Posted on 05/15/2006 7:56:22 AM PDT by kellynla
President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive "guest worker"/amnesty plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush's Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance of Get Tough Theater with a series of politically timed immigration raids...which, as I predicted, simply resulted in more catch and release of illegal aliens nationwide.
This new last-minute stunt to sprinkle National Guard troops on the border--temporarily, of course, to appease Mexican President Vicente Fox--is more transparent than the Scotch tape used to hold together our dilapidated border fences. (That's only a slight exaggeration.)
For all the new tough talk, these additional troops will be barred from actually doing what needs to be done: guarding the border. President Bush is already bowing and scraping to Mexico over the plan before he's even officially announced it. More details via WaPo:
Officials suggested their mission would be to play a supporting role by providing intelligence, training, transportation, construction and other functions, while leaving the actual guarding of the 2,000-mile line separating the United States and Mexico to the Border Patrol. The National Guard would be a stopgap force until the federal government could hire civilian contractors to take over administrative and support functions from the Border Patrol, freeing more agents to actually hunt for immigrants slipping into the country. Hold up. It's been nearly five years since the Sept. 11 attacks. It's taken the Bush administration this long to acknowledge the need to hire more civilian contractors to relieve the Border Patrol of administrative and support functions?
Only now, on the day the Senate revisits his favored, faltering pet proposals for mass amnesty, does he find it important enough to send a show of military non-force down to the border--
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
You know .. I've had enough of this crap
They *itch and complain .. then when he does what they want .. they *itch and complain about that
The professional whiners can stick it in their hat as far as I'm concern
I love Malkin's writing, but this silliness is what we don't read right now.
I'm just amazed all all these border security experts popping out of the woodwork! And yes, Malkin IS a good writer on immigration failures, but this is ridiculous hyperbole.
We should have closed the southern border ten years ago.
I agree, it is sad to see this.
How badly does Bush have to screw up on the border issue for people like you to see how wrong he is and see the danger we are in because of his stupidity?
It really isn't about illegal immigration. That is just the current issue they've hijacked in order to spread their venom.
Sooner or later, they'll move on to some other issue and say it is all "Bush's fault."
Has he done anything? Let me know when the border is closed and only legal immigrants are employed.
The border isn't the Pressident's fault
The States failed to handle the problem YEARS AGO and now want the Feds to bail them out
They always do
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
I agree with you both. I like Malkin but she needs to lighten up a little.
I agree with her.
Althought we need to wait to see what Bush is really proposing, based on his track record on this it would be easy so predict that this is just a token measure. He's already reassured Fox that this is just temporary, the number of actual guard will probably be few etc. etc. etc.
This has all the makings of "window dressing" not real border security, I hope I'm wrong.
My sentiments exactly.
I have been listening ..
Blame some Fed judges, too. When California finally decided to cut off the welfare teet for illegals, in came a federal judge with a hyperventilating Constitution.
Malkin lost the respect of a lot of people when she said that all Muslims in the United States, even those who are natural born Americans, should be put into concentration camps for the rest of their lives. It didn't matter if they were law abiding citizens, they were to be thrown into camps without a trial or any form of appeal.
Is that the new talking point? Now all of a sudden our national border security is a state issue? National defense is one of the FEW responsibilities of the FedGov.
No .. I've been saying it for years
The states failed and now they want the Feds to fix it
I hope putting the guard there is temporary, until we can hire and train many thousands more border patrol agents. I served in the Guard and Reserve. Most Guard and Reserve don't have the proper training for "police" functions. I do think the Guard can be used effectively, if they get the right training (generally provided to military police).
"...do everything he can to thrwart the Minutemen (or as he calls them "vigellantees) including spying on them for the Mexican government. "
Maybe that's the true purpose of the National Guard troops. To provide more accurate information about the location of the minutemen to the Mexican government.
Can anyone tell me when the US government has been this steadfast in refusing to do what the people want?
Illegal immigration started on January 20, 2001 and will end on January 20, 2009.
/sarcasm
Yep, malkin is really starting to get on my nerves!!
I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!
The President and company are just arrogant politicians for coming up with a plan like this! What kind of Conservative Republican pulls a stunt like this??? Here, here!
New One-year Amnesty for Many Pre-1982 Immigrants Starts Today
Today marks the beginning of a one-year application period for thousands of long-term undocumented immigrants throughout the country who were unlawfully turned away by the INS when they attempted to file for legalization during the 1987-88 one-time amnesty signed by President Reagan in 1986.
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional law Los Angeles Press Release
Los Angeles, Ca. Today marks the beginning of a one-year application period for thousands of long-term undocumented immigrants throughout the country who were unlawfully turned away by the INS when they attempted to file for legalization during the 1987-88 one-time amnesty signed by President Reagan in 1986. The 1986 law, the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, granted an unprecedented amnesty to aliens who had resided in the United States since before 1982. The law also for the first time imposed sanctions on employers who hired undocumented workers. Interpreting the new law to disallow most applicants who had briefly traveled abroad after 1982, the INS rejected thousands of applicants who had visited relatives or traveled outside the country during the required period of residence.
