Thread: The World Awaits Mr. Bush s Immigration Speech (Aztlan)

The World Awaits Mr. Bush s Immigration Speech

By Virtual Chicano
15MAY06

There doesn t seem to be a news agency on the planet that hasn t
something to say about tonight s immigration speech by President Bush. Just
GOOGLE immigration and click on news. What you will get is news
stories from around the world from Ireland to Israel and back again,
including news agencies from every state in the union.

At stake, in case you ve been in a coma, is whether or not Mr. Bush
will deploy the states National Guard units along the U.S. Mexico
border. According to today s Washington Post, the president plans to send
several thousand national guardsmen and women to play a supporting role
by providing intelligence, training, transportation, construction and
other functions to the border. The U.S. currently has 200 troops
deployed at the border put there by President Clinton under operation
gatekeeper.

While President Clinton and Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Allan
Greenspan both presided over one of the world s longest sustained economic
growth cycles, the U.S. border Patrol was busy collecting bodies in what
has now become known as The Hot Seasons of Death. According to Enrique
Marones of the Border Angels, over 4000 men, women and children have
died crossing the border since 1994. Migrants, desperate for a chance to
work so that they can feed their families, sometimes must brave 127
degree temperatures while crossing the border. All the while, epitaphs
like illegals and illegal aliens are designed to render the campesino,
the poorest of the poor, as sub-humans and criminals.

Meanwhile, one can only wonder what the National Guard will be
constructing. Could it be possible that the xenophobes will finally get their
wall of hate built? In 1954 Sen. Pat McCarran said that wetbacks and
communists were crossing the Rio Grande. Today, the successful fusing
of immigration reform and national security just might lead to what
racists have been asking for since the cold war, a 2000 mile long wall of
hate.

While the President tries to appease the hardliners and the hardliners
pander to their ignorant racist constituents, one man s name goes
unmentioned, John Tanton, co-founder of the Federation of American
Immigration Reform (F.A.I.R.), U.S. English and an array of anti-immigrant
organizations. According to Tolerance.org, a project of the Southern Poverty
Law Center: "The organized anti-immigration 'movement' is almost
entirely the handiwork of one man, Michigan activist John. H. Tanton."


So the winner is clear, but so is the loser. And that loser is the
Nation of Mexico and its people. The U.S. has nothing but contempt for
Mexico and for the Mexican. The U.S. has never respected the Mexicano and
it never will. The U.S. has become used to having its way with Mexico
and imposing its will on the Mexican people. Mexico should build its own
wall. Mexico should dump N.A.F.T.A. and align itself with countries
that respect the Mexican. And Mexico should start by demanding payment for
its oil in Petroeuros.

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If Mexico, and Mexicans feel we don't respect them, why do they run up her in the droves

May 15, 2006


Bush's Make-or-Break Border Speech
Joe Mariani

The remainder of George W. Bush's presidency may well hinge on the speech he plans to give on Monday. If Bush has somehow come to realise this, and why it is so, he may be able to turn things around for himself. If not, then the Republican party is likely to lose big this November... and if the Democrats regain a majority in Congress, the last two years of Bush's term will be scarred by a massive recession, not to mention the vindictive and very personal impeachment of the President while we are at war.

The Democrats' plan, should they gain control, has already been laid out by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). They will try to reverse pretty much every law written in the past six years, especially those passed to keep the nation safe in the wake of 9/11. They will raise taxes as well as the minimum wage, both of which will cause the economy to reverse its great gains. Democrats will launch a series of trumped-up hearings and investigations aimed at finding some way to support their pre-planned impeachment of President Bush. Meanwhile, Iran will gain nuclear capability unopposed, and we Americans will get to watch our military run away from yet another war we are actually winning. Of course, the border with Mexico will remain just as open as it is today. After all, the Democrats won't want to stop the flow of new voters and new government dependents once they've regained power.

Insiders say that the President plans to put the National Guard on the border, to show the American people he's serious about border security. If that's all he does, however, the vast majority of us are not going to buy it. First of all, merely sending them to the border is no guarantee they'll be doing anything to stop illegal immigration. Arizona's Democratic Governor, Janet Napolitano, tried to fool the voters with that ruse not long ago. She claimed she had deployed the Guard to reinforce security on the Arizona border, but it turned out they were performing vehicle inspections at checkpoints, not stopping illegal crossings between those checkpoints.

Unless the President plans to stand them shoulder-to-shoulder along the entire length of the border 24 hours a day, humans alone cannot take the place of a wall. Walls don't sleep, they don't look the wrong way at the wrong time and they don't leave. If the President's only security proposal is augmented border patrols, even with UAVs and other electronic detection capabilities, it'll be just a temporary sop to our anger over loose security. As quickly as they can be deployed to the border, the National Guard can be withdrawn. An actual wall, on the other hand, would be harder to remove.

If the President wants us to believe he's finally heard our demands for a secure border, he won't waste the entire speech talking about "jobs Americans won't do" -- a crock if there ever was one. It's "wages Americans won't pay" that creates a market for illegal labor in the first place. He won't waste time cadging support for amnesty by telling us how illegal immigrants are good-hearted people who just want to feed their families. By that measure, if I steal a car in order to go to work to feed my family, not only should I be forgiven, but allowed to keep the car.

