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Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship (for Illegals)
AP ^ | April 26, 2006 | DAVID ESPO

Posted on 04/26/2006 5:20:12 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans, according to senators who attended a recent White House meeting.

Several officials familiar with the meeting also said Democrats protested radio commercials that blamed them for Republican-written legislation that passed the House and would make illegal immigrants vulnerable to felony charges.

Bush said he was unfamiliar with the ads, which were financed by the Republican National Committee, according to officials familiar with the discussions.

At another point, Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other members of his party pressed the president about their concern that any Senate-passed bill would be made unpalatable in final talks with the House.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, said the lawmaker who would lead House negotiators, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, had been "intractable" in negotiations on other high-profile bills in the past. Bush did not directly respond to the remark, officials said.

The Republican and Democratic officials who described the conversation did so Wednesday on condition of anonymity, saying they had not been authorized to disclose details.

Bush convened the session to give momentum to the drive for election-year immigration legislation, a contentious issue that has triggered large street demonstrations and produced divisions in both political parties. Senators of both parties emerged from the session praising the president's involvement and said the timetable was achievable.

"Yes, he thinks people should be given a path to citizenship," said Sen. Mel Martinez., R-Fla., a leading supporter of immigration legislation in the Senate.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; bush; bushamnesty; bushhaters; citzenship; illegalaliens; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; invasionusa; openborders; sellout
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To: melt
"These folks are doing the jobs Americans refuse to do."

So I guess tommorrow you are going to sign up for a vegetable picker or janitorial job.

161 posted on 04/26/2006 6:38:18 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Mo1; ARCADIA
You should take off the glasses that are coloring your mind. That is not the issue. There are many Americans who happen to be of Mexican extraction. I happen to have cousins who are. But the fact is that ethnic politics due to the multicuturalization of this country for the last half century is fact of life. If you want to secure the future of your dynastic line you have to make those calculations. Whether you or I like it or not, the ethnic Mexican vote will determine who runs this country in 25 years. Making illegals citizens within five will accelerate the process. The question is whether it will be Aztlan types that will be able to manipulate that vote or the republicans as Bush seems to think. Since I live in a Mexican enclave and speak spanish, I can tell you that anyone who thinks they will be voting republican any time soon is demented and in severe need of psychiatric help.



162 posted on 04/26/2006 6:39:14 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: nopardons
I believe Tony Snow refered to them as the "FAR right bed wetters".

Heck, they're so far to the right they're coming up on the left.

163 posted on 04/26/2006 6:39:16 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Jim_Curtis
Some of you sound like you want to purposely taunt conservatives into abandoning the Republican Party.

Some of you sound like you want to go.

Frankly, we're sick of being blackmailed for your vote.

164 posted on 04/26/2006 6:39:30 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Cagey
And, I'll add that this third world invasion is not limited to just the "Border States". I see it here in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.

All Blue States of Big Cities who's mayor have informed their city workers not to go after the illegal

Why don't you go after them

165 posted on 04/26/2006 6:39:31 PM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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To: nopardons

"GEORGE W. Bush is NOT running for anything."

All he does is lead the Republican Party, which IS campaigning for 2006 Congress and Senate seats. Therefore he is a threat.


Ronald Regan ga"ve no questions asked, immediate, BLANKET AMNESTY to ALL illegal amnesty. That is NOT what President Bush is for. So, I guess that Reagan "disavowed the sovereignty of this country" and "opened the gates ( there are gates to some invisible wall, that surrounds the USA, are there? ) to the barbarians"; in your opinion. Was Reagan also a traitor and a LIBERAL?"

Reagan gave a ONE TIME amnesty when the numbers were 3 million, Bush would be effectively putting into place a rolling amnesty, because if you can't stop 11 million from stealing citizenship, how are you going to stop the next thirty million? Whip them with spaghetti noodles?

