President Bush has an approval rating that is lower than than the average anti-war protester's IQ. He is getting hammered daily for non-scandals such as the Alberto Gonzalez kerfuffle and seems to be politically tone-deaf when it comes to other key issues such as illegal immigration.
Perhaps he's finally getting the message that those who support him and the party are serious when it comes to immigration:
The Bush administration yesterday circulated a new plan for immigration reform that would create a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants currently in the country but would require them to return home and pay a large fine to gain permanent U.S. residency.
On the enforcement side, the plan calls for deploying about 6,000 additional Border Patrol agents along the southern border, together with 200 miles of vehicle barriers, 370 miles of fencing and a 300-mile virtual wall of electronic sensors. An employment verification system would feature new, tamper-proof identification cards for immigrants.
Finally a plan that addresses the central issues that concern Republicans: no general amnesty, deportation for those who don't come forward, increased border enforcement and payment for work rights. The amnesty issue has been the major sticking point in most of the previous bills put forth and it seems the administration has finally come to the realization that the base of the party will not abide providing a benefit to those who broke our laws by entering the U.S. illegally.
Any governor or congressperson who does not support these actions is doing a major disservice to their constituency who, for years, have been paying for healthcare and other services of those who are illegal aliens.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. The proposal has a lot of holes in it, but at least it goes in the direction of more enforcement.
Steve Bonomo at 6:23PM on Mar 30th 2007
2. As long as the president continues to support a guest worker program, I will not be able to support the president here. I can not abide by the president implementing a system which would produce a legal way for business owners to hire ultra-cheap, foriegn labor.
The guest worker program undermines and devalues the American worker.
As for the rest of his plan, how does he actually expect to rid the nation of the illegals who are already firmly rooted here?
Heck, I won't win any awards for saying this, but I think the only way to fix the immigration problem is to make Mexico a better place to live. If we don't have a hand in it, then Mexico will just look to its socialist neighbors to the south for help.
Pete at 11:29AM on Mar 31st 2007
3. The most serious problem American Faces is not Terrorism but the Mass Invasion from Mexico. The Largest Invasion in World History is destroying our Schools, Medical Systems, Judicial System, and the Rule of Law, while Slaughtering, Raping & Robbing Americans by the 10,s of thousands. They are destroying our Social cohesion & turning us into a Cesspool of Crime, Corruption, Benefiting the Rich paid for by the poor & Middle Class! If this Amnesty is passed it will lead in time to Riots, Fires & Civil unrest on a scale greater than the 60,s and possibly Civil war!
Both Democratic and Republican administrations have ignored Article IV Section IV of our Constitution & our Laws that is supposed to protect this Country from Invasion!
President Bush has not only ignored our Constitution & Laws he has Aided, Abided, Encouraged and Collaborated with a foreign government to Subvert our Constitution! To ignore our Constitution is grounds for Impeachment, to engage in Subverting our Constitution is Treason!
This Policy continues today even after the Wake-Up call of 9/11!
When you have Senators that are swore to Defend the Constitution & Uphold our Laws encourage Criminals to break them then you have Criminals for Politicians! When our Politicians that think our Constitution is just a damn piece of Paper & Laws are meant to be broken then we are headed down the Slippery Slope of Anarchy!
Illegal Aliens start by breaking the Law by Arriving Illegally using Forged Document and engaging in a wide range of Illegal Activities that would get an American Citizens Fined and in Jail.
If an American Citizen is caught driving without driver licenses or insurance they face heavy fines & possible lost of driving Privileges. Illegal Aliens on the other hand are usually released with no punishment! The same is true for identify thief and benefits using false SS cards & for a host of other Crimes that American Citizens would feel the full weight of the Law!
Our Politicians answer to these crimes is not to punish them, but to reward them!
Only someone that is Brain-dead would believe rewarding Criminals results in less Criminals or Crime!
People that start out by breaking the Laws & are Rewarded for doing so, have little respect or regard for any Laws & see this Nation and American Citizens as ripe for Plunder!
They take full advantage of every benefit they can get Legal or Illegally!
Illegal Aliens have an informal but highly effective net work to inform other Illegal Aliens where to get bogus documents & any new scams to get benefits illegally! Most Illegal Aliens works off the books & pays no taxes but still somehow gets an Earned Income tax credit ranging form 1500.00 to 3200.00 returned to them every year from American taxpayers!
Illegal Aliens arrive in this Country from Counties where rampant Crime and Corruption has been a way of life for Centuries, is it any wonder they bring those same Family Values across the Border with them and are busy creating the same type of environment in the USA!
They retain loyally to the Native Countries & Exploit the Compassion of Americans & the Corruption of our Politicians by using us & having nothing but contempt for a people & Nation that does not have the Political Will or Integrity in its Politicians to enforce our Laws & our Constitution against Invasion.
