Speaking on behalf of myself, please pass on this message to President Bush: Secure the borders first--this year. Then let's talk about the rest of the shamnesty bill.
CLOSE THE BORDER! NOW!
Can we all hear an AMEN for that post?
Borders FIRST. The rest can come later when we see Bush is serious.
hear hear.
Yesterday's NRO editorial says it for me:
“Unacceptable” By The Editors
Speaking to Republican senators yesterday, President Bush argued that they should support the immigration bill because “doing nothing is unacceptable.” That’s odd: It has seemed pretty acceptable to him for most of his time in office. He is right that the status quo features porous borders, widespread flouting of the law, and more than 12 million illegal aliens. But it is the very status quo over which he has presided and which the bill he favors would probably make worse.
The grand compromise bill assumes that critical improvements in border security and interior enforcement can be made in 18 months. Of course, whether any improvements are realized or not, legal status would have been conferred on millions of illegal aliens within months of the bill becoming law. As Senator Jim DeMint explains, “There is no excuse for anyone to believe that what’s in this bill is going to happen, except for the amnesty.”
Senators on both sides of the immigration debate told President Bush that their constituents doubted the federal government’s willingness to enforce the immigration laws. They suggested that Washington show a concrete commitment on enforcement before asking the public to accept such a sweeping reform. Many of them support an emergency supplemental spending bill to fund enhanced border security and to help states pay for the secure identity cards that the federal government has required them to develop. Spending money is a typical Washington cop-out. Additional funding is, obviously, not all that stands in the way of these long-overdue reforms being realized. Any new spending must be matched with a demonstrable political will to see our immigration laws enforced, or else Congress would have merely enacted a far more expensive version of the failed 1986 immigration reform.
“Comprehensive immigration reform” should be set aside so that over the next 18 months, President Bush can do what his administration has failed to do over the past six years. Don’t just show us the money, show us the enforcement.
I overheard a conversation at the coffee pot this morning. Two democrats were saying:
“Yep, Bush tried to sell us out to the illegals by writing that amnesty legislation and trying to get it through congress. Good thing the democrats in congress blocked it. If the Repubs still ran congress it would have went on through””
I know they have no idea what they are talking about but they are average American people that get average amounts of information. So that leads me to think that alot of other average Americans think that way too.
Yesterday I received correspondence from the RNC, asking me to participate in the 2007 Census of the Republican Party. It includes a survey form and a solicitation for a donation.
Please pass along this to anyone who will listen —
Not until the ‘Republicans’ in office, particularly those in the EXECUTIVE branch, (1) actually enforce our EXISTING immigration laws, (2) grow a spine and stand up [on a principled basis] to the Democrats, and (3) act like you are in this for US, not power and privilege/votes — will you see another DIME from me. I used to give each year to the allowable maximum. Not anymore.
Additionally the RNC had the amazing audacity to send me a solicitation letter asking if I had left the Republican Party. Until you recognize that **I** have not left my principles and values, but rather the RNC has become the Accommodating National Party, I will not donate to the RNC.
The President is right on national defense. He is right on taxes and most fiscal issues. He is completely wrong in his policies on working with the ‘kennedy’s’ of the Congress. His policies are dead wrong on ILLEGAL immigration.
Are the borders secure yet?
I would also encourage you to read the Balkan threads so that the President can see as to what a poor choice it is to support Kosovo independence.
Then he needs to dump this hair-brained proprosal and stop pushing his slave-labor agenda. YESTERDAY.
His time and efforts would be better spent concentrating on this war, which seems to need some attention as well.
Some of us oldtimers here have suspected all along that we are subject to survey; still, it feels awkward to talk behind somebody’s back to his face.
I’ll really be impressed when George posts here himself.
When you say “secure the borders”, what do you mean?
My brother went with some business associates down to Mexico this past week. They were on a business trip in Arizona, and they wanted to be able to say they had been to Mexico. On their way back, they went through the border with minimal trouble. About thirty minutes to an hour later, they were stopped at a another check-point, and they had to reproduce their identification proving they are Americans. I see this happen regularly, and I see Border Patrol seize folks and send them back to Mexico via the Big Bus(es). So my question is what more do you want them to do?
If Americans en masse are so serious about this issue, then they should turn in all the illegals that they come across. And be vigilant about it. Take pictures. Post them on the internet. “These people are in the country illegally.”
But I’m REALLY AND TRULY just a stay-at-home Mom who is a political junky.
I have a tip for you...
You should listen to Fred Thompson and secure the border before you ask support for a new bill that will work the same as all the others before it.
Build a REAL fence and not the “Invisible fence” that is being proposed.
They make a product of the same name to keep pets in your yard but the pet has to wear a special collar for it to work.
Until you can convince the Mexican President to put those collars on the illegals we want a real fence and a secure border.
Please pass on to your boss this article by the person that SHOULD have had the job Martinez now claims his own.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850268/posts
Seems Michale Steele is another of those racists your boss talked about, huh?
kristinn speaks for me as well with his reply.
“The louder he spoke of his honor, the quicker we counted our spoons”
Words mean little without action to back them up. Enforcement has been taken so lightly during the past 6+ years that we simply do not believe you today.
Secure the border, crack down on employers so hard that none dare try hiring illegals, support local and State LEOs when they capture illegals (that means come get them and deport them, don’t set them free), and do all that for more than a few months, then come back and let’s talk about what laws are needed in addition to the laws the federal government has been mostly ignoring for years now.
Until then, you have no credibility for anything you say in pimping for this horrible bill, S1348. Let it die, go do your jobs and sincerely enforce the current immigration and border laws.
But if you insist on trying to sell S1348, start by debating Senator Sessions and his list of the 20 worst aspects of S1348. So far, you haven’t successfully won a single debate point against Senator Session. Not a single one.
That is all.
The Constitution stipulates that as executor, you are to see that the laws...ALL... the laws are “FAITHFULLY” executed.
To paraphrase what FAITHFULLY means, in modern legalese...it means...
WITH DUE DILIGENCE.
One of the laws you signed off on last fall was a law Duncan Hunter sponsored, calling for construction of almost 800 miles of fence.
Do you Mr President even KNOW how many miles have been built...do you CARE?
Didn't this factor into your ‘negotiations’ involving your DHS man Chertoff when he participated with Kennedy and others in crafting this bill...ostensibly as you say...to INCREASE border security?
Why hasn't the fence been built Mr President?
Why does your man Sec Chertoff give a cocky answer ...”why don't you ask your Congressman”
I'm asking YOU Mr President.
Mr. Thompson
One other thing for you to advise the President of,illegal entry is not a family value.