Reaction to Bush immigration speech

cnn ^ | 5/15/06 | cnn

[LS]

Yeah, actually many places PROHIBIT the police from asking immigration status.

[VOA]

You honestly believe that George Bush has any control over the poverty
and corruption in Mexico?

The less Dubya controls the borders, the more Mexicans come here,
the cash in terms of vouchers goes back to Mexico, the more money
Mexican cops can extract from their victims.

Well, at least Dubya can increase the flow-rate of dollars into
the pockets of Mexican cops.

[Kellis91789]

People need to be held accountable to the laws in place at the time the offense was committed.

That is the standard for a society based on laws.

The people currently here illegaly must leave. We will even do them the favor of not prosecuting them for breaking the laws in place at the time. They can apply from their home countries to immigrate legally under whatever laws are in place now, or they can wait and hope those laws change.

[Kellis91789]

The cost of rounding them up and deporting them would be offset by the savings on education and other public services.

I'd offer any sworn peace officer $1,000 bonus for each illegal he captures and places on a bus to the border. Add an average of $100 cost each for transport.

If all 20 million illegals and children of illegals were caught that way, it would cost us $22 billion. That is less than we are spending on educating illegals and children of illegals every year. The savings in healthcare, penal system, police costs, etc. are all icing on the cake.

Combine with a fence to slow them from returning and crackdown on employing illegals. Seems like a simple solution a majority in America would support. Am I wrong ?

[Kellis91789]

Sounds good to me.

[Kellis91789]

I think I have figured out Bush's larger plan and it is absolutely brilliant !!

By importing poor people from Mexico, the burden on public services will become so large that they will all fail !

No more public education ! No more taxpayer funded roads, medical care, welfare, food stamps, social security, etc. !

We finally get a limited government at all levels, where everyone must be self-sufficient.

Brilliant ! /s

[imintrouble]

Why is nobody concerned with Vicente Fox's agenda?

He can bring the U.S. to its knees and we all stand and watch it happen?

[Coldwater Creek]

I was going to respond to your nasty comment, then I decided it just wasn't worth the effort.

[Wurlitzer]

"Combine with a fence to slow them from returning and crackdown on employing illegals. Seems like a simple solution a majority in America would support. Am I wrong ?"

No Kellis, I don't think your approach would be wrong and "IF" the government did what they are commanded to do by the Constitution it would likely work. That is one big "IF".

However, turning off the money magnet completely and letting most of them leave would be more cost effective IMO than a round up by any government agency. I don't trust our government to act in our best interest.

Any unemployed crimmigrants who somehow remain, with ZERO taxpayer subsidies, could then be rounded up but again I don't think our government would do that efficiently. If they had done their job in the first place we could be spending our time in making sure the HildaBeast is permanently run out of the political system.

[Kellis91789]

[I don't trust our government to act in our best interest.]

That's why I like the idea of bonuses to sworn peace officers. I think we can count on them to round people up if it means money in their pockets. If I were a police officer here in SoCal, I think I might be able to retire after a year of such bonunes.

[SerpentDove]

>>I was going to respond to your nasty comment, then I decided it just wasn't worth the effort.<<

Actually, you just did.

[Coldwater Creek]

I responded to your post not your comment!!!!!!!

[SerpentDove]

LOL

[backtothestreets]

It hurts to realize this, as a Republican and a conservative.

Since my teens, some forty years back, I've not felt Republican and conservative were synonymous terms. While conservatives most often came to roost in the Republican Party, a great many issues kept me from equating one with the other.