I'm assuming she was in this country legally to begin with.
Is this CYA? So, did she have forged documents to get on government employment? Was she paid a decent salary? How about medical, SS, and retirement? Time and a half over-time and 2 weeks vacation, and what about sick leave? Oh well, we'll know all the dirt just as soon as Shrillary moves back in.
I'll betcha she's legal.
This is just another "death by a thousand cuts" story.
This backs up an excellent comment I have read elsewhere on these threads: To wit, Bush has never seen the real Mexico, with all it's corruption, violence and dysfunction. Only ruling-class family friends and salt-of-the earth servants. He really does not fathom what Mexico is actually like.
Oh my God the sky is falling!
President Bush has a maid who came from Mexico but is a U.S. citizen. Big freakin' deal.
If she was legal when she went to work for Bush in Texas, you know the White House aides would confirm it. The fact that they don't want to talk about her entry status can only mean one thing.
No wonder Bush wants to give a pass to all the illegal aliens. We have millions for people who have broken the law and the POTUS will not enforce the law. Teddy Roosevelt must be spinning in his grave.
So George Bush and family have a Mexican servant and that applies to me how? They can afford Mexican servants, I cannot.
So if this little fact is another one of those compassionate stories intended to make me accept millions of illegals......again.....didn't work. If anything it showed me that he has no clue what people in the real world have to deal with.
sheesh
Funny, the twins were 13 when he first became governor. I don't know many teens who want someone looking after them. So, that would conclude she was already in his employ before he went to Austin.
"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.)"
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Oh dear, 1995. As recently as that. Could it be that Senora Galvan may have been on someone else's payroll at the time?
Maybe dragging her into the spotlight is the best thing that could happen to free Bush from Fox's invisible collar.
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Well, she's a US Citizen. It certainly isn't uncommon for people in the Southwest to hire Hispanic help. It sounds like a "hit piece" to me. I'll wait for further info. She sounds like a nice lady. Look how good the twins turned out. Mamma Bush found a good helper.
There are many good people like her. The problem is, they now make up only about 30% of those coming across the border. I know, I grew up here and I love the Mexican people who have always been a part of this country. Even THEY will tell you that there are too many coming across and now they are not assimilating into the American culture. Instead, they are bringing a new, urban poor, third word culture to America and they are dragging the good people down with them.
Bush is way off the rails on this one. He should be thinking like a President, not a friend.
Even if she was illegal, the majority of the country was oblivious to illegals in 95, now it's all Bush's fault.
That really kind of the whole problem that issue is not an individual or even a group just looking to belong to a different country for a better life and assimilate in to that country culture.... it is a people that have been taught by there old country to have no desire to assimilate are openly hostile to the new country's current culture and people and openly act and advocate to purge and replace ... Bush grasps these differences between individual Muslims & generic Islamic Vs aggressive Jihads that use individual Muslims & generic Islam.... but is completely blind to the Mexican La Raza Reconquest's and there agenda hiding behind the generic decentest of the individual Hispanic
I'm sorry buy when you have a contiguous border between two country with very different cultures and there is mass migration across the border of one people, language & culture purging and replacing that other people, language & culture you are moving that border and surrendering sovereign territory to the other country.... Any look at the history in Europe repeatedly shows this process happening
Changing diapers that Americans won't change.
The State of Texas initially hired her, not the Bush family.
As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper to become a U.S. citizen.
As far as I know, illegal aliens can't just fill out the paperwork and become a citizen.
White House aides were silent on how she entered the country
Notice it doesn't say they refused to answer questions. The subject just never came up.
So was Gaylord Focker.
The comments on this thread illustrate how cynical and pathetic the immigration hawks have become.