To put it bluntly & without being Politically Correct, Illegal Aliens & Many of our Politicians are Parasites & Criminals feasting on the backs of American Citizens!
Illegal Aliens seek not to build this Nation, but to use the fruits of Labor of Legal American Citizens that immigrated to this country legally & have in 230 years of Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Sacrifice built this Nation!
While the Illegal Invaders have built nothing but a Cesspool of Crime, Corruption, Poverty & Misery in their own Counties for the masses, but a Elite class of very Rich, and Corrupt for the few.
Could this be what many of our Politicians are hoping to Achieve here in the USA?
You hear our Politicians like Bush, Kennedy, Hillary, McCain, Reid, Spector, Brownback, and Martinez, that want to give them Amnesty, only they are so dishonest they refuse to call it Amnesty! They talk about the Rule of Law & Amnesty in the same sentence. This is an Oxymoron of the first order!
We hear the same Politicians speaking of seeking Bipartisan support for a Comprehensive solution to Illegal Aliens which are code words for Amnesty without any means or intend to enforce the Laws or our Constitution & close our Borders, just like they did with the 1986 Amnesty!
They further obscure & confuse the issue with Political Spin & Lies by saying it is only 7 or 8 million when the best independent estimates of the Illegal population was 20 million years ago & we have 5 to 10 thousand more pouring across our borders every day since then.
They conveniently forget to inform American Citizens that each Illegal Alien granted citizenship has the option to bring in 5 family members in a never ending chain, so at the very least we are talking about 60 million or so in the next 15 to 20 years, a more realistic number is probably 150 million or more.
This Nation will be inundated with 10,s of Millions of Prolific breeders. Citizens with an average of 6 grade education and a 50 percent school drop out rate to populate the gangs & welfare rolls.
This is the same thing that happens with the last Amnesty, only this time it is on a scale large enough to destroy this Nation and turn the USA into another Mexico!
What we really have is a club of Millionaires in the Senate & the Democrat party seeking to deceive American Citizens again & pass a Law to reward other Millionaires with an unlimited supply of 21st Century slaves.
While they reward their selves with the votes from Latinos and money they receive from Corporations for destroying this Nation!
The intent is to exploit both the Illegal Aliens for their Cheap Labor and the Poor & Middle class American Citizens as victims of the Illegal Alien's crime, deteriorating standard of living and the 100,s of billions in welfare costs!
While the users of the Illegal Aliens Labor laugh all the way to the bank with their obscene profits! They get richer while the rest sink into Poverty! In Bush's term in office 5.4 million more American Citizens have slipped into poverty l & if they succeed in this Amnesty, American will become a Nation of Poverty with the Rich, Elite and Corrupt ruling and the rest is slaving for pennies like the Peons in Mexico!
If this Amnesty is passed is anything like the Senate version as currently written, it will result in harm to this Nation almost beyond ones imagination!
The last Amnesty resulted in the largest increase in Crime and Welfare of any bill ever passed & compared to this Amnesty it was minuscule.
Illegal Aliens as percentage of population & the ones given Citizenship by the last Amnesty contribute more too both Crime & Welfare, than any other group in the USA!
So you be the judge of what the results of next Amnesty will be & the harm it will do!
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The press is as guilty as the Politicians in trying to foster off this massive Amnesty bill on the American Public. They continue to refer to the Mass Invasion of Illegal Aliens as Immigrants, which could not be further from the truth.
They fail to point out the harmful impact of the last Amnesty in 1986.
Few report what the detrimental affects will be to our Population, Standard of living, Crime, Environment, Welfare or a host of other problems with the Senate bill!
Many Nations have tried to build a great Nation on the Back of Slaves, all have failed. If this were not so Mexico & other third world Nations would be rich instead of poor!
For anyone that has never lived in an third country & experienced the horrible conditions & do not understand what will happen to this Country if the Senate Amnesty is passed go visit the interior of Mexico, there you will see the future of this Nation!
We, as American Citizens owe & have the duty to prior generations that built this country at great personal sacrifice & to future generations, to rise up in protest from coast to coast and tell our Corrupt Politicians.
No Not Again!
The American Citizens
mak0016 at 10:34AM on Mar 31st 2007
4. ENFORCE THE CURRENT LAWS. ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE ILLEGAL> PERIOD. STOP PANDERING. DEPORT A THOUSAND A MONTH AND THEY WILL STOP COMING. ANY BUSINESS THAT HIRES THEM GETS CLOSED DOWN>PERIOD.
joe m at 11:18AM on Mar 31st 2007
5. How about fines for the employers who hire illegals? How about enforcing the federal laws that have been on the books for years about hiring illegals? How about requiring employers to verify documents supplied as proof of citizenship or right to work?
