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Former President Bush Pushes Immigration Reform, Cites Economic Growth

Former President George W. Bush who has spent the past four years out of the political limelight, addressed immigration reform in a speech in Dallas on Tuesday, saying it would help boost the economy.

"Immigrants come with new skills and new ideas," Bush told those gathered at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas. "They fill a critical part in our labor market. They work hard for a better life."

During his second term, the former Texas governor tried to pass a comprehensive immigration reform package with the help of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) in 2007. However, it was dealt a deathblow by fellow Republicans.

The current Texas governor, Rick Perry, was booed during a Republican presidential debate during the primary when he defended his support for providing in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants.

Last week, two GOP senators from border states – Sen. John Kyl (Ariz.) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Texas) – introduced the Achieve Act, which is seen as a watered-down version of the Dream Act that has been touted by Democrats. Their plan would grant legal residency to those under 30 who were brought to the U.S. illegally if they sought higher education or served in the military.

However, both Kyl and Hutchinson are retiring at the end of this year, virtually ensuring the bill will fail in its current form.

Since Mitt Romney received only about 30 percent of the Latino vote in November's loss to President Obama, some Republicans are calling for the party to regroup and come forward with an immigration policy that will demonstrate to Latinos they understand their needs and are willing to offer a path to citizenship.

Bush's institute, called the George W. Bush Institute, published a book in July titled The 4 Percent Solution that focuses on economic growth and touches on immigration reform. The program wants to find ways to focus on achieving 4 percent Gross Domestic Production.

The former president later told reporters he wished he had pushed harder for immigration reform as opposed to focusing on social security reform.

Former President Bush Pushes Immigration Reform, Cites Economic Growth

yeah they can come with there new skills and ideas. they come here and destroy wages by working for terrible wages and under cut americans. and surely they will bring there drugs and gangs. bush should go back under the rock he came from.

Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR): Illegal Immigration Costs Federal and Local Taxpayers $113 Billion a Year

(Washington, D.C July 6, 2010) A new study released today by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration now costs federal and local taxpayers $113 billion a year. The report, The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers, is the most comprehensive analysis of how much the estimated 13 million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children cost federal, state and local governments.



http://www.libnot.com/2010/07/17/federation-for-american-immigration-reform-fair-illegal-immigration-costs-federal-and-local-taxpayers-113-billion-a-year/

FoxNews steers at least 60% of 'conservative' voters, and what they see on there they take as gospel.

At least they did in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

What is it that gave us was Barack Obama?


Why is it that the average Conservative American is not able to see past the globalist propaganda disguised as American patriotism that got us into the bottomless pit we now find ourselves in?

This country goes in a tortuous election circle that continues to give us more and more of the same crippling effect. Namely the end of America.

Globalist prince Rupert Murdoch still believes he can pull off in 2012 what he did in 2000 when he duped the entire country into putting puppet George Bush at the helm for eight long and tortuous years. In fact, that whole slam-and-dunk propaganda victory was what elected 'The Dictator' Barack Obama as our current president.

Adding much pain to endless misery, Rupert Murdoch had his media outlets (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, etc.) plug quasi-compassionate conservatives on the air and in the print while he privately manipulated his globalist agendas, up to and including putting Barack Obama into office.

These globalists will outsource every last job they can and play every last lie in their manipulative political books until there is nothing left of the United States of America.

Following the money and following the power isn't enough. Following the brainwashing and following the twisted globalist lies is what finally seals it.

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George W. Bush on Immigration

George Bush calls for debating immigration reform 'with a benevolent spirit'

Dallas, Dec 05 2012, 19:51 IST

Dallas: Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday called on lawmakers to debate immigration reform "with a benevolent spirit" and bear in mind the contribution of immigrants in building the country.

Bush's comments came at the opening of a daylong conference on immigration and economic growth sponsored by his namesake George W. Bush Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

"As our nation debates the proper course of action relating to immigration, I hope we will do so with a benevolent spirit and keep in mind the contribution of immigrants," he said.

During his presidency, Bush advocated for immigration reform that included ramped-up border security as well as pathway to citizenship for some illegal immigrants in the United States.

His 2007 push for immigration reform eventually died in the Senate.

But new interest in revisiting the immigration reform debate has emerged since November's presidential election, when Hispanic voters were key in helping re-elect President Barack Obama.

The Obama administration relaxed deportation rules last summer so that illegal immigrants brought into the country as children could stay and work.

That move proved critical in Obama winning an estimated 66 percent of the Hispanic vote nationwide.

