Posted on 07/11/2006 5:24:30 PM PDT by managusta
White House political strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday that the highly charged immigration debate has "clouded" the views of some Americans, leading them to dismiss the importance of immigrants and their contribution to the nation's success.
"Everything that this country is, everything that we have achieved, everything that we hold, everything that we promise, is because we are a nation of diversity, brought together by immigration, and sharing a common dream," Rove told members of the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights group, the National Council of La Raza.
Rove ticked off enforcement elements of the president's proposal, but added, "All these measures will come to naught without a temporary worker program. ... It's not enough to say send them home."
He also warned that critics against were confusing the debate with catchwords, rather than solutions.
"Too many simplify the problem into one word, "amnesty," Rove said. "In an issue this vital, we cannot allow words to be misused."
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He is out of his mind.
ping
Yeah, that's right Rove, let's not misuse the word 'Amnesty' with 'Comprehensive'.. or 'Immigration' with 'Illegal Entry', or 'La Raza' with 'Civil Rights', or 'Window Dressing' with 'Securing the Borders', or 'Phantoms' with '6000 NG', or 'Pandering' with 'Honesty' and especially, 'Lies' with 'Truth'.
Sure Hispanics are real Americans......as long as they're legal citizens.
I detect a hint of quiet desperation here...actually not so quiet.
I see that I'm getting another load from the folks I voted for.
Dare I hope for a pony? I think not.
Oh don't you know that Karl wants to protect his property. Hey maybe we should all just move in with Karl. We can bring tents and cots and stoves. We won't be any bother to him and his family.
Response: He is living proof of the dictum, "In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action."-A Great Historian 1888
"Rove: Hispanics are `real Americans'"
Nobody doubts that. It's Rove's way to claim his opponents say otherwise. He has to tread lightly on playing the racist card given prior "words" he has given Bush to say.
far too much sense for the growing anti-hispanic brigade here on FR.
That comment is crap.
They could be Germans, French, Irish, you name it.
My county pays out mega millions a yr. on the illegals
for their Health, housing, food, etc.
While we have to work for the same thing.
We had better remind our representatives that a secure border remains top priority.
As long as he pays for my medical care, retirement, pays for my education and gives me preferential treatment bidding on contracts.... yeah, I'll move in with him /s
To debate with you would be terribly boring...for me.
Got an All-Star Game to watch.
Does he mean like the words legal/illegal?
susie
Got to say it:
Not all Hispanics are immigrants, much less illegal immigrants.
I'm not going to say most, but many Hispanic (whatever that means) families in the USA predate the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Rove and GW are both Texans who have a weirdo take on what Mexico is inflicting on this sovereign nation. They are both well enough situated to never have to suffer for their idiotic immigration policies. They believe in fences around their own houses but not the nation they have pledges allegiance to.
You got it, that's what I'm saying! He can foot the bill for all us!
"Rove made far too much sense for the growing anti-hispanic brigade here on FR."
That's an extremely racist comment.
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