Thread: Rice: Immigration reform a necessity

Rice: Immigration reform a necessity

PALO ALTO – Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that one of her deepest regrets from her time as secretary of state was the failure of the Bush administration to achieve reform of immigration laws.

“We need immigration reform. I don't care if it's for the person who crawls across the desert to earn $5 an hour, or for Sergey Brin, who came here from Russia and founded Google,â€

If people want to come here they need to respect our country by obeying our laws.

[quote]“As a country, we can't have people living in the shadows,â€

She is wrong. We need to enforce our laws, not reform them. We need less immigration, not more. It's clear why she was an ineffective Secretary of State for the United States. She's a Free Trade Traitor and Open Borders Fanatic.

Maybe she could migrate to Mexico or China and get paid by them for promoting their interests, since it's obvious she did nothing to protect or promote ours.

Jobs Out (free trade treason) + People In (immigration) = Bankrupt Nation

Duh.

quote(Rice said immigrants are critical to the country's financial health, and that reform is needed to fuel the next round of economic growth.)
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Please Ms Rice explain that, we outsource more and more,we continue
to lose our manufacturing base, what will all these poor under educated
immigrants do, let me guess,buy beer, cell phones, and the American
taxpayer foot the bill, good GOD does anyone in DC have any common
sense.

We don't need to reform our immigration laws - we need to enforce them.

Who cares what this has been has to say.

Rice regrets lack of immigration reform

By JULIANA BARBASSA - Associated Press | Friday, March 13, 2009 10:27 PM PDT ∞

Enter first comment. Increase Font Decrease Font email this story print this story PALO ALTO ---- Condoleezza Rice said Friday that one of her deepest regrets from her time as secretary of state was the failure of the Bush administration to achieve real reform of immigration laws.

"We need immigration reform. I don't care if it's for the person who crawls across the desert to earn $5 an hour, or for Sergey Brin, who came here from Russia and founded Google," she said at an economic summit at Stanford University. "As a country, we can't have people living in the shadows. It's just wrong. It's not only ineffective, it's wrong."

She said immigrants were critical to the country's financial health, and that reform was needed to fuel the next round of economic growth.

"If we ever lose that, and start to believe somehow that it is instead a threat to us to have those people come here, we are going to lose one of the strongest elements not only of our national wealth, but also of our national soul," she said. "One of my biggest regrets was that we were not able to get immigration reform."

Rice's remarks came as she kicked off a daylong conference on the challenges facing the U.S. and global economies. Rice returned to Stanford earlier this month as a political science professor and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution after exiting the Bush administration in January.

Speaking to a crowd that included George Shultz, also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former secretary of state, Rice said the global fiscal crisis could shake international confidence in free trade, fiscal discipline and other hallmarks of the financial system that the United States has promoted abroad.

She urged leaders to continue providing financial and political support to countries in Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe that have placed their bets on that path of economic development.

"This is a crisis going to the heart of issues of governance, of how to provide for a population," she said. "It will most certainly have an effect on the willingness of countries around the world to affirm the model of economic development that has been most dominant since the collapse of the Soviet Union."

A handful of students protested outside Rice's speech, handing out leaflets denouncing her support of the war in Iraq and her role in authorizing harsh interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects.

Rice was among top administration officials who approved some of the some of the CIA's most controversial interrogation methods, including waterboarding, a former Bush senior intelligence official recently told The Associated Press.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/03 ... 77d155.txt

She was overseas too much. She has no idea what's going on in her own backyard. Meaning how fed up Americans are with illegals. Hers is the language of 2 years ago. Catch up Condi!

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

We don't need to reform our immigration laws - we need to enforce them.

EXACTLY!!!!