Thread: Bush Border visit on 4/9- try upstage Minutemen

Bush to push immigration reform on Yuma visit, eye new fences


TUCSON, Ariz. -- Eleven months after visiting Yuma to announce Operation Jump Start _ National Guard troops assisting the Border Patrol to help secure the border _ President Bush returns Monday to assess progress and push for comprehensive immigration reform.


Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who urged deployment of National Guard troops along the Mexican border to help stem the flood of illegal immigration that has beset Arizona for years, was invited and will be accompanying the president. Bush ordered 6,000 Guard troops to assist with a variety of tasks for up to two years while the Border Patrol hires another 6,000 agents to reach a force of 18,000.

"He wants to see Operation Jump Start, which is a National Guard mission, and how it's going," the governor said.

But her fellow Democrats representing Arizona's counties bordering Mexico, Reps. Gabrielle Giffords and Rep. Raul Grijalva, will not be present despite White House invitations to join Bush. Their spokesmen cited prior commitments.

Both Giffords and Grijalva are co-sponsors of immigration reform legislation offered last month by Reps. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.

Grijalva's press secretary, Natalie Luna, said Grijalva, whose district includes the Yuma area, hopes Bush's visit will highlight the need for comprehensive immigration reform.

Napolitano said Thursday she hopes to be able to discuss such legislation with the president.

Last week, the White House floated a draft of legislation considered more conservative than a bill the Senate approved last year, which Bush supported.

Napolitano said she thinks a number of issues will come up on the president's visit, including efforts to provide funding for the Bureau of Land Management to clear out invasive salt cedar stands along the Colorado River that provide hiding places and campgrounds for illegal immigrants.

"I think it will be an assessment of where we are on the border, in light of the Guard having been there 10 months or so," she said.

Napolitano also said there likely would be discussion of some specific issues related to the Border Patrol's Yuma and Tucson sectors.

Arizona Republican Party state chairman Randy Pullen said Bush should get the credit for lower cross border activity in the Yuma Sector.

"Its a tremendous honor any time President Bush comes to Arizona, but even more so when he comes to Arizona to talk about border security."

The president has said he wants to see reform legislation passed this year.

What he will see along the border on both sides of the San Luis port of entry, some 25 miles south of Yuma, is a lot of construction. National Guard troops are working to complete several miles of 15-foot tall primary fencing made of surplus steel landing mat on the Mexican border.

North of it they have built an all-weather road, along the middle of which they are installing a 20-foot-tall, see-through steel mesh fence.

Border Patrol agents will be to patrol along both sides. Stadium lighting and sophisticated cameras on tall towers also are being installed _ all designed to deter illegal immigrant crossings.

A third layer of chain link fencing topped with barbed wire on top runs for a little more than two miles west of the port of entry up to the Colorado River. Then going north along the river, numerous Guard observation teams are situated about a quarter-mile to half-mile apart, watching for border crossers to report to the Border Patrol.

Open Letter to Citizens, media and Congressmen:


President Bush's appearance at the Border is a disgraceful gesture to Americans and the United States when he fakes Border Security to abuse with an opposite agenda of flooding Border access with "comprehensive immigration guest-worker reform" amnesty meanwhile undermining the Border Patrol. A photo-op along with senseless doublespeak such as, "in order to secure the Border we have to open the Border with comprehensive immigration reform to take pressure off the Border" or "we can't kick them out so we have to do an amnesty with a "guest-worker program"" is to make like everything is being secured so it is OK to pass an amnesty program. "Kick them out" isn't necessary if Bush were to simply do his job by enforcing law. Instead of a photo-op President Bush should meet with Americans and the Minutemen to hear their concerns.

Americans are doing the job President Bush won't do and that his National Guard aren't doing. Bush's National Guard deployment has been half-hearted so that securing the Border again is faked and nothing is really secured at all. Americans at the Border have see Bush's national Guard (told not to actively pursue or apprehend illegal Aliens or drug runners) sitting in lawn chairs and shuffling papers. As well there is the story of the National Guard retreating from their post. Meanwhile the Minutemen have have kept look out, aided the Border Patrol and stopped illegal Aliens in their tracks into arrest.

