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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You did. The posting was titled on not deporting 11 million, it was the lead and the topic of the body and it was attributed to Bush. You then posted a negative response attributing less than honorable motives. Perhaps you don't recognize that as ripping the subject of the article.
Other than spraying gasoline on the emotional, non-rational fire burning in the country, I don't see any purpose to your post. Still haven't heard word one from you on how to deport million.
All that does is open the spigot a little bit more. The illegals will still come in larger and larger numbers and the increased number of legals will add to the number. One is unrelated to the other. Already, the US allows more legal immigrants annually than the rest of the world combined.
We were already thinking about doing that to our daughters - esp. if they ever come up with one that allows us to track 'em!!!!
Trying to sell lies would be a lot easier on the President's approval rating than speaking the truth.
I believe that if he just said whatever was expedient, most of this controversy would go away and his approval rating would shoot up. But instead he insists on telling the truth about the situation and attempting to make some kind of progress in the right direction. How horrible.
Logistics is not the problem.
The feds did nothing to stop the problem and to accomplish such an effort of mass deportation requires them to go out and look under every crack and crevice for anyone who even looks illegal. There are ways to get rid of some and we should utilize that resource but the slippery slope happens here where government gets to put their noses into places that they are not supposed to.
If you are okay with expanding the power of the state just to fuel your hatred then hey, to each their own.
I vote for your idea.
Why do you oppose the rule of law?
Yes of course! Starting with congress, and then the President, right?
Well put. We are not enforcing the existing laws. Why not?
You didn't read the article.
That's the wrong way to look at it. There are hundreds of millions of would be jobs in America that could be created if there were willing workers for those jobs.
We could import every destitute person in the world and create a job for them that pays 50 cents a day. Each family in the US could have several of these workers doing the household chores and making Persian rugs.
A "job Americans won't do" is a job that shouldn't exist in America. Making Persian rugs for a dime a day shouldn't be an American job.
Beating one's spouse is opposing the rule of law.
Illegal immigrants is what I have an issue with, and with employers who under-pay these workers knowing that if they complained that the employers could get rid of them at will with-out any kind of protections.
Legal aliens would have rights and protections, they would pay taxes and have the feeling that they could hold their heads high and not live in fear of sudden arrest and deportation. If we need more foriegn workers in the short term, it needs to be done orderly and in a manner that our domestic economy,legal services,and medical services could adjust to.
I'm tired of reading of Hospitals going broke and bank-rupt because of the unrefunded care being give to these illegal aliens in the South West. As these hospitals go, pressure is put on remaining hospitals until they have begun to collapse.
American businesses and farms seeking to flout immigration and employment reg's can no longer ignore their own contributions to this situation...after all they too, are dependent on the very same existing legal, social, govenmental infrastructures to stay in business that they are putting pressure on by employing illegals in the first place.
Nope, I am not OK with the taxpayers paying it, but you all are silent about who are ripping off the taxpayers(trial lawyers who mess up the medical system) and (the teachers union who mess up the education system).
BTW, you do know that the teachers union and trial lawyers are the democrat party's biggest contributors, correct?
More baseless lies and smears against Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who has earned a 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union. Why do you hate conservative Republicans so much, Dane? Why do you demonstrate so much "ethnic animus" towards italian Tom Tancredo. You just hate WOPs and guineas, don't you.
Here are the facts of the case as it concerns your baseless allegations that conservative Republican Tom Tancredo hired illegal aliens.
Rep. Tom Tancredo did not hire illegal aliens. You are a liar and are repeating false information from a series of false attacks perpetrated by Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo's Democrat opponents.
Creative Drywall Design was contracted to do drywall for Rep. Tancredo's home theater. Creative Drywall Design was required by law to check the immigration status of its employees. Creative Drywall Design did, in fact, check the immigration status of its employees and they had all the legal documents from those employees which demonstrated that they were legal to be hired. Two employees later said that they had provided false documentation to Creative Drywall Design.
Neither Rep. Tom Tancredo, nor Creative Drywall Design were determined to have broken any laws. If you understood the laws you would understand that.
Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo believed he had hired a reputable contractor - who possessed appropriate contractor licenses, etc. - to perform the work in his home. Creative Drywall Design complied with the law and was able to produce the documentation that the employees had provided them. If Tom Tancredo had grabbed the hispanic, spanish-speaking employees that the contractor had hired and demanded to know their immigration status, you and the Democrats would have been charging him with racism or "ethnic animus". He could have been sued under the Civil Rights Act for doing so. He trusted the reputable company and the reputable company trusted that they had the right documentation. The Denver Post reported the following about the contractor:
Creative Drywall owner J.J. Fukunaga said he has documents on file showing that each of the company's 15 employees is legally entitled to work in the U.S. The documents vary by employee but in some cases include copies of Social Security cards and driver's licenses, he said. When asked to show copies of those documents, he declined. [This is a privacy issue. He should not produce such documentation to a newspaper reporter.]This whole situation has been checked out by Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo's Democrat opposition and they found that there was no legal issues here at all. In fact, they've dropped this particular smear because it has been discredited.The workers are paid by check and taxes withheld, Fukunaga said. "We are more organized and more in compliance than any other construction company out there," he said.
Fukunaga said the company pays competitive wages, and the two workers agreed, saying they were satisfied with conditions at Creative Drywall.
Immigration lawyers who have reviewed the case have cleared Rep. Tancredo of any wrongdoing or lawbreaking. The two illegal aliens who had provided false documentation to their employer and who had worked, unknown to Rep. Tancredo, on the basement project were motivated to come forward because they later heard of Rep. Tancredo's anti-illegal immigration positions and they knew that it would hurt Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo if they went to the liberal press with the story.
These are the facts of the case. You can either read them and understand them or you can ignore them and continue to use Free Republic - a conservative forum - to attack and smear Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who has been awarded with a 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union.
Why do you oppose the rule of law?
I don't understand how we are supposed to educate and give free health care to everyone. Amazing. I don't know how long U.S. can keep it up.
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