Posted on 08/30/2005 10:34:44 PM PDT by goldstategop
Pat Buchanan, former communications director to President Ronald Reagan, former presidential candidate and WND commentator, has come to the conclusion that a courageous Republican legislator should move a bill for impeachment of President Bush.
I reluctantly agree – and for the same reasons.
President Bush has had nearly six years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country.
He has not only failed, he has intentionally neglected this sworn duty, instead claiming he prefers to promote a vague immigration "reform" plan that involved a "guest worker" program that has served as an encouragement to the most massive influx of illegal immigration this country has ever seen.
Some will tell me this can't be done and that it is irresponsible to propose it because Bush is a wartime president.
My response? It is precisely because this nation finds itself in a desperate war declared by a formidable foe determined to use our open borders to destroy this country that we must act now.
Some will remind me I endorsed Bush just two years ago for re-election.
My response? I made it very clear at the time that I was not really endorsing Bush, per se, but seeking the only practical way to defeat his reckless and irresponsible and treasonous opponent. There is no contradiction here. Kerry had to be defeated. Now Bush must go. America can do better.
I don't agree with many of Pat Buchanan's foreign policy ideas. But on the border, he is 100 percent right. Bush has been a disaster. No matter how successful we might be in our campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can lose this war against jihadist Islam right here at home.
Our enemies have already used the open border to penetrate this country – and they will do so again.
When Bush placed the old Immigration and Naturalization Service under the new Department of Homeland Security, I actually believed he recognized how critical border security was to the defense of our homeland. I was fooled.
In the current issue of my premium, online, intelligence newsletter, G2 Bulletin, author Paul Williams recounts in extravagant detail how al-Qaida operatives have already used the open Mexican border not only to sneak operatives into the country but to smuggle in nuclear weapons with the help of the MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) street gang.
The fuse has been lit.
The war in Iraq, which I have supported, will mean little when, not if, a nuclear weapon is detonated inside our own country.
When that happens, we will no longer be having debates about who has more culpability for Sept. 11 – Bush or his predecessor. Bush has had ample opportunity to address the mistakes of the past. Instead, he has repeated them. They say hindsight is 20-20. Not for Bush.
Even if the border issue and the tsunami of illegal immigration was not strictly speaking the No. 1 national security issue we face, enforcing the laws of the land would be the right thing to do – the only moral and right thing to do.
Americans are dealing with more joblessness, higher crime, skyrocketing taxes, a crippled medical system, overcrowded jails, an overburdened judicial and law enforcement system, costly and divisive language barriers and changing demographics that are permanently transforming the U.S. culture.
Why?
Bush claims it is because America needs cheap labor. That's what the law of supply and demand is all about. It's not his duty or responsibility to acquire workers for big corporations and other fat cats below what the market will support.
I don't even believe Bush is being honest when he makes this argument. I am convinced there are international agreements behind this. I am persuaded the systematic destruction of the American way of life through uncontrolled and illegal immigration is part of a master plan for merger and global consolidation – first with our neighbors in this hemisphere and later worldwide.
This secretive plot must end here and now.
America was founded on the principle of independence and sovereignty. The president is betraying our most sacred national heritage.
Bush is ignoring the will of the people and he is violating the law of the land.
It's time to turn up the heat.
As Buchanan suggested: Will even one courageous Republican member of Congress have the guts to sponsor a bill of impeachment?
Yeah but they feeeel like it is something to do. These are seriously deluded folks here my friend.
The only contributions corporations are giving is to their stockholders thanks to higher profits from slave labor. And sanctuary policies have nothing to do with taxes, it's campaign money going to these politicians who want that slave labor.
Illegal workers contribute $800 Billion to our GDP per year.
Wow that's quite a statistic, you got a link to back that up?
But people like us outnumber them; thankfully. :-)
Hysterical, wild-eyed rhetoric is great comedy.
Wow that's quite a statistic, you got a link to back that up?
'rod's been citing it for months. It comes from a Business Week interview with Raul Hinojosa, shameless, lying ethnic partisan and advocate for illegal immigration. Hinojosa offers nothing but his own airy ipse dixit for the figure.
