Posted on 03/24/2005 7:52:05 AM PST by mikemikemikecubed
Edited on 03/24/2005 5:24:25 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WACO, Texas -- President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes." He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law. More than 1,000 people -- including 30 pilots and their private planes -- have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol. Mr. Bush said after yesterday's continental summit, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University, that he finds such actions unacceptable. "I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America," Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. "I'm for enforcing the law in a rational way." The Minuteman Project was born out of a long-held perception among many residents that more Border Patrol agents are needed to handle the flow of illegal immigrants. Mr. Bush was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats earlier this month for failing to add 2,000 agents to the Border Patrol, as set out in the intelligence overhaul legislation he signed in December. The president's 2006 budget allows enough money to add only 210 agents for the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. Mr. Bush said he will "continue to push for reasonable, common-sense immigration policy." He has proposed legislation to grant guest-worker status to millions of illegal aliens already in the United States. The legislation has attracted scant support in Congress, where it is widely regarded as another amnesty that will encourage even more illegal immigration.
No!
ANY nation that fails to protect its borders CEASES TO BE A NATION.
Perhaps that is someone's goal.
ELECTED officials are NOT listening to those of us that put them into office, and the UNELECTED judges are legislating from the bench and there's not jack we can do about it?!?! Grrrrr<<<
I beleiev there is something that we can do about it, it's just that Critical mass has not yet been reached.
To all,
I know some tend to dislike lou Dobbs and CNN but Lou Dobbs talks about the immigration issue more than anyone in the MSM or media in general. I live in Illinois and sometimes catch his show at 5pn CST. It is rebroadcast some time later in the night. One of the many things that's cool about his website is that he posts the transcrpits of past shows, which are often insightful on a number of issues most notably immigration. I encourage all of you to read the trascript of the reporting he did on the race for mayor in LA. I was floored to hear all candidates save one talk about the so called importance of bending over backwards to help and accomodate people in LA who migrated there illegally. Please don't hate me for posting a CNN site. www.cnn.com/lou
I keep wishing Bush would remove his lips from Vincente Fox's ass and enforce our border laws as they are currently written. We don't need "reform", we need the will to enforce, and passing more laws will not give us that will, nor will passing his magical 'guest worker plan' suddenly mean that we have the infrastructure to administer it, and the guts to deal with those illegals that disregard it.
But I think I keep wishing my little wishes because I fear what is going to happen when he doesn't enforce the law, or when his plan does what Reagan's did, and makes the problem worse than it already is. There is no happy ending to this story.
True enough; actions speak louder than words and at this point, with no action, all the phony political rhetoric is hogging the show.
Lou Dobbs is on the right side of this issue and is one of the few worth listening to at CNN.
Rule of law, Mr. President. Rule of law.
Lou Dobbs is the only journalist on the mainstream TV that is trying to save America. I guess these globalists forgot to hand him a check.
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More are beginning to realize what you say is true. I'm not sure I should be happy or sad. The rats are probably feeling cornered and will likely do something desperate and stupid very soon.
Not to mention those lazy, illiterate Americans who don't want to work.
I feel so disenfranchised and disillusioned. My vote was wasted, no matter who I voted for. What's the point anymore? This country is fubar.
You're right. Lou has also made a lot of noise about outsourcing.
"I'm growing tired of Mr. Fox".......I'm getting tired of both Mr. Fox AND Mr. Bush on this.
The attacks on him personally have begun to escalate so he must be touching a nerve somewhere.
So Mr. President.... What *is* the difference between "Border Watch" groups & "Neighborhood Watch" groups. ???
And Americans have already been blessed with a definition as to what the word *is*....."is".
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