Posted on 07/08/2004 8:37:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) made a fresh election-season appeal to Hispanics Thursday by trumpeting his proposal to give temporary legal status to illegal immigrants, an initiative that stalled after his administration did little to push it through Congress.
Bush has only rarely mentioned the initiative since announcing it Jan. 7, and some lawmakers have accused him of neglecting it. The administration never provided Congress detailed guidance for legislation containing Bush's proposals, and bills that contained parts of them, some sponsored by Republicans, have not had hearings in the Republican-controlled Congress.
A bill to create a guest worker program for the agriculture industry has support from 60 senators, enough to pass the Senate, but Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has yet to allow the bill to come up for a vote. The administration has never taken a stand on the bill.
But in a speech Thursday to the League of United Latin American Citizens annual convention in San Antonio, Bush reiterated his backing for his sweeping immigration proposals.
"Our country must confront this basic fact: Jobs being generated in our growing economy are not being filled by American citizens, and these jobs represent an opportunity for workers who come from abroad, who want to put money on the table for their children," Bush said in remarks delivered by satellite to the group's annual convention.
"Yet, current law says to those workers, you must live in a massive, undocumented economy," Bush said. "And so we've got people in America working hard who live in fear and who are often exploited, and this system isn't fair and it's not right."
"The reason I made this proposal is because it's humane," the president said. "It would bring millions of hardworking people out of the shadows of American life. This proposal reflects the interest and best values of America, and Congress should pass it into law."
Hispanics are the fastest-growing group in the electorate and helped carry Bush to election in 2000.
Previous Republican presidential nominees failed to break 30 percent among Hispanic voters — Bob Dole garnered 21 percent in 1996 and Bush's father got 25 percent in 1992. The president secured 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2000.
Bush gave his standard pitch to Hispanics, and followed his custom of sprinkling his English with Spanish.
"We will keep working to make this nation a welcoming place for Hispanic people, a land of opportunity para todos (for all) who live here in America," he said.
President Bush (news - web sites) speaks upon his arrival at the Oakland County International Airport, in Mich., Wednesday, July 7, 2004. Bush said Senate Democrats are obstructing the work of the federal judiciary by refusing to fill judgeships around the country, resulting in backlogs of unresolved cases that languish for years in the federal courts. Bush is spending his day meeting with several of his judicial nominees in North Carolina and Michigan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
It would be nice if he'd reach out to the 87% of us who ARE law-abiding and footing the bills for this nonsense, but I guess that is asking way too much.
Yes, I will give you all legal status. Just fill out this form, registering you as a Republican. Not any better than the Democrats (though, to his credit, President Bush hasn't gone after the 'dead vote' yet). This is very sad.
LOL
I'm not sure where you live or what position your head is in, but I live in the center of the invasion. I suggest that gives me a lot more room to talk than some lamebrain that can't address reality.
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Frankly, he could be a lot better, especially on this issue. Is that a childhood photo, by the way?
Now because of WOT, i have to vote for him, but if that wasn't occurring, the rockfeller wing of the pubbie party wouldn't get my vote.
I am really tired of the hoty toty snowes, colins, that twit from ri, and the other blue bloods saying that it is best for us to have illegals do the work, and be their house servants.
Article. IV.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Clause 1: The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
Clause 2: A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
Clause 3: No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. (See Note 11)
Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Do your leaders swear an oath to this or not? Does this prescribe legalization as a remedy? No! It prescribles protecting the states against invasion. Anything else fails the standard of protecting the states against invasion.
How would some of you like it if the local judge made invasion robers legal family members, instead of placing them in jail where they belong?
Put an end to illegal border crossings and deport illegal aliens today!
Please don't use the term 'good sense' then advocate not honoring the U.S. Constitution and a myriad of immigration laws that are on the books. Thanks.
And in case the fact eludes you - We only have one United States of America. When it's gone, there's no moving to the next USA.
I agree with your sentiments, and would urge you to note that I didn't write note eight. It was addressed to me.
Smart.
Kerry was reported recently spouting to the Mexican press recently that illegal immigrants living in the US should be granted citizenship. Guess I will just have to stay home this November since of the candidates are representing my major concern, the security of this country.
Amen, D1
Oops Sorry.
Do we have to kiss his ass on everything? If we all aren't chanting, "Bush is our G-d! We shall have no other gods! Praise the Lord Bush!", then we are somehow wrong?
As for you leaving Cali, guess you took the easy way out. Don't stay and fight, just let the Mexicans take it over, right?
It takes a little emotional investment to describe the President of the United States like that.
If you are involved in electoral politics why don't you tell us your preferences?
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