[Ravenstar]

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Ravenstar

[staytrue]

Left out of immigration debate:

I think it is so great the republicans lost. I know the democrats will be so much more receptive to my concerns.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Left out of immigration debate: You

Umm....exactly which debates have we been included in? ;)

[GATOR NAVY]

When editorial pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal eerily echo the cause of illegal aliens and slander immigration critics as bigots (if they're acknowledged at all)...

There's some of these types here at FR too.

[Don Corleone]

Anytime both political parties agree on anything....the public LOOSES!

[38special]

Amnesty will just about guarantee Republican election defeats throughout the rest of this century.

[From One - Many]

As our president and our congress is passing out surrender flags to the citizens, our ethical congress persons pocket millions of dollar in campaign contributions.

Oh BTW, nothing illegal going on here, so heed your president and congress and move along.

Once you receive your surrender flag, please report to the nearest illegal and give him or her your wallet or your purse, your automobile keys and automobile, and the keys to your home.

You'll have to get used to being without money, food, a car, and a place to sleep.
But remember, our president and congress isn't going to tell we citizens where to apply to be an illegal?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Good! all the advocates are to testify. Maybe they will answer my modest questions.

Why do you advocates say that Americans of Hispanic origin oppose enforcing the law?

Why do you advocates feeeeeel that Americans of Hispanic origin will not vote for your Party if the immigration laws, ID theft laws, document fraud laws are enforced?

Sorry, the pittance of a thousand dollar fine and filing back "taxes" (filing for earned income tax credit checks, that is) just won't do. NOT WHEN two border agents are off to do major time for document fraud and lying.

Why do citizens pay and ILLEGALS get away?

And about those tens of thousands of businesses doing the ILLEGAL hiring. . . .

[CheyennePress]

The voters, of course, welcomed this.

We had the House produce a very good bill. One the media, of course, torched, which alone should tell you its golden.

Going more conservative would have solved this problem. Giong to the left is, of course, going to make it worse.

[gubamyster]

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[raybbr]

We were never given a chance to debate this. Bush made that decision for us. He decided we needed a "new America" and that was that.

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

[A. Pole]

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