[Mozilla]

Economist Stephen Moore is also a rino it seems. All these Cowboys care about is cheap labor for fruit picking and house work. Colin Powell and Romney hired illegals to do work for them as well.

[3boysdad]

Y’all can have Texas, I’ll keep my Wyoming. Texas went “red” in the last election by only 57%. I’ll bet in a few more election cycles it goes blue.

[joseph20]

Former President George W. Bush: "America is a nation of immigrants."

Wrong. This is such a canard. We are not a nation of immigrants.

[dangus]

Hasn’t Bush done enough to destroy America? His disastrous footsie with the Democrats ruined our economy, and let Republicans take the blame.

[donna]

Those who want to hoist the banner of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the American tradition of immigration should remember that when immigrants were passing through Ellis Island at the early part of the last century, the federal government accounted for about 3 percent of the American economy.

Today it is 25 percent.

Part of the package deal that comes with showing up in the United States today is our welfare state as well as our free economy... Yes, let's encourage freedom. But freedom is a privilege and a responsibility. We have enough people already here who think it's all about entitlement.
— Star Parker

[mo]

If ya assume the bankers ran the last election...and counted the votes..ya can assume they want immigration....

Plenty of banks (and the Federal Reserve) want to tap into the money that’s sent from the U.S. to foreign countries, whether the money was earned illegally or not. And, plenty of banks want to tap into related markets such as opening savings and checking accounts for illegal aliens or giving them home loans. They know the money was earned illegally, but they don’t care. And, they find plenty of corrupt politicians willing to help them profit from illegally-earned money in exchange for campaign contributions or other benefits.

http://24ahead.com/s/immigration-banks

always..always...always FOLLOW-THE-MONEY

[raybbr]

Bush wanted a new America - just like Obama does...

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

[Bigg Red]

Really? He has kept his mouth shut about the Rats’ destruction of our country, their stealing of the election, yet he shows up to push this garbage.

To think I voted for him twice, FReeped the WH and the VP’s residence in 2000, stood in the cold and rain to see his first inaugural parade and swearing in. I cried tears of joy and relief when he took the oath. I am now so disappointed and disillusioned.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...a decade after he helped inflate the real-estate bubble to its 2007...

Sorry! That was Bawney Fwank!

[MurrietaMadman]

Could be that all it is is W got a grant from the Volag people.

From http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/the-history-of-the-matching-grant-program

...The September 11th terrorist attack brought a halt to refugee arrivals and a virtual cessation of enrollments into the MG program. Facing a potential decay in the service infrastructure due to the lack of enrollments paid on a per capita basis, ORR responded by providing funding to maintain staff salaries through the end of the calendar year irrespective of fourth quarter enrollments. ORR permitted Volags to retain $1,000 for each unfilled previously approved slot. These “unearned” funds of the per capita grants, were to be used to retain the staff infrastructure. Volags were required to match the $1,000 with $500 in cash and in-kind contributions. ORR further directed Volag affiliate staff to review the status of MG clients served and provide additional service and resources to assure their self-sufficiency as needed. This became known as the “50% solution”...

Sounds like just the thing to unshackle the imagination of the embedded political/bureaucracy after all the pre-conditioning that took place after WWII.

http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Refugee-Policies-Refugees-and-the-cold-war.html

[stevio]

Does this make the “Day in the life of Bush” thread?

[Will88]

The Bushes and the Kennedys, two families whose current generations inherited weatlth and postion they did little to earn. It seems they are just eaten up with white guilt and inheritor’s guilt, and they must act out by flooding this nation with poor immigrants from third world nations. There’s always been something very weird going on with the later generations of some of America’s most prominent families, and we’d all have been far, far better off if they’d never been ‘called’ to enter public ‘service’.

W has some sort of phsychologtical disorder when it comes to immigrants from poor nations. I dislike the Bushes more with each passing day, and I was never too thrilled with any of them.

[navyblue]

Is anybody really surprised at this? :“America is a nation of LEGAL immigrants Mr Bush.

[JudgemAll]

Cheaters cheat because they are dependent. Bush is basically encouraging cheating hubristic immigration and antiamericanism, and thus is just of the same cult of dictators who promote dictatorship.

Strange for a guy who made speeches to troops about removing dictators in the Middle East... but then again, he only spoke of “regime change”.

These guys must hate our military.

[cradle of freedom]

Yeah, we need more practioners of Santa Muerte in this country. Read what is happening in Ventura County, that’s Ventura County, USA. not Ventura County, Mexico.

I want my formerly civilized country back!

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/ventura_county&id=8887246

[MinuteGal]

Up in the heady atmosphere of major league politics, rarely is anything done by chance.

Bush's selection of immigration as a topic for his speech was no accident, believe me. It was planned and executed with all the precision of major campaign speeches.

In fact, the immigration issue was the carefully selected opening shot for the 'Jeb for President' campaign, the speech executed by a personage designated to get media and public attention on a nation-wide scale....namely, a former president of the United States.

We already know Jeb's position on immigration which ties in with the speech's content. Jeb's brother George may lapse back into a coma again, but a hotly-debated spotlight has now been turned up several notches. The gauntlet has been thrown down at the feet of conservatives.

The issue of immigration now will be swooped up by the media and the RINOs. We will be bombarded with propaganda about the GOP "expanding its base" and pleas for "amnesty reform" (translation: full amnesty).

In short, George W's thinly disguised propaganda speech was programmed to begin softening up the populace on immigration.....inaugurating the long road to the eventual and inevitable announcement of the candidacy of amnesty-loving Jeb Bush.

Leni

[BufordP]

John Derbyshire: Eight Wasted Years ...Margaret Thatcher used to talk about the “ratchet effect.” When the Left gets power, she said, they drive everything Left; when the Right gets power, they slow the Leftward drive, perhaps even halt it for a spell; but nothing ever gets moved to the Right. U.S. politics in the 21st century so far bears out this dismal analysis. What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn’t let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word... Bill Gertz interview on Hannity and Colmes Gertz: Well he casts himself as a compassionate conservative and I argue that he's neither. That his administration is neither. He's done tremendous damage to the conservative movement...

Bush Was a Statist, not a Conservative April 10, 2010 by Dan Mitchell