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Bush Pledges Tougher Border Security
Associated Press via Guardian Unlimited ^ | Thursday June 14, 2007 | By DEB RIECHMANN

Posted on 06/14/2007 9:20:55 AM PDT by michigander

Bush Pledges Tougher Border Security

Thursday June 14, 2007 4:46 PM

AP Photo WHCD107

By DEB RIECHMANN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, trying to salvage an immigration overhaul legislation, endorsed a plan Thursday that would lock in money for border security as way to win over conservative lawmakers and a skeptical public.

``We're going to show the American people that the promises in this bill will be kept,'' Bush said in a speech to the Associated Builders and Contractors.

Bush got behind a proposal to set aside money collected through fees and penalties for tougher border security and workplace enforcement. Two Republican senators, John Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have proposed such an amendment.

Bush said the measure would ``show the American people that we're going to do our jobs of securing this border once and for all.''

The provision would immediately divert $4.4 billion toward border security, with that amount to be paid back once new fees are in place. The point would be to ensure that border security would not be subject to the whims of the yearly budget negotiations.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; baitandswitch; bordersecurity; bush43; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; mendacity; sellouts; term2; vampirebill; wontgetfooledagain
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To: michigander
He’s had 6+ years and the mother of all mandates after 911 for “Border Security”. Every person he appointed in this area (Gonzales, Chertoff...etc) is a “yes” man and a lackey.

Bush has no cred.

6+ years and tens of thousands stream across each week.....and he expects us to believe him now?

How insulting.

61 posted on 06/14/2007 9:52:00 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Angry Write Mail
We knew long ago that this immigration thing was a pet project of his.

The immigration thing, yes. But he never said he supported amnesty. In fact, the only times he even mentioned the word amnesty, was to say that his guest worker program wasn't amnesty.

He lied.

62 posted on 06/14/2007 9:52:19 AM PDT by kevao
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To: Chuck Dent
Haven't you seen any of the threads discussing how to get in on the racket & skedaddle? Ya think the upper classes who live behind gated walls in Mexico City, Lima, et al get hosed? Hardly.

It's really sad when even FRANCE is looking like a decent alternative these days.

63 posted on 06/14/2007 9:53:52 AM PDT by USArmySpouse
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To: Angry Write Mail

I’m tired of hearing we knew.

We didn’t know he’d call us racists, UnAmerican and attempt to play off we’re yahoos that don’t know what we’re talking about. We didn’t know he was this big of a Liar. If we had known all that, he wouldn’t be in that office right now.


64 posted on 06/14/2007 9:55:02 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: michigander

what about Bush ENFORCES border security.
Pledges are for frat houses to abuse, at least in the ivy league world of the bush’s


65 posted on 06/14/2007 9:55:25 AM PDT by Waverunner ( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
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To: Wonder Warthog
I was thinking of Chambliss's proposal to secure funding for border security as a separate bill

Either way, if they are proposing to use the money raised from the immigrant bill fees and fines in order to fund the related spending, it shows without a doubt that the immigrant bill is a bill to merely raise revenue and is wholly unconstitutional.

66 posted on 06/14/2007 9:56:03 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Waverunner

67 posted on 06/14/2007 9:57:18 AM PDT by TheShadows (GOP & RNC NOT A DIME NOT A VOTE! (illegal lovers!)
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To: cripplecreek

Word to Tony— Trust but Verify in this conext means giving you the benefit of the doubt you will enforce the border, but making you prove it FIRST. Reagan certainly didn’t intend for spinmeisters like you to twist it into cart blanche to override the demands of the citizenry.

I’m rarely home to listen to Laura these days, was today heard Tony’s voiceand had o shut it off. I knew she was going to rip him to shreds, but I just couldn’t stomach hearing one more damn lie from their mouths.


68 posted on 06/14/2007 9:58:11 AM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: Post-Neolithic
"What American in their right mind would want to destroy their own people and take their country and party down in the process?"

A globalist. I always remember that his father, Bush I, was the first to use the phrase "new world order" publicly. He's trained Bush II well.

Carolyn

69 posted on 06/14/2007 9:58:37 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: michigander
They finally admitted it, this is a bill to raise revenue for the treasury

I believe you may have misinterpreted the thrust of the Senate bill and the proposed amendment by Senators Kyl & Graham. The Senate may propose amendments to current laws regarding emergency or other funding, but they may not create new laws designed to obtain new revenue streams in future fiscal years. That is the perogative of the House per the Constitution. What the Senate is actually proposing here is an emergency funding amendment, which allows them to exceed appropriation caps for the current fiscal year, and obtaining those funds via the back door by borrowing from the treasury. If the House agrees with this approach the amendment could be become law, if the House does not the Senate amendment would be meaningless and it would be withdrawn from further consideration on the Senate calendar.
70 posted on 06/14/2007 10:00:18 AM PDT by gpapa
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To: michigander

Tell me another one, Jorge!

72 posted on 06/14/2007 10:03:05 AM PDT by relictele
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; michigander

73 posted on 06/14/2007 10:05:26 AM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: michigander
Bush said the measure would ``show the American people that we're going to do our jobs of securing this border once and for all.''

Too late, George. We've already seen your results.


74 posted on 06/14/2007 10:06:09 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("You will have your bipartisanship." - Fred Thompson, May 4, 2007)
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To: michigander
Bush Pledges Tougher Border Security

What, again?

75 posted on 06/14/2007 10:07:46 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: 3AngelaD; All
Bush “endoresed a plan.” Kyl and Graham “have proposed such an amendment.”

And as Lott says, it can be washed out by the time it gets to the Rotunda in conference. No Problem.

And they can't figure out why we don't trust them. How dense is that??

76 posted on 06/14/2007 10:09:03 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica ("Global warming" and "Climate Change" are the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated by confidence (wo)men!)
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To: USArmySpouse
It's really sad when even FRANCE is looking like a decent alternative these days.

We're going back to visit Paris in two weeks after a 3 year hiatus. It will be weird to see if the French are more conservative than Americans. Maybe you just have to go further down the path before you realize what's in store if you don't turn around.

77 posted on 06/14/2007 10:09:45 AM PDT by Chuck Dent
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To: Soul Seeker

At this point I’ve decided that they made dirty deals with corporations and foreign governments. They’re behaving like drug addicts in debt and in danger from their dealers. The mess they’ve made isn’t my fault and it’s not my problem.


78 posted on 06/14/2007 10:12:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: WannabeTurk; All
Bush Budget Scraps 9,790 Border Patrol Agents (From 2005)

You betcha!

This "amendment" for "tougher border security" will be marked the same as that bill was, "Subject to the Availability of Appropriations."

And we can all figure out what that means. When Amnesty time comes there will be PLENTY of appropriations. When enforcement comes, there will be NO appropriations.

Deception, deception, deception. If we all just run on the premise that our government is deceiving us at all times and places, we'll be a lot better off.

79 posted on 06/14/2007 10:12:40 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica ("Global warming" and "Climate Change" are the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated by confidence (wo)men!)
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To: michigander

No need to pledge, except for allegiance to the flag of The United States of America.

As for tougher border security...just do it...NOW.


80 posted on 06/14/2007 10:13:37 AM PDT by PGalt
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