Posted on 07/20/2007 6:17:46 PM PDT by Baladas
President Bush yesterday said Americans will soon realize they need the immigrants and foreign temporary workers that would have been allowed by his immigration bill, which was defeated in the Senate last month.
Mr. Bush, in a town hall session in Nashville, Tenn., also refused to say whether he will pardon two U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a fleeing drug-smuggling suspect, saying the prosecutor was a friend of his who made his case to the jury that convicted the agents.
If Mr. Bush was hoping the immigration issue would disappear after his bill's failure, those hopes were dashed, as he was asked repeatedly about border security during the forum — meant to highlight his commitment to cutting the deficit.
"The bill failed and I can't make a prediction to you at this point, sir, where it's going to head," the president told one questioner. "I can make you a prediction, though, that pretty shortly people are going to be knocking on people's doors saying, man, we're running out of workers."
Mr. Bush said there are workers who will do jobs Americans aren't doing in the agriculture sector in particular, and without them the jobs will go unfilled.
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Disgusting!
The only thing I am still with Bush on is Iraq, and there even, great mistakes have been made in the PC rules of engagement.
vaudine
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wo don’t want your North American Union, Mr. President!
No matter hwo much you want to talk about the deficit or whatever, WHICH YOU ALSO SCREWED UP, we wont’ forget this issue.
Works for me.
Sorry. I’m too busy thanking a Mexican for showing up at my small town’s Fourth of July carnival for wearing a Mexican soccer jersey.
Maybe tomorrow I will thank him for the cereal and the hamburger.
APf
Right, because Americans are too stupid to figure out how to feed people.
Get real.
The Nile is a River that runs through FR. All the Border Guards pretend the crops will just plant and harvest themselves.
Pray for W and Our Troops
With all due respect Mr. President you are full of crap!
As someone who has paid tens of thousands of dollars into Social Security, I would love to see it collapse completely. And I wouldn't even want a refund. I wish the government, right now today, would stop cutting social security checks and stop taking social security out of paychecks. And I honestly don't care if you are 55 years old and have paid into the system for the last 40 years. Tough luck. Just end it.
To keep this country going we have to have a certain amount of immigration. But, I beg, this immigration must be legal. Otherwise, we will become Mexico north or, even worse, Iran West.
I love our President and support his WOT and economic plans 100% but I disagree with his stand on immigration.
The problem with labor/workers/productivity in America is government. Government builds too many bird feeders. Government and the courts overregulate and interferes too much with free trade and commerce. What business does government have in setting wages via federal minimum wage laws? In addition, government funds inefficiency - classic case is funding of most government agencies - and financially supports inefficient and ineffective institutions - universities - by underwriting loans, etc.
It’s not that we don’t have workers but for many otherwise available workers, living off government largess is more desirable.
I just wish the conservatives would move on: Bush knows he lost, and though he had a point to make, he should have put border security first.
The War on Terror, tax cuts, a conservative judiciary and the protection of innocent life are things most conservatives can agree with the President on...perhaps we can focus on those things now.
Because the migrant workers actually plant and harvest our Food. You guys have gotten more milage out of that line than a solar car.
How bout fighting the Dems for a change???
Pray for W and Our Troops
I have to agree.
Paying illegals 3.85/hour is pretty much planting and harvesting the crops themselves.
You should be a slavery advocate. At least you'd be honest with yourself and other FReepers.
APf
What kind of drugs is the man taking??
I did plenty of farm work when I was younger, have you ever gotten any dirt under your nails or is that beneath you?
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