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TRY AGAIN, MR. PRESIDENT -- THOSE WERE EMPTY WORDS [The Presidnet's Amnesty Program]
Neal Boortz ^ | Nov. 29, 2005 | Neal Boortz

Posted on 11/29/2005 5:25:04 AM PST by conservativecorner

Yesterday, George W. Bush strode to a podium in Tucson, Arizona (I love Tucson!) and against a backdrop of law enforcement officers, announced his latest plan to crack down on illegal aliens. There was nothing in his speech we haven't heard before, and his new immigration policy is just as contradictory as the old one. Among the initiatives announced:

We should build more jail cells to hold illegal aliens. Good idea. The speeding up of deportations, a crackdown on fraudulent identity papers, and a hardening of the border with more surveillance. So far, so good. Then the nonsense started to flow. The president urged Congress to pass his guest-worker amnesty program and repeated the nonsense that the illegal aliens are here "to fill jobs that Americans will not do."

Same old, same old. It is impossible to stand there and say you're going to crack down on illegal immigration while at the same time say that you are going to reward people who broke our immigration laws. The president says it's not amnesty. Ok, now we've finally caught the president in a lie. OF COURSE it's amnesty! When you tell someone who has broken the law that you are not only going to ignore their illegal conduct, but you are actually going to reward them for it, then you have more than plain old garden variety amnesty, you have amnesty with perks!

As for the oft-repeated line that the illegal aliens fill jobs Americans won't, that's also a load. Companies may not be able to fill those jobs with Americans at the same low wages they pay Mexicans, but there are plenty of people in this country that would do the work at the right price. OK .. so the price of headless chickens, landscaping and construction might go up, but at least the people receiving those paychecks would be law-abiding residents of this country, most of whom would be citizens. There is something wrong with the idea of celebrating lower home prices when those lower prices are brought with disrespect for the laws of our country. It gets worse than that. We are threatening our very security by singing the praises of illegal aliens in our workforce. Just two weeks ago we were interviewing a Texas congressman who was telling us that U.S. intelligence agencies have knowledge that Al Qaeda terrorists have moved to Mexico, adopted Hispanic identities, learned the Spanish language, and then moved right into the United States across our porous borders.

George Bush failed to address the problem appropriately yesterday, but this isn't strictly a George Bush issue. There is absolutely no willingness on the part of either political party to crack down on illegal immigration. There are simply too many votes to be had in the Hispanic community. So as a result, our security as a nation is threatened and our cities and states are overrun with illegal aliens.

I'm sure representatives of Al-Qaeda are preparing to apply for their guest-worker permits as we speak.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Nevada; US: New Mexico; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; boortz; buchananites; bushbashers; daneisanassclown; immigrantlist; immigrationplan; immigrationspeech; xenophobs
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To: defenderSD
The problem with "simply making it not welcome for them to be here illegally" is that it would devastate our economy to remove all these people from the workforce. Plus the US would gain a horrible reputation in the world as the media plays up all the stories about the children who died of the flu because America wouldn't give them health care and the immigrant children who are malnourished because America won't give them food stamps.

So, we pander to the rest of the world and the leftist media? Let's just run up that white Murtha flag on this issue.

481 posted on 11/29/2005 11:39:55 AM PST by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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To: defenderSD

The idea that the removal of the lawbreakers would 'devastate our economy' is a big lie.

They are depressing wages, driving up taxes, straining our housing stocks to the limit and driving up real estate prices, bankrupting our hospitals, draining our welfare funds, etc., etc., etc.

Your claim is akin to claiming that the removal of cancerous cells would kill all the healthy cells... a prescription for a slow painful death....


482 posted on 11/29/2005 11:41:07 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: jackbenimble

Profits is good and helps the economy by helping people's 401Ks. I remember a few years back when stock prices tumbled. There were some angry seniors out there - angry as wet hens, one might say. Politicians who mess in those waters are soon unemployed.

Now with respect to the construction industry, many of those bums also work under the table while periodically collecting unemployment leaving the tax burdens for the rest of us. There's another "crack down" I'd like to see.


483 posted on 11/29/2005 11:41:44 AM PST by rhombus
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To: oldbrowser

Maybe not of all evil, but a good chunk. Borders, Language, Culture.


484 posted on 11/29/2005 11:41:50 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
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To: Sterco
Please take the time to sit down and make me a list of laws that we enforce and don't enforce so I can profit from breaking the law also...

No time for a comprehensive list, but how about just one example: Copyright and patent infringement. Just do it in China, and as far as the Administration goes, its nothing to get worked up about....certainly not enough to spoil the corporate off-shoring party!

So infringe on U.S. intellectual property to your heart's content in China, and you will profit handsomely.

China is proving more every day that they believe that Mao was right to call the U.S. a "paper tiger."

485 posted on 11/29/2005 11:41:57 AM PST by Paul Ross ("The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the govt and I'm here to help)
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To: oldbrowser

forth = fourth


486 posted on 11/29/2005 11:42:20 AM PST by oldbrowser (The U.S. Senate is a quagmire.)
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To: defenderSD

Upon what evidence do you state that removal of all illegal aliens "would devastate our economy"?


