Posted on 05/15/2006 5:48:16 AM PDT by areafiftyone
May 15, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - In his live, nationally televised address tonight, President Bush will tell Americans that it's impossible to deport the estimated 11 million illegal aliens living here.
"We must reject amnesty, but recognize that it is not realistic to round up millions of people and send them home," said White House spokeswoman Maria Tamburri in a preview of Bush's speech.
She said Bush plans to spell out his vision for sealing the border, enforcing the law, and "creating a rational system for workers to come into our country and to do jobs Americans won't do." Bush plans to visit the U.S.-Mexican border this week, and will dispatch his Cabinet to help sell the immigration plan.
The Senate plans to return to the contentious issue this week now that Republicans and Democrats have a deal to plow through controversial amendments. But the House and Senate are far apart on whether to put illegals on a path to citizenship.
Tamburri said Bush would call for "better equipment, increased funding, and advanced technology" to secure the border.
She didn't confirm press reports that Bush wants to expand deployments of National Guard Troops to step up border enforcement. Some Guard troops are already deployed in Arizona and New Mexico, but Bush is considering a big increase.
White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said that enforcement was the Border Patrol's job - but then asked whether they needed help from the Guard on an "interim basis."
"This is not about militarizing the border," he said. The president is looking to do everything he can to secure the border. It's what the American people want."
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Yes. It is.
Make it a felony and a $100,000 fine (per illegal) to employ an illegal alien, enforce the law, and the illegals will leave en mass.
***or to rebuild New Orleans***
That's not true.
Laura Ingraham told a story of a company who had to let American workers (mostly African-Americans) go because they were told they had to employ the low-wage workers from Mexico. The lady who owned the agency was crying because she didn't want to lay them off.
The ones really being hurt by this are the young black men.
Won't it be ironic if the Democrats gain the Mexican voters but lose the black base because of this. I also know the african-American community is PO'd that many are equating this event to slavery.
Okay, I challenge you to put forth a rational plan to detain, process and deport millions of illegal aliens, to conform to the requirements of the constitution, to handle the swarm of legal challenges that will be entered into the system and to not break the bank while you are doing it. YOU CAN'T! Any attempt you make at it I can probably rip to shreds in a matter of minutes.
You are so busy ripping Bush for telling the truth because you haven't spent a minute thinking about the massive undertaking it would be and the overwhelming expense of trying to deport that many illegals.
Here, I'll make the challenge easier for you. Just tell me where you are going to get the court capacity to process that 11 million. Every one of them can require their day in court before before being deported. How do you propose handling just that one small facet? Haven't stopped to think about that have you?
Come up with a rational answer for that one, then you can tackle detention facilities, legal representation, ACLU law suits, transportation, manpower, and the long list of real world issues that would need to be addressed.
I excitedly wait your comprehensive solution. I would just once like to see one from the complainers.
Realistically we probably can't get rid of all 11 million. But we can get rid of many, if not at least a majority of them.
This crap about "we can't get them all, so we won't get any of them" is the kind of reasoning you get from 11 year kids. It is insulting that Bush, or anyone else, thinks we are so bleeping stupid to accept that line.
Apparently, the republicans now think we are as stupid as the DUMs think we are. Jeez, what a pantload.
I admired RR. I can also admit his flaws and errors. But the man NEVER talked down to Americans as if they were retarded children. I think that is the quality that the people found so endearing in the man.
I'll bet there's still plenty of openings for your kids to fill, so long as they don't insist on earning the minimum wage. Send 'em on out.
What creates more damage to the Republic? A bomb that kills 200, planes that kill 3,000, a nuke that kills 500,000 or a demographic/population bomb that kills the Republic?
It's an insult.
He keeps insulting Americans and praising foreigners. I can't figure out why he does that.
This is America and not the Roman Army and that where the big difference is.
Well I guess you would rather have the President kneejerkpandering to you and your comrades.
Exactly, we build the country, but suddenly are too lazy to do any work.
"Yes. It is."
No, it isn't.
How does hiring an American differ from hiring a nonAmerican in the farming business? Are farmers refusing to hire Americans?
"They just won't admit it, although I did have a frothing mouth admit that he admired the soviets expertise in border control last night."
That was me, Dane. And I said right after you started comparing this Constitutional Democracy to Soviet Russia.
Again, so that you can tell everyone, How many illegals do you employ?
I find it interesting that the immigration issue, which was not discussed much in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, and where the President's position was well-known before the last election, is all of a sudden a hot topic in the MSM.
