Posted on 06/15/2007 1:47:56 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON – At a gathering of Hispanic Christian and community leaders on Friday, President Bush pushed for support for an immigration bill that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, highlighting the compassion behind the bill.
Hispanic men and women were praised by Bush for making the United States more “vibrant” in fields ranging from art to business to religion, and for helping to change America for the better.
The president gave as example success stories of immigrants in the White House and government. He pointed to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) who is originally from the communist island of Cuba but is now a member of the United States Senate. He also spoke about a Hispanic American coast guard he recently met who graduated at the top of his class who shared in his speech about his migrant grandfather.
“Isn’t it a fabulous country where a migrant grandfather can come and have a dream and work hard, and there’s his grandson talking about the promise of America in front of the president of the Untied States and his classmates,” Bush said. “That’s the beauty of America.”
However, Bush did not neglect to mention the country’s responsibility to enforce the border, create a lawful way for foreign workers to fill vacant jobs, and resolve the status of illegal immigrants in the country “without amnesty and without animosity.”
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I cannot even believe he can say this stuff.....is it compassion to Americans to continually sell out to big business? Is that Christian?
the love of money is the root of all evil and i predict the senate and this president now will somehow someway do some serious evil toward America all for the love of money.
I think he started about 8 months ago.....!
No, she thinks “we” should all do it together.
Christians don’t support breaking the law...Bush does.
Angie...get a clue.
“Bush needs to start drinking again.”
LOL, he’s about to cause me to double the intake!
Here in San Diego we are supporting tens of thousands of illegals at mega millions of dollars a year.
Their health to the cost of their crimes.
Those who want to support them please send your checks to the City or County of San Diego and designate your
check to support to the illegals who refuse to learn English and tell 12th generation Americans go back to Europe.
I have seen here over 50,000 Mexicans with their flag, Che t-shirts and anti American signs at a rally.
You are in a limited area on S.I. my County has over 3 million and we are along the Mexican border where we put up with Drug cartels and various crime most areas don’t.
Everything from beheadings, to kidnappings.
This Country will not be changed for the better by contaminating the very principals it was founded upon. This whole "reform" idea is such B.S. Enforce the CURRENT LAWS!!
It’s too much for me to comprehend. All I can say is I’m glad I am true to myself.
“Helping the sick is Christian whether you like it or not.”
How about when they are strangers who have come in from off the street and taken up permanent residence in your home? And then brought other family members who took jobs away from you and your children? And they come from a Christian country overflowing with natural resources?
There is a point where charity becomes idiocy.
Good post. Where’s the compassion for you?
Mr. President,
It is not “compassion”.
It is pusillanimity.
It’s poltroonism at its worst!
O’Reilley??
I could never understand why the immigration problem had to be solved in one sweeping package of legislation. Why not two or three or even four pieces of legislation? Why not start with border security, making sure that nobody enters our country who is not entitled to enter. After six months or more, if those laws are in place and working correctly, take up the matter of those who are already in our country illegally. The United States is a fair and compassionate country and can find measures that are fair and compassionate toward those working and otherwise law-abiding illegals. Amnesty, of course, is not one of them. Some route to citizenship should be explored and extended. Fines and fees could be waived for those who accept and succeed; deportation for those who don’t. Well, that’s just one idea; maybe you have other ideas that are even better.
Romans 13 applies to George Bush also. He is under the authority of the Constitution of the United States. He should enforce its laws, not enable its lawbreakers.
And tell me, when did Jesus tell his disciples to take money from OTHER people to give to the poor? We are the most charitable people on this earth, but even we have our limits.
IMHO, it is because some PTBs don't want anything to happen. They know that a comprehensive bill will always have something that someone doesn't like, and therefore, always be stalled. Piece by piece action actually has a chance of passing..
“Compassion”? Rewarding people who break the law, while at the same time punishing those who obey the law and follow the rules is compassion? Overwhelming our immigration system over the next 5-10 years so that it will be so much harder for legal immigrants to get visas through the legel process is compassion?
“change America for the better”? By providing incentives for scoff-laws and dangerous criminals to stay in the US, while at the same time making it more difficult for honest, hardworking immigrants to migrate here?
I voted for GWB twice, and I deeply regret it. His push for amnesty is a slap in the face to every American who votes, works, pays taxes-and especially to those who are veterans. My father fought for his country in WW II, Korea, and Viet Nam, and he was left a disabled veteran. What an insult to him and other veterans: Amnesty and US citizenship offered to those who are by definition lawbreakers, many of whom sympathize with racist hate groups like La Raza, Atzlan, MeCha, groups which openly espouse Reconquista. And all GWB does is call ‘vigilantes’ those who want to see the borders patrolled and immigration law enforced, and hint we’re racist.
The man’s utter indifference to the thousands of Americans killed, maimed, and otherwise victimized by illegal aliens (many times the number of those killed in Iraq) not to mention to the plight of those who have “merely” been displaced in the labor market, is chilling. I thought WJC’s and HRC’s contempt for Americans outside their little clique of wealthy limo liberals was offensive-GWB could give them lessons.
He spouts off about compassion to group, while making it plain he has nothing but contemptuous indifference to the American citizens who are suffering in every way imaginable from this influx of criminal aliens , many of whom are violent, many of whom have learned animosity towards Americans in their history classrooms! (There is NO COMPARISON between these people and the Irish and the Italians. We don't share a common border with those countries, nor are the citizens of those countries taught that they were robbed of land by the USA, and hence they have a right to reclaim those lands in any way possible.) What are the figures again : 12 Americans murdered by illegal aliens, plus 13 killed in accidents (generally drunk driving) at the hands of illegals, and add to those 25 daily the misery of the survivors-both the bereaved and those who survived the accidents. (Like that 19 year old girl whose story was told here on FR; she now has two 4" stumps where her legs used to be and is confined to a wheelchair for life because a drunk illegal plowed into her.)
GWB has no compassion whatsoever for these victims, or for the many victims there will be in the future.
You said: Bush needs to start drinking again.
I want to correct that. Bush is drinking. I saw a photo of him having a low-alcoholic beer. No beer is absolutely non-alcoholic.
He’s off the wagon, and it shows.
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