Comments on: Bush Wants Immigration On The Front Burner

President Asks Lawmakers To Come Together On "Critical Challenge"

[standlee5]

If they want citizenship they'd better be willing to declare allegiance to the USA including serving in the military for four years, including the women. Oh wait that'd mean we'd have to provide daycare for their ten kids. OK, forget it. Just the men have to serve.

[deathtoallah]

"Most national polls show Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of an immigration overhaul that would allow those here illegally to stay, work and earn their way to legal status."

I wonder what polls they have been reading. Most people DON"T want any kind of free ride for these aliens. Send them all back to Mexico, even their anchor babies.
Get them OUT of our country Bush. You are reading your own polls dude!

[cbgb31]

No Amnesty.

[fredgrad2000]

cbslogin12 - Quit reading the MoveOn.org propaganda...President Bush has been the foremost advocate for comprehensive reform, which INCLUDES a path to citizenship, a guest worker program, and yes, stronger border security (he hasn't be strong enough in that area - where the American people are crystal clear is that our borders should be shut down to ILLEGAL, not legal, immigration). But don't act like Americans want blanket amnesty - only the looney left wants that. The illegals here now are just that, here illegally!! Deporting them is mistake, not plausible, and in many cases immoral...but the VAST majority of Americans do not want to grant them a FAST path to citizenship. The vast majority want our borders secured and then offer those people here a path that takes them to the END of the line, behind people from all over the world who have gone through the legal process, and does recognize they broke our laws to be here to begin with, so there should be some penalty (personally, I think a relatively small one since most of these illegals do not have much) and they should be checked for criminality. This is what Bush has proposed, and what a majority of our Congress (barring the extremists on both sides of the aisle) I think would support if we ever got off of nothing but investigation and political statements on Iraq.

[bellal-2009]

Exactly, SharnCedar. If the American people don't start STANDING up for themselves and demanding accountability from lawmakers we are going to hve this country sold out from under us if we haven't already. I'm so bloody sick and tired of Wall Street and corportations dictating how the country is run. I'd rather be bloody poor as h3ll and suffer a deep economic depression than to let these greedy b@sturds continue to have their way with our country.

[drivelphobe]

First of all, we don't need to "help newcomers to assimilate", they MUST assimilate. The millions of illegals here now arrogantly refuse to learn English, and, at the same time, disrespect our culture. A requirement of legal citizenship must be English proficiency and willingness to give up citizenship in another country. No multiple citizenships.

Secondly, it is not "unrealistic to deport 12 million illegals". The American people will gladly support deportation of every last one of these criminals. Put it to a vote and see what happens.

The politicians are just now realizing that the illegal alien issue is neck and neck with the Iraq war. If something isn't done now, there will be civil unrest and it will be the fault of all our government leaders who totally ignore the will of the American citizenry. Close the borders and deport now. No more anchor babies, no benefits for illegals, and English only. Put employers who hire these criminals in jail with huge fines. Enough is enough!

Why do our political leaders ignore us? A bigger question is why do we allow this? It's time to make some big changes and Bush sees it coming. NO MORE ILLEGALS!

[sharncedar]

We have immigration laws already. The only "crisis" is because Bush is refusing to enforce the existing laws. That creates a "crisis" certainly. If the FBI stopped prsecuting federal murders, then we would also have a "crisis". If the Social Security Administration stopped handing out its checks, then we would have a "crisis".

A president who refuses to do his duty, which is enforce existing laws, not legislate new laws, is an atrocity. For him to refuse to enforce the law in order to threaten the American people into a better deal for his illegal friends is an act of treachery.

[cbslogin12]

"Most national polls show Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of an immigration overhaul that would allow those here illegally to stay, work and earn their way to legal status."

More lies from the Bush Administration!

[standlee5]

%u201CEventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as the future prosperity of North America, and the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons."


hmmmm, is this more of Wolfowitz's social architecture?

[standlee5]

%u201CThe new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union...%u201D



NO, NO AND NO. Over my dead body.

[starleo146]

anything to change the subject hey Bushie you know this is a contentious issue and you hope it will take the heat of you I say just shutup we don't need any of your advice we are up to here with all your great decisions you and Cheney how do you sleep at night knowing what you have done Just explain to the American people why you thought Iraq is the answer did you think they may be easy and it would make you look good we now know the lies you told us wasn't the reason so why and explain it to the families of the 3300 who died for you and Cheney's lies.

[zootallures2]

"We need a system where our laws are respected. We need a system that meets the legitimate needs of our economy. And we need a system that treats people with dignity..."

But then you'd be impeached, your administration put in jail or face a firing squad, the CIA and military up for war crimes, most national and international corporations barred or hung for treason...

[coffeehead-2009]

The ultimate shovel of dirt on democracy.


Fox has more:

%u201CAll this has meant, in the past year, an extraordinary conceptual advance on the subject of immigration and in the importance of moving gradually toward the regularization of the migratory situation of our fellow Mexicans in the United States, a number that is estimated at between 3 and 4 million Mexicans."

(This time, Fox is referring to illegal alien Mexicans. Phew!)

%u201CEventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union, with the goal of attending to future themes as important as the future prosperity of North America, and the freedom of movement of capital, goods, services and persons."

(I saw this part on Mexican TV- Fox paused momentarily and then put an emphasis on %u201Cpersons.%u201D)

%u201CThe new framework we wish to construct is inspired in the example of the European Union...%u201D

Fox, however, sees one small obstacle to his EU-style vision for NAFTA:

%u201C....we have to confront ..... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.%u201D

(Gringos dragging their feet on amnesty, Brits dragging their feet on the euro?)

[standlee5]

"The new approach would require fines, trips back home, long waits and hefty penalties. Conservatives still called it overly permissive, essentially amnesty for illegal behavior."


They better be willing to prove their allegiance by serving in the military. Don't expect them to sign up and fight for America they just want the freebies.

[cbgb31]

"Most national polls show Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of an immigration overhaul that would allow those here illegally to stay, work and earn their way to legal status."



I don't think so.

[cbgb31]

"We need a system that meets the legitimate needs of our economy."

More accurately stated; a system that creates a neverending stream of cheap labor in the form of unlimited immigration so the American citizen can expect lower wages and higher taxes to pay for new immigrant social services. All so we can buy cheap stuff and the stock market can hit 20,000.

[hypnotoad72]

Most Americans want their own needs met before we "help" illegal workers.

Especially when politicians say we have to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps.

America is being crippled by offshoring and illegal immigrants who see fit to put their flag above our own, after escaping their country because they are too cowardly to fix their own mess.

Then you have psycho out of touch nutcases like John McCain saying Americans wouldn't pick lettuce for $50/hr... (Uh, I'd happily do it for $25 but $50/hr wouldn't be unfair either... :D ) and to think he is running for president... it seems there ARE candidates worse than Hillary out there! (And trust me, there is no way I'd vote for her.)

Mind you, it's funny to see how American politicians take a leak on our own unwed mothers... then go to South America and turn on the crocodile tears and other mea culpas about their children who have children out of wedlock... no wonder the collective esteem of Americans is at an all time low.