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Bush Inspired by His Mexican Housekeeper
NewsMax ^ | May 21, 2006 | NewsMax

Posted on 05/21/2006 4:13:45 PM PDT by notes2005

President Bush has always been drawn to stories of Latino immigrants who came up by their bootstraps, and he has one inspiring example close to home, report Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe, White House Correspondent Holly Bailey and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas in Newsweek's May 29 issue (on newsstands Monday, May 22).

Mexican-born citizen Maria Galvan, 53, has worked for Bush, looked after his daughters, befriended his wife and won the affection of the first family for her loyalty, decency and hard work. As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper to become a U.S. citizen.

Galvan got a job at the Texas governor's mansion just as Bush moved in with his family in 1995. (The White House last week refused to comment on Galvan, except to say that she is a U.S. citizen; White House aides were silent on how she entered the country and what her legal status was at the time.)

The Bushes liked Galvan so much that they brought her to Washington, D.C., in 2001. She lives in the White House, travels with the first family and looks after their beloved dogs. She is said by White House insiders, who refuse to be identified discussing first family matters, to be "part of the family," which is unusual for staff in the formal, institutionalized Executive Mansion.

Bush recognized early on that inspiring Latino family stories could be a boon to the Republican Party. "He appreciates how close Latino families are with each other," says Israel Hernandez, an early campaign aide whom Bush hired after hearing his family story. "For a long time, he's talked about how these are the qualities he thinks the party represents. He has always talked about immigration in a very compassionate way."

But the president's willingness to help illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship sets him apart from many vocal conservatives in the Republican Party and the divide could paralyze the effort to bring much-needed reform to the nation's immigration laws.


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To: vetsvette
He brings it on himself at every opportunity. In this case, he could avoid all this just by telling the whole truth about his housekeeper, but instead he leaves it open in such a way as to encourage cynicism.

I agree with you that many issues could be cleared up quickly but for some reason are not until Dem talking points have taken hold. Having said that, why are some here on FR assuming the worst? It also sounds like this just came up, and "unnamed" staffers were asked, whatever that means.

41 posted on 05/21/2006 5:00:59 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: notes2005
Bush Inspired by His Mexican Housekeeper

That really kind of the whole problem that issue is not an individual or even a group just looking to belong to a different country for a better life and assimilate in to that country culture.... it is a people that have been taught by there old country to have no desire to assimilate are openly hostile to the new country's current culture and people and openly act and advocate to purge and replace ... Bush grasps these differences between individual Muslims & generic Islamic Vs aggressive Jihads that use individual Muslims & generic Islam.... but is completely blind to the Mexican La Raza Reconquest's and there agenda hiding behind the generic decentest of the individual Hispanic

I'm sorry buy when you have a contiguous border between two country with very different cultures and there is mass migration across the border of one people, language & culture purging and replacing that other people, language & culture you are moving that border and surrendering sovereign territory to the other country.... Any look at the history in Europe repeatedly shows this process happening

42 posted on 05/21/2006 5:02:12 PM PDT by tophat9000 (If it was illegal French Canadians would La Raza back them? Racist back there race over country)
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To: Gritty

Actually I think I have it figured out, this is Bush's version of a "chicken in every pot". He should have told us we could all have one just like his that would make legaling millions of Mexico's citizens much more appealing.

Either that or his close family friend is dictating immigration policy to him....not Vicente Fox after all.


43 posted on 05/21/2006 5:02:57 PM PDT by sheana
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To: KJC1

mathprof2 - Dead Troll.


44 posted on 05/21/2006 5:18:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: notes2005

Changing diapers that Americans won't change.


45 posted on 05/21/2006 5:19:41 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Not a part of virtual reality)
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To: notes2005
Galvan got a job at the Texas governor's mansion

The State of Texas initially hired her, not the Bush family.

As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper to become a U.S. citizen.

As far as I know, illegal aliens can't just fill out the paperwork and become a citizen.

White House aides were silent on how she entered the country

Notice it doesn't say they refused to answer questions. The subject just never came up.

