Once again, President George W. Bush ASSUMES THE POSITION for Vincente Fox on U.S. border security!
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.
We need to now rub this particular exchange by GWB under the nose of every single BushBot on F.R. Until they finally yelp uncle....if EVERYBODY on this board gets on the same page...even Karl Rove would get a bit concerned at the reverberations we can create in the cyber ether...
First of all The Washington Times is not the liberal press. It's Washington's conservative newspaper, and oridnarily is a strong supporter of the President, at least when it comes to just about anything other than immigration policy (much like a great many conservatives throughout the country). The liberal press has been ignoring this story, as far as I've been able to tell from searching the net, anyway. If you know of an LSM organ that has picked up on this, I'd be interested in seeing it.
Secondly, he didn't have to give a neutral answer. The reporter's "question" was pure slander against the American people, and Bush failed to even attempt to stand up for us. It'd be like a reporter asking him how he felt about Republicans literally sniping (like, with guns) at Democrats going about their business, and he responding simply that he's opposed to such a thing. Obviously a response like that would give credence to such completely baseless charges.
2008 is too far away for me to say exactly what I'll do. You're right, there are other parties worth of our support. If things continue along this globalization path, I will not support the GOP since they don't represent conservative values anymore.
BTW, someone messaged me a link to this video: http://www.stoptheftaa.org take a look. Makes sense to me. Video is here: http://www.stoptheftaa.org/av/vaed.html "America's Economic Decline" by John Birch Society and New American magazine (true conservative magazine, not neocon).
Stop the open borders death cult!
I recommend this site for everyone to read (and sign the petition there). Thanks for posting it.
Speaking of cheap labor....
'Worker pleads guilty to shooting boss to death'
An illegal immigrant who killed his boss last year over a wage dispute in Utah County pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree felony murder. Jesus Hernandez admitted shooting 38-year-old masonry contractor Joseph Crummy at a Lehi subdivision on Jan. 9, 2004. The 33-year-old Mexican national faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced May 3 by 4th District Judge Samuel McVey. In exchange for Hernandez's plea to murder, prosecutors dismissed felony charges of obstructing justice and possession of a gun by a restricted person. Hernandez resorted to murder because Crummy wrote paychecks that bounced and the Utah Labor Commission was deaf to the defendant's complaints, according to testimony at a June 2004 preliminary hearing. A month before the shooting, Hernandez told state labor officials that Crummy's company, Prestige Exteriors, owed him $1,345. A dozen other workers had also received paychecks from Crummy that bounced, according to testimony.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2619986
Good post - explains why Fox always emerges from Bush Jr. meetings with heavy eyelids and smoking a cigarette.
'Worker pleads guilty to shooting boss to death'
The employers who hire illegals are absolutely lawless. They like to say that they are just responding to 'economic realities' and the 'laws of supply and demand' but they are just criminals who are scoffing at Democratically passed laws and making essentially the same arguments as drug dealers to justify their illegal behavior. While a few are probably duped by the fake documents the vast majority are complicit in the crime and about half are further engaging in tax evasion and the underground cash economy. The employers are criminals and I want them to pay their debt to society. My preference is prison but I'd settle for large fines.
Frankly I've never had much sympathy for a criminal that becomes a victim of his own crime.
Excuse me, Mr. President. Didn't you swear on the Bible to uphold the laws of America, so help you God???
He is allowing us to be invaded by another country, ILLEGALLY! This is TREASON!!!! It's time to call for his resignation, or impeachment!!
It amazes me that we send soldiers to countries where they have been invaded, well, aren't we being invaded? Where are the soldiers?
I lived in Texas for many years. It appeared that the typical Texan was blind to this issue. The illegals did a lot of work that kept prices artificially low for the Texas consumer. For instance, at new housing projects, a construction crew would consist of one Spanish speaking Caucasian, and the remainder were illegals getting $5 an hour under the table. My wife worked at a hospital, and when an illegal construction worker came in, they'd ask, "Who do you work for?" They always replied, "I don't know." So, 5 bucks an hour, no benefits, no workers comp costs. You can see why the folks who use or benefit these people aren't speaking up. The illegals are making a lot of people rich, and keeping prices low.
It seems our elected people are interested in power and not the people, It dosn't matter which party is in power they will sell out to people like Fox. If we wish to protect our way of life we will have to do it while we are allowed to.
I'd like to see them all tossed in with the next planeload of deportees and dumped somewhere in the interior of Mexico far away from the U.S. border.
Toss, throw and vote out the sellouts!
Not necessarily in that order. ;^)
Once again, President George W. Bush ASSUMES THE POSITION for Vincente Fox on U.S. border security!
"Can someone please explain Bush's apparent lack of logic on border control?"
It's very simple. If you want to engage in Wilsonian military crusades and buy votes with expanded entitlement programs, but you don't want to raise taxes, then you have to enlarge the tax base.
Are you just now finding this out?
I'm afraid so. And I am more than a little discouraged.
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