Class action lawsuits that were filed during the 1987-88 application period challenging the travel rules were finally settled earlier this year after control of the INS transferred from the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security. Complete copies of the class action settlement agreements are available at the web site of the Citizenship and Immigration Services of DHS (former INS) at uscis.gov (select CIS settlements), and at www.legalizationusa.org.
Under the terms of the settlements in the two class action cases, Catholic Social Services v. Ridge and Newman/LULAC v. CIS, undocumented immigrants who resided in the United States from any date before 1982 until they tried to apply for amnesty and were turned away during the 1987-88 application period, may now come forward and file applications to legalize their status. Under the settlements the applications will be confidential and may not be used to commence deportation proceedings if the application is denied. Applicants will also have the right to seek temporary work permits and permission to travel abroad while their applications are pending.
The settlement agreements take into account the passage of time since class members first applied for amnesty and were turned away. The settlements provide that the CIS may not deny applications simply because they are based upon the affidavits of third parties showing an applicant's required residence from 1982 to 1987-88. To avoid long backlogs of applications before the CIS, the settlements require that applications be processed within 180 days.
"We look forward to thousands of undocumented immigrants all around the country of all nationalities having the opportunity to come forward and legalize their status during the coming year. The INS should have legalized their status fifteen years ago. Their exploitation on the job, discrimination in all walks of life, and fugitive status, will finally come to an end. Their communities will be better off as this population of long-term residents can finally work legally, pay more taxes, and can far more fully participate in social and civic affairs." Peter Schey, President. Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, lead counsel for plaintiffs.
Exactly and anyone who claims Bush has failed on security matters is NOT being honest and they have their own agenda.
Ditto.
The control of the borders and the security of the country is a federal responsibility, not a state responsibility. I do think it's a state (and local) reponsibility to arrest employers who are knowingly breaking the law and hiring illegals.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Have they been doing that???
Exactly!
Who does the prosecution in such cases?
"Illegal immigration started on January 20, 2001 and will end on January 20, 2009. "
That's odd logic. So, are you suggesting that since the problem didn't begin on Mr. Bush's watch, he has no responsiblity to fix it?
Bush has deliberately drug his feet on securing our borders. With a Senate-defined amnesty program looming during an election year, he announces a temporary measure of some undefined size (but 10k wouldn't be sufficient to secure the borders)? Way too little and he's way late to the party.
With the background of the border patrol management appeasing the Mexican government to the point of disclosing citizen led efforts to pick up the the slack of the federal government (sorry, it's a FED responsibility to secure borders, NOT the states'), he hastens to reassure the President of Mexico (first!), that what he's about to tell the public will only be temporary measure?! This screams of "eye-wash." Sturm und drang, to absolutely no long term effect.
Chill and let's see if what he has to say tonight is more border BS or if he REALLY has a plan and the guts to implement it.
My remembering gland tells me that the National Gaurd is a state issue. Maybe George is gonna change that too along with not enforcing the laws of the land.
One can at least hope for a reasonable outcome.
"The States failed to handle the problem YEARS AGO and now want the Feds to bail them out"
The only response that remark warrants is my tagline.
What I don't understand is why these people are suddenly attacking Bush rather than attacking the Left and MSM traitors.
Let me clarify.
I think the Guard should be temporary also not a permanent solution. However the real solution would to deploy Guard in numbers enough to greatly reduce the flow while a wall is erected and backed up with probabaly 10x the number of border patrol.
But that's probably not going to happen.
Wow .. my feelings are hurt
Buy a thousand buses and start hauling illegal butt back to the border while we wring our hands and "discuss" it...
I'm with you...
Malkin is off the mark here.
Then there's the audacity of
Fox descrying American soldiers
[viz] National Guard at the border.
But it's OK for Mexican soldiers
to be on that side of the border
protecting the drug runners.
I know he's tardy, but I'm still
waiting to hear Bush's speech
tonight. And I intend to be on
the hearing end of Tony Snow's
follow up, too.
BTW, for those objecting to
the National Guard being placed
at the southern border...just
WHAT IS the function of the
Guard if NOT to protect that
area of the United States?
Some seem to believe the
Guard's sole purpose is to
protect the citizens of any
ONE of the United States from
that state's own citizens or
help clean up after Mother
Nature acts violently!
Is the border secured? No? Then he hasn't done what is desired.
He is ready to announce minmimal troops to temporarily "assist" the Border patrol. Essentially what the Minutemen do.
The minute he actually enforces the border, punishes employers, and starts reducing the illegals in this country by other means then Legalizing them (amnesty) then he'll have done what people want.
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