Thread: Bush Hires Illegals?

Just got this in my email. Can anyone find any corroborating information on this?

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From Newsweek's May 29 issue (on newsstands Monday, May 22). Mexican-born
citizen Maria Galvan, 53, has worked for Bush, looked after his daughters,
befriended his wife and won the affection of the first family for her loyalty,
decency and hard work. As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper
to become a U.S. citizen. Galvan got a job at the Texas governor's mansion
just as Bush moved in with his family in 1995. (The White House last week
refused to comment on Galvan, except to say that she is a U.S. citizen; White House
aides were silent on how she entered the country and what her legal status
was at the time.) Although I am a huge supporter of and former campaign
worker for Mr. Bush, the failure to describe Ms. Galvin's legal status at the
time of her original employment is prime evidence to me that he illegally hired
an undocumented worker.

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Yes someone turned Bush in at WeHireIllegals.com also

We had this article on the board last week. And another about the illegal grounds keeper he has as well.

the websitewww.wehireillegals.com is disabled?

William I think this is the one you want

Media Matters has noted a May 16 Washington Post editorial's claim that Bush "responded weakly" to the House bill, which it labeled "draconian."
From a May 29 Newsweek article by Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, and Evan Thomas, headlined "Bush's Spanish Lessons":

President George W. Bush seemed unusually heartfelt when he addressed the nation last week on immigration reform. For the president, immigration is not just a matter of politics or policy, it's personal. Bush has always been drawn to stories of Latino immigrants who came up by their bootstraps. In an interview with Hispanic Magazine in 2004, he described Paula Rendón, "who came up from Mexico to work in our house" when Bush was a boy growing up in Midland, Texas. "She loved me. She chewed me out. She tried to shape me up," said Bush. "And I have grown to love her like a second mom." Bush recalled Rendón's pride in seeing "her grandkids go to college for the first time."

Bush has another inspiring example close to home. For more than a decade, Maria Galvan, 53, has worked for Bush, looked after his daughters, befriended his wife and won the affection of the First Family for her loyalty, decency and hard work. As governor of Texas, Bush encouraged his housekeeper to become a U.S. citizen. Bush's own brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, married a Latino, and Jeb's eldest son, George P. Bush, is seen as a candidate to go into the family business.

Bush has a history of promoting Latinos, most notably Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who recently told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "it's unclear" whether his grandparents emigrated legally from Mexico. Bush has always spoken emotionally about Gonzales, the son of hard-working but uneducated migrant workers. Bush recognized early on that inspiring Latino family stories could be a boon to the Republican Party. "He appreciates how close Latino families are with each other," says Israel Hernandez, an early campaign aide whom Bush hired after hearing his family story. "For a long time, he's talked about how these are the qualities he thinks the party represents. He has always talked about immigration in a very compassionate way." But the president's willingness to help illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship sets him apart from many vocal conservatives in the GOP. The divide could paralyze the effort to bring much-needed reform to the nation's immigration laws. The issue has become, in a way, too personal: a source of more heat than light in the body politic.

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Though the needs of Latinos have always been part of Bush's portfolio as a self-proclaimed "compassionate conservative," immigration reform took a back seat to education and national security during the first five years of the Bush presidency. Meanwhile, as illegal immigrants overwhelmed social services and drove up crime, not just in border states but across the country, a backlash was setting in. Last winter the House of Representatives passed a bill to make illegal immigration a felony, though how the House proposed to arrest and deport 12 million people was left unclear.

At the time, the Bush administration apparently figured that the Senate would "fix" any immigration bill by adding pro-visions for guest workers and a plan to allow illegals to become citizens after paying their dues. But public anger at illegals is peaking. Radio-show host Rush Limbaugh is saying he has never seen his followers so riled up. And when Bush's political adviser Karl Rove met privately with House Republicans after the president's speech, the lawmakers were still in a rebellious mood. On two major occasions-the No Child Left Behind education law in 2002 and Medicare reform in 2003-Bush pressed the House to work with Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Never again, says GOP Rep. Ric Keller of Florida, who pungently told Rove: "If you get into bed with Ted Kennedy, you're going to get more than sleep."

if these were "legal immigrants" they would have said so.

On two major occasions-the No Child Left Behind education law in 2002 and Medicare reform in 2003-Bush pressed the House to work with Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Never again, says GOP Rep. Ric Keller of Florida, who pungently told Rove: "If you get into bed with Ted Kennedy, you're going to get more than sleep."

if the American people wanted a Democrat for President, they would have voted for Gore or Kerry