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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I have said the same thing many times. The Republican party stands about as much of a chance of winning the Hispanic vote as I do of sprouting wings and flying. For Gods sake, Lincoln freed the blacks from the brutal servitude of slavery. How many of them do you see voting GOP today??? The republican party needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Don't worry..I've been called a Bushbot so many times I was beginning to think I was channeling Bush thoughts.
This phrase he is using can be interpreted to say, "The jobs Americans are too lazy to do." It hits right at the core of conservative values for many.
Of course, you're perfectly correct - LEOs just can't walk around demanding to see the ID of anyone they choose. The key here is probable cause: loitering (it's why picket lines walk in circles), broken taillights, jaywalking; ya know, the whole Guiliani 'broken windows' approach to petty infractions/crime.
In this case, someone minding their own business working in the fields would not constitute probable cause. A more effective approach would be to investigate employers to see if they were following mandated I-9 verfication processes.
So it's not wrong to deport them, it would just look bad on TV?
I'm sick of hearing that too. Who did those jobs before ILLEGALS?!
Every time someone says that I get angry.
Me too kcvl. I put myself through high school by cleaning toilets for minimum wage (yes people, some of us had to work in order to buy books, clothes and shoes), and I picked vegetables in the fields of Jacobs Farms here in Phoenix in order to help put food on the table. It INFURIATES me to hear someone make those remarks, just who the hell do they think they are, and what kind of privilaged existance do they live that they look down on those of us who are willing to do any work that is necessary?
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Yeah but... Mayor Nagin of NO has a lot of unused busses. They are still available if not ruined by rust.
Right or as I maintain, half of the 20 million (10-12 is a lie) are at Wal-Mart at any one point in time. Wait a month until the next round of gov-ment checks come out, hit Wal-Mart again, problem solved......
Check it out.
BUSH: WE CAN'T BOOT 11M ILLEGALS
PEOPLE: WRONG ISSUE! The issue is OPEN borders. CLOSE the borders!
We KNOW we can't boot 11M illegals in one fell swoop. That is not our IMMEDIATE concern. We can work that problem AFTER we secure our borders. ONE thing at at time. SECURE our borders. Enforce the LAW! THAT's what we want! PLEASE!
They're jobs Americans won't do..
Uh nully, it's jobs that democrats won't let Americans do.
Heck I have no problem with lowering the legal working age to 14.
BTW, why don't you write your hero tom tancredo to change the law, instead of him getting on TV and directing his never ending animus towrads people with certain ethnic surnames.
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That is not a conspiracy, that is an organized public effort. Their motivation for this is the only thing in question, and I think I pretty much have hit the nail on the head.
Once someone has been involved in a stampede caused by media manipulation, it is hard to admit you have been had. I had this experience during the Vietnam War, and I learned my lesson. My revelation of how I had meen manipulated came when 10 years after the fact I learned that we had NOT lost the Tet Offensive. I then realized how much I, as a young woman, had been led down the anti-war path by the press, Hollywood, and campus radicals. I have never forgotten it, and I always try to NOT be led by things I see on TV (as in the Katrina hysteria).
If you can't admit the possibility that the left is using this issue to divide Republicans, there is nothing I can say to convince you.
Do I think we need to solve this immigration mess? Yes. It is a serious problem. However, the marching in the streets and the stampede of the right into attacking the President is coincidentally pretty close to the November elections. I thnk I am right about this.
No seriously..the Dems did get this going. The thing they didn't plan on is that we will finish it.
I'm sure we will hear a lot of that in tonight's speech. I think organizing a drinking game along the lines of "Hi Bob" using that phrase is in order. ~ P-40
You'll miss the end of the speech...
So you want us to be lemmings?
^^^^^
A little less stridency would be a good thing. A little more team playing would be a help to keeping a Republican majority. A supertanker takes miles to make a turn. So does a country's political attitude.
I agree. Even if we can't get rid of all of them, sending ANY of them back at this point is an improvement. Let's at least try for crying out loud.
Listen the legal Mexicans and many of the seasonal illegal immigrants are basicaly law abiding people. They can be rounded up and deported normaly.
IT ONLY TAKES THE WILL..............
Why do you oppose the rule of law?
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