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.
Lou Dobbs also regularly reports on the One Way Industry/Job destroying trade pacts our so-called leaders have enacted, continue to try to enact in addition to periodic coverage of the shenanigans and conflicts of interest that are the mainstay in DC. It's the only news show on cable that really focuses on the real news and issues that impact America.
Not beyond repair if we soon rid ourselves of the parasites that infest our Republic.
Watch how long it takes for a vigilante drunkard to commit a felonious assault and false imprisonment upon a citizen whose crime is "walking while brown."
Cool...that tends to happens when everyone makes a mockery of the law. Perhaps this Presient should enforce or immmigration laws before this begins to happen.
Where are you going to escape to? Mexico?
Face it. If we go down, there will be no place left to run.
The best way to tackle this problem is a national campaign to withhold donations to the RNC until they get on the right side of this issue.
The only thing they understand is money.
I have already contacted Ken Mehlman of the RNC and told him because of Bush's traitorous comments I am sending a donation to the Minuteman Project instead of the GOP.
Bush makes me sick when it comes to this issue. I wish I hadn't voted for him now. His ideas on this issue are just ignorant and stupid. In 2008 I'm voting for someone who will actually do something to solve this problem that's destroying our nation. Bush is a failure when it comes to this issue and Republicans need to start putting more pressure on him. This is the biggest issue facing our nation, or at least one of the biggest.
We DID have a choice. If enough people would have taken their heads out of the clouds and listened to what BOTH Bush and Kerry were proposing, a third party candidate might have had a chance.
The Republicans and Democrats have merged into the same philosophy, that America is a "trade zone", NOT a sovereign nation. Globalism.
Hopefully this summer I'll be an Undocumented Border Patrol Agent!
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If there are any bad traits in the Republican party, viewed from a historical perspective,the President is bound and determined to prove each and ever one of them valid.
He is making an ass of himself and all of us who supported him. He had better listen to the voice of conservative America or he will be without a Republican vote on the hill.
Yeah but just a few of us doing that doesn't cause a ripple. We need an already established group to take up a national campaign. The loss of all those dollars would scare the bejeezus out of the GOP and they would have to put pressure on all Republicans and reign them in on this issue.
If there are any bad traits in the Republican party, viewed from a historical perspective,the President is bound and determined to prove each and ever one of them valid.
He is making an ass of himself and all of us who supported him. He had better listen to the voice of conservative America or he will be without a Republican vote on the hill.
If he keeps going in the current path, he is handing the White House in 08 to that great anti-immigration Democrat, Hillary.
Yeah but just a few of us doing that doesn't cause a ripple<<<
I know. But I sleep better at night doing my small part. There is a thread on Boycotting the RNC here on FR, have you been on it?
These things have a way of gathering momentum, remember the Swift Boat Vets?
I'm talking about BIG numbers of people switching to third party. I don't see any difference now in the two parties.
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