Bush: America's Immigration System Is Broken

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Bush: America's Immigration System Is Broken

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

President Bush called the nation's immigration system "broken" Tuesday, accusing critics of legislation under debate in Congress of not wanting to do what is right for America.

"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, you can use it to frighten people, or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all so that the people who wear the uniform in this crowd can do the job we expect them to do," Bush said in Glynco, Ga.

Speaking to an audience of border agents after touring the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Bush questioned whether Congress will pass a comprehensive immigration reform plan to address the 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.

"Now's the time for comprehensive immigration reform. Now's the time for members of both political parties to stand up and show courage, and take a leadership role and do what's right for America," Bush said.

The president's speech comes as lawmakers are on break this week until the Senate returns to debate the measure in June. The bill would legalize millions of illegal immigrants, improve border security and require employers to hire legal workers.

The legislation would address human smuggling, which currently allows people to use immigrants as human cargo to be exploited into doing jobs that Americans won't do, Bush said.

"There's a lot of jobs here in Georgia that require people who are willing to do the work that Americans aren't doing," Bush said.

The current system allows human smuggling and document forgery, and additional border agents will address those problems, Bush said.

"If you can come to our country on a temporary basis, legally, you're not going to sneak across the border," Bush said.

Bush also touted an increased workforce of border agents under his administration. By the end of 2008, he expects to have 18,000 agents.

"We believe the more manpower there is on the border, the more likely it is we’ll be able to enforce the border like the American people expect us to do," Bush said.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The only thing broken is Bush's brain. If he or any president in the last 25 years would have enforced the existing immigration laws instead of capitulating to Teddy Kennedy, we would not have an "immigration crisis".

Edited May 29, 2007 by Green-eyed girl

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Bush: America's Immigration System Is Broken

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

President Bush called the nation's immigration system "broken" Tuesday, accusing critics of legislation under debate in Congress of not wanting to do what is right for America.

"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, you can use it to frighten people, or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all so that the people who wear the uniform in this crowd can do the job we expect them to do," Bush said in Glynco, Ga.

Speaking to an audience of border agents after touring the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Bush questioned whether Congress will pass a comprehensive immigration reform plan to address the 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.

"Now's the time for comprehensive immigration reform. Now's the time for members of both political parties to stand up and show courage, and take a leadership role and do what's right for America," Bush said.

The president's speech comes as lawmakers are on break this week until the Senate returns to debate the measure in June. The bill would legalize millions of illegal immigrants, improve border security and require employers to hire legal workers.

The legislation would address human smuggling, which currently allows people to use immigrants as human cargo to be exploited into doing jobs that Americans won't do, Bush said.

"There's a lot of jobs here in Georgia that require people who are willing to do the work that Americans aren't doing," Bush said.

The current system allows human smuggling and document forgery, and additional border agents will address those problems, Bush said.

"If you can come to our country on a temporary basis, legally, you're not going to sneak across the border," Bush said.

Bush also touted an increased workforce of border agents under his administration. By the end of 2008, he expects to have 18,000 agents.

"We believe the more manpower there is on the border, the more likely it is we’ll be able to enforce the border like the American people expect us to do," Bush said.

This guy is so fcuking full of it. There's upwards of billion people out there longing for a chance to come to America. No legalization of those that came short of having a visa available to them and no work visa program is ever going to satisfy the entry demands into America. Ever. You can put out any number of visas per year, there are always going to be twice as many people left behind but still wanting to come and making a run for it. I wonder if he really believes this bull he releases every time he opens his lying mouth.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Nice of him to say so... 7 years after he was elected into office.... I guess in all that time he had "other" priorities to consider - not that he would admit any fault for it anyway.

Also its laughable when any of that lot start talking about bipartisanship - usually when they're pushing their most partisan and divisive legislation.

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Actually, GEG, the immigration system was already shattered prior to the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (later expanded to NAFTA).

It took till 1992 to even modify the original FTA for the fact that not all TC (later TN-1) visas were issued to singles--and then only with the idea "TC is analogous to H1-b, so we'll add a dependent visa derived from that--with the additional migraine of the shorter expiry date of the TC". Plus, NAFTA-cognisance in DOS and INS personnel was quite lacking as of 1999--I personally experienced this, entering Atlanta straight-in from Gatwick.

Earlier presidents (including Clinton, who is wrongly seen as pro-immigrant--it was under HIS watch that GC holders began suffering overly-long waits for family reunifications) have never recognised this fact, so I'll give Bush Jr. a partial credit for it (though his amnesty program more than cancels the credit).

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"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, you can use it to frighten people, or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all so that the people who wear the uniform in this crowd can do the job we expect them to do," Bush said in Glynco, Ga.

That son of a ######.

[peejay 327]

This guy is so fcuking full of it. There's upwards of billion people out there longing for a chance to come to America. No legalization of those that came short of having a visa available to them and no work visa program is ever going to satisfy the entry demands into America. Ever. You can put out any number of visas per year, there are always going to be twice as many people left behind but still wanting to come and making a run for it. I wonder if he really believes this bull he releases every time he opens his lying mouth.

You are probably one of the few people on VJ that acknowleges there are limits to legal immigration. There should be. We cannot eliminate illegal immigration by increasing legal immigration to insane astronomical levels to accomodate the world.

And we cannot eliminate illegal immigration by rewarding and embracing it.

That being said...have you ever noticed on Iraq Bush denigrates any attempt to pull out of there with admonitions of defeatism and cut-&-run. Capitulation in Iraq is unacceptable to him no matter what it costs.

Yet when it comes to illegal immigration...he embraces capitulation in speech after speech by stating that we cannot stop illegal aliens, so we should embrace them with massive guestworker programs and mass blanket amnesties as required by their illegal presence. Illegal aliens control US immigration policy because Bush says we are powerless to stop them.

Yes...that bobble headed idiot is out of touch with reality. He is not only out of touch with reality...he is out of touch with most of the American people and a good chunk of his own Republican party.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

This guy is so fcuking full of it. There's upwards of billion people out there longing for a chance to come to America. No legalization of those that came short of having a visa available to them and no work visa program is ever going to satisfy the entry demands into America. Ever. You can put out any number of visas per year, there are always going to be twice as many people left behind but still wanting to come and making a run for it. I wonder if he really believes this bull he releases every time he opens his lying mouth.

You are probably one of the few people on VJ that acknowleges there are limits to legal immigration. There should be. We cannot eliminate illegal immigration by increasing legal immigration to insane astronomical levels to accomodate the world.

good point

And we cannot eliminate illegal immigration by rewarding and embracing it.

True--you have a higher probability of success in extinguishing a fire by pouring petrol on it.