"Any guest worker program MUST not give any preference to those who broke the law to come here. I don't believe that we should allow anyone currently in the country illegally to apply to such a program."
Unfortunately, Dubya has made it painfully obvious he's got an agenda regarding the illegal Mexican invasion that supercedes America's best interests. Some believe it's an internationalist/NWO thing.
After 9/11 the border should have been tighter than a drum.
Yes I didn't do a good job of stating my position at first.
I've gotten very sick of the political atmosphere we live in where the extremists on the right and left mischaracterize and demonize anyone that doesn't do things exactly the way they want them to do them.
If you left Bush handle illegal immigration by himself, with complete authority, I agree that it would be a bad thing. Bush like anyone else is imperfect, but he's come a long way from that candidate that couldn't even express what he was saying without stumbling over the words all the time.
Compassion is very clearly a driving force for him. However, his compassion has become more tempered with the more conservative ideal of holding people responsible for their actions.
He's not out there pushing a plan to toss every illegal immigrant our of the country, but he is enforcing the laws within his abilities, and he does seem to be trying to stem the tide.
To be completely hones I don't think he has it in him to address this problem. We have upwards of 20 million illegal aliens in the country, maybe more.
Deporting them means splitting up families. Sending people into a country that they left because they had little hope there. It means putting an end to the dreams of a lot of human beings that want nothing more than a better life.
I beleive those people need to go back to their own countries and make a difference there and change those countries. We can take on some of them that want to come here. We do need hard working people that are willing to make a possitive contribution to our country. However, when we allow uncontrolled illegal immigration we not only get some good people, we get a a lot of people that are not able to support themselves and drag us down.
Our immigration system cannot be allowed to be come welfare for the world. It must be used to primarily benefit the US, while still providing benefits to those who come here through it.
We must enforce our laws. We cannot just keep granting amnesty out of compassion, bucause it continues to encourage those who undermine our laws.
With the number of illegal immigrants in the US there are a lot of cities with large concentrations of illegal immigrants. Try picturing what it will look like when the border patrol comes to round them up, especially the families. This isn't just going to be a few people here and there. We're talking big chuncks of neighborhoods.
It's an image that will make a lot of truely conservative, closed borers people falter and wonder if amnesty isn't so bad.
We've allowed illegal immigration to be come so bad that it's a true threat to our country, and fixing it will unquestionably get ugly in ways this country has not seen in a very long time.
I believe that we must fix this problem, and I beleive that amnesty cannot be the answer. But the stone throwers need to realize exactly what they are asking and not be surprised that no one is calling up the military to sweep through our country and deport all the illegal aliens.
We first need to secure the border and cut off the flow. Expedited deportations help, but we need more courts, more jails, and more well equipped border patrol agents.
Then we need to address the millions of illegal aliens already here, and we also need to have a legal immigration program to provide needed workers, because we're looking at losing a considerable amount of our population if we fix this problem, and we do need to consider the effect of that on our economy.