US President George W. Bush, seen here on July 22, said he was 'feeling pretty good' after undergoing his annual medical check-up.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)
Posted on 08/02/2005 1:08:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
***.........On immigration reform, the president said he hopes to resolve differences with members of the Senate who are pushing for a more lenient law for illegal immigrants seeking work in the United States.
"This should not be an amnesty program," he said.
Bush's plan would provide temporary visas to guest workers. They would have to leave afterward, and program participants would get no special consideration when they apply for legal residence.
"It's very important for the American people to know immigration reform will be done with a border security initiative that makes it clear to the people that we will do everything we can to stop illegal people from coming into our country," Bush said.
He said a well-run guest worker program would help border security by taking pressure off the Border Patrol. If those who wish to enter the country to work can do so legally, he reasoned, fewer will try to infiltrate the border secretly.....***
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
"In short, we would like them to do what needs to be done to put an end to the violence," a State Department official said, on condition of anonymity, through the U.S. Embassy's press office. "We believe that the Mexican government has that capability."
U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza last Friday closed the consulate in Nuevo Laredo for a week, following a shootout in an upscale residential neighborhood that involved automatic rifles, grenades and rocket launchers. The State Department officials on Monday said the U.S. government wants to see drug gangs in the city denied such heavy weaponry.
......U.S. officials with knowledge of the crackdown insisted last week in a meeting with reporters that more can and should be done by the Mexican government. They said that leading gangsters in the city need to be targeted and U.S.-supplied intelligence needed to be acted upon more quickly...........***
bttt
He has the lowest at rest pulse I've ever heard of.
"This should not be an amnesty program," he said.
Yeah, and I bet he has a bridge in Brooklyn for sale too.
Having no conscience does that for a person. Onto the next Republican for that office more in tune to the pulse of the citizenry - especially on this issue.
I wonder what Ted Kennedy's resting heart rate is.
Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, seen here 26 July 2005, decried the move by Bush to make an end-run around Congress and directly appoint Bolton to the post as an 'abuse' of his presidential power(AFP/Getty Images/File)
About 80 proof.
The pastor of my church has about the same, and he's pudgy.
U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., voices his opposition at a news conference in his office in Wethersfield, Conn., Monday, Aug. 1, 2005 to the recess appointment of John Bolton as UN ambassador by President Bush on Monday. Dodd has been opposed to Bolton's nomination to the UN post. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
This president has a conscience; but go ahead, keep right on smearing people you don't know; it's your MO lately.
Doesn't it all rather depend upon just WHICH "citizenry" you speak of?
No president is ever going to give you 100% of your heart's desire; learn to live in reality!
And as to your bugaboo about illegals, close to 600 M-13 fang members, most of whom were illegals, were picked up in the last two weeks and after incarceration, will be deported, with more on the way.
Well, as long as Ted drives.
There is the ticket. The House know what they are talking about. Both sides of the aisle must be under intense pressure about this.
The very last thing we need is some sort of "bipartisan coalition" of "business leader" pitching "guest workers."
What we need is to first just enforce the law.
I wish someone with some gumption in the House or the Senate would present just what a calamity the German "Guest worker" plan has been.
If we need "bipartisan" anything, it is for the American people to howl and roar over this issue, and to howl and roar until the matter is settled.
It is amazing that neither part refuses to act on this.
Deported? Now you're the one entertaining a fantasy.
I'm talking about the citizenry of the middle class sick of seeing their money given over to people who shouldn't be here while their representatives make lame excuses. I'd far prefer to pay the real costs of products and services if the money were going to Americans rather than these illegals who funnel 40% or more of their (off the book) earnings back to countries depending on it to help prop up mockeries of government.
Lie in bed with the corrupt and wake up with fleas.
And don't flatter yourself - I read almost all posts concerning illegal immigration. There's far too many of them thanks to folks like yourself quite unconcerned about the exact details of your sustenance or the long range effects this has on our nation. Have a nice duh.
I agree. Ted and Chris need a Chappaquiddick vacation.
The citizens need to tell their represntatives what they want.
People like low prices. That's life.
The money goes back to support families, which does help take the heat off their governments to improve but you know, those governments don't really care, so it's immaterial, their citizens will go where there are jobs. CAFTA will help stem the flow of people out of Latin America.
I know you'll rail away at me but so be it.
We need to find solutions to this not just rigidly demand absolutes.
Wekk, I think that they are telling them. For various reason, our "repersentatives do not like what they hear. No one is buying their rhetoric either. The question is whether or not both parties can unite a effectively "trangulate" 80% of the electorate? What will happen if they do not act on this promptly and properly? Will people take matter up in their own hands? The country has really had quite enough of this.
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