What's up with Bush and immigrants?
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Bush supports illegals immigration. Does your Congressman or Senator? Find out.
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so right. Americans r being blindsided into believing that immigration is the biggest issue the USA has on our hands. Sh*t everytime i hear about a soldier getting killed in Iraq, my stomach turns. People r so ignorant to the real problems in the US. not to say that Illegal immigrants isn't a problem, but come on people we r going to hell in a hand basket. Plus, to enter legally into the US can take more than 10 yrs and people aren't willing to wait. it doesn't help that AMERICAN companies aren't punished. But this whole immigration thing will keep the spotlight off the real problems until good ol' G. Bush is out of office.
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BECAUSE THEY SUCK.  They're here, taking our jobs and using our tax money.  Would Mexico do the same for us?  HELL no.\n\nDear President Bush:\n\nI'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.\n\nI plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. \n\nI'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here.\n\nSo, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I'm on my way over?\n\n \n\nPlease let him know that I will be expecting the following:\n\n1. Free medical care for my entire family.\n\n2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.\n\n \n\n3. All government forms need to be printed in English.\n\n4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.\n\n \n\n5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.\n\n6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.\n\n \n\n7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.\n\n8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services.\n\n \n\n9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won't make any effort to learn local traffic laws.\n\n10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.\n\n11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th.  I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.\n\n12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don't enforce any labor laws or tax laws.\n\n \n\n13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the economy.\n\nI know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. \n\n \n\nI am sure that Pres. Fox won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.\n\nHowever, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.\n\nThank you so much for your kind help.
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I support Bush except for his Immigration ideas.  I also do not support the Senate Immigration Bill.  The people do not want this immigration enforced.  All the illegals are here for is a job and not to become citizens.  Because of this, they are driving the wages down in the U.S..  Congress needs to put this Immigration Bill to a vote on a National level.  Let the citizens decide if the illegals stay or go home.  I have a feeling that the people would vote for the illegals to leave and submit the proper documents to come here legally.  That is why we have laws and our Congress should obey them as well as every citizen who lives in the U.S.
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Good thinking, I can see why now.\n\nThere was an immigrant's right problem but I think they blew it (purposely) out of proportion to cover the Bush - Gas - Iraq issue.
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Right here with you sealrborders!  Keep up the good work!  You have tons of support, believe me!  Don't let the few illegal-huggers get you down!  Ignore the nasty names - that's what they resort to because they really know you are right and they haven't got a single good argument for why they are pro-illegal immigrants, other than because they, themselves, are illegal or they are in love with an illegal, or their parents or other relatives or friends are illegal (they, themselves, are often anchor babies and so want their parents to get that easy amnesty George Bush is promising them), or they own businesses and hire illegals to take advantage of the slave labour, or they hire them to clean their houses, mow their lawns, or look after their children, again for cheap slave labour that they don't want to lose because they are too cheap to pay proper wages to legal immigrants or American citizens.\n\nBelieve me, we loves ya!\n\nPS:  Especially ignore sqwirlsgirl - she's one of the above-described illegal-huggers, I just haven't quite figured out which one yet.
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I just got a email from a friend regarding Australia. They are having some immigrant Muslim problems. The radicals are getting out of hand. The government and citizen are dealing with it. One signs said" if you don't like our language, culture and laws get the hell out". \nA few years back they had a real Chinese illegal problem ships dumping of them. They dealt with it rather fast.They cut out chain immigration better now as family unification.\n\nThat is as much as I know on this new immigration anti terrorist issue, but I think that is about as much information that one will get. Most will probably be opinion depending on their side. I have no agenda.
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America learned this from the Germans from world war 2.  Everything that George Bush is having America do is like what Hitler had Germany do.\n\nHitler made his people believe the source of all their problems were foreigners, specifically the Jews.  George Bush has made Americans believe the source of all their problems are foreigners, specifically those who have abundant oil supplies.  He lied to the American people to get elected, and he lied to the American people to start his wars.  We are complacent, and don't know how to deal with him within the rules of our government, even though he doesn't follow the rules.\n\nHELP!
