Posted on 09/19/2006 5:51:57 PM PDT by NapkinUser
Republican calls president 'derelict' in duty: 'This is not Ellis Island, this is an invasion'
Author Pat Buchanan says President Bush should be impeached for failing to stop the invasion of illegal aliens across the U.S. border with Mexico.
"I think he's committed an impeachable offense in refusing to enforce the immigration laws and in failing to uphold the Constitution by defending the states against this invasion," Buchanan told radio talk-show host Curt Smith this weekend on National Public Radio stations in upstate New York.
"When you have 6 million people apprehended on the border and several million got in on your watch – and you have the ability to stop it – I think you're derelict in your duty," he said. "And if the president says 'I can't do it,' you need a new president who will do it."
"This is not Ellis Island," said Buchanan. "This is an invasion."
Buchanan, who is a WND columnist, is the author of the best-selling book, "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America." The book paints a dim portrait of America's future: "The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West."
"As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended."
Buchanan follows Rep. Tom Tancredo's warning shot, "In Mortal Danger," with some sobering statistics and new ways to consider the crisis. He states:
One in every twelve people breaking into America has a criminal record.
By 2050, there will be 100 million Hispanics
concentrated in the U.S. Southwest.
Between 10 and 20 percent of all Mexicans, Central Americans and people of the Caribbean have already moved to the United States.
Every month, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehends more illegal aliens breaking into our country, 150,000, than the number of troops we have in Iraq.
"Concerned about his legacy, George W. Bush may yet live to see his name entered into the history of his country as the president who lost the American Southwest that James K. Polk won for the United States," Buchanan writes.
In addition to charging the Mexican government with plotting territorial reconquest, the former presidential candidate also says elites in Mexico and the U.S. are conspiring to erase America's borders and merge the United States and Mexico into a "North American Union."
To avert disaster, Buchanan's recipe includes:
A deportation program, beginning with all illegal aliens convicted of felonies and every gang member not a U.S. citizen.
A 10-year limit on legal immigration to between 150,000 and 250,000.
Building a security fence along the 2,000-mile border.
Buchanan points out that the illegal alien population of the U.S. today exceeds the total number of Irish, Jewish and British immigrants who ever came to the U.S.
He disputes those who contend illegal immigration has economic benefits for the U.S., saying instead the trend represents a massive drain on the economy.
So is that two illegal alien prostitution rings or one?
If Pat "the Nazi" is for it, we're against it, that's it. Open them borders wider, Mr President!
Wow
Howard V was on that old thread. He signed up in 1997 His account is still active but not a word from him ....Where is Howard V now?
I think he might be driving the letture truck for Arator.
"Open them borders wider, Mr President!"
Are you serious?
2 months before an election and this loon is carrying the Democrat's water over impeachment, and now over immigrations.
What and idiot Pat has turned into.
Despite being occasionally right on an issue, Buchanan remains a blowhard pig whose biggest contribution to society is the "conservative" that people hate on CNN.
His racist, anti Semitic, anti Republican, reactionary, anti intervention, isolationist, reactionary views have been manipulated for years and years by scumbags like Ted Turner to hammer conservatives and paint them with the brush of being "similar" to repulsive pigs like Pat Buchanan...
"2 months before an election and this loon is carrying the Democrat's water over impeachment, and now over immigrations."
I don't care for Pat Buchanan also, but how is he carrying the democrat's water over immigration? That's more of McCain and president Bush's doing it would seem.
This is the title of a new thread: "Sudan blames Israel and Jews for many of its woes"
You have a point but i'd still rather ship them out (provided we secure the border). The cost of housing all these illegal alien criminals is tremendous.
Look, they tresspass in order to work. Let them earn their keep while they are doing time.
Exactly. Just how many presidents would we have to impeach on this issue? Even Ronald Reagan, supposedly Pat Buchanan's hero, wouldn't be unscathed.
BTTT for your sentiment
A non-partisan would easily conclude that Pat is correct.
Do I think Bush should be impeached? No. Not at the moment. If he signs an Amnesty, he would disgrace the office in a worse manner than Bill Clinton ever could.
That said, it would be very hard to argue grounds of impeachment if Congress passed the legislation (although the whole lot of them would be traitors and hopefully induce mass protests and resistance - not holding my breath on that one).
The fact of the matter is that there is no chance of this happening.
But the question remains: Has the President refused to uphold his oath of office to defend the Constitution against all enmeies foreign and domestic as well as Article IV, Section IV of that same Constitution to repel foreign invasions?
Absolutey, and in a saner time that would have been an impeachable offense. In a saner time, President Bush would be greyhounding it back to Crawford.
God bless Texas.
What's left of it anyway...
I have a question for the Paties... Should Reagan been impeached for signing the god awful 87 amnesty bill??
No, it's too late besides he had a Dem house and senate to work with. Compared to the USSR the illegals were not that much of a problem. Bush however, wants to try the same failed policy when he has a lot more to work with. It's inexcuseable.
...a lynch mob would have run buchanan out of town for writing the things he does defending Islamic extremists.
You got that right! Done quite a bit around here. Just like the Democrats do it!
Pat will not enter and if he did he would not win N.H. let alone the nomination. You run as an independent and Republicans will never forgive you.
buchanan deserves no less.
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