...you *are* the gifted one of the family."
Posted on 11/10/2004 1:43:54 AM PST by ovrtaxt
President Bush yesterday moved aggressively to resurrect his plan to relax rules against illegal immigration, a move bound to anger conservatives just days after they helped re-elect him.
The president met privately in the Oval Office with Sen. John McCain to discuss jump-starting a stalled White House initiative that would grant legal status to millions of immigrants who broke the law to enter the United States.
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We get all that for cheaper lettuce? No thanks.
I haven't heard Tancredo deny it.
Of course it's payback. Why lie about it?
...you *are* the gifted one of the family."
Clearly the moral climate is more to blame in LA than the issue of immigration. Why is it that immigrants can manage just fine in the rest of the country, yet in your state all we hear is whine whine whine. Maybe if you guys start voting for winning candidates for President and Senate you might be taken seriously.
I have to sign off right now but why don't you try to come up with the names of the accusers while I'm gone.
Oh I know that, but the problem is solveable, Bush just won't solve it.
I don't think many other parts of the country have as high a concentration of illegals. Do you believe we should just have totally open borders? Tell me why I should pay for the children of illegals?
I just sent this e-mail to president@whitehouse.gov
Dear President Bush:
The elation I felt at your reelection has turned to disbelief. I cannot believe that the "political capital" handed to you by the majority of voters will be spent accommodating those who have defied our national laws and entered the country illegally.
If you were to ask your supporters, I am confident that for most your position on illegal immigration was in the "negative" column, and that we overlooked it because there were other issues on which you are magnificent -- national sovereignty, national security, ending the "reign of judges," lower taxes, protection of marriage and the other "values" issues. Furthermore, I am acquainted with Kerry supporters who would have jumped to your side in a heartbeat if you had taken a strong position on illegal immigration.
Illegal immigration was pushed to the side during the election campaign. You cannot possibly believe that your reelection gave you a mandate to push this issue.
You can say what you will about the motives of the illegal immigrants -- providing for their families, and so forth . But I believe that respect for our laws should be a minimum requirement for those admitted to our country. Illegals fail this test automatically.
And the scofflaws who are coming across our borders are taxing the system wherever they congregate. I am a lawyer practicing in Utah. Occasionally, I sit in a state courtroom waiting for a hearing, and I see the arraignments taking place. They are overwhelmingly aliens, most likely illegal. I know a state judge who has tried to turn illegals appearing in his court to the INS, and the INS has laughed at him.
Illegals are overwhelming the social service safety net. They arrive in huge numbers, depress wages for everyone, including the American-born underclass, then rely on the taxpayer for the services that their depressed wages cannot provide. Then, the displaced American citizens rely on taxpayer services, as well. Generous social services and out-of-control immigration simply cannot coexist indefinitely.
Finally, illegals are arriving in numbers too large to allow them to assimilate. Instead of the immigrant adopting the values of the United States, parts of the United States are becoming like the Third World.
Please. This is an invasion which is hurting our country. Please enforce our laws.
Did you oppose Cali's Prop 187 and Arizona's Prop 200? If yes, may I ask why?
I don't think anyone should pay for the children of others. That's why I support homeschooling.
Were they also wrong when they claimed he would impose a 3 term term limit on himself and conveniently changed his mind?
So I'm just curious: why do you think the President is pushing this plan? I mean, he's not up for re-election in 4 years, and neither is Cheney. What's his motive? Personally, I think he's trying to re-invigorate the republican party with new blood, include more minorities in general. And that includes African Americans. I think its all about a new message - that "compassionate conservatism" that we've all heard about but never thought about.
That doesn’t explain the pro-illegal lobby, which includes pro-business libertarian think tanks and the Wall Street Journal. For them it boils down to the peculiar interest of cheap labor. Bush seems to be following their game plan, Willing Workers: ”Fixing” the Problem of Illegal Mexican Migration to the United States , a paper published by the Cato Institute. Bush is carrying water for Republian business interests. Add Rovian Hispanic pandering, and you’ve got your answer.
Looks like we get stabbed in the back on an amnesty and on Arlen Specter.
Bush is a fake conservative like Specter.
Are you for totally open borders?
people, people, people.
Bush is a politician. As such, he is to be used to advance your own ideas and best interests.
I voted for him because the path of conservatism would have been blocked by Kerry. Bush is not and never will be a law-and-order conservative.
Not that Kerry is no threat, we who believe in conservative principles need to decompose Bush's positions into two categories: One for advances conservatism, the other for does NOT advance conservatism.
for each position, if he espouses the second category, he's the "enemy". if he espouses the first, he's a great president.
Don't ever think that he is anything more than just a man with just some ideas that you may agree with. The election is over, now is the time to aggressively pursue a conservative agenda - and more often than not, the president we all had to vote for is going to stand in the way.
Turn to your congressmen, and state legislatures now and pursue the conservative agenda wherever you can.
It's not betrayal, it's politics. It's the way it has always worked.
Use your politicians, they are tools of democracy, nothing more, and whatever you do, don't worship them because they'll dissappoint you every time.
Bush isn't a fake conservative. His election shows that your issue is a loser. He took the opposite side that you're on and INCREASED his vote among hispanics. You lost. Face the facts. This country, thank God, is still a melting pot.
Charlotte was a nice place where blacks and whites got along well. The city was possibly a model for the rest of the country. Now it is filled with violent Latin gangs.
So now it's the church's fault? Why don't you just reduce the welfare handouts to ALL in California? To edit a famous phrase "If you end it, they will stop".
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