[CWOJackson]

I can't speak for everyone but I know our family has. We've sent e-mails but I'm also sending a hand written card thanking the President for taking a bold stand on a chaotic issue.

[annyokie]

I have to agree. Hubby and I both think this is a brilliant move on Dubya's part.

[cynicom]

Your chairs on the Titanic are waiting.

[DrDeb]

"I can't speak for everyone but I know our family has. We've sent e-mails but I'm also sending a hand written card thanking the President for taking a bold stand on a chaotic issue."


. . . my family has done the same -- and I have a VERY large family!

[pollywog]

I have said for years to my children " There is never a RIGHT reason to do something WRONG". Illegally crossing our border, for a Mexican or a Iraqi is WRONG anyway you cut it!!! To excuse it is ALSO WRONG. I love DUBYA, but am not afraid to say " YOU ARE WRONG THIS TIME PREZ.......REALLY WRONG!!!"

[Keith]

here...here.


Bold and workable solution to a vexing problem without easy solutions. I don't know about other freepers here, but as a German-Scotch-Irish-Hungarian some legal/some WOP descendent, this is not the time for "pull up the ladder, I'm aboard, haul up the rope, I'm across" mentalities to this problem.

My two cents...in full recognition of the havoc that illegal immigration has, and WILL continue to wreak on our society, especially on the border states that feel the full brunt of the strain this puts on resources and populations...

[BradyLS]

Oh yes. Like father, like son.

[sfRummygirl]

Oh...I was ad before, but now I am even sadder after reading this post. A bold stance?
You must be a Sean Hannity type person.

[Redleg Duke]

You got that right! The way the extremes of both sides are howling, I believe our President is on to something!

[JoeSchem]

We've sent e-mails but I'm also sending a hand written card thanking the President for taking a bold stand on a chaotic issue.

You win today's Free Republic Benedict Arnold Post Award.

[Eva]

I'm with you (and the President), do you have the e-mail address handy?

[Ian McGreggor]

A Serious Question...

I have a question concerning Bush's new proposal, and I hope you might be able to help me with it.

If I understand Bush's proposal correctly, an employer must offer a job to an American before he offers it to someone in Mexico. Okay, assuming this is correct, what is to prevent an employer from cutting the wages of his current employees in half and then telling them, "You can keep your job if you wish, but your wage will be half of what you were making before" (Which will cover his butt under the "An employer must offer the job to Americans first" clause of Bush's proposal)? ... Then, after most his employees tell him to take a flying leap, can he legally go to Mexico and get replacements for those employees who refuse to work for half of what they were making before?

This is a serious question, so please, no flaming.

[EGPWS]

I can't speak for everyone but I know our family has. We've sent e-mails but I'm also sending a hand written card thanking the President for taking a bold stand on a chaotic issue.

Lest we forget the other pertinent issues addressed by Dubya' to help maintain our sovereignty and status in the world.

Give the man some slack, he hasn't done us wrong yet, we are gaining back our prosperity and with a touch of honesty to boot and at the same time we are maintaining our freedoms by finally drawing a line in the sand to the terrorists. Good Gosh how quickly some forget what we had to face as a country throughout the '90's.

To coin a phrase, "we will prevail".

I have my doubts whether the Democratic party will however.

[cricket]

"We've sent e-mails but I'm also sending a hand written card thanking the President for taking a bold stand on a chaotic issue."

I agree with you.

[WOSG]

Did you actually stop and think about how useless this plan of Bush's is, if there is no imigration law enforcement (status quo)?

The only way to make the Bush program work is to pair it with
immigration law enforcement and changes to immigration law.
Otherwise the lawbreakers will continue to act brazenly and ignore the law.
We need both the carrot and the stick to end the current
inducements to illegal immigration. What is the best way to do this?
Massively improve our lax, inefficient and hapless enforcement of
immigration law; change the immigration laws themselves to end
'chain migration' and 'anchor babies' that encourage forms of
illegal entry and behavior; while at the same time giving a reasonable
incentive for decent prospects for employers and immigrants
wanting to work together.

Thus the formula for success is a balanced and complete reform,
not one that adds just another visa to the pile.
A small guest worker program, vigorous enforcement of law, and end
chain migration and anchor babies. then we would have a saner policy:
more space for the 'workers only' migrants, no flood of illegal
aliens, and a manageable labor influx that doesn't hurt American
workers.

See:
http://www.fairus.org/ImmigrationIssueCenters/ImmigrationIssueCenters.cfm?ID=1169&c=12