The real problem is, that their wild-eyed,drooling sycophants are allowed to post to FR.
It's got to be truthful, it's from UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa. No bias there.
Illegals consume far more than they take, prison and education costs alone are in the billions. But even if it was reversed it doesn't matter, they're breaking the law and undercutting American workers. If you don't like the laws work to get them changed but until then they have to be enforced.
I was referring to the legals and how they vote ( we can assume that only the legals are voting, can't we? ). Legal immigrants that are made citizens will vote for Democrats in larger numbers than they will vote for Republicans because they haven't been here long enough to have ownership in our society and will tend to be willing parasites ( Democrats ).
You are kind of a spastic twister.
They are one of the reasons for my name.
OK, thanks for that clarification. So you want to prevent anyone new from entering the country, in order to keep your wages up while continuing to work in your present crap job. Now, concerning the Mexicans working in construction jobs right now--do you advocate throwing all of them out of the country, or are you willing to at least verify their residency status first?
As soon as I saw the name it was obvious. The $800 billion figure is a joke.
No, not a myth. You just can't deal with the fact that your precious illegal alien buddies are ripping off Americans through subsidized taxpayer freebies.
Illegal workers contribute $800 Billion to our GDP per year.
Are you still accepting as fact the $800 Billion figure that was offered up by Raul Hinojosa, which Newsweek magazine describes this way:
"Hinojosa, a fast-talking, pony-tailed graduate of University of Chicago's PhD program, is cashing in on the boom in illegal immigration himself. His startup, No Borders Inc., pedals debit-like cards on which immigrants can store cash, send money home to Mexico, make phone calls, and join medical discount plans."
Cities know what generates the wealth that pays the city taxes. That's why so many are "sanctuary" cities. You will never win by trying to claim that productive workers are an economic liability.
This isn't a good argument for illegal alien labor. Whatever jobs illegal alien workers currently fill can be easily filled by legal immigrant workers and American workers, and these legal immigrant workers and American workers can be just as productive as illegal alien workers.
To paraphrase Reagan, on immigration and the borders, I didn't abandon the President---the President abandoned me---and America.
I can't believe this. I am appalled to see this over and over on FR.
Are you serious?
And no, we all, except you, know that many illegals vote, as do the dead; so your proposition that only citizens vote is spurious, fallacious, and "bait".
From time immemorial, the immigrant vote has fallen into two categories, to whit, those who vote for the party who was/is in power when they came here/is in power now, or for whom their votes have been bought and paid for. An old example of the later, is the Irish, who bribed and/or beaten into voting for Dems, by Boss Tweed's goons squads.
By and large, the Hungarian community, here, in the 1880s through the early years of the 20th century, became Republicans, because that was who was in power when they came here and they liked them and their values.
Most immigrants who come here now, who once lived under Communism, are Republicans, because they know what Marxism/Socialism is first hand and want NO part of it.
There might be some, but I know of NO South Africans, who are here now, who aren't rabidly Conservative and pro-President Bush. Oh, wait a minute...I know of one, but she's an extremely STUPID woman; not to mention also fat and ugly....which is extremely unusual for South African women to be.
Calling me names is in no way a refutation of anything I've said; but it most assuredly is making you look rather foolish.
Yes, I know. LOL
If you think thast you can lay around your parents' house playing your gameboy until you're thirty years old and be given a job as a crane operator that was previously held by an illegal Mexican worker you are delusional.
That type person couldn't keep the job even if it were given to him.
More American bashing from bayourod. It seems that you never get tired of repeating your "American workers are terrible, illegal alien workers are wonderful" mantra here on Free Republic.
Do you seriously believe that I'm the only worker in the US who is having his wages driven down by the influx of cheap Mexican labor? You seem to want to make it me against the Mexicans...it's a much larger problem than that.
I'm for sending your beloved undocumented workers back today and showing green card holders the door when their green cards expire. After a year or so, if there are no workers to fill certain jobs, issue temporary permits for those specific jobs.
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