Bush's Spanish Lessons:For President Bush, immigration is personal.

msnbc ^ | May 29, 2006 issue | Newsweek Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas

[dennisw]

 

Khue Bui for Newsweek

It's Personal: Bush rode in a patrol vehicle on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona last week

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

Course, there's a difference between those who come here legally and those who don't, but don't tell that to the MSM.

[VOA]

Another report on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636043/posts

[Fenris6]

But the president's willingness to help illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship sets him apart from many vocal conservatives in the GOP.

Yes, illegals deserve our help. Lets set up flight schools and train them to pilot Boeing 757s....

[MJY1288]

This should be an uplifting thread :-)

[nmh]

Bush has a WARPED view of this situation with NO SENSE OF REALITY.

Does he KNOW that 25% of criminals in prison are ILLEGAL ALIENS from MEXICO?

Have people on the border been imagining the crime and threats they routinely receive?

Is it not true the hospitals shut down and public school costs are horrendous subsidizing ILLEGAL ALIEN children>

Does the label ILLEGAL matter to Bush? Does it matter to Bush the HELL people got through to stay here LEGALLY and follow the RULES to become LEGAL CITIZENS?

[psjones]

The president has talked about a guest worker program for years now.
Being hispanic myself, I can say that we really try to stay close to family. I would think that more hispanics would vote republican since we tend to be conservative in our views.

[VOA]

Have people on the border been imagining the crime and threats they routinely receive?

And those images of the trashing of the desert...
That's where any sympathy I had for The Sierra Club evaporated.
When they decided they couldn't be against illegal immigration
because it might mean supporting Republicans.
This was back in the early 1990's.
(Guess they never forsaw the arrival of Dubya!)

[Hawk1976]

Ya know, I can find a lot of uplifting stories just from regular Americans. A friend of mine was abandoned by his mother when he was eight. He struggled, he told me stories of living in a abandoned trailer with no electricity and precious little food in the winter in South Dakota. He did what he had to do to survive, he managed to stay in school, he got trained as a welder, then a college degree, after he got his college degree they found out he had dyslexia. He said he wasn't going to let anything stand in his way and he didn't and doesn't.

He had life as hard as any illegal, and maybe harder than most. Why doesn't Bush talk about Americans who start with nothing and make something of themselves, this land is full of those stories.

[seastay]

Bush had his own housekeeper as an example. Emigrating from a small village in Mexico with her daughter sometime in the mid-'80s, Galvan worked as a domestic for several families in Austin, Texas, before getting a job at the Governor's Mansion just as Bush moved in with his family in 1995, when the twins were 12 years old. (The White House last week refused to comment on Galvan, except to say that she is a U.S. citizen; White House aides were silent on how she entered the country and what her legal status was at the time.)

[Desron13]

"In an interview with Hispanic Magazine in 2004, he described Paula Rendón, "who came up from Mexico to work in our house" when Bush was a boy growing up in Midland, Texas. "She loved me."

I'm glad to see that hiring illegal aliens has worked out so well for the Bush family. /s What is this sentimental sob story anyway? STOP IT! JUST STOP IT! Thats not what we hired you for! Close the borders and end the giveaways to people breaking our laws by the battalion!

[no dems]

Love your tagline.

[Razz Barry]

I wonder how many illegal invaders the Bush family has employed.

[peyton randolph]

He appreciates how close Latino families are with each other

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There are exceptions. In particular, villages in Mexico without men because they've left their families to illegally work in the U.S. And let's not forget the overcrowded prisons filled with illegals. Close family relationships don't exist when you're doing time for felonies.

[bordergal]

Heck, they're still shirty about it. I called their main office in SF about Hagel/Martinez as a many year member, and was given the the first class snot treatment.

Unfortunately a once great organization has been reduced to ankle biters.

[isrul]

"In an interview with Hispanic Magazine in 2004, he described Paula Rendón, "who came up from Mexico to work in our house" when Bush was a boy growing up in Midland, Texas. "She loved me."

Bush has some issues. He shouldn't be trying to make public policy based on childhood anecdotes about his servants.

[Mr. Mojo]

there's a difference between those who come here legally and those who don't,

Yep, and there's also a difference between those who come here to drop anchor babies, live on the welfare state, and reclaim land - "Aztlan" - they truly believe to be theirs and those who want to live the American dream and become American patriots. The former have no intention whatsoever of learning English and assimilating, and if present in large enough numbers will eventually destroy our country. The latter I heartily welcome.

[California Patriot]

"He shouldn't be trying to make public policy based on childhood anecdotes about his servants."

Exactly. Mega-dittoes.

[Tammy8]

Today I went to my friendly gas station in a nearby community that I have been going to for over 20 years without problems. I was told by the manager that they had just caught an employee that was stealing credit card numbers and they were warning customers to go back through statements. Several customers had lots of things charged on their cards and a credit card company had opened the investigation. It seems somehow this employee had also been able to steal checks from some customers and forge them. In the course of the investigation it was learned the employee was an illegal alien. The manager told me when the employee applied for a job she had a Social Security card, and a driver's license, she also graduated from a local high school and spoke excellent English, yet was illegal all along.

That community has been allowing Mexican children to come across the border and attend schools in the US for many years- I wonder how many more there are who are illegal and there is no way to tell unless something like this happens?? Once they are educated here, there is no way to know without a thorough background check.

What ticked me off is the parent company of this gas station refused to press charges, the DA has to build a case on his own, so the crook is not in jail and odds are is already gone and may be working somewhere else stealing credit card numbers. Immigration is supposed to be doing something toward deporting the woman- but I am sure she is or will be gone when all the red tape is done to arrest her.

This whole situation is completely out of hand, I am sure if I were caught stealing credit card numbers and checks I would be arrested on the spot. Amazing how there seems to be a seperate justice system for illegals.