President Bush assumes the position on border security once again!
Posted on 03/25/2005 6:02:45 AM PST by kellynla
U.S. News] Washington, Mar 24 : President George W Bush has decried efforts by armed private groups to act as self-appointed policemen to bar illegal Mexican immigrants coming into the United States, and pledged to push for a "reasonable" immigration policy.
More than 1,000 people--including 30 pilots with their private planes--have volunteered for what they call their "Minuteman Project", seeking to monitor the movement of illegal aliens during April and report them to the Border patrol.
Bush said after yesterday's summit with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University that he finds such actions unacceptable.
"I am against vigilantes in the united States of America," Bush said at a joint press conference.
"I am for enforcing the law in a rational way." The Minuteman Project, The Washington Times notes, was born out of a long-held perception among many U.S. Residents that more Border Patrol agents are needed to handle the flow of illegal immigrants.
Bush, who is struggling to reduce the huge budget deficit, was criticised by both Republicans and Democrats earlier this month for failing to add 2,000 agents to the Border Patrol, as set out in the intelligence overhaul legislation he signed in December. The President's fiscal 2006 budget proposal allows enough money to add only 210 agents for the US borders with Canada and Mexico.
Bush said that he will "continue to push for a reasonable, commonsense immigration policy." He has proposed legislation to grant guest-worker status to millions of illegal aliens already in the United States. PTI
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You missed all the fun. See this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369694/posts
Stupid move Mr President. Get a new researcher on this - these people are not vigillantes, they are only their to "spot" illegal immigrants for the authorities.
BUSH STAFFER PING. This is his weakest point. He promised to up border security - the citizens wouldn't be down there if the Feds were taking care of business.
If AQ slips through Mexico and launches a successful attack, there will be hell to pay.
You got that right. If the cops are not around to protect my house, I and Ruger will do it.
I guess I did. LOL Thanks for the link.
I was too busy working yesterday.
This needs to be posted EVERY DAY!
No, Mr. President. There is nothing rational about an approach that utterly fails, and had been failing now for decades.
The Minuteman Project was born from the perception that our government has utterly failed in one of the primary functions of any State: to protect our borders.
Misusing the word "Vigilante" by applying it to peaceful observation, simply corrupts logic and reinforces the impression that you just don't get it.
"I am against vigilantes in the united States of America," Bush said at a joint press conference.
If the attack is anywhere near the scale of 9/11, he'll face calls for impeachment.
W's gonna get his butt kicked by conservatives on this one. He's so far out to lunch on the illegal immigration issue that he's probably having a burrito on Mars with Captain Picard & Fox.
This issue WILL come back and haunt W. Being a native Democratic Republic of Californian you have to be deaf, dumb & blind not to see the problem.
He WILL be sorry...
Our new credo: "The 'rational way' is the compassionate way."
Just think of them as "undocumented Border Patrol officers".
If there is another terrorist attack, Bush can bend over and kiss his legacy goodbye!
The Bush administration has had two and a half years to secure the borders, fine employers who hire illegals and deport the TWENTY MILLION ILLEGALS in this oountry. And the Bush administration has done ZIP, ZERO, NADA!
It is costing the state of California alone NINE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to allow illegals to remain in this country.
At that cost we could FLY every illegal in America home and still break even at the end of a year!
That one's a keeper.
What about an citizenship reward: any illegal immigrant with information that results in the capture of a terrorist agent is approved for citizenship? At least that way, the people that are fleeing to America will work for us instead of against us, as cover for AQ ops.
And until the W administration starts enforcing the immigration laws of this country, there will never be a victory in the "war on drugs"; there will never be a victory in the "war on terrorism" and there will definitely never be "homeland security!"
Deport the illegals,
Ike did it, so can Bush!
Best line of the week!
U.S. News] Washington, Mar 24 : President George W Bush has decried efforts by armed private groups to act as self-appointed policemen to bar illegal Mexican immigrants coming into the United States
Chapter and verse please.
You've got that right! The Fed's won't act on our security the citizens must.
Nature abhors a vacuum, Mr. President.
If you don't do it, someone will.
He's right:
Main Entry: vig·i·lan·te
Pronunciation: "vi-j&-'lan-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
That definition seems appropriate. They are vigilantes.
Perhaps Bush has been bought out by Mexican corruption.
Bush, in fact the whole clan are done - this is it - I am sick and tired of them. I will work for anyone to get in office, yes even Hitlery, over these F'n back stabbing elitist RINOs. At least with Hitlery you know your enemy and we may get a congress that will unite to grow some balls.
