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne
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To: TheForceOfOne

"The country is already flooded with illegals and it started way before he was president."

There have been 3 big floods in 15 years. The second and third have been on Bush's watch, and that is because he is allowing Vicente Fox to ravage our borders. Fox has in essence, declaired war on the us with foisting his least desireable people on us. Our prisons are full of illegals here in the western states.

As for other wonderful programs, how about an extra 8 BILLION dollars for the NEA(public enemy #1 to any true conservative). Ted Kennedy is still laughing in his Jack Daniels over that travesty!


156 posted on 04/15/2005 8:59:28 AM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: Personal Responsibility

No passports required at borders......just sign your life away to rent a video!


157 posted on 04/15/2005 9:01:55 AM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (If you right click on Madeline Albright's image, my name should show up!)
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To: Mo1

I read the article. He said he would come up with an alternative, but that says nothing. An American passport is very difficult to forge well. This means some lesser form of ID will be proposed, which, of course, will be east to forge.


158 posted on 04/15/2005 9:08:47 AM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: MadelineZapeezda

No kidding, maybe we can start requiring block buster rental cards for ID :-)


159 posted on 04/15/2005 9:09:28 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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To: ClintonBeGone
"Who is to determine how many agents are needed? The border patrol?"

If we truly want to patrol our borders and keep them secure, common sense would tell us that we need enough agents to patrol the border 24 x 7, with the number of agents on each shift to be able to see any part of the border to which they have been assigned with binoculars (or whatever other equipment they might have). It is ridiculous to expect a border patrol agent to be responsible for miles and miles of border that he cannot possibly be watching all at the same time.

As to who makes the decision how many, it would be whoever is making that decision now. But of course, it would have to be funded. And it would be expensive.

160 posted on 04/15/2005 9:10:12 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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