Thanks, Pukin Dog. You are, of course, 100% right on this. There is no will out there among the American public to round up illegal Mexican immigrants. It seems to me that President Bush has again charted the best course on this policy.
And I'll say something else. It's one thing to be critical of the President's views. It's entirely another to engage in the kinds of brutal attacks on him that I've seen on FR today. It's as if these people imagine that Hillary Clinton will have a stonger anti-illegal policy than President Bush.
And one more thing. I think some people here just don't like Mexicans.
LOL...it just wouldn't be a complete immigration thread without some illegal immigration apologist pulling out the race card.
Is it time to play the race card already? Who cares about the nationality of the invaders? It's the invasion that must be stopped.
Oh BS.
The President has been Vincente Fox's lapdog, while demonstrating NO leadership regarding this illegal invasion.
You and your goofy ranting pal Poodle Dog can kiss Dubya's RINO @ss all you want -- it doesn't change the fact that Bush has been derelict in his duty to preserve the constitution."
"And one more thing. I think some people here just don't like Mexicans."
You are 100% FOS.
you're a bot.
I essentially agree with Pukin Dog on this. I do not know all the particulars of the various legislative vehicles, but I do know this from a political standpoint:
1. with midterm elections coming, I trust GWB and Karl Rove's political judgment much better on this issue than some of the ideologues on this thread and others.
2. border security (even stepped up enforcement of some sort) is a winning political issue for November. Employer restrictions and sanctions are necessary and overdue.
3. Conversely, deportation is a disaster for the GOP. Can anyone just imagine the television commercials that will demagogue this issue as the GOP "tears apart a family," "denies children education, food and health care," etc. etc.
4. It is not difficult for the RATS and their media handmaidens to connect the dots from the GOP is anti-immigrant, to the GOP is anti-Hispanic, to the GOP is anti-minority, to the GOP is against all blue collar people.
5. A deportation public policy enacted into law would spell political disaster for the GOP... it would be greatest political gift we could give the RATS for a generation.
Wiser political heads must prevail.
We accomplish nothing if we are out of power, particularly when it comes to the federal judiciary. The RATS are licking their chops to portray the GOP as anti-Hispanic.
you noticed that too? ;o)
Reading through these responses, I have to keep reminding myself I haven't somehow slipped into a DU site