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It's the old story, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Why do you think the Bush administation spouts an endless list of numbers when they are asked a substantive question?\n\nNo, AFDC and food stamps are not the same. No, SSI is not the same as Social Security.\n\nAnd people forget that many of these "illegal immigrants" pay taxes from which they actually will never get any benefit, a gift to the rest of us who benefit from their money.\n\nWhat intrigues me most is that the politicians keep saying there are fewer people paying into Social Security than are being paid by Social Security. If we let in all the immigrants, wouldn't that problem be solved?.
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We have an escalating war in Iraq, impending doom from Iran, a huge deficit, outrageous gas prices, rising health care, lack of good jobs...so...Mr. Bush, to take our minds OFF those things, takes a good hard look at illegal immigration, which has long been ignored. Add to his troubles, he is tapping into our phone conversations and invading our privacy on a daily basis. (I nearly forgot about those!!) What a mess!!!
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You ask the tragic question of our times, but the real answer about securing the borders has less to do with terrorism and more to do with politics and the "cost of doing business". \n\nGeorge Bush has decided NOT to secure the borders of the US against foreigners who want to cross over at will.  By "ignoring the problem" - or pretending it doesn't exist -  he doesn't have to do anything about it - right?  A simplistic statement of "conservative thought", for lack of a better description. \n\nBut let's think about it.  Mexico wants to get rid of as much of its uneducated population as possible.  Bush says, "Hey, send em right in!" , and by so doing makes great friends with whatever government is in power in Mexico.  The NAFTA agreement also plays into that scenario. \n\nSome of this seems to be for the benefit of companies of all sizes in the US, many of whom give Bush large financial contributions - and which benefit from having influxes of people who can be hired at very, very low hourly rates - and who won't complain about tiny wages.  Large agri-business companies are one example. \n\nAnd it seems that the majority of the 11 - 15 million latinos who have "appeared" in the US, have crossed over the border illegally during the Bush administration - according to most of the "reliable" news sources. \n\nAt the CNN "Special" on illegal immigration, the conservative Heritage Foundation had calculated it would cost 2 trillion dollars over the lives of those latinos already in the US -  for the education, hospitalization and health care, social security, and other social services etc., that they would need, but for which they could not pay out of their own pockets.  Neither would their very, very low wages produce withholding tax revenues large enough to pay for these benefits.  \n\nAs an example, it seems a frightening number of hospitals in the Southwest of the US have closed, becoming overwhelmed with latino patients who have no money or insurance to pay for their care, so the hospital closes when it runs out of money.  "Free medical care" was never "free", but was subsidized by the hospital's income,  and its receipt of voluntary contributions from members of the surrounding community.  Now this free care has vastly outstripped the ability of the hospital itself and its supporting community to pay for it.  The doctors are fired and the hospital closes. And now, NO ONE gets any medical care. \n\nHow long will the country last with declining numbers of hospitals?  Or schools, since they too are being overwhelmed? And the list goes on. \n\nThe CNN special also pointed out that, every year, about 500,000 people get across our borders illegally who are NOT latinos - and some of those are members of the terrorist organization Hamas, or other terrorist organizations. \n\nBut the real, current problem is the numbers of latinos who are uneducated who are coming into the US who will never have jobs paying enough to afford the services our society provides, and will have to be given these free of charge. \n\nAnd this society of ours will will ultimately fail if this illegal immigration is not stopped, and the current illegals are not picked up one by one and sent back.  \n\nThink about it this way: could current US citizens and government pay for the health care and education for ALL the Chinese in the world if they ALL decided to come here - for example?  The (obvious) answer is no - the US cannot become the home of most of the people on earth, just physically if not also economically.  \n\nSo why do people think we can absorb some large fraction of the entire population of Mexico? One which is uneducated?  Which doesn't pay taxes, in many cases? Which can't pay for healtcare for themselves, and depend on getting it for free - which will cause the healthcare delivery system to fail at the point it runs out of money? \n\n
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I don't know his reasoning behind the Minuteman thing.  I have to say I was kind of surprised by that.  It may just be that he doesn't want an international incident while we are working things out still, domestically.\n\nI think he really does want to strengthen the border, so in that sense I don't think he is 'supporting illegal immigration'.  He is then trying to increase legal immigration through a guest worker program, since people wanting cheap labor was obviously one of the reasons the problem got where it did.  If his program worked perfectly (people actually go back at the end of their visas, etc.) it would mean we would still get immigrants, but at least they would be in the system.  Meanwhile the criminals and terrorists could be kept out.\n\nStopping the flow of illegal immigrants has a huge economic effect on Mexico, granted it was because our money was being sent 'home' there while the services for supporting the worker and his family were being used in this country.  It would be something any Mexican President would be interested in, and both Fox and his leftist opponent are running on platforms based on OUR immigration laws.\n\nI think Bush's main priority is the national security issue of securing the border, and he has the other elements in place to build a consensus and (with regards to the illegals already here) for reasons of practicality and humanity.\n\nI wouldn't think it was a bad system as long as the border were secured BEFORE legal immigration were increased.  However, there are absolutely people lobbying for even more relaxed immigration.  The pro-illegals are asking for a rolling statute of limitations that would make illegal immigrants legal if they could get here illegally and remain here for three years.\n\nContact the Senate Majority leader and House Leader with your concerns, since they will have the greatest impact on negotiating the actual Bill to be voted on.