Both Democrats and Republicans have said they want to pursue an overhaul of federal immigration law.

Bush, who has largely kept a low profile since leaving office, did not endorse a policy plan in his remarks Tuesday but pointed to the contributions of immigrants in building the country's economy.

"America is a nation of immigrants," he said.

"Immigrants have helped build the country that we have become, and immigrants can help build a dynamic tomorrow."

He said immigrants bring along new ideas and skills and help fill a critical gap in the nation's labor market.

Bush went on to say: "America can be a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time."


George Bush calls for debating immigration reform 'with a benevolent spirit'

Who wants to listen to anything Bush has to say?

Originally Posted by Buzzm1

Who wants to listen to anything Bush has to say?

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Jeb, Rubio, McCain, Reid, Boehner, etc. ...

The "family" is preparing to run Jeb boy for another historic run. Yep, America really needs another Bush progressive, I certainly will not vote for another Bush./

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http://www.alipac.us/content/tx-form...c-growth-1179/

by William Bigelow
5 Dec 2012
breitbart.com

The Republican Party's stunning loss in the 2012 election demonstrates one thing clearly: its demographic base is shrinking. Many in the conservative movement have suggested that a comprehensive solution to the immigration problem must be found so that the Hispanic community can move beyond immigration, thereby opening up the population to secondary concerns, which are largely conservative.

That's certainly a debate worth having. But unfortunately, the usual suspects in the establishment Republican Party are now seizing control of the immigration debate in order to maintain control over the base of conservatives who are sick and tired of establishment Republicans taking them for granted and ignoring their concerns. The establishment Republican Party has picked the one part of George W. Bush's record that conservatives seem to be reconsidering -- immigration -- and is now using that issue in order to wedge Bush-type conservatives back into power.

Thus the sudden resurrection of George W. Bush as spokesman for the immigration reform issue.

Bush spoke at a conference regarding immigration that just so happened to be sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He stated that when the U.S. discusses the merits of immigration, it should "do so with a benevolent spirit and keep in mind the contribution of immigrants … Immigrants have helped build the country that we've become and immigrants can help build a dynamic tomorrow … America can be a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time.” Immigrants bring “new skills and new ideas” and “fill a critical gap in our labor market,” he said.

All of this is true. But Bush is the wrong spokesperson. And this is all a concerted power play by big government conservatives to retake the party. They contend that the single issue about which Republicans should be most concerned is immigration, and therefore that the Party should embrace the lead spokesperson. Then they trot out George W. Bush as that spokesperson.

But while the Party's immigration position must be tackled, it must not be seen as the be-all, end-all. It is simply untrue that Hispanics had as profound an impact on the 2012 election as establishment Republicans are claiming. As Byron York has written, quoting a New York Times analysis of the election, statistics showed key states would still have voted for Obama even if Hispanics had voted in far greater numbers for Romney. In Wisconsin, he wrote, “if every single Hispanic voter in Wisconsin had cast a ballot for Romney, Obama still would have won.” And the same fact emerged from New Hampshire and Iowa. In Ohio, where Obama won 53% of the Hispanic vote, he would have won with as little as 22% of that vote. In Virginia, Obama beat Romney with Hispanics 65% to 33%. But if Romney had gotten 65%, and Obama 33%? Obama still would have won the state. Thus the claims of the centrality of the Hispanic vote are simply fallacious. Which means that even if Bush is the most prominent spokesperson for immigration reform, that should not make him the spokesperson for the Republican Party.

The second problem here is the sudden appearance of former President Bush on the national scene after he was quiescent during the campaign. It is no accident that his brother Jeb is making noises about running. The wealthy Republicans on both coasts are totally out of touch with middle America and the standards they adhere to, as well as ungrateful to the Tea Party that helped them win Congress. The speaking engagement by George W. Bush was planned months ago, which means that the establishment figured that if the Romney ship went down, they would be perfectly positioned to use the immigration issue as a way to reinvigorate support for the Bush compassionate conservative brand.

George W. Bush is a very fine man, but because he spent money like a Democrat, for the foreseeable future he will be viewed as a failed president. His assumption of leadership under the guise of immigration reform is a warning shot across the bow to conservatives who have the right, especially after their massive success in 2010, to take over the party. Conservatives must consider their position on immigration; comprehensive immigration reform may be worthwhile. But no matter what, they must not allow George W. Bush and Bush's conservative-lite to become the face of that position.

Bush Team Uses Immigration Issue to Try to Re-Establish Party Control