Posted on 02/16/2002 4:32:59 AM PST by sarcasm
President George W. Bush is "pressuring" Congress to open discussions on a plan to offer amnesty to more than three million illegal Mexican immigrants living in the U.S., the Washington Times reported Friday.
In a front-page article, the newspaper said the U.S. leader would bring up the issue of amnesty during his meeting with President Vicente Fox on March 22 in the northern city of Monterrey.
"Amnesty and the related "guest-worker" issue have surfaced anew partly because Mr. Bush is preparing once more to take up the matter with Mexican President Vicente Fox in Monterrey," the article read.
Bush will travel to Monterrey to attend a conference on financing international development, organized by the United Nations.
At their meeting in Washington last year, Fox asked Bush to find a way to legalize the more than three million Mexican illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
The issue of immigration between the U.S. and Mexico was relegated to the back burner after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. But U.S. officials have made efforts to emphasize they have not forgotten about Mexico.
A number of Republican congress members told the newspaper the White House was lobbying Congress to prepare the terrain for negotiations on immigration.
Tom Tancredo, representative from Colorado and president of the Immigration Reform Caucus, has been targeted because of his opposition to the Fox proposal. Tancredo is against granting amnesty to illegal immigrants because he said it would "reward" people for breaking immigration laws.
But Bush administration officials insist the country needs foreign workers to perform jobs many U.S. workers may not want to do. They also argue granting legal status to currently illegal workers could stem the flow of immigrants, if combined with better law enforcement cooperation with Mexico.
Just what about that confuses Baby Bush? If he wants to live in Mexico, let him move there. If Mexicans want to become American citizens there is a procedure specified in our law to do so. Otherwise, they are ILLEGAL ALIENS, period. Deport them.
Boonie Rat, MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
This is a bunch of CRAP and Bush should Know Better
Just Like his Father, He seems destined to Snatch Defeat from the jaws of Victory..
Vincente Fox should stick to selling Coca Cola or whatever he used to sell!!!
As Bush might have said in earlier days,"You are either legal or you are Illegal".
Why do the "soft" laws apply to immigrants, minoritys, and unpopular factions, while the hard laws apply to the citizens who deserve enforcement, but have misplaced trust? The letter of the law is specific. I have never seen a law that pertains to one group while allowing another "equal" human group to slide.
Pathetic leadership. I voted for Bush, but he is no better than the Gores and the Clintons. Bush is just a different model, but made by the same system. Is there any politician left who is for the PEOPLE OF AMERICA WHO VALUE OUR HERITAGE?
Seems to me if the U.S. continues to give amnesty to illegal aliens they have all the more incentive to cross the border.
What BS. America has millions of able bodied people collecting welfare. This is how Bush intends to use his 85 percent approval rating? It is obvious that Bush intends to turn America into a majority third world population as soon as possible. This will not only destroy the republican party as we know it but will also destroy America as we know it.
If Bush follows through with this amnesty for illegal aliens, he's lost my whole family's vote in '2004.
The same goes for any politician that supports this act of betrayal of the American people's trust.
I dont understand why President Bush is pushing this. We need to deport all illegals: Mexicans, Arabs, Chinese,etc.. I doesn't matter where they are from. Illegal is illegal. We need to seal our border for our own security.
I don't understand why anyone is suprised by this. Everyone should have known Bush's politics on this issue; it's not like he has been hiding it, and plenty of people have been trying to warn you about it - and they got shouted down here on FR and elsewhere because of those in the grip of the Bush-must-win-at-all-costs crowd. Now, maybe Bush was the best we could have hoped for in 2000, but we should not act suprised when he acts in favor of the business and internationalist interests he is a declared supporter of.
But then, that's "democracy" for you: "heads" you get a vaguely left-of-center internationalist, globalist, and elitist - "tails" you get a vaguely right-of-center internationalist, globalist, and elitist. We have the "democracy" and the government we deserve.
Same here. This is my litmus test for Bush and any other candidate in the Republican party.
Good point. And allowing this perversity of uncontrolled immigration (both illegal and legal) to continue will only keep our struggling lower class at the bottom. You'd think that Bush would have a much higher degree of compassion for Americans that need work than the lawbreaking illegal bunch here. Yet, apparently he does not.
Meanwhile, he heads down to Mexico to listen to demands from the president of a country that can only make demands because 1/5 of all of his people have stampeded out of his country. Why does that give him any rights to make any demands of this country? Is it because...he's invaded, and now he wants to dictate the terms of surrender?
The Mexicans are laughing at Bush. They think he's weak. Thousands of his own people were killed, millions more are out of work, terrorists are still operating in the country (anyone want to venture a guess as to who killed Katherine Smith, the Tennessee DMV employee?), but he comes running whenever Vicente snaps his fingers.
Vote for the guy again? The only damn reason I voted for him in the first place is because he said "oh, I'll pertect the border". Yeah. The border of Bosnia with Serbia. Our border he could care less about.
What George Washington started, George Bush intends to end: The Independence of the United States.
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