George Houchens at 12:59AM on Apr 1st 2007
6. I am sick and tired of being referred to all american citizens as being "lazy white people" Is this not a racist comment. I here it all the time. I work in the restaurant industry and the language barrier is rampant. The term that they do the jobs that americans won't do is bulls%@*t. None of my employers advertise when they need a dishwasher or busser or cook position filled. They ask the "non-english speaking" workers if they know anybody who wants to work cheap. This happens in every restaurant across the country and most likely in a lot of other business. Americans don't even get a chance to apply. Our city laws have adapted to their lifestyle. There is now single family dwelling anymore. They can have 4-5 generations living in one house, plus their cousins, and all 10 of their vehicles parked up and down the street. Or in their yard. Identity theft has increased in our stores. Who are the majority of the workers? It is getting increasingly difficult to get someone who speaks english in customer service anymore. My son and his friends get called white bitches everyday. Yes we live in southern California. We are at a 50/50 ratio now. Beware U.S.A. this is what you have to look forward to. A people who have no respect for our country, our language, our laws. I have heard hispanic parents tell their children to speak only spanish. They want us to conform. Sometimes I think it is working.
Donna Redd, La Quinta, Ca
Donna Redd at 8:58PM on Apr 1st 2007
7. George, those are all great ideas. People love to complain about the "brown people" who are taking their jobs, but the cold truth is that it is American businesspeople and entrepeneurs who are giving our jobs away so they can save a couple bucks. A serious crackdown on the hiring of illegals would definitely serve to lessen the problem.
On the other hand, some people advocate a gigantic wall as a solution to the illegal immigration problem, as if the illegals are cartoon coyotes.
Pete at 12:08AM on Apr 2nd 2007
8. The American people are FED-UP with ILLEGAL ALIENS.I don't give a damn what color they are. Illegal means illegal!!! They are a drain on the LEGAL taxpaying citizens of this country. They need to go home, get a backbone and demand better from their governments. We are a nation of laws and "stealing" your way across our borders is a crime!! Any form of amnesty will be opposed by the majority of the American people. George Bush's plan is full of holes and will give countless LAWBREAKERS amnesty.Quit pandering to these lawbreakers and sponges of our society. If they truely want to immigrate then they can get in line behind the people already waiting. The american people need to contact their elected officials and raise hell before this "shamnesty bill" hits the floor of the house. George Washington didn't cross the Delaware river for George Bush to give it ALL away.
Lew at 4:25AM on Apr 2nd 2007
9. I just hit the submit button on my Legislator's web site, Lew. And I definately RAISED HELL!! I'll probably do it over and over again. I'm not just FED UP with this illegal alien mess, I'm off the chart MAD ABOUT IT!
Jean at 12:40PM on Apr 2nd 2007
10. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT AMERICA SHOULD CLOSE IT'S IMMIGRATION DOORS TO ALL. WE SHOULD REMOVE ALL ILLEGALS FROM WITH-IN OUR BORDERS AND BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES FOR THE FIGHT THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN FREINDS AND THOSE SOUTH OF OUR BORDERS.
SHOULD YOU THINK THAT THE WAR WILL NOT REACH OUR BORDERS OR SHORES THEN YOURS EYES AND EARS ARE CLOSED.
THE CAUSE IS NOT TO BE BLAMED OUR EITHER PARTY BUT ON THE ZEALOT WITH-IN OUR BORDERS THAT SPEAK ANTI-AMERICAN FILTH WITH OUT GIVING IT ANY PRIOR THOUGHT( SUCH AS ROSIE ON THE VIEW((WHICH I DO NOT WATCH)). JUST LET THIS VET HAVE HIS SAY.
BISHOPDE at 9:09AM on Apr 4th 2007
11. This is bigger than the war on terror, bring our troops home and arm our border while simultaneously rounding up illegals for immediate deportation to wherever they came from. As for the anchor babies, treat them like any typical american kid who's dad or mom commits a crime, go with the parent or foster care. Families are split daily in this country when criminals are caught and held accountable.
Robert at 5:49PM on May 2nd 2007
12. where is it that bush does not understand "illegal"? maybe he was reading the same report that said "iraq HAS wmd's"? believe me, America will not fall apart if all these "illegals" get DEPORTED! NO AMNESTY ALLOWED! STAND IN LINE LIKE THE REST OF THOSE WHO ARE APPLYING TO GET INTO AMERICA!!!
iamchavira at 12:54AM on May 7th 2007
13. My family and I are not for amnesty for illegal immigrants....No way,No how get in line as the rest of us have to....Break the rules for some and you might as well not even have a country with rules and laws for the others....
Sandy at 11:43AM on May 20th 2007