Why would it be different this time?
No one can possibly believe that unless the law is defended BEFORE any bills are passed. Since there is not the smallest sign that that is being done, and since passage of this bill would almost certainly guarantee a Democrat victory next year, such an assurance is merely laughable.
Bush won't be around to enforce it. Moreover, he has shown not the smallest interest in enforcing the immigration laws. Instead he has given us a record of sending border patrol agents to jail for trying to enforce the laws against drug dealers and criminals caught in the act.
If this bill is passed, and as a result the Republican party is destroyed, then will hillary be more eager to enforce it than Bush has been? I think not.
Prayers for Tony Snow and his family, but I am sorry he has agreed to defend the indefensible.
From my recent email to the president@whitehouse.gov:
Although I have little hope that anyone in the administration seems to be taking note, I will continue to “vote” my displeasure (a mild word indeed) via email of how the administration is choosing to push an intellectually and politically bankrupt approach to immigration “reform”.
The approach is also morally bankrupt in that it lies about the realities of the illegal immigration situation, lies about the abject failures of the administration and Congress to address it since 9/11, and lies about the true nature of the objections being raised by millions of Americans. We are not nativist yahoos or racist rednecks, nor are we ignorant sheep who would “support the bill if we simply knew the details” (cf. Mr. Snow).
No, we are people who are opposed PRECISELY because we know the details, and we are deeply offended at the mischaracterizations of the bill’s opponents made by the administration.
The administration is still whistling in the dark, seemingly willfully ignorant of the lasting, indeed catastrophic, damage being done to its credibility among the American people.
They have a lot more credibility if they would enforce the current laws first and build the fence. Once that was done then the topic of what to do with those already here could be addressed.
The fact that that Bush demands "comprehensive" reform shows that he is disingenious on this topic. Bush also tries to equate spending more more money on the border patrol to increasing enforcement.
Unless you have the borders actually guarded, it doesn't matter how much money is spent or how many people are hired.
Chertoff is on msnbc now. Calling the bill a “package”. Now he says “status quo is unacceptable.” That’s today’s administration talking point. Unacceptable? They have no idea. Think their phones are going to stop ringing? NOT!