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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Absolutely. And it's the US Supreme Court that required public education for the children of these immigrants. Bottom line is that a majority of Americans perceive a problem that needs to be addressed. But a majority also favor a guest worker program. Americans are generally moderate on this.
A Time magazine poll? Give me a break! Why not AP/Ipsos?
Also, the issue as *you* framed it is *not* whether Americans favor a `guest worker' (now there's a great phrase to veil the reality) program, but whether they believe illegal aliens are breaking our laws.
So give us a credible poll and stick to the issue.
(I can't make out your last line . . you blow what?)
You mentioned your own children could not get work. I was hoping to get some firsthand feedback from you. I have quite a few nieces and nephews in the college age bracket. They all have summer jobs, so I was wondering what you could illustrate as a specific problem in Virginia.
Re black vs mexican workers in Louisiana - I wonder what more there is to that story, but that situation is not why I responded to your post.
Why do we feed hundreds of needy men every day in Baltimore and then have our Senator beg Congress for a increase in the number of legal imported laborers to pick crabs on the Eastern Shore? Cannot the needy men in Baltimore pick crabs as well as Central Americans? There are lots of inconsistencies in labor practices that can be studied forever. I wanted to learn more about what farmers in Virginia were doing about foreign vs American laborers.
LOL! Yeah there is no legal issue, because 99.9% of the people in the US don't find hiring someone to do some home improvement "evil" as you do, unless you have a "ethnically" pure work force.
Face it spiffy, your hero tancredo got caught but got let go, because building a home theater in the basement is not on par with running a crack house, or having a dirty nuclear bomb.
But you like clinton parse everything, and ignore the common sense of tancredo's political hypocrisy.
Who are you? Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton? Cut the race-baiting crap. The rule of law is not racist.
Now, tell us, why are you against the rule of law?
Sure Dane, and Charlie Daniels is a Hollywood stooge because of a song he wrote 30 years. You never get tired of repeating the same thing over and over no matter how many times it's refuted or discredited. Obviously you play that game because you have no arguments or points to make that can legitimately defend your open border position.
Excuse me, you believe that enforcing our own laws is the same as Nazi concentration camps? Wow.
susie
I have serious doubts about those numbers that you're quoting. You have to look at the entire US economy, including all the extra income generated by American citizens because of the abundant low-cost labor of illegal immigrants. It's not an easy economic analysis to do. I'm researching this right now to post in a seperate thread. I'll ping you on that thread.
"Why are you a racist?"
There you go, Lemura. Coop just said, "You're stupid!" so you have to give him the swing . . .
That's how OBLs end an argument: with name-calling, like liberals.
"And you are going to take a job pciking vegetables or tarring a roof in 100 degree heat, when, Mr. uber American."
You know, you're really something. I've thrown more hay bales in my life than I can count. I'm nearly half a decade old and I still shovel cow shit. My husband works in the construction industry. I picked asparagus when I was in my teens. Just who in hell do you think built this country?
Just more amnesty isn't amnesty BS instead of a real plan to secure America and uphold the rule of law.
It all depends on your meaning of the word "is".
I did not have sex with that woman.
I reject amnesty
Physician, heal thyself!
or he will deply the guard to do the patrol planes which need manpower to support and the actual control can be 1000 miles away. (it will be interesting to hear the story of US border planes controlled by soldiers in X country.)
It is 1986 all over again.
The only two things Bush has to do is enforce EXISTING laws - that is, uphold the rule of law:
1. Order the SSA/IRS to make an I-9 validity checking system available to employers. (Right now, employers can only verify that a SSN exists - not whether 5,000+ other people are using the same number.)
2. Direct the DOL/DOJ/IRS to begin rigorous enforcement of existing labor/immigration/employment laws.
And you would seriously consider chipping your daughters?
Why do you oppose the rule of law?
The other problem with immediate deportation is that each and every one of the deportees is entitled to a court hearing. Here, however, the strategery of defeating the Republicans and teaching them a lesson might actually work, because with 'Rats controlling the White House and the Senate we'll see Justices on the bench who will eliminate the right to a court hearing and make it easy to deport illegals /sarcasm off
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