487 posted on 11/29/2005 11:42:21 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: EternalVigilance
Your claim is akin to claiming that the removal of cancerous cells would kill all the healthy cells... a prescription for a slow painful death....

Right on.

488 posted on 11/29/2005 11:42:28 AM PST by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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To: Dane
Huh trying to cover for the slimeballs(trial lawyers). Hope you get a good kickback.

Interesting. Pres. Bush talked a lot about doing something about lawyers. And what did he do? He appointed Chertoff to Homeland security, a LAWYER. He appointed Julie Myers (unqualified), a LAWYER. And oh, yes, Mike Brown, A LAWYER.

489 posted on 11/29/2005 11:42:33 AM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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To: defenderSD
...make sure we run a background check on all guest workers and keep the criminals and terror suspects out.

There isn't going to be any background checks. The same government burueacrats who rubberstamped laughably bogus 9-11 hijacker visa applications will be rubberstamping the millions(?) of Guest Worker applications.


490 posted on 11/29/2005 11:43:03 AM PST by Plutarch
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To: WatchingInAmazement

I can't wait for him to be out of office. He squandered a huge opportunity on the backs of many conservative voters who got him elected.

I am utterly embarassed that I volunteered for him for a week in Florida.

It is downright sad that he can only be said to be a wee bit better than the RAT alternative at this point.


491 posted on 11/29/2005 11:45:29 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
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To: TXBSAFH
Jorge Arbusto is not a repulican, he is a stinking globalist.

He has sold us out.

492 posted on 11/29/2005 11:46:56 AM PST by janetgreen
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To: chris1
Maybe not of all evil, but a good chunk. Borders, Language, Culture.

These people gave us tacos, burritos, chocolate, vanilla, tequila , etc. A good portion of our language and culture came from south of the border.

493 posted on 11/29/2005 11:47:44 AM PST by oldbrowser (The U.S. Senate is a quagmire.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Evidently you didn't understand what I wrote in my other posts. Go back and read them again, then think about it hard and unemotionally until tomorrow. Then get back to me. Remember, you have to have low-skilled workers to keep the business going to provide jobs for all the highly paid American workers. BTW, illegal immigrants don't get paid enough to have any significant impact on real estate prices. The feds need to pick up the tab for hospital costs and that is starting to happen in this year's budget. I want to sharply reduce the number of new immigrants and run a background check on all of them, but it's a really bad idea to force all the illegals out of the country.


494 posted on 11/29/2005 11:48:10 AM PST by defenderSD (What do Bush, Blair, Aznar, and Berlusconi know about Saddam's regime that Democrats don't know?)
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To: oldbrowser

I'm sorry, but the pilgrims who fled religious oppression did not bring taco bell and tito puente with them.


495 posted on 11/29/2005 11:49:26 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
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To: defenderSD

"The feds need to pick up the tab for hospital costs and that is starting to happen in this year's budget."

The feds need to kick these people out and stop new illegal entrants. They have on balance a very negative effect.


496 posted on 11/29/2005 11:50:53 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
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To: defenderSD
I have a strong intuitive sense and logical rationale that GWB will go down in history as one of our five greatest Presidents.

I have a strong sense that Republicans will someday view GWB as the Jimmy Carter of the Republican Party.

497 posted on 11/29/2005 11:52:22 AM PST by jackbenimble (Import the third world, become the third world)
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To: oldbrowser
People are talking like this is the most important issue in the upcoming election. I say it's about forth or fifth.

Well, you can certainly start a thread on your issues one, two and three, and propound away. But this is an illegal-immigration thread, which judging from the number of posts, is important to a lot of Freepers who think that 11-20 million people illegally in the country, while our borders remain porous, is not particuarly trivial.

498 posted on 11/29/2005 11:52:43 AM PST by Plutarch
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To: defenderSD
but it's a really bad idea to force all the illegals out of the country.

It's a really bad idea to force all car thieves to return the vehicles they've stolen.

It's a really bad idea to force all bank robbers to return the money they've stolen.

It's a really bad idea to force all white collar criminals to return all the money they've embezzled.

It's a really bad idea to force people who scam senior citizens to return the money they obtained fraudulently.

You know what's truly a really bad idea? It's a really bad idea to reward people for breaking and entering our country and violating our laws. Period.

499 posted on 11/29/2005 11:53:09 AM PST by Spiff ("They start yelling, 'Murderer!' 'Traitor!' They call me by name." - Gael Murphy, Code Pink leader)
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To: nicmarlo

It's simple. If suddenly 7 million jobs are lost, you'd have a massive decline in consumer spending and tremendous disruption of production in all kinds of industries because of the lost workers. All kinds of agricultural companies would lose 75% of their production and sales revenues. That's the impact of destroying such a large number of jobs in a relatively short time.


500 posted on 11/29/2005 11:53:11 AM PST by defenderSD (What do Bush, Blair, Aznar, and Berlusconi know about Saddam's regime that Democrats don't know?)
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