Thread: Bush signs homeland security bill

Bush signs homeland security bill
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - President Bush on Wednesday signed a homeland security bill that includes an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.2 billion for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.

Standing before a mountainous backdrop in Arizona, a state that has been the center of much debate over secure borders, Bush signed into law a $35 billion homeland security spending bill that could bring hundreds of miles of fencing to the busiest illegal entry point on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Bush said enforcement alone will not stop illegal immigration, and urged Congress to pass his guest worker program to legally bring in new foreign workers and give some of the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants a shot at U.S. citizenship.

"The funds that Congress has appropriated are critical for our efforts to secure this border and enforce our laws, yet we must also recognize that enforcement alone is not going to work," Bush said at the bill-signing ceremony tucked into his three-day campaign fundraising trip to the West. "We need comprehensive reform that provides a legal way for people to work here on a temporary basis."

Among other things, Bush said the homeland security funding bill deploys nuclear detection equipment to points of entry, raises safety security standards at chemical plants, provides better tools to enforce immigration laws and provides vehicle barriers, lighting and infrared cameras to help catch illegals trying to cross the border.

"It's what the people in this country want," Bush said. "They want to know that we are modernizing the border so we can better secure the border."

Outgoing Mexican President Vicente Fox, who has spent his six-year term lobbying for a new guest worker program and an amnesty for the millions of Mexicans working illegally in the United States, has called the barrier "shameful." He compares it to the Berlin Wall.

Some Democrats criticized the homeland security spending bill as too meager.

Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the homeland security spending bill does not improve screening of cargo carried on passenger planes, does not provide money to buy and install advanced explosive-detection equipment and does not include strong enough security requirements to protect against a terrorist attack on chemical plants.

"There are nightclubs in New York City that are harder to get into than some of our chemical plants," Markey said.

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Bush said enforcement alone will not stop illegal immigration, and urged Congress to pass his guest worker program to legally bring in new foreign workers and give some of the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants a shot at U.S. citizenship.

Spittin mad...
Has he lost his mind

I am watching Lou Dobbs and Bush didn't look too happy signing it. Oh well.......the people have spoken. Now if he'd just get out of the way maybe we might have our country back.

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Hey Crazybird,


I agree! Boosh looked like he was ill!!!

Oh well, the dream of open borders is hitting a snag and hopefully it will one day just be a bad dream we all wake up from very soon!!

The American people have spoken King Boosh, deal with it!!!

Bush said at the bill-signing ceremony tucked into his three-day campaign fundraising trip to the West. "We need comprehensive reform that provides a legal way for people to work here on a temporary basis."

We need to find out his EXACT quote. The quote above is a great departure from the one above that talks about citizenship. Can someone find the full quote.

UB

UB
Brian posted the actual speech.

2ndamendsis, Where is Brian's post. I can't find it.

UB

Originally Posted by UB

2ndamendsis, Where is Brian's post. I can't find it.

UB

UB, I'm probably the only person here who can't work the search function

All I know is that I read it between yesterday and this morning so I'd look on the past 2 or 3 pages. It's very recent with yesterday's date.

Originally Posted by UB

2ndamendsis, Where is Brian's post. I can't find it.

UB

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