President Bush wants to keep his amnesty hopes alive, without losing Congress to the Democrats in the upcoming election. His only hope for doing so is to abandon his support for a "comprehensive" immigration reform bill until we see a more secure border. The majority of Americans are not willing to even discuss amnesty -- whatever it's called -- while the borders are still wide open to more lawbreakers.

The House passed a law enforcement and border control package that left the problem of how to deal with the12 million or so illegal immigrants for a later bill. The Senate verges on passing a bill that provides almost no law enforcement whatsoever, while giving illegals a slap on the wrist and a way to gain US citizenship. Guess which one Americans prefer by a 2-to-1 margin? "81 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of independents, 57 percent of Democrats, and 53 percent of Hispanics" thought the House bill was a "good or very good idea."

That same bill was reviled by hordes of foreign criminals brazenly marching in our streets, waving Mexican flags and Spanish signs ordering us to leave "their" land. There are so many of them that they feel they can tell us what laws to pass. We must stop the influx of new criminals before we can discuss how to deal with those already here. And merely beefing up the woefully undermanned Border Patrol with a few National Guard troops until the furor subsides isn't going to do that. We need a three-pronged approach: more border patrol agents, a real barrier and increased law enforcement against employers who hire illegals.

It's all up to President Bush. If he gets this right, the Republicans will surely retain a majority in both House and Senate, if not gain control. (Control would require a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, which is unlikely to happen.) If he gets it wrong, it could be the beginning of a long, slow-motion disaster for all of us.
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Really, didn't the slaves run away from their oppressors? Why are the Mexicans running to us? Why do they want to be dominated, mistreated, used and put down by all of us American Racist? We are so evil and terrible why aren't they returning to their homeland?

Dixie

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

If Mexico, and Mexicans feel we don't respect them, why do they run up her in the droves

They don't do anything to get respect or earn it. Won't assimilate, won't learn English, milk our systems and as for me, I don't respect criminals and they're criminals by way of crashing the border.

The idiot should aim his words correctly. It's the employers who have little respect for the Mexicans. They use them for cheap wages.

It's not the average American doing this so don't lump us all into the same group!

Virtual Chicano I would say shows his owned bigoted prejudices in writing such a distasteful and nefarious diatribe.

Mexico's problems, and lack of jobs for their people to a great degree are a problem created by their own corrupt leaders, politicians and the nation's wealthy elite, and little to do with America in some fashion acting as oppressors.

Secondly, I find it odd that Mexico wants ONE WAY migration, rather than a system that would allow us to migrate there with full rights. Mexico wants their citizens legalized here, wants their citizens to enjoy full rights of home ownership, the right to start and own businesses, but does not want to extend those rights to us as their neighbors....what's wrong with this picture?

We as a nation take steps to protect our Southen border, and we are labeled as RACIST, yet Mexico has secured it's own Southern Border, and hands out still penalties to those found to be in Mexico illegally...again, a double standard from my perspective.

As for Bush putting troops on the border...it's a false gesture that will do NOTHING to curb the flood of illegal aliens crossing into America. We need a stronger stand, we need a wall, and a serious wall of say 40 foot in height with a two lane road on the top to allow for quick redeployment of troops to any trouble spots Within such a wall offices and detention barracks could be created for those apprehended, as well as barracks for troops charged with the task of border security.

I also think we need to get tougher in how we handle those crossing our borders illegally....one such example would be to hold children in police custody at that border until parents come for them, so that the parents could be deported. I am tired of hearing stories where the mother or father is working here in America and has failed two, three even four times....if a news reporter can cover the story, why can't INS go collect this illegal and seem them packing?


We need a federal law that makes safe haven communities illegal, and requires local police to detain for deportation any illegal they find in the process of carrying out their duties...as one example, while in court a few months ago on a traffic violation, I saw over 15 illegal aliens come before the bench and not one of them was DETAINED for deportation. Everyone talks about how hard it would be to deal with this issue, but in reality, over a period of a few years, basic police enforcement at all levels would see most of those now here illegally returned to their home countries through self deportation, or forced deportation once detained on minor infractions....IE, we have safety stops here....instead of just checking to see if we have our seat belts latched, how about asking to see a license, something that proves you are here and driving legally.

This speech will be a sham as this whole administration has been. When his brother calls crying to him about anything that smacks of border security, Vicente Bush listens. Bush doesn't want the border secured anymore than his brother Fox. Fox would finally have to deal with the disease inflicted, uneducated, savage and uncivilized poverty cases he dumps on us. His naro-empire, Mexican Mafia run government would have to start looking out for the common interest instead of the few elitists. Bush's tour of the border will be a farce and dog and pony show. The area will be sanitized and you will see the presence of Mexican Military. Upon Bush's departure the drug and illegal alien smugglers will reemerge after being hidden in military vehicles and operations will continue with the assistance of the Narc-Empire and Mexican Mafia controlled military. If Bush wants a realistic picture of the rampant lawlessness and the turmoil that citizens residing near the border have to contend with on a daily basis he needs to make an unscheduled appearance but with a beefed up security detail. I am sure if he were to do that the chaos and it's implications in terms of national security would truly be an eye opener.

Mexico should build its own
wall. Mexico should dump N.A.F.T.A. and align itself with countries
that respect the Mexican. And Mexico should start by demanding payment for its oil in Petroeuros.

Sounds like a great idea to me!

If Mexico, and Mexicans feel we don't respect them, why do they run up her in the droves

Because they want everything we have and have built.