George Bush’s speech on immigration brings to mind Rod Stewart’s classic song of the 70’s, “Tonight’s the Night.
Stay away from my window
Stay away from my back door too
Disconnect the telephone line
Relax baby and draw that blind
Kick off your shoes and sit right down
Loosen up that frilly French gown
Let me pour you a good long drink
Oh baby don’t you hesitate cause
Tonight’s the night
Tonight’s speech is one of the most anticipated speeches of this administration since 9/11. The President’s primetime address will also be, if you believe all the leaked press reports, one of the most anticlimactic speeches of the Bush era. I can understand people living in Mexico wanting to come to a country like the United States. Mexico has nearly everything this nation has in terms of natural resources. According to the CIA-The World Factbook, Mexico has petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, and timber. Unfortunately Mexico has many problems. Their problem is a corrupt government and corrupt officials. 40% of citizens live below the poverty line. 90% of cocaine from Mexico enter the US markets. The state still owns the petroleum industry. Vicente Fox is trying to institute reforms but a reluctant Congress will not follow his lead.
President Bush has the opportunity introduce some real border reforms tonight. He has the chance to let the American people know he has been listening to their concerns on border security. He has the opportunity to rejuvenate the Republican Party who has been abandoning him in droves. All the President has to say is that he is going to first and foremost, protect our borders. All other considerations are a distant second. I do not want to hear anything about a ‘guest worker program.’ I do not want to hear about the hard working the Mexican people. I do not want to hear that these illegal immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants. I want President Bush to tell me how he is going to protect the American people from invasion from those south of the border. I just want our existing laws on immigration enforced. This is not a racist issue, immigration is a law and order issue. If the President is not going to enforce the laws we already have on the books, then remove them, declare them unconstitutional, but don’t ignore them.
What I think I am going to hear is that he is temporarily sending a few thousand troops to the border to assist in border security. I also believe he will say he is going to implement a ‘guest worker program.’ From what I have been hearing about Bush’s speech, I am not going to be impressed.
Now comes word Mexican President Vicente Fox called George Bush asking if the president was going to militarize the border. That certainly takes a lot of gall considering all the reports of the Mexican military taking shots at the Border patrol and guarding drug shipments into the United States. Note to Fox, the border is already militarized, we just want to make sure that you are not the only one doing it.
The left in the blogosphere has been remarkable quiet concerning this issue. The right on the other hand is a different matter all together. Here are a few examples.
A Certain Slant of Light is another blogger who thinks President Bush is beginning to see the writing on the wall.
Conservatives want to hear tonight that the president now concedes that border security must be Job #1 and that “comprehensive immigration reform” legislation must be taken off the table and held in abeyance until border enforcement is bolstered adequate to the task at hand; and, conservatives want to see that the efficacy of such enforcement stops the human invasion of border-jumpers from the south dead in its tracks and for a long enough duration that they are satisfied that the Executive Branch has, at long last, gotten its act together and is committed to and capable of securing the border and enforcing immigration laws already on the books. That’s it, pure and simple.
Right Side of the Rainbow reprints an email he received from Rep. John Culberson of Texas who has been a critic of President Bush’s immigration policy for years.
Tonight, I sincerely hope we will witness a dramatic change. I continue to hear and see strong signals that the President and his close knit group of core advisors finally understand how fed up the nation is with the Administration’s continued refusal to protect our borders or enforce our immigration laws.
PA Pundits considers the move to deploy troops along the to be merely a band-aid.
If everything I have read thus far today is correct, Bush’s move to put National Guard troops on the border is akin to putting a band-aide on a sucking chest wound.
It doesn’t do anything to solve the problem, it just covers it, makes it looks like your doing something, in hopes that it will go away.
We put troops on the border, but we give them no power. It’s tits on a bull, totally pointless and a waste of time.
It’s an inept, feeble-minded, and idiotic response to a growing SERIOUS issue.
It’s not about being racist, it’s not about being “xenophobic”. It’s about national security, it’s about enforcing the laws that are ready on the books.
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