Bush: Immigration Bill 'Does NOT Grant Amnesty'

newsmax.com ^ | May 24, 2007 | newsmax

[VU4G10]

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration and key congressional Democrats and Republicans stepped up their efforts to sell a broad immigration compromise Thursday as lawmakers braced for a public backlash at home.

"Many Americans are rightly skeptical about immigration reform," President Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference. "This bill provides the best chance to reform our immigration system and help us make certain we know who's in our country and where they are."

[anglian]

Call It What It Is http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1638060/posts

[EEDUDE]

“how difficult it is to do unless you want a Democrat in there.”

I have long been a straight ticket Republican (ever since Reagan).

If a Democrat is against this amnesty, he gets my vote.

[anglian]

Am-nes-ty: the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals.

[GeorgiaDawg]

Aria wrote:
It gives them TAX AMNESTY! That alone is enough to make me FURIOUS. I don’t want to get started on all the other things about it that are sickening

I haven’t heard that part of it...can’t you explain?

[PigRigger]

Sad really....the vast majority of Americans would support real immigration reform if it was based on the premise of securing the borders first.....

There is a huge opportunity here for an aspiring Repub or Dem to take the lead on this issue.....the groudswell would probably launch their career.....

The leadership in congress, on both sides, is an embarrasment....and I'm not to fond of what is in the White House either

Man do we need another Ronald Reagan....even with his faults....he makes today's crop of politician's look weak and cowardly....

[KoRn]

Lets assume the sellout passes and Bush signs it. Sure there will be millions of newly legalized “citizens”, but what’s going to stop them from coming on in the way they are now? I doubt a small partial fence is going to get the job done.

Am I also expected to believe that if an illegal doesn’t qualify for the amnesty they are just going to pack up and go back home? I don’t see it happening.

[B Knotts]

"This bill provides the best chance to reform our immigration system and help us make certain we know who's in our country and where they are."

No, it doesn't.

The "best chance to reform our immigration system" is for you to do your *^@$#)@ job, and enforce the law.

[NordP]

Sorry, my dear President...it's true. I support you on SOOOO many other issues, but on this one, I'm afraid the possible initial problem with our economy and cheap labor only = the soft bigotry of low expectations you brought to my attention so long ago.

And together, they do NOT = enough of a reason to back this Bill who's fence first provisions will end up just being another law that insists on a fence that'll never be built.

[andy58-in-nh]

Can anyone go to the photo "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'Amnesty' is" and photoshop a Mexican flag on the lapel?

[VOA]

It gives them TAX AMNESTY! That alone is enough to make me FURIOUS.

Not only that...
It gives the perfidious American b@$tards that employed them
TAX AMNESTY!
(never need to fund all those years of Social Security and other
taxes they never paid while working in a "cash economy").

But then I guess we should have expected a "compassionate
conservative" to have pity on the Cash Economy Simon Legrees.
(For the kids, Simon Legree was the slave-abuser in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".)

[NordP]

John and Ken on KFI in L.A. have a radio promo out (for their show) where they say..."It's just like someone stealing your car....AND GETTING TO KEEP IT!"

Excellent analogy.

[television is just wrong]

compromising with criminals. Giving them rights, medical care, hud housing, welfare benes, and a free education isn’t good enough. They want us to hand the country over to them and disappear from te planet.

[Godzilla]

pig + lipstick = pig

[VOA]

“I haven’t heard that part of it...can’t you explain?”

If you are asking about the Tax Amenesty, try here:

Bush Removes Provision Requiring Back taxes From Illegal Immigrants
Boston Globe ^ | May 19, 2007 | Michael Kranish
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836227/posts

Tax amnesty for illegals
World Net Daily ^ | 5/19/07 | World Net Daily
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836557/posts

[TheDon]

Gotta part with the big guy on this one. For everything he has gotten right, he is taking the wrong approach on illegal immigration.

The millions of poor, Mexican illegal aliens provide an excellent way to measure how well your immigration enforcement is working. If they are unable to support themselves in the USA and move back to Mexico, the enforcement is working. And since they will move back home on their own, their is no need to deport the majority of them. In this light, granting them legal status makes no sense. In fact, it places no part in “comprehensive” reform.

[WalterSkinner]

[Tennessee Nana]

“This bill provides the best chance to reform our immigration system and help us make certain we know who’s in our country and where they are.”

This Bill has nothing to do with immigration...and everything to do with giving amnesty to illegal aliens who are NOT immigrants but worse than burglars..

If the provision of this Bill is intended to “help us make certain we know who’s in our country and where they are” why are illegal aliens being rewarded for being found and identified?

Would it not behoove the government to penalize the illegal aliens and not celebrate them?

What message does this send to those REAL immigrants who have applied to enter our country the correct way...by asking permission and fulfilling all the requirements?

Could it be..You are not important? you are not welcome? You are just a stupid chump? Wait in line longer..you know how to do that?

As an immigrant, I have not answers for the injustice that is wrapped up in this fallacy of an Amnesty Bill...

For more the past week I’ve felt like the senators pushing this are kicking me in the guts...

[50mm]

It gives them TAX AMNESTY! That alone is enough to make me FURIOUS. I don’t want to get started on all the other things about it that are sickening.

Ann Coulter brought this up on Hannity last night (Hannity was not happy.) She said, "I would love to be an illegal so I can stop paying taxes, too." It may not be an exact quote, but close.

[50mm]

Funny you should use that picture, because he granted amnesty to that turkey. It seems the president loves to grant amnesty!

[Cicero]

Well, much more of this and you’ll see conservatives driving around with the same damned bumper sticker that the peaceniks came up with: “Bush lied, people died.” What a sad business.

Bush says that it’s not amnesty because they have to pay for it—maybe $1,000, maybe $5,000.

What he forgets to say is that they are excused all their taxes, they are excused their crimes, and the government will predictably come up with the money to pay their amnesty fees for them when the time comes.

Also, they get full social security, medicare, medicaid, etc., without having put anything into it.