Posted on 05/21/2006 4:13:45 PM PDT by notes2005
President Bush has always been drawn to stories of Latino immigrants who came up by their bootstraps, and he has one inspiring example close to home, report Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe, White House Correspondent Holly Bailey and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in Newsweek's May 29 issue (on newsstands Monday, May 22).
Mexican-born citizen Maria Galvan, 53, has worked for Bush, looked after his daughters, befriended his wife and won the affection of the first family for her loyalty, decency and hard work. As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper to become a U.S. citizen.
Galvan got a job at the Texas governor's mansion just as Bush moved in with his family in 1995. (The White House last week refused to comment on Galvan, except to say that she is a U.S. citizen; White House aides were silent on how she entered the country and what her legal status was at the time.)
The Bushes liked Galvan so much that they brought her to Washington, D.C., in 2001. She lives in the White House, travels with the first family and looks after their beloved dogs. She is said by White House insiders, who refuse to be identified discussing first family matters, to be "part of the family," which is unusual for staff in the formal, institutionalized Executive Mansion.
Bush recognized early on that inspiring Latino family stories could be a boon to the Republican Party. "He appreciates how close Latino families are with each other," says Israel Hernandez, an early campaign aide whom Bush hired after hearing his family story. "For a long time, he's talked about how these are the qualities he thinks the party represents. He has always talked about immigration in a very compassionate way."
But the president's willingness to help illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship sets him apart from many vocal conservatives in the Republican Party and the divide could paralyze the effort to bring much-needed reform to the nation's immigration laws.
Sure, but I will never run for office.
MSM reporters? It is to laugh. They looove their pet RINOs; they make us look like crazed extremists.
The question you are purposefully avoiding is
"Was she a legal immigrant?"
Playing the race card makes you look like a big fat liberal.
White Moderate Guilt.
(gag)
And you, wanting to know how this American citizen came into the country when there's no evidence of any wrongdoing, make yourself look like a bigot.
Unfortunately, it looks to me like some "Freepers" are just itchin' for a good ol' fashion witch hunt.
I'm sure liberals who don't care about the difference between legal and illegal immigration would consider me a bigot. But I don't really give a crap what race-baiting liberals think of me.
It has nothing to do with where she's from. It has to do with the principle of the matter.
You're no conservative. You want to start a damned witch hunt just because President Bush has a Mexican American maid. You'd like to have some kind of big investigation into how this lady came to America. You're like Capt. Queeg and this is the big cheese theft caper.
I knew someone would say that.
Watch the movie again. Why is Queeg fixating on strawberries? Because of his success early on in his career trapping a cheese thief.
Perhaps he does fathom what Mexico is actually like and perhaps that is why he does have a "heart" when it comes to those Mexicans who are good, honorable people, who are trying to find a better home and way of life for their families. And no (for those with their flame-throwers at the ready, this does not mean I condone nor support illegal aliens.
Yet another idiot heard from.
Anyway, it's a great flick. I use it in my teaching.
Only a cynic would think that. Perhaps he doesn't want this woman to be dragged through the mud....which far too many people are all too happy to do.
Don't sweat it from that one. He's got his own i-i issues.
Great flic imho.
Prolly Bogart's greatest roll.
I am a conservative.
You are a race-baiter.
Yes, I'd like to know if the President ever had any undocumented immigrants in his employ. I think he is too easy on those who employ illegals, and whether he is guilty of same is directly relevant in this issue.
And GET THIS THROUGH YOUR SKULL, EINSTEIN, IT HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH HER PARTICULAR NATIONALITY.
COMPRENDÉ?
But-but-but, the RACE CARD has been played!
I'm cowering in fear now!
Hey, wait a second, I'm not a liberal, I'm a conservative, therefore The RACE CARD has no effect on me!
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