Posted on 05/16/2006 8:05:20 AM PDT by blitzgig
President Bush has a bold new approach to immigration enforcement: He wants to police the Mexican border with symbolism.
That's the point of his proposal to send the National Guard to our border with Mexico. This represents Bush's final, desperate descent into Clintonian sleight of hand. He wants to distract enough of his supporters with the razzle-dazzle of "National Guard to the Border!" headlines that they won't notice he is pushing through Congress a proposal that essentially legalizes all the population influx from Latin America that has occurred in the past 10 years and any that might occur in the future.
Like President Clinton's gesture of sending more U.S. troops to Somalia after the "Black Hawk Down" battle in Mogadishu, when everyone knew we were really on our way out, Bush's Guard deployment is a prelude to surrender. The immigrants who have come here in defiance of our laws will get to stay, bring their families and be joined by just as many immigrants in the future—at least if Bush gets his way.
It is with this position that Bush has wrecked his political standing, kicking out from under himself the support of his conservative base. Bush's National Guard feint is a sign that the White House thinks conservatives are not just disaffected, but credulous. The Guard won't have any real enforcement duties. It will merely provide logistical backup to the Border Patrol. The Guard's presence will be temporary, until a proposed doubling of Border Patrol agents takes place. But if the past is any guide, all of those new positions ultimately won't be funded, once the political heat passes.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Absolutely, this is the old bait-and-switch pure and simple. Bush will never shake his open-borders passions.
Nothing more needs to be said!
Indeed. Clintonian is a great word to describe Bush's present manner of betrayal.
Go to hell Rich
>>He wants to distract enough of his supporters with the razzle-dazzle of "National Guard to the Border!" headlines that they won't notice...<<
Boiled down to its essence, this is what is maddening to the base.
He is insulting our intelligence.
When he rapes women, sells classified info and arms to an enemy nation, torches women and children, then we'll talk.
This "Clintonian" thing is bs hyperbole. If one can infer anything Clintonian about GWB (hell, any other Pres. for that matter), one is deluded. To be CLintonian is to be an nadulterated fascist and despot. America only had that misfortune once.
This is the equivalent of the over-usage of NAzi by the left nuts. When things are "Clintonian", we'll know.
Contrary to claims the administration's investigation and arrests of employers hiring illegals is down from the Clinton administration, this table tells a different story. Credit RedBloodedAmerican for finding this:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632888/posts?page=187#187
By 2004, the annual inflow of foreign-born persons was down 24% from its all-time high in 2000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center analysis of multiple datasets collected by the Census Bureau and other government agencies.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=53
Note that I don't think anyone is claiming that nothing should be done, but the hysterics claiming that nothing is being done couldn't be more wrong.
Fact sheet:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633068/posts
Bush is Globalist - not an American
If they're not going to have an enforcement role, that means they won't be doing apprehensions. Believe me, the Border Patrol knows plenty of places where illegals can be found. They just don't have the personnel and equipment to go get them. Somebody in the Border Patrol, it might have been T.J. Bonner, said that the National Guard, "will just tell us how many we missed."
Bush is a Globalist - not an American
"Clintonian"
Ouch! That is a VERY nasty insult.
>>Go to hell Rich<<
Nothing of substance to add, I take it.
Dane was saying earlier that at least they are not Muslims and won't blow us up.
I can't decide which defense is sillier.
Forgive my lack of netiquette--you were mentioned on #15.
The President's position on immigration has not changed significantly from 1999. Disagree if you like, but to accuse him of "betrayal" is unfair.
Comparing the border problem with Black Hawk down???
Rich can go to hell as far as I am concern
"Bush is a Globalist - not an American"
That's going that far--Bush IS an American, and a good man I support most of the time, but he is completely wrong on this issue. He just has too much ill-conceived "compassion" for illegals.
that far=too far
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