Do you think Reagan would have acted the same in 2006 as in 1980? Or would he at least have been smart enough to pull his head out from where the sun don't shine?


166 posted on 04/26/2006 6:39:33 PM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: nopardons
We are doing the DNC's work? We come here to criticize the republican president for not doing whats in the republican parties platform. You on the other hand refuse to change one position to get our votes, and you call us DNC?

I'm willing to let the DNC win if the republicans don't act on the border as much as your willing to let the DNC win in order to protect illegal immigration. The only difference is the republican platform agrees with me.
167 posted on 04/26/2006 6:40:37 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: CWOJackson

Perhaps those of us who aren't in the far left or the far right whack groups should come together and elect somebody.


168 posted on 04/26/2006 6:40:43 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: CWOJackson
No. Not the same at all.

I was simply saying GWB, as the son of Bush 41, is not an "out of the Beltway entity".---And, an out of the Beltway entity is my hope for a Republican revival in 2008.

I was not commenting on anyone's "conservative" credentials.

169 posted on 04/26/2006 6:40:53 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Cacique
Which of the president's relatives are illegals?

Are you talking about his brother Jeb's wife ( LEGAL IMMIGRANT and naturalized citizen ) and his nieces and nephews, from that family, who were ?

Or are you talking about his other relations, all of whom were born in the USA; for many generations, nary a one of them an illegal?

170 posted on 04/26/2006 6:41:33 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Howlin
"Perhaps those of us who aren't in the far left or the far right whack groups should come together and elect somebody."

You mean like we do at every election?

171 posted on 04/26/2006 6:42:01 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Cacique
But the fact is that ethnic politics due to the multicuturalization of this country for the last half century is fact of life. If you want to secure the future of your dynastic line you have to make those calculations

Oh please do keep talking

172 posted on 04/26/2006 6:42:02 PM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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To: nopardons
"In fiscal 2004, ICE issued three notices of its intent to fine a business for hiring illegal immigrants - down from 417 five years earlier, according to a 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office." In 2005 the number was ZERO. You call that enforcement?

Quote taken from here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0418/p01s01-usec.html?s=t5
174 posted on 04/26/2006 6:42:18 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: West Coast Conservative

1. It is troublesome someone is leaking this (old news) information. Makes you wonder who is leaking this and why they are leaking it.

2. I think this points out that Bush is just as much a "know better than you" elitist on this issue.

It is sad.


175 posted on 04/26/2006 6:42:44 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: FastCoyote
Do you think Reagan would have acted the same in 2006 as in 1980? Or would he at least have been smart enough to pull his head out from where the sun don't shine?

Ih it was President Reagan in 1987 who said, "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall" and in 1979 was the first to propose NAFTA.

176 posted on 04/26/2006 6:42:47 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: CWOJackson

Exactly.

For every whacko WE lose, we'll pick up a conservative Democrat who is as fed up with HIS kooks are we are with ours.


177 posted on 04/26/2006 6:43:39 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: CWOJackson

Not really. His family history puts him inside the beltway.


178 posted on 04/26/2006 6:43:39 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Dane
So I guess tommorrow you are going to sign up for a vegetable picker or janitorial job.

You know Dane I remember you three or four years on threads saying the same thing. You're like a broken record. If you think the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country are strictly janitors and vegetable pickers I've got a bridge to sell you. They're in practically every job imaginable these days and they are depressing wages and shutting Americans out of them that they otherwise would have gotten for a liveable wage.

179 posted on 04/26/2006 6:44:12 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Right_in_Virginia
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were one of the "true" or "real" crowd, just how difinitions can get blurred.

The only connection I see between George One and George Two is the name. George Two was out in the business world when Pop became a Washington insider (and if you look back at that One may have lived in DC and worked there for years but was he every really that much of an insider).

George Two has never lived/worked in DC, was a successful business man then successful state governor before coming to DC.

180 posted on 04/26/2006 6:44:33 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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