Posted on 05/17/2006 9:39:26 AM PDT by LouAvul
President Bush's address from the Oval Office on border security and illegal immigration failed to satisfy either advocates of amnesty or those demanding that the government secure our borders and ports. Whether by design or not, however, the president did manage to advance public awareness of both crises.
The president finally acknowledged the unsustainable social and economic burdens of permitting millions of illegal aliens to forge documents, pressure our public schools and hospitals and overtax our local and state budgets.
And the president, in asking for more border patrol officers and sending 6,000 National Guard troops to our southern border to support the Border Patrol, also acknowledged the federal government's utter failure to protect the American people by securing our borders, across which as many as 3 million illegal aliens enter this country each year.
President Bush's five-point plan began with the words: "First, the United States must secure its borders." But the president did not assign any urgency to the national task of doing so. Deploying as many as 6,000 members of the National Guard to help secure our broken border with Mexico is a positive step.
But the president's proposal to place those National Guard members in some sort of adjunct support role is peculiar at best, and without question, woefully inadequate. The president sounded as if he were trying to appease Mexico's President Vicente Fox, assuring him we would not militarize the border. If there is to be appeasement at all, that should fall to the Mexican government rather than President Bush.
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President Bush and all the open borders advocates should be held to account for not doing everything in their power to destroy the drug traffic across our borders, as well as illegal immigration.
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"The president finally acknowledged the unsustainable social and economic burdens of permitting millions of illegal aliens to forge documents, pressure our public schools and hospitals and overtax our local and state budgets."
He acknowledged it long ago, Mr. Dobbs. You just ignored it.
Just lou dobbs on immigration. Not really CNN.
instant post speech poll had approval of bush's speech at 79%.
Lip service is not the type of acknowledgement we're looking for...
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If the President "acknowledge it long ago", why the wait now (5 years 'after' 9/11) to send a measly 6,000 in "support" role to control the borders?
"instant post speech poll had approval of bush's speech at 79%."
Initial hope maybe that he is doing something to make the border stronger now?
But the followup polls are coming out they show support is much, much lower now that reality is sinking in
His ratings increases are, I think, a result of his immigration position (and as he competes of Greta Van Cistern)
Mr. Dobbs is mistaken. Durban, Kennedy and Reid were more than satisfied, as were the Durban, Kennedy, Reid, Bush wing of FR.
Did anyone in the Senate consider the unstable and corrupt government of Mexico? Did a single Senator book a trip to Mexico City to learn about government corruption first hand? Nada por nada. Mexico's capitol is the kidnapping capitol of the world. Organized crime runs the city.
I guess that makes Lou Dobbs a nobody.
Dobbs wouldn't agree with the President no matter what Bush had said.
When did the president comment on this ?
No more false documents, all they need do is sign a piece of paper and lie about how long they have been in this country . Five years? No problemo..Just sign on the bottom line.
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Lou Dobbs has been at the national forefront on stopping illegal immigration.
Lip service or not, he stated such more than once. I give the President credit for addressing it at all. But I will give him alot more credit if he continues to move towards the House version.
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