***President Bush’s justice department broke banks’ arms to force them to lend money to Alt-A and subprime lenders, ruling that failure to provide equal loan access to illegal alien day laborers at the same rate they gave loans to well-establishd, middle-class, financially sound Americans they would prosecuted for discrimination on the basis of national origin.***
April, 2001: Pres. Bush advocated oversight of Fannie and Freddie. He said, in essence, that it would lead to disaster if they continued as they were going. Bush reiterated this statement 13 times while he was president. Congress, led by Barney Frank and Charles Schumer refused to act. Zero, as usual, did not vote.
2001: President Bush reaffirms the Clinton administration policy that to deny equal access to government programs despite an inability to communicate in English constitutes national-origins discrimination. Since English is supposedly a requirement for citizenship, it’s obvious he’s referring to illegal aliens.
2003-2006: The GOP controls both houses of Congress.
2005: Bush Justice Department defends, reaffirms Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac policy of threatening banks which do not lend to non-English speakers.
2005: Bush appoints radical racial-priveleges attorney Alberto Gonzales to be Attorney General.