Bush's photo-op with the jelly-spine Governor Napolitano talks of the only couple hundred feet of fence that exists meanwhile Arizona is pillaged by hordes of illegal intruders everywhere else. The fence being built is just a feeble single row of vehicle barrier pipes that can be cut as opposed to the double wall called for in the 2006 Fence law. The Citizens of Arizona will tell you - nothing is being enforced which is why prop. 200 was passed and 4 anti-illegal Alien legsialtions were passed in the last election. Generally what can be seen is that it makes sense to bring integrity to upholding laws, not allowing proven failure amnesty or designed to fail "guest-worker programs" when dealing with a corrupt foreign Nation such as Mexico so that they learn to cope rather then being encouraged to continue bad violation that harms all societies.

As long as 33% approval Bush supports "comprehensive immigration "guest-worker" middle ground rationale" amnesty that allows illegal Aliens relief in staying in the U.S. along with Border Security illusion then talk of protecting Americans or securing the U.S. is worthless and makes the war on terror, unsupportable
propaganda. Five and a half years since 9/11 is too little too late to look like he's doing something. Remember Dubai Ports deal. There is no real conservative support to speak of. U.S. soil is more important than Iraq soil.

Americans, like the Minutemen are watching the Border as Bush plays games with National Security and starves the Border Patrol with promised additions. Bush rewarding the buddy corrupt violator Mexico, selling out American workers, allowing mexican truckers U.S. highway access and actually seeking no Borders by merging Mexico and Canada with the U.S. substantiates the lies of Bush's appearnce at the Border and his immigration plan.

Bush is worthless! I don't know how he gets an approval rating of 33%!

He should be getting ZERO! HE HASN'T DONE ONE GOOD THING FOR THIS COUNTRY! He has betrayed this country and it's people and it's military!

Originally Posted by JAK

Bush is worthless! I don't know how he gets an approval rating of 33%!

He should be getting ZERO! HE HASN'T DONE ONE GOOD THING FOR THIS COUNTRY! He has betrayed this country and it's people and it's military!

I just thought of something.........We should do a poll of historians. Ask who was the worst Roman Emperor of all time......Guarantee they would say it was the guy who let all of those Goths and other Germanic tribes to flood into Rome. Well, that emperor was killed after these tribes rebelled and sacked Rome. IMO George Bush is the worst president in the history of the United States of America.

Keep your eye on the ball.............CONGRESS

Bush stinks but it's CONGRESS that holds the keys and we must keep their FEET TO THE FIRE.

Congress needs to understand that they will pay either a high price for their traitorous behavior or be rewarded for doing the PEOPLE'S WILL - AMERICAN'S WILL.

I watched it this AM on MSNBC (rarely watch that one) and after having read about it in Sundays paper, we decided that the only reason Bush keeps changing tactics is that he is beig pushed by several factors. The first might be from the Republicans (they do not want to lose anymore power in government than they already have next time around), and because Americans are plain fed-up and have been telling him so.

I agree 100% with Sis, we need to not get sidetracked by what Bush says (which I almost have to think he'd like us to) and focus completely on Congress, keep pushing them, not to worry about Bush's doings and sayings.

Yeah, all he said to day sounded "oh so good", but truthfully, he is simply saying what he thinks people want to hear, a sort of get tough-er tactic, so he can do his back door dealings and spring it on the American public. We just need to keep making every little detail we know about public so he cannot get away with bamboozling Americans.

Here's one of his gems, LIZ
the newscaster might have paraphrased, I'm not certain but this is the newscaster's quote

The president said, "only changing immigration laws will STOP this"

bush on the border!!!!

I say..............bull pies! ENFORCE THE LAWS NOW
Then we'll see just what the TRUTH is!

Every time he says we can not close our border with out a comprehensive plan, I want to scream!!! there is no hope for him, he will never get over being stupid, if he thinks we believe that for one minute. The statement does not make any sense at all what so ever, WHY doesn't one of his so called friends tell him how rediculous he sounds!!

Articles on the visit from the local newspaper.........

http://www.yumasun.com/onset?id=3323...e=article.html

http://www.yumasun.com/onset?id=3323...e=article.html

riverdunesrat, your right on the front lines, eh? Tell me, is it hard to find people who support the illegals down there? Or is it the opposite?

I live in Oregon, and since we are far removed from the border, and the local elites and liberals like to think that they are on the side of justice, they support the illegals. Apparently liberalism equals blindness (if they had to live where I do, they would not be so ready to support these lawbreakers).