Bush Touts Immigration Policy as Legacy, Hispanic Advocates Don’t All Agree

Diverse Education ^ | November 19, 2008 | Karen Branch-Brioso

[donna]

Declaration of Independence:

He [George Bush] has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages [illegal aliens], whose known rule of warfare [slave/drug running], is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

[MBB1984]

Precisely.

[TADSLOS]

Clarissa Martinez, director of immigration for the National Council of La Raza, notes that President George W. Bush had promised the same thing, but didn’t keep it.

“The problem with Mr. Bush is that when he decided to make a push for immigration reform, it was too little, too late,” Martinez says. “Even though there were attempts to craft bipartisan legislation, he wasn’t able to muster members of his party to come on board. More than anything that we’ve seen during these eight years, a potential legacy he was building — which was, really to expand the tent of the Republican Party and to bring in greater Latino support for that party — has been deeply eroded.’’

Translation: Bush didn't meet our extortion demands on time.

[Guenevere]

Dear mercy, sadly....YES!

This is why I struggle so...

..struggle to trust anyone in politics again...

THIS is Bush's legacy.

[bcsco]

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[TomGuy]

GW's 2nd term reform of Social Security was supposed to be his great accomplishment. He found opposition in Congress, and dropped that.

Immigration reform. GW was bound and determined to push that through.

He tried in 2002, but couldn't get it through.

He tried again in 2006, and got it through the Senate, but the House balked.

He tried again in the spring of 2007, and Senate Republicans balked.

He tried again in summer of 2007, and vowed to get it through. The Senate Republicans balked again.

If GW could have just held off major crises the final six months or so of his 2nd term, he might have made it in to the history books as an okay president. Instead, the financial industry fell apart. Housing crisis. Mortagage crisis. AIG crisis. Credit Card industry crisis. Auto industry crisis. These make Enron and World Global look like small potatoes.

GW Bush will be lucky to find his legacy comparable with Herbert Hoover's now. Instead, he will probably find legacy in the dregs with those like Jimmy 'I fought the killer rabbit and lived to tell the story' Carter.

[TomGuy]

His legacy is Obama.

Recent Republicans presidents have left some rather sad 'legacies'.

Nixon-Ford gave us Carter.

Reagan, yeah him, gave us Bush 1 who gave us Clinton.

Now, Bush 2 gave us Obama.

[SnarlinCubBear]

Mr. Chertoff,

I will never, ever TRUST my government. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice....yada, yada.

[gubamyster]

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[truthkeeper]

“President Bush had spoken very strongly about the need for immigration reform. He came from Texas. He really understood the need for immigration reform. But, unfortunately, that fell apart in Congress.’

Translation: "President Bush really wanted the borders thrown wide open, but unfortunately, those House Yahoos just didn't get it."

[Joe Boucher]

Mr. Bush’s amnesty and immigration reform, just one of many of his “compassionate conservatism” that really is horse crap.

[Malesherbes]

The Bush legacy consists of the fact that we have not suffered a second 9-11, and that’s a big and important legacy. When the second attack does come, some people will remember that legacy.

Sadly, otherwise his legacy is a shambles leading to the drubbing the Republican Party just took and the election of BO.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

[org.whodat]

Mr. Bush, your legacy is the death of your party, and quite possibly the death of our country. I don’t know how you sleep at night...

Not to mention trillions of debt, the man has passed jimmuy the peanut in stupid.

[Oldpuppymax]

Even a dem controlled congess was intimidated by the American people. Don’t look for that to happen again, unfortunately. Voter fraud will ensure election of the “correct” people from now on.

[dalereed]

Total failure, the capture and deportation was only increased in the last few months and even that was small compared to what it should have been.

[Waco]

And upholding your oath is peanut butter?

[spectre]

"“It’s been disappointing,” says Dr. Michele Waslin, a senior policy analyst with the Immigration Policy Center. “President Bush had spoken very strongly about the need for immigration reform. He came from Texas. He really understood the need for immigration reform. But, unfortunately, that fell apart in Congress."

Fortunately, it did. Thanks to the efforts of law abiding American citizens who love and respect this country.

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[AuntB]

““It is my conviction that if we do that, there will come a time in the near future where the American public will finally say, ‘OK, we trusted the government to control immigration,’” Chertoff said. “’Now we are prepared to open the door to more legal immigration or to more legal temporary workers.’””

How many Chertoff? The over two million we allow in now not enough? You don’t bother vetting them now! Has he noticed the unemployment numbers lately?

[raybbr]

Bush did more to increase the Hispanic population in America by his neglect of our border and refusal to enforce immigration laws than anyone I know of.

It wasn't just that. He INTENDED to create a "new America" with hispanic culture equal to our own.

THE "NEW AMERICAN"..........<

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.

Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin 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