Posted on 12/03/2005 9:06:48 AM PST by ncountylee
WASHINGTON - President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to embrace his plan for a guest worker plan for foreigners while talking tough about illegal immigration and a need for secure U.S. borders.
"Those who enter the country illegally break the law," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "In communities near our border, illegal immigration strains the resources of schools, hospitals and law enforcement. And it involves smugglers and gangs that bring crime to our neighborhoods. Faced with this serious challenge our government's responsibility is clear. We're going to protect our borders."
This week, the president made appearances in Arizona and Texas that focused on border security and immigration, two items he says will top his legislative agenda next year.
His goal is to catch more foreigners crossing the border while increasing the number of temporary work visas for those who will take jobs that Americans are unwilling to fill. He is trying to appease social conservatives who take a hard line against illegal immigrants and business leaders who want to hire foreign laborers.
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Thats kinda like teasching my dog to talk.
Ah, the open borders cheap labor libertarian viewpoint !
There is a great term for fools like you. Limousine libertarians. During the 70's limousine liberals bussed public school kids while they sent their own children to private schools. Now, limousine libertarians think they can innundate the American people with the violence, squalor, collapsing public services of Latin America while they play el jefe in the white suit behind the fortified walls.
I don't know about Arizona but we love to build highways in Texas. A wall like that with a road on the other side, straight to Calif would sure save some traveling time. We could make it a toll to pay for the fence at border patrol stops,
Say uh Travis old boy, who is driving the overloaded truck in photo number three?
THe guest program will not work IMO. Families will be here. Liberals will be screaming "no fair" about kids that have been in our schools for six years having to leave.
A wall like that could never be built like that here in america. The enviornmental groups and the dems in california are up in arms about Bush signing a bill to finish off 6 miles of a short span of a wall to the california coast. Sierra clubs and dems wouldn't stand for it.
Also in many of the states especially texas the land is owned by private property owners who won't even let the minutemen on their land let alone allow the govt to build a wall on their property.
What we really need is federal enforcement inland by local police. We need to stop the catch and release policy after 14 days. We need to stop the anchor baby policy which is being brought up in congress but harry reid will fillabuster.
Saying that, says a fence wouldn't work.
How? Are they tagged or branded? Do they work there? Why shop there then, why not go to one of the dying breeds...a locally owned store?
Just curve that precious 69 corrider they want instead of stopping it at Mexico. We don't have to call it a wall. Those round things on top would just be new border checks.
This is exactly my point. Bush's plan is a massive failure on it's face. We don't deport now, why should I believe that we will deport then?
I want to think kindly about Bush, but he is so wrong on this issue, it causes me to really question what's in his heart.
Thank you. We genuine conservatives have to stick together against the globalist infiltraitors.
In so much that she deserved a hearing a not to be trashed ad hominum, yes.
Sorry to hear your low regard for FReepers.
If the plan you support is any good, you should be able to defend it here in detail.
Right?
It's called "globalism." That's why he stubbornly refuses to do what his constituents want even though his poll numbers have taken a beating. He doesn't answer to us. That's why We have to correct him on this. Like we did with his Harriet Miers nomination.
Bush's Guest Worker Plan/Amnesty has no end game. Give them visas then what? Surely he should learn from his experience in Iraq that you need a well thought out end to the plan. Ask them to leave in six years? How stupid an idea is that? Could they have come up with something worse?
Give a few million visas and millions more will come across illegally. Someone needs to study history.
I am beginning to believe there is something in the water in D.C. that makes politicians lose their common sense and testosterone at the same time.
Harriet Miers didn't deserve squat. We, the people, deserved what Bush promised us when he ran for election. We got what we deserved when Bush got his head straight and nominated Alito. No thanks to Bushbots like you.
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