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.
They are a minority now, thank God.
It is an amnesty plain and simple.
I was right there with them because I worked hard, as did many others, to see this President elected twice. It pains me to be so vocal in my opposition the President's amnesty plan, but I'm a Conservative first and a republican second. If we have a win at any cost attitude, even when it's wrong, then we are no better than the demoncrat party.
I'm trying to have faith here....don't bust my bubble :)
The statue of liberty is much closer to "Ellis Island" than it is to "The Mexican Border". I think there was some intent of placing it where legal immigrants could see it as they approached America.
My post said: >>Boortz said on his radio show that we caught the President red-handed last night telling a lie when he said his plans are not an amnesty for the Illegals.
Boortz is correct of course. Bush lied. Tancredo '08<<
For some reason you popped off thusly: >>And boortz is also pro-abortion and gay marriage, glad to see that you are admitting that as a tancredo supporter you support those also.<<
I said nothing about abortion or gay marriage. Boortz said nothing about abortion, gay marriage or Tancredo.
Perhaps you should have your meds checked, you are imagining all sorts of non-existent connections. Seriously.
I don't know about you, but I personally find Bush's Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico to be highly offensive. In June, 2004, Bush's appointed Social Security Commissioner, signed a Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico. Among other things, it allows:
The only people who support this are those who would gleefully lick the spittle from Bush's chin or the cow dung from his boots.
Thanks, Mr. Tucker, good info. Ping me if you ever get a response from the open border lobby about the Prez SS giveaway to Mexico. I never have.
Appears to be a member of the Hispandering GOP Big Tent full of RINOs, liberals and moderates--at best. Comments indicate this one is very soft on illegal aliens.
UCANSEE2 = no credibility
Very soft indeed!
Criminal lover, America hater, misogynist on top of it.
'tis why I pinged you (I think I did, lol...it's been awhile ago)....wanted to alert you to the Kool-Aid drinker; quite astonishing, imho, how full of Kool-Aid. : )
The men that come across the border and work for contractors (against the law, only because the contractor WHO USUALLY IS AMERICAN, saves money by paying under the table) have to get to the hiring depot and take their chances. They are very orderly and behaved about the process, and show much more civility than AMERICAN women at KMART on the day after THANKSGIVING.
Some of them must put tequila or vodka in their Kool-Aid...
I'd like to feed myself and my family and not be paying thousands and thousands of dollars each year in taxes to support the aliens and the cheap labor corporations. I'd LOVE to be free of that - what do ya think? I'd also like to be free someday of the global agenda but I'm sure that's asking too much.
tequila
Who wouldn't? Is there a country we can steal into that would set us up as good as the illegals are set up here?
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