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.
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Stupid move Mr President. Get a new researcher on this - these people are not vigillantes, they are only their to "spot" illegal immigrants for the authorities.
BUSH STAFFER PING. This is his weakest point. He promised to up border security - the citizens wouldn't be down there if the Feds were taking care of business.
If AQ slips through Mexico and launches a successful attack, there will be hell to pay.
Has anyone studied Congress' stance on the border? Don't we need to give up on Bush and throw this in Congress?
Oh God, don't tell me there all coming too !
>>Don't we need to give up on Bush and throw this in Congress?<<
Start with Congress, then the Senate, the go local in your state all the way down to your Mayor. Let them all know that re-election depends on their actions. Ignore the illegal aliens and you will fight to keep them from regaining office. Tell them it is decision time, Americans who vote legally or illegal aliens who drain the budget!
I love this response. And yes, it seems government most definitely doesn't want to guard the border (Border Partol, Tom Tancredo's Team America, and my Rep. Peter DeFazio excepted).
I hate to break it to you, but GWB is showing signs of being a politician. His lips are moving...
>>You may have heard the story about Fox wanting to dissolve the border and make it 'North America' instead of 'United States of America'. It's a bananas idea.<<
No, it is not a bananas idea. This is the United Nations idea for a New World Order. Divide the world into (regions)continents, place "UN-ELECTED ministers" into the positions of authority where they will decide who does what. Want to build a dam for hydro-electric power? You will need the Minister of World Electric Powers permission.
Of course it will have to go through 15 different 'Comittees' first to make sure that you aren't going to interfere with the plans the Minister of World Waterways, the Minister of World Fisheries, on and on has for our continent.
They are the ones who will decide if the Minister of Heavy Construction for 'North America' should issues a permit or if the task will be placed on the shoulders of the Minister for Nuclear Power.
Keep in mind these UN-ELECTED people will have total control. Don't like their propositions? Take it to the World Court for a final decision.
Here's a few that you may already be familiar with.
GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
NAFTA, The North American Free Trade Agreement
ONIA, Office of NAFTA and Inter-American Affairs International Trade Administration
NACEC, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
JPAC, Joint Public Advisory Committee
These are the type of people President Bush is cheering for. The globalists will soon be in control, voting won't be necessary because the "Ministers" will make the major decisions for each continent.
I agree bump
I have a folder FULL of those form letters which are nothing but lies.
you're preaching to the choir...
I noticed. Do you consider the folks who listened to President Bush and set up neighborhood watches after 9-11 to be vigilantes?
Ain't it the truth. The last one I got from the White House was signed by a WH aide and included a color photo of Bush. The reply letter, of course, contained the usual mindless boilerplate, which fools nobody. The replies I get from our two "Senators" (Babs & DiFi) are even worse--a pile of useless liberal babble.
I never thought I would see the day that a Republican President stood for everything the Democrats did...
My guy in the House is Chris Cox, a very good man. He's been with us on just about all of the immigration/illegals issues other than a brief lapse when he voted "Yes" on that Section 245(i) amnesty pushed by the White House (as usual). He really heard from all of us on that one. Good record since then and a good report card.
Yep, get asked a loaded question, give a politicaly neutral answer, and watch the LIBERAL PRESS run with it to stir up the pot.
If the Minuteman Project was about HUNTING migrant people, who here would support it. Hunting, conotates killing.
And who here is for taking the law into your own hands?
Isn't someone who takes the law into their own hands, defacto a vigilante?
Is that the description of what the Minuteman Project is?
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