from the Washington Times:
President Bush this morning proposed spending $4.4 billion on border security as the first step in a comprehensive immigration reform bill, in the White House’s latest effort to resurrect the bill that failed last week.
“We’re going to show the American people that the promises in this bill will be kept,” Mr. Bush said, in a speech to a meeting of the Associated Builders and Contractors.
Mr. Bush said he understands that “Americans are skeptical about immigration reform,” saying that an attempt at immigration reform in 1986 “failed.”
The White House has acknowledged this week that the bill, which stalled last week and was pulled off the Senate floor, failed in part because there is massive grass-roots skepticism about the government’s sincerity and ability to secure the border.
“The American people want a demonstration that we can actually do it,” said White House spokesman Tony Snow.
Absolutely. The legislation passed last year. Fund it, and build it. Pretty simple, actually.
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It’s a start; now for fining and imprisoning those that are hiring illegals, and socking the “amnesty cities” with some incredibly hefty consequences.
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*sigh*
He still doesn’t get it, but believes we don’t.
*sigh*
*sigh* He’s looking at the people that want to live the American dream; I’m looking at the tens of thousands that are criminals and I’m sick and tired of the bullshit about being racist about kicking their foreign asses home.
My point is, all 33million plus illegal immigrants are criminals already, by virtue of being here uninvited, and without any approval, other than that which they give themselves, and those of their apologists. As for the small percentage of that larger group that commits additional crimes, it wouldn’t be as easy for them to do so, if they weren’t able to blend in with all the other illegals.
For the umpteenth time, it’s border security first, for me, or it’s nothing. If our government can’t secure our borders, and keep out those who aren’t allowed in, then how can they possibly provide the security for this nation that they are sworn to do?
If the proponents want to call names, fine, we can all be a bunch of name calling SOB’s, cause I have a whole #3 bucket full of names for them. Liars, for starters.
Here’s a perfect example of positive results, from enforcing immigration laws.
The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.
Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice – which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction – which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.
(Ayn Rand)
When “the common good” of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.
(Ayn Rand)
Under pressure from a federal law suit of the type that has been filed by the ACLU against many small communities across the country, the City of Mamaroneck, NY, agreed that it will not enforce federal laws concerning citizens of Mexico and other nations who are in the town illegally. Instead, it has agreed to provide special benefits to these citizens of other nations beyond those available to mere citizens of Mamaroneck. (See “Day-laborer hiring site greeted by cheers, jeers in Mamaroneck”)
If that about the ACLU doesn’t chap your butt, it should.
Everything about the Anal-Cranial Lock-Up chaps my butt.
Also, see Durbin Bribes NutRoots.
Oh, I saw that thing on Durbin. His name sounds like retching, which is very appropriate.
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