Let's be adults here, I think you and everyone else in America knows what W meant...
W is against Americans doing what he refuses to do.
"Man the borders!"
Illegal immigration is just terrorism in slow motion!
How many murders, rapes, assaults, burglaries and child molestations do these people commit? Why are our Federal and State prisons jammed with them in numbers vastly exceeding their percentage of the population? Are you any less dead if you die from an illegal immigrants tuberculosis or hepatitis or chinga then if you die from a terrorists anthrax?
Don't forget John Lee Malvo!
Illegal immigrants = Terrorists
Bush is way out in left (literally) field on this issue. I can't recall him ever saying anything quite so direct about the people from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc. who are routinely breaking our immigration laws with the full knowledge and complicity of the Mexican government and Bush's "buddy" Vicente Fox. Furthermore, the Mexican government employs the Mexican military to enforce its own immigration laws on the Mexico-Guatemala border; isn't that a bit of irony?
His neighbors suffer repeated trespasses, yet he denies them.
The law says no trespassing, but he does not enforce the law.
Take his ranch, put it on the border - directly alongside the neighbors who are suffering, and Bush would have his security stop tresspassers onto his land and call that "rational" ... while accusing his neighbors who do the exact same thing, as being "irrantional" and "vigilantes."
NOTE: A vigilante is a person who exacts punishment. Bush's description of his neighbors, does not apply.
Thought I was being an adult by pointing out that the Minuteman Project IS a group of vigilantes. THEY ARE!!! If you assign a negative connotation to that term, that's your problem.
Frankly, I applaud their efforts, but they ARE vigilantes. They should be proud of the term.
yea, yea, yea...
go buy a dog to kick, 'cause I'm not taking the bait! LMAO
Invasion. (two edged sword on this issue).
A)We are being invaded.
B) Mexico should be invaded to repay the favor.
This is a Rome-Carthage "thing."
Mexico delenda est.
Vigilantes CREATED the united States of America. And may yet save it.
"I am for enforcing the law in a rational way
Then DO IT, El Presidente!!
If the attack is anywhere near the scale of 9/11, he'll face calls for impeachment.
Why wait? Why not draw up articles of impeachment now? It might scare him into action.
I like that!
The term 'vigilante', used in the setting where the President used it, has very negative connotations, and will not enhance the safety of the MMP, who are already under direct physical threats from Mexican gangs and Mexican officials.
It was a stupid thing for him to say, in addition to being wrong.
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| One entry found for vigilante. Pronunciation: "vi-j&-'lan-tE Function: noun Etymology: Spanish, watchman, guard, from vigilante vigilant, from Latin vigilant-, vigilans : a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law appear inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice - vig·i·lan·tism /-'lan-"ti-z&m/ noun |
interesting.... i was wondering how W would LABEL these Patriots.. and now i know. and he was NOT being complementry.
W was in the oil business in Midland and Odesa Tx during one the biggest Tax and Big Gvt revolts this country has ever seen. and it happened right there. there were Patriot men buying local TV time to go on air and give their views of what they saw as a tax-crazed and rule/regulation passing Fed Gvt gone mad.
they had some excellent points and had many local LE on their side in this...
but then the feds sicced the IRS on the Patriots with orders to make examples out of them. with the help of Judges - they did just that. many went to prison...
W was there during this period.... and i have wondered how this effected his politics... and just who's side he chose.... well, now i know.
surprise surprise.... they're all the same. he sounds no better ... no more Constitutionally Educated than Janet Reno.
"Nature abhors a vacuum, Mr. President.
If you don't do it, someone will."
Now that you put it in terms of physics, I get it! Actually, I got it decades ago, but I like any chance to insert a physics concept into a discussion.
I spent part of last night scraping the 'W' stickers off of my car and throwing away my Bush-Cheney signs. And I donated some more money to the Minuteman Project (money that will NOT be going to the GOP now!).
http://www.minutemanproject.com
Ah, wrong! They are not punishing anyone. The are infact turning them over to the correct law enforcement officials for processing. These people deserve a Citizen Merit Awards!
If the Minutemen are vigilantes, then GW Bush is Fox/Mexico's whore.
I heard some of he "volunteers" they stated that they are not going to shoot anyone, they are going to bring them to the authorities. they are not vigilantes
President Bush assumes the position on border security once again!
President Bush assumes the position on border security once again!
Me thinks there is a FOX hiding in the Bush.....
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