Thread: Bill Clinton Backs Bush on Guest Workers

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Saturday, April 1, 2006 11:30 a.m. EST
Bill Clinton Backs Bush on Guest Workers


Ex-president Bill Clinton offered a partial endorsement of President Bush's guest worker immigration reform plan Friday night, saying his successor had some "good idea[s]" on how to solve what he described as "an exceedingly complicated" problem.

"I think the president has a good idea in terms of wanting to give people a path to citizenship and have increased border enforcement," Clinton told CNN's "Larry King Live."

"That's also the idea behind the bill sponsored by Senator McCain and Senator Kennedy in the Senate," he added.

Clinton criticized the Bush plan as too lax in one regard, saying: "I don't think this guest worker program that the president supports should be totally unlimited . . . I think if there's just no limit on it then it's going to be very difficult for us to enforce the existing labor laws."

The former president blasted HR 4437, the immigration reform plan passed by the House that would build a border fence and deny some benefits to illegals already in the country.

"I think the House provisions have by and large been too punitive," he told CNN.

Clinton did, however, warn that lax border enforcement posed a national security risk, contending that the current policy "does give people an opportunity to disguise themselves if they're terrorists and also to run drugs across, which does happen."

Clinton said this weekend the guest worker plan shouldn't look like the illegals were getting in line before people waiting to get in legally.

when Clinton starts agreeing with Bush, we know we're in trouble

The former president blasted HR 4437, the immigration reform plan passed by the House that would build a border fence and deny some benefits to illegals already in the country.

this from the President that refused Osama bin Laden when he was offered up by the Sudanese

First Ted Kennedy, now Bill Clinton. When will Bush wake up!

Originally Posted by WavTek

First Ted Kennedy, now Bill Clinton. When will Bush wake up!

evidently the American people voted against John Kerry and still wound up with a socialist democrat as president

Originally Posted by Mamie

Originally Posted by WavTek

First Ted Kennedy, now Bill Clinton. When will Bush wake up!

evidently the American people voted against John Kerry and still wound up with a socialist democrat as president

Absolutely. All I heard from the neocon con men was that we should vote for Bush because he's the lesser of the two evils. Well sometimes voting for the lesser of the two evils is actually worse because the lesser of the two evils actually gets whatever legislation he wants passed. You see had we gone with Kerry, we might not be getting guest worker amnesty because the Republican controlled congress would have stood up and said no way instead of bending over and saying yes sir to Senor Bush.

dman1200

I believe you have a valid point -- everything is about political parties and corporate America -- the American people don't have representatives[/quote]