Border Lipstick on Amnesty Pig

[Marnie]

From Human Events comes this commentary on what GWB said last night in regards to the southern border. Some excerpts:

The bottom line on President Bush's televised address on immigration Monday evening is this: For all of its five parts for achieving "comprehensive immigration reform," there wasn't enough lipstick -- nor mascara, rouge, blush or other cosmetics -- to disguise that Mr. Bush was selling an amnesty pig.

Most offensive was his implication that Americans aren't enough of a welcoming people if they reject the Bush-McCain-Hagel mass amnesty. The United States has the most generous -- overly generous, in fact -- immigration policy in the world. Mr. Bush stooped to the low tactic of implying our great generosity isn't generous enough.

It's hard to take seriously an administration that has consistently undermined real immigration enforcement:

--The Bush administration shut down the very effective NSEERS alien registration program, which deported 1,500 illegal Pakistani residents but sparked the self-deportation of 15,000.

--It chopped off interior Border Patrol sting operations where a handful of officers caught some 400 illegal aliens in short order.

--It put the highly effective Native American "Shadow Wolves" out of business.

--It virtually stopped employer sanctions enforcement -- citing just three companies in 2004 for hiring illegal aliens.

--It radically pared back the sending of

[Marnie]

how do you feel about the Bush proposal? Is the opinion of the article your opinion as well, or do you fall in the place where I do that while it is not great, at least it is progress? I was sent back to California as soon as I got home and have had a limited amount of time to spend here at Worthy Boards the last couple of weeks.

Have a safe trip, my friend! As far as the Bush proposal, I think I stated elsewhere that I feel his heart is not in it. Unless there are parts of this operation we don't know about, I fail to see what good 6,000 National Guard troops will do, after all that is adding yet another layer of beaurocracy to deal with. I am convinced that politicians (with the exception of local politicians in border towns who know better) will do nothing meaningful about this issue. The Republicans are courting the Hispanic vote and they think, incorrectly I believe, that granting amnesty (Tony Snow and I dont see eye to eye on this) to those who have been in the country for years illegally will deliver that coveted vote. The Democrats are also eyeing the Hispanic vote thinking (correctly I believe) that granting amnesty to a large group of law breakers (right up the Democrat's alley) will get many of them sucking off the national nipple (Medicaid, education, etc.), thus delivering that vote to them. Meanwhile, those same politicians are turning a deaf ear to the 70% + of voters in each party who think the way we do. Those politicians strain at gnats while a bulldog is ready to bite their collective butts. Their are two groups of Americans: the group that sits at home watching Survivor reruns and has no clue what's going on, and the group that is frustrated with our elected officials, abide by the law and are very patient. I think our patience is wearing thin and if this situation, compounded by an unpopular war and high prices at the pump--and a media that is hostile toward conservatives and Christians--doesn't change soon, the political landscape will change. I think the Minute Men movement is a response to a deaf, impotent government, and I predict more such movements will arise in the near future.

[Guest jckduboise]

(sarcasm here) After all folks do we not live in the melting pot?

Am I against people moving to the US..absolutely not. But things are getting out of hand with this. There are millions of Americans who are unable to get housing, jobs and even assistance within the Welfare Program. But the illegals are allowed to move in use housing, Welfare and get jobs because they are willing to work for nothing. I see something really wrong with this system and I see it becoming an even bigger problem in the future. If illegals are living here and have a TV or can read the paper they see that our government is inviting them to come to the US, so does it not make sense that even more are going to come and try to live the American dream?

Our country is in trouble because of our debt and inability to take care of the homeless and hungry, among many other reasons.

George Bush and friends are clearly not using their "intelligent?" minds here.