President Bush Gets it Wrong on Immigration
Each day I feel more distance between where President George Bush has taken the country and what I think are the right policies. Immigration is the big example at the moment. Today he said:
GLYNCO, Ga. - President Bush attacked opponents of an immigration deal Tuesday, suggesting they “don’t want to do what’s right for America.”
I don’t recall a president aggressively and directly attacking his base before. Is he trying to kill off the last support he has in this country?
He continues:
He described his proposal — which has been agreed to by a bipartisan group of senators — as one that “makes it more likely we can enforce our border — and at the same time uphold the great immigrant tradition of the United States of America.”
Hmm, I didn’t know that there was a “great immigrant tradition” to let illegal immigrants move to the US and then give them a path-to-amnesty.
And he says:
“A lot of Americans are skeptical about immigration reform, primarily because they don’t think the government can fix the problems,” Bush said.
You are 100% right Mr. President. We heard the same story in the 1986 amnesty program - and things only got worse. I recall those days and how a bunch more border guards were going to be hired and so on to fix the illegal immigration problem. It all turned out to be a joke. And there was one big lesson learned: FORGET AMNESTY UNTIL YOU HAVE FIRST QUANTIFIABLY SHUT DOWN THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
He adds:
“If you want to kill the bill, if you don’t want to do what’s right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it.”
So letting in millions of the poor from Mexico and Latin America, who have rapidly increasing out-of-wedlock birth rates and high 2nd and 3rd generation high school drop-out rates, is “what’s right for America”? Please explain why this is good for us Mr. President. I am just not seeing it. With the high birth rates of Latino poor people moving here, we are well on our way to a massive new underclass problem in our big cities. Now how is that “right for America”?
Update: Michelle Malkin covers the booing of Miss America this weekend in Mexico. Now tell me again why we want 15% of Mexico working in the US?
May 29th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
It’s a waste arguing with the President. He’s not a broker on this one. We need to focus on the deal makers.
May 29th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
If Bush had made his intentions know (not building a wall) while he was campaigning, he’d have never been our president to begin with.
Mark my words, if the elite pass this legislative deformity, and make this nation into Brazil, you are going to be shocked at the fall of patriotism in the next 20 years. People who feel like the aren’t even in control of their own nation are not going to feel particularily fond of it. In my opinion, this is the “every man for himself bill”, that will make this a colder, less trusting, and much more anxious place than what it is.
Simply put, Bush deliberately ignored the border, didn’t build a wall and fence system with troops, did’nt fine/imprison employers of illegals because he wanted them here. He “CREATED A PROBLEM SO HE COULD “SOLVE” IT”. Now he is wanting to “solve” it, by getting what he wanted in the first place, a de facto melding of a first and third world nation for the benefit of a few very wealthy people.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Its become apparent to me that Bush is not a great leader or president. He was still a better choice than Kerry or Gore, but I really wish we had found something better in 2000.