Posted on 04/09/2007 8:35:35 AM PDT by kellynla
President Bush will speak on immigration reform.
Este bano a la izquierdo.
I hope I said that right. It's been years since I had Spanish.
Exactly. If the pro-amnesty crowd wants to prove their bona fides, let’s see their commitment to enforcing our borders first. Trust but verify. I see no sense of urgency in dealing with those already here.
When the meat packing co’s were raided a few months ago, legals in droves showed up to fill the jobs that opened up when the illegals were deported.
Statistics show that Americans are doing ‘jobs’, because stats show that illegals do some 10-20% of those jobs. Who does the President think is doing the other 80-90% of the jobs?
I tried everything and finally found out that nibbling on raw carrots solves my heartburn problem better than any over the counter treatment. Much cheaper also.
I’d also add that there is too much focus on the borders at the expense of the interior. We need to be concerned about all illegal immigration including visa overstayers who entered by sea and air.
This [anti-slavery] agitation has produced one happy effect at least; it has compelled us to the South to look into the nature and character of this great institution, and to correct many false impressions that even we had entertained in relation to it. Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil; that folly and delusion are gone; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world. . . . Every plantation is a little community, with the master at its head, who concentrates in himself the united interests of capital and labor, of which he is the common representative.59
Calhoun and the South now insisted that slavery was "a positive good." They denied what Madison and the Founders had strongly affirmed, that there was an inseparable connection between the Constitution and the equal rights of humanity.60 The political theory of the Founding was now openly ridiculed. Like today's legal positivists, Southerners frequently put "natural law" in quotation marks, to show contempt for any notion of universal human rights.61 In 1857 George Fitzhugh wrote that books written by Southerners before the 1830s "are likely to be as absurd and as dangerous as the Declaration of Independence, or the Virginia Bill of Rights."62
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a377e2f80122d.htm
Anywhere north of the border.
"Let's build this fence."
Fence Ad
"I don't look at the border as an immigration issue, I look at it as a national security issue."
SNIFF.........So do I. Hit and run troll!
THis does not provide a Reagan quote on his mistake, but it does provide great insight into the decision and such.
I will continue to dig....
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18399
I will, however, never apologize for speaking the truth. One thing that really frustrates me is the knee-jerk fashion with which many on FR defend Bush, especially in regards to the issue of Illegal Immigration.
Bush deserves much criticism here, and to deny at this point that Bush wants the free and unrestricted flow of cheap labor across our Southern Borders to me is not only naive, but borders on cognitive dissonance. He has had more than six years, five of them after 9-11, to secure our borders, and still refuses to do it. That’s not an opinion, that’s a statement of fact. Our borders are not secure because Bush doesn't want them to be, and that’s the truth.
Agreed. One-third of the illegals come from visa overstays.
Excellent. I remember having read it before. Bush will have no part of the above.
Border Patrol might think, why bother, it's just catch and release anyway.
I tried all the others, including carrots and apples. The only thing that is 100% effective is Protonix for me.
Actually there is one out there. Spoofed but pretty funny.
Thank you.
And here is some background info for you!
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18399
I think you made your point.
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