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Posted on 05/18/2006 9:29:03 PM PDT by RWR8189
WASHINGTON -- I do not doubt the president's sincerity in wanting to humanize and regularize the lives of America's 11 million illegal aliens.
But good intentions are not enough. For decades, the well-traveled road from the Mexican border to the barrios of Los Angeles has been paved with such intentions. They begat the misguided immigration policy that created the crisis that necessitated the speech that purports to offer, finally, the ``comprehensive'' solution.
Hardly. The critical element -- border enforcement -- is farcical.
President Bush promises to increase the number of border agents. That was promised in the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty legislation in 1986. The result was 11 million new illegals.
The president himself boasted about having already increased the number of border guards by one-third under his administration. Yet he acknowledges in the same speech that we do not have the border under control -- "full control,'' as he comically put it. The president's new solution? Increase the number of border guards again, by half this time.
Everyone knows that anything short of enough border guards to do Hands Across America from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean won't do a thing to eliminate illegal immigration.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Liberals oppose serious reform of an educational system that traps millions in illiteracy, poverty, and hopelessness. Liberals defend a structrually bankrupt Social Security System that takes 10% of a person's lifetime earnings and in return pays a welfare stipend. Why should liberal policy on immigration be any different?
Liberals favor the mass immigration of poor people because they think a few years down the road these people will become democrat voters. That's the sum total of the liberal calculation. They are in a panic because they have lost their permanent lock on Congress. They now want to import a new American population that they think they can control.
Ahem. Personal attacks are not allowed on FR.
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"The way I read this Charles thinks a Lie was told in that speech. I said the same and it wasn't responded to well."
Many of us here believe Bush's immigration speech was BS, just as many Bush supporters here believe he would never lie to them!
Get used to it, stand your ground, & try to ignore the ignorant.
"They just don't have the sense to realize it."
With the VAST majority of Americans polled wanting the borders secured & the illegals stopped, clearly most people of any "stripe" DO have the sense to realize it.
The various "leaders" of the groups you mentioned will steer their people in the direction that nets them - the "leaders" - the most power & money. Whether or not it is good for the US or their constituents is immaterial to them.
There is money to be made in chaos.
Why does this wall-building mania remind me of the Maginot Line?
Probably because it will be just about as effective given the true open-borders sentiments of the president and so many other permanent underclass advocates.
Exactly! "By what logic" are the politicians allowing the dam liberals to run the show and make all the decisions?
Is it Christian to reward the lawbreaker? I don't think so. I was never taught that it's perfectly okay to break man's laws and than be rewarded for it.
Well put, but I think it's closer to 15% of a person's lifetime earnings if you count the "employer contribution" the worker never sees in his paycheck.
Like other forms of political correctness Krauthammer seems to be illogically saying that the more important problem is how to deal compassionately with illegal aliens already here, instead of fixing the source of the problem.
We should just secure our borders, and then take the time needed to rework our immigration policy, including how best to deal with illegals. Given the complexities and many options available this country needs the time. We let it rest for twenty years; it can wait a little longer.
I want as much security on both borders as we have around the White House. I live here too.
My wife's family entered legally and went through all the necessary steps to become citizens. They learned English instead of asking everyone to learn their language.
They brought some relatives over, legally. The relatives became citizens through the legal process. They learned English too.
I have been stopped many times in Yuma on I-8 by the Bored (correct spelling) Patrol. I am sure zillions are leaving Yuma where the checkpoints are. Somehow they get past the checkpoint and reach Phoenix.
Bush knows all this! He's not some sort of moron. He's just trying to sugar coat something that isn't going to go down at all, much less easily. There's clearly some sort of agenda though.
This entire thing is an abomination!
It's not possible doncha know! LOL...
As the border wall - as proposed - will be imcomplete and just as the Maginot Line, easily circumvented.
and the French put too much faith in a wall. We should learn something from that. A wall is only the first, of many, lines of defense - not the only defense.
we need to prosecute those who hire illegals.
The fortifications did not extend through the Ardennes Forest (which was believed to be "impénétrable" and "impassable") or along the border with Belgium because the countries had signed an alliance in 1920, by which the French army would operate in Belgium if the German forces invaded. When Belgium abrogated the treaty in 1936 and declared neutrality, the Maginot Line was quickly extended along the Franco-Belgian border, but not to the standard of the rest of the Line. And as the water table in this region was high, there was the danger of underground passages getting flooded, which the designers of the line knew would be difficult and expensive to overcome.History is our friend. Given that the Maginot has been discussed in the context of our own border fence, I thought it was worth clearing up the facts about Maginot.
Don't forget his advocacy for gun confiscation, in order that we might one day be a "truly civilized society".
I like Krauthammer, I respect and admire his intellect and I value his penetrating analyses. That said, I never for an instant forget who and what he is, an Establishment elitist with no particular allegiance to the Constitution or the foundational precepts of our Republic.
Maybe if you worked real hard and pulled your head down the air around your nose won't be so warm at body temperature and smell like say sewage??
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I'm sure it was a joke. I've posted similar comments about Rush out of sarcasm.
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