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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Uh I ain't the one who is collecting royalties off a song praising of kicking "green teeth" southerners, Charlie Daniels is.
Too bad our congress critters won't think of it.
susie
I agree.
Whatever equilibrium reaching takes place will be gradual enough that the illegals can be replaced by entry level kids (i.e., moving into construction trades) and legal immigrants.
There are plenty of would-be leaders, but few are electable, and all are somewhat fixated on one or another aspect of governance rather than all the world of reality and the possible or desirable. Besides, wishing for a leader could much more easily get a tyrant, a Stalin, as someone with all the qualities we might want in a perfect human being.
I like my amnesty plan!
Please call them INVADERS and don't compare them to people who are legal aliens!
IF you aid and abet CRIMINALS, you are a criminal!
President Bush has been great on most things except for our border.
He has been great on the war on terrorists.
But on the border he is a gross failure.
He acted fast and correct on the 3,000+ people murdered at the world trade center.
He ignores the many rapes, murders and robberies which might be larger than the murders and money loss at the world trade center.
More Americans are abducted on the border of Mexico than in Iraq!
Start building the fence.
It should be made a felony for Criminals who overstay their visas and Invaders.
I believe we should give amnesty to these poor CRIMINALS or INVADERS.
This should be a 2 week amnesty to get the heck out of our Country.
The ones who ignore this amnesty should be buried in a tent city jail and fined $10,000 or buried elsewhere.
All aiders and abettors of these CRIMINALS or INVADERS should get 1 year in a tent city jail and a $10,000 fine for each CRIMINAL aided.
Those in government should be the first ones charged.
Oh, he must have one of those jobs Americans don't want to do.
The President is joke...
Here, let me help you. You have no problem with me being accused of opposing the rule of law, yet you get your panties in a wad if I respond with an accusation of wife beating or racism. :-D
You folks really aren't smart enough to be wasting my time, but fortunately I like playing with my food. Carry on, boys...
What disingenuous rubbish!! We don't need to round up and deport millions of people, just like the IRS doesn't need to audit every single tax return just to ensure reasonable compliance.
Punishing employers, eliminating anchor babies, refusing driver's licenses to illegals, making it a felony for a non-citizen to vote, denying public benefits to illegals, deporting any illegals that come to the attention of law enforcement -- these are just some of the things our nation could make the climate so uncomfortable that a lot of them would just leave on their own, and a lot more would think twice about coming here in the first place.
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
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Correct. The real numbers of conservatives in this country are much larger than the lib media would want anyone to know. Their only hope is to make us eat our own.
For years all the pundits have been criticizing President Bush for not making use of the bully pulpit. So tonight he goes Prime Time, and every conservative commentator is already bashing him for what he will/won't say. They are making me so angry.
We NEVER heard Dems criticize Clinton. They all cooed what a great speaker he was, and he only mirrored what ever the audience in front of him wanted to hear at the moment. He has never held one principle above any other, except that he likes power and adulation.
All Bush gets is criticism. I am ready to scream!
The problem is the doublespeak BS of "pay a fine" is not amnesty.
They can't sell that.
It is amnesty for a price. Pay X dollars (which is CHEEP to BUT a us citizenship) and file four years of tax returns and study the multiple choice questions for bare minimum english 101 and TADA instant amnesty with a coat of cheep paint.
It seems they can't enforce the law on 11 million illegal aliens, but seem to relish harassing 40 million US citizens who use recreational drugs.
No manpower to enforce the borders, but plenty to overfly every residence in the USA two or three times a year looking for reefer patches.
I'll solve this in one step. Force ICE to pick up illegals from local jails. Give the county sheriff's office $500 a head for every illegal they arrest. I'd say in six months the problem would be greatly reduced.
We need a moratorium on all immigration to try and absorb what we have now.
The Kennedy 1965 Immigration act threw out all sanity in this area. It severely reduced European immigration and opened the floodgates to unassimable third worlders including huge numbers of hostile Muzzies. Sheer insanity perpetrated by people whose goal is no less than the destruction of our country as we know it.
Bush has turned out to be an elitest. As with his liberal brethren, they disdain the middle class but love the ignorant, poor and dependent. The middle class is too independent and threatening to their power so why not destroy it?
No one here finds hiring people to do home improvement "evil" and all that other crap you keep posting that we find evil (farmers, contractors, lettuce pickers, dry wallers, etc.) That's just a stupid, inflammatory argument that you keep posting that no one buys into. It makes you look stupid. You may want to stop.
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.
Read the facts of the case. He broke no laws. Creative Drywall Design broke no laws. If Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo, who you continue to use a conservative forum to smear, had taken it upon himself to go down into his basement and demand papers from the spanish-speaking, hispanic-looking employees of Creative Drywall Design, charges of racism would have been flying and you and your fellow Tancredo Trashers, who won't let the mear mention of Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo (actually, you injected his name in this thread just to attack him) to pass on Free Republic without attacking him, would have been screaming about him being anti-hispanic, racist, and charged him with "ethnic animus".
Your hate for Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who has earneda 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union blinds you to the truth. You can't even seem to read and comprehend the law that you keep falsely accusing Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo of breaking. Is Free Republic the appropriate forum for you to keep attacking and smearing a Conservative Republican like Tom Tancredo?
I hope this is not in the speech. Whether true or not, I see that it seriously inflames a lot of working class people.
It almost sounds disrespectful and cuts against the grain of the American work ethic. Big mistake to repeat this over and over IMHO.
People like you, and not the demagogues who live on the DC media(i,e pat buchanan, tom tancredo, etc.etc).
Also what do have against a guy named Jose picking asparagus?
Yes we can boot 11 million illegals. It is especially because there are this many illegals that we have to boot them. How can the president make such a nonsense statement?
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