Since we can take it for granted that the MSM is NOT in favor of the Tancredo position on immigration, why make it an issue now? Simple -- the MSM and the Left in general are using this issue to split the Right and make it easier to get back in power.
It's more realistic to believe we can deport 11 million people in one day than it is that the 'Rats will adopt the Tancredo position. Neither, of course, will happen. On the day the 'Rats get back in office there will be no more mention of the border.
No, Zook and Dane, I'm on your side on this but why are the poor and unemployed of the northeast and Midwest NOT moving out west to pick lettuce. Hell, for that matter why are the homeless and garbage of San Francisco not getting off their butts to pick lettuce.
In days gone past one did and one moved to where they could earn a living to survive.
Is it because government assistance is greater a wage than actually working?
And why then are we not encouraging those who are poor and unemployed to move west and pick lettuce. Why do we then need foreign nationals to pick that lettuce.
The President must be able to explain this principle, that our own poor are unwilling to do jobs that a foreign national will.
Otherwise, it is a slur.
A slur that says my fellow citizens are too coddled by public assistance and to lazy to fend for themselves.
Whether true or not. That is is the implication.
The President needs to come out and directly say it.
I myself am not unemployed, but Lord is my witness if picking vegies is what it would take to bring income to my house. I WILL DO IT. I an American citizen.
The journey of 11 million miles begins with a single step.
"Laura Ingraham told a story of a company who had to let American workers (mostly African-Americans) go because they were told they had to employ the low-wage workers from Mexico. The lady who owned the agency was crying because she didn't want to lay them off. "
My reaction? "Yeah, right."
A half a million illegals and their supporters in one demonstration on the streets of Los Angeles. A half a million. From just Los Angeles.
That's roughly as big as any public protest or civil rights march in the history of the United States. And this was just people from Los Angeles.
That's how bad it's gotten. How frayed America has become and how the equilibrium of social and cultural identity has tipped irrevocably in some areas. Some areas aren't really in the United States anymore, and southern California is one of them.
The protest proved that.
Ten thousand in Milwaukee. Twenty thousand in Phoenix. Fifty thousand in Denver. Other tens of thousands all across the country.
Doing two things, primarily: Waving Mexican flags and claiming to have built America and to be the reason for its success.
It was an angry, entitlement reaction all across the country. They called this their land and said they wanted their rights and their freedom and their money and their respect.
A bunch of illegals.
An invading army of people who have flooded our borders and insinuated themselves into our society and economy. An army of people who drain America's prosperity through their disproportionate use of government services and their wholesale export of American currency.
They are the bird flu of demographic change.
They are the end of American sovereignty as we know it. Since the Manchus breached the Great Wall and the Vandals sacked Rome there has not been such an example of a mighty people being pillaged by a weaker neighbor.
The Reconquista is almost complete.
And with the house ablaze, the Senate will debate the installation of smoke detectors
After years of ignoring the gathering storm, the Washington politicians have decided to exploit our national cancer in an effort to seduce our votes and contributions. It is not likely they will do anything substantive or useful, but they will fan the flames of division and chaos in order to exploit their bases.
While ignoring the fact that both parties have been treasonously impotent on this issue.
The Republicans let illegal immigration roll forward unrestrained because it helped their friends who have tainted capitalism with their immoral greed. The Democrats let illegal immigration roll forward unrestrained because they believed they could claim ownership to the Latino vote as they have the black vote.
And the American mainstream was ignored by both parties. Duped by both parties. The interests of America were dismissed in order to serve the interests of the parties.
And now a half a million clog the streets of Los Angeles.
People who largely had no right to be here. People who any other nation on earth would unflinchingly deport.
People whose words betray a strong antipathy for the United States People who said over and over that the United States would be nothing without them. People who have not gratitude for this nation, but resentment.
Our guests have become our conquerors.
And the government's response won't be about the nation, it will be about the midterm elections.
Those half a million people sent a message.
That we will still celebrate the Fourth of July, but that we'll do it on the Cinco de Mayo.
The lion's share of Americans want secure borders, enforced immigration laws and America for Americans.
And the Senate is going to tell the lion's share of Americans to screw off. Just like the president has done.
In our Republic - in our representative democracy - the government is about to ignore those who can vote in favor of those who cannot. The value of citizenship has evaporated as we ignore those who have it and acquiesce to those who don't.
That's just the way it is. And the politicians lack the spine or the integrity to change it.
The Mexican national anthem declares that "heaven gave you a soldier in each son." And so it is that an army of Mexican sons and daughters has come to occupy America. And they don't intend to leave.
And we lack the stones to make them.
And thereon turns the fate of our nation.
Bob Lonsberry © 2006http://http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1871
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