A dumb and very unhelpful statement. W seems determined to prove himself as dumb and clueless as his detractors have always said. The US takes in at least 1,200,000 legal immigrants and refugees each year, and has been at that level since GHWB. But, if the majority of the party doesn't give him standing ovations for wanting to grant citizenship to 12 to 20 million lawbreakers, then the party is "anti-immigrant."
W, and Rove and McCain and others have done incalculable damage to the Republican party by pushing this nonsense, that the party rejected time and again, pushing it for most all of his two terms, and causing a pointless and damaging internal fight. Then they had to insult and denigrate anyone who disagreed with them. Maybe W's old, stab-in-the-back friend Vicente Fox has it right: W is the cockiest person he's even known.
"See you at the bill signing." And I expect W will be there is Obama manages to get amnesty passed, smirking and still insulting those "anti-immigrant" Republicans.
Good riddance to this RINO phony. And, no, no one can say he's kept us safe until five or so years after he leaves the WH. If anyone wants to declare he kept us safe now, then he has to be 100% responsible for 9/11. Who knows how many terrorists W's refusal to enforce the borders have allowed into the US, and who knows what plots might be afoot to be carried out after he leaves office.
There are, maybe, thirty-seven 'anti-immigrant' people in the whole damn country. And half of them are Democrats.
Such an assessment of those who are anti-ILLEGAL immigrant is a base, demeaning insult to the bulk of us in his own party.
I voted for the man twice. I'm glad that I did. But I wouldn't vote for him again. Ever. Or any other Bush, for that matter.
Insulting your own supporters is not the way to 'win' a legacy...