46 posted on 05/21/2006 5:19:57 PM PDT by Flyer (He is so fool under the Toshiba's mind-control)
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To: notes2005
Bush Inspired by His Mexican Housekeeper

So was Gaylord Focker.

47 posted on 05/21/2006 5:21:21 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: All

The comments on this thread illustrate how cynical and pathetic the immigration hawks have become.


48 posted on 05/21/2006 5:22:59 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport (As the Democrat Party becomes more evil, the GOP becomes more stupid. What's a voter to do?)
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To: tophat9000

Bump!


49 posted on 05/21/2006 5:24:07 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: coconutt2000
At which point the appropriate documents are released with Galvan's permission proving that she was legal, and that she became a U.S. citizen like any other legal immigrant.

Call me psychic, but I'm willing to predict here and now that the housekeeper did not enter the US legally, and that some strings had to be pulled even to get her US citizenship straightened out.

And I'm willing to bet this is a big part of the reason GWB is consumed with guilt, and thus is trying to ramrod this illegal invasion policy down our throats.

As for using this as some "set up" for the Dems ...

50 posted on 05/21/2006 5:24:39 PM PDT by Edit35
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To: kittymyrib

so very special.


51 posted on 05/21/2006 5:26:13 PM PDT by nicmarlo (Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
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To: notes2005

Ninny-Watch


52 posted on 05/21/2006 5:26:23 PM PDT by Rapscallion (Liberals: Working for the conquest of America since VietNam.)
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To: Kenny Bunkport
The comments on this thread illustrate how cynical and pathetic the immigration hawks have become.

Oh, please. Some have FINALLY woken up. I'm a GWB fan to the core and voted for him twice. But nobody's perfect and that applies to GW on immigration.

53 posted on 05/21/2006 5:26:58 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

bttt


54 posted on 05/21/2006 5:27:10 PM PDT by nicmarlo (Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
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To: VRWC For Truth

Hehe. Was raising his children a job he refused to do?


55 posted on 05/21/2006 5:28:19 PM PDT by kenth
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To: coconutt2000

"...The fourth step is to get the Democrats riled up over the impasse that they insist that there is no "right of privacy" for hispanics.

At which point the appropriate documents are released with Galvan's permission proving that she was legal, and that she became a U.S. citizen like any other legal immigrant...."

I think you might have missed a step ... the step where the Dems & MSM unearth documents that the Bush's never paid Social Security & Medicare/Medicade taxes for her. Impeachment proceeding will begin shortly.


56 posted on 05/21/2006 5:29:40 PM PDT by MaDeuce (Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDuce = M2HB .50 BMG))
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To: Gritty

"Bush is way off the rails on this one. He should be thinking like a President, not a friend."

That's why Bush hired Gonzalez to be Attorney General, and tried to make his friend Harriet Miers a Supreme Court Justice. Let's face it, Bush is a compassionate RINO, not a compassionate conservative, unless you leave the conservative part off of campassionate.


57 posted on 05/21/2006 5:34:11 PM PDT by flaglady47
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To: notes2005

If she was illegal I find it hard to believe it didn't come up in the national elections already...


58 posted on 05/21/2006 5:34:45 PM PDT by ruschpa
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To: SouthTexas

Even if she was illegal, the majority of the country was oblivious to illegals in 95, now it's all Bush's fault.

Hey, there were a variety of appointees, under Clinton, I might add, so from 1992 on, that were shot down for having hired illegal nannies, so it did make a difference back then, and if Bush knowingly hired an illegal alien, he too was as much at fault as those that hired illegal nannies.


59 posted on 05/21/2006 5:36:50 PM PDT by flaglady47
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To: MojoWire

"Call me psychic, but I'm willing to predict here and now that the housekeeper did not enter the US legally, and that some strings had to be pulled even to get her US citizenship straightened out.
And I'm willing to bet this is a big part of the reason GWB is consumed with guilt, and thus is trying to ramrod this illegal invasion policy down our throats."

You are psychic, and I think 100% correct. I smell cover-up here, and if so, this will be found out (I'm sure the MSM are on top of this at this very moment). Then Bush will once again look bad.


60 posted on 05/21/2006 5:40:24 PM PDT by flaglady47
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