Posted on 06/02/2006 3:46:47 PM PDT by kellynla
President Bush yesterday rejected House Republicans' stance that illegal aliens must return home, calling it "wrong and unrealistic" and saying many will have to be allowed to stay.
Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a block from the White House, Mr. Bush also directly challenged businesses to hire only legal workers, and said those that don't should be prepared to face increased fines. In addition, he said both the House and Senate will have to compromise, but said voters expect a bill and he said that bill should tackle both enforcement and a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
"The difficulty of this task is no excuse for avoiding it," he said.
Mr. Bush was making his first in-depth comments since the Senate passed its broad immigration bill last week, setting up a showdown over immigration policy with the House, which passed an enforcement bill in December.
Last Friday, and again on Sunday, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he cannot accept any approach that allows illegal aliens to stay in the country with the government's approval.
"The words 'path to citizenship' is a buzzword for amnesty. We ought to be honest -- it is amnesty," Mr. Sensenbrenner, a key House negotiator, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. He contends that more enforcement against employers would make it hard for illegal aliens to get jobs, encouraging them to go home. But Mr. Bush dismissed that argument.
"Listen, I appreciate the members are acting on deeply felt principles. I understand that. Yet I also believe that the approach they suggest is wrong and unrealistic," he said.
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I'm still with you.
THanks RS, I'll look at it if I can ever actually reach the bottom of this ever-expanding thread!
Tancredo? I'd vote for him in a minute.
You can bet your life he'll never get the republicrat nomination, though.
If the GOP ignores us, I hope we have a viable option.
Even if we don't I will use my vote to make a statement, rather then reward the traitors.
Try again, poseur.
I agree with Bush.
And I bet you NOBODY is going to enact the deportation of millions of illegals...and stay in office for long.
Keep talking impeachment. You'll be seeing the blank blue screen before long.
You're pathetic. In the end Bush will win on this and you will lose.
I really think that's hitting below the belt. I won't make any comments regarding your family that you seem to be so proud of on your homepage. I think your comments are typical of many here who love to put "Texas" in your username. I doubt any of you are truly native Texans.
That's where we part company. There's no objective measure of what's an "unacceptable" level. I want to live in a high wage society. Inequality breeds socialism. The less inequality, the less people are inclined to vote for socialism. High wages for people with lower education levels translate into less inequality.
Meanwhile let us open the doors wider to immigrants who represent the best and the brighest, the way Canada does. Canada actually recruits that cohort.
Yes, but we don't need very many. We just need the crem-de-la-crem. The Einsteins. We've just experienced the single biggest wave of immigration in our nation's history. Like in the 1920's, we need a break.
Really....Why not? Has he been barred from the primaries?
Quit trying to make the issue about me in order to deflect attention away from your indefensible position. It's really trite and your showing your true colors (which are the colors of the Mexican flag I'm sure).
Reminds me of Jimmah Carter quoting Amy on the state of foreign affairs....how childish.
Time will prove that Bush is right on this.
Reminds me of Jimmah Carter quoting Amy on the state of foreign affairs....how childish.
Time will prove that Bush is right on this.
Let's start with Tyson! That would kill two birds with one stone. We could finally get some justice for their treason with Clinton, and also get rid of one major employer of illegals!
Considering ripping my "W" bumper-sticker off of my truck.
That is like Tyson saying "what ear". You are a master of the low blow.
Hit the nail on the head. Thanks for jumping in!
Research "SMN" and ZOT. Calling for impeachment, and running down Texas, will not endear you to many conservatives. SMN.
You know what? So what? Who cares? It's a freakin' website. You really don't have a life, do you? Are you a forty-year-old man that still lives with his mom?
You have the audacity to rip us native Texans, and you live in the hillbilly heaven of Arkansas?
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