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Because that hole fiasco was a sham of an issue that backfired on the GOP. The general public has a very low opinion of many big name Republicans right now and they're scared.  Like flag burning and gay marriage, they're dragging out all of their 'go-to' conservative issues to get the conservative base energized and out to the polls to vote.  The problem is, the White House knows that Latino voters - who mostly have conservative values - voted Bush into office in 2004 - especially in Ohio and Florida.  Now, they know they've pissed off many, many swing voters and they dropped it like a hot potato.  Plus, many of the the big contributors to their campaigns are employers of aliens and they made calls.
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Um, I don't think the timing is relevant, except that some politicians are looking ahead to the November elections, which is pretty much what politicians always do.\n\nBush ran on immigration reform and a guest worker program as part of his election platform: look it up.\n\nThe House passed the Bill saying the border should be secured and illegal immigrants should be made felons in December.  Thereafter there were a bunch of polls that said all majorities were against illegal immigration, but the majority would accept a stronger border with a guest worker program. The Senate put together its Bill outline.  Then came the marches.  THEN this became a hot topic.\n\nThis issue may be one reason Bush's support declined, but it didn't come up as a result of that decline.  I think Bush wants this as part of his legacy, and always has wanted this.
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Good question thank you for not ranting.  I do not like Bush's spending it is out of control and I am not a fan of his immigration plan.  To be honest with the exception of his tax cuts he is probably the most liberal president since Jimmy Carter.  I also wish he was a better public speaker.\n\nThat said I am 100% behind him on the war on terror and the Iraq war
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"You know, I'm not a supporter of boycotts. I am a supporter of comprehensive immigration," Bush told a Rose Garden news conference, referring to efforts to reach an immigration deal with the US Congress.\n\nBush urged the protesters to show respect.\n\n"You know, I think it's very important for people, when they do express themselves, they continue to do so in a peaceful way, in a respectful way, respectful of ... how highly charged this debate can become," he said.\n\nImmigration has split Congress, the Republican Party and public opinion. Conservatives want the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants returned to Mexico and a fence built along the border.\n\nBush and others want a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship. Most agree some reform is needed to stem the flow of the poor to the world's biggest economy.\n\nBush said "most Americans agree that we've got to enforce our border" but that a temporary guest-worker program is needed as a way to get rid of an illegal smuggling network that brings people across the border and forges documents.
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Because people is too freaking stupid to see pass their noses. Our nation was established by IMMIGRANTS! Jez!? Give me a break! I have friends who are immigrant workers and let me tell you been an immigrant is not easy at all, yes they do pay taxes, yes they do work their butts off doing what "little white boys" doesn't like to do! Immigrants are the reason why the US is the way it is, if it wasn't for them the US economy would drop inmensenly! I wish that all the immigrants did went back to their home countries...and I want to see the US survive! As soon as ALL the immigrants are gone the US is going to go downhill. Because the US depends of those immigrants as much as the immigrants depend of the US. It's a vicious cycle and you know what people....It's giving us the way of living that we have!