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1. #1
   On August 10th, 2007 at 10:34 am, Dandapani said:

   “Some where over the rainbow…” — GWB

2. #2
   On August 10th, 2007 at 10:39 am, PBoilermaker said:

   I wonder if people like Bush, Specter, Grahamnesty, Kennedy and McCain are secretly trying to think of ways to silence you, Michelle.

   Their lack of concern for real enforcement angers me to no end.

3. #3
   On August 10th, 2007 at 10:47 am, gregorystephens said:

   I just hope that this isn’t just for show. But, it probably is. I’m not holding my breath. Unfortunately, it would probably take a tragedy to a politician’s family perpetrated by an illegal to get any real response from the government. I just hope that it doesn’t have to come to that to get results.

4. #4
   On August 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am, Armigerous said:

   “Lather,rinse,repeat”-David Letterman
   “Arrest,deport,repeat”-Me

5. #5
   On August 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am, Artbyruth said:

   Being in Arizona where the border fence project would greatly help our state deal with illegals….I, for one, hope that the President is serious about enforcement and the border fence.

   I think the reason the White House is announcing this now is because the surge is working in Iraq and they have a little clout now that the Dems in Congress have completely screwed up.

   Now would be a great time to introduce immigration action that pleases the Conservative base.

   So, we’ll see what happens…..

   One thing is for sure: McCain better stand up for enforcement and border fence construction NOW without any amnesty talk or he is completely finished.

6. #6
   On August 10th, 2007 at 10:56 am, geminicontender said:

   This government of ours has got to get it together. I am so tired of this crap. Secure the border, get RID of the illegals. The damn Feds are trying to use the employers now as the force to deal with by penalizing them for hiring illegals. How about getting the Feds to believe in our own agents (Border Patrol) and stop this craziness of ‘human rights’. ACLU should be supporting our agents, not the illegals.

7. #7
   On August 10th, 2007 at 11:05 am, Rinoalert said:

   Trust but verify was easier with the Soviet Union than with the current GOP leadership.

8. #8
   On August 10th, 2007 at 11:08 am, publiuswarmac9999 said:

   Newark, NJ was added to the list of sanctuary cities in June 2007. Their failure to deal with illegal aliens is directly tied to the horrific crime that killed the 3 black college students and maimed a fourth. I have nothing but contempt to the political leadership of Newark and the State of New Jersey.

   Despite a 1996 federal law [the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)] that requires local governments to cooperate with Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), many large urban cities (and some small) have adopted so-called “sanctuary policies.” Generally, sanctuary policies instruct city employees not to notify the federal government of the presence of illegal aliens living in their communities. The policies also end the distinction between legal and illegal immigration–so illegal aliens often benefit from city services too.

9. #9
   On August 10th, 2007 at 11:11 am, SLHaynes said:

   Shouldn’t the headline here be something like “The President’s new immigration enforcement plan: Color me underwhelmed” instead of “The new Bush immigration enforcement plan: Color me underwhelmed.” The latter shows lack of respect for our nation’s leaders just like the MSM while the former doesn’t. I realize that Michele has a beef with the administration on this but it’s no excuse to emulate the MSM.

10. #10
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:12 am, xler8bmw said:

    #8 The whole stae of NJ is a santuary…..Again Menendez is a problem for this state concerning illegals.

11. #11
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:13 am, Alphonse said:

    Bush Determined to Strike Again within the United States

    Bush will never give up on importing 100-200 million more immigrants and illegal aliens into the United States to help his business cronies earn more ameros by cheapening labor costs.

    I suspect the strategy of Washington is to make a convincing show of enforcement; inform us they have held up their end of the bargain; then bring in 100-200 million more chamberpot immigrants legally. While they were supporting illegality, they had no standing in the immigration debate; but if they can get that behind them there is no stopping them. The American sheeple are too fat and decadent to put up a struggle.

12. #12
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:13 am, Bhishma said:

    Not untill Tom Tancredo comes to office, aill Americans be rightfully represented. They may increase fines all they want, but it means NOTHING without enforcement. Bush, Chertoff and all the shamnesty chronies know it.

13. #13
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:17 am, rfbarker said:

    As long as President Bush is willing to go with stricter enforcement of the current law, I see no problem supporting him. But if you bring in amnesty and a path to full citizenship, forget it. But, as they say, the devil is in the details. Let’s see what they are really proposing, and if there’s a trojan horse in the works here.

14. #14
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:31 am, Jarhead said:

    The more I hear them (DHS) spouting. The more it remindes me of someone placing ADT Home Alarm decal in their windows. Without actually installing the alarm and being content that their home is secured. Why? Because the decal will deter the intruder from entering the premises.

15. #15
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:33 am, walterc said:

    The administration also wants to expand the list of international gangs whose members are automatically denied admission to the U.S

    How about the biggest violent gang in the world, islam.

16. #16
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:40 am, thirteen28 said:

    “Possible.” “Voluntarily.” For those who have followed the enforcement debate closely, those are big red flags.

    More like giant red banners from a parade in downtown Beijing.

    I’ll cross my fingers too. But I won’t hold my breath.

    The one good thing we can take from this is that we’ve basically forced the amnesty shills to admit that there has been no sincere effort to secure the border and enforce immigration laws in the past. By admitting it now, they’ll have a much harder time defending a failure to do so in the future.

17. #17
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am, Regulus said:

    The open-borders GOP elites see enforcement not as an end in itself, but as a means to the same bad end they were trying to achieve earlier this summer: formally legalizing millions of law-breakers en masse.

    Michelle, one thing that keeps me reading this blog is that you “get it right” just about all the time; but there are occasions when I wish I could say you were wrong.

    This is one of those occasions. Not that you’re wrong… I just wish you were.

    The question in my mind always returns to, “Why?” Why would Republican politicians in DC be so eager to sign off on the death warrant of their own party?

    What could be the reward for people like Specter and McCain and Graham to convince them to alienate their own base while increasing the number of future Democrats?

    I’ve never come up with adequate answers to those questions.

18. #18
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am, doppelganglander said:

    According to court records obtained by The Star-Ledger of Newark, Carranza was indicted twice this year — in April on aggravated assault and weapons charges; and in July on 31 counts including aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 13. He was free on bail on the indictments.

    Why in God’s name was anyone charged with raping a child free on bail, let alone an illegal alien?

19. #19
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am, katieanne said:

    I was at a Republican Woman’s Club meeting yesterday and the speaker was a Republican fund raiser. There is a big money problem and the party is reaching out now. I guess all of us sending back envelopes with “where’s the fence?” on it and also saying it to phone solicitations, has finally made an impact. Duh, do they finally get it?

    A gesture for border security is not going to cut it. We had better see something serious going down with going after employers, etc. or the money won’t ever come. Republican coffers are hurting big time. Bummer. That’s what happens when you attack your base AND put the welfare of illegals over the welfare of American citizens.

20. #20
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:41 am, gayle said:

    walterc, yes! I agree.

    I think Bush is just buying time. Making the concerned citizens “feel” that something will be done.

    Just long enough to get through the primaries. Simply a stall tactic.

    They could start TODAY IF they wanted to and IF it really meant a darn thing.

    A man is as good as his word, so PROVE IT.

21. #21
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:49 am, ajmontana said:

    Is there a “Monkey” Statute in this new plan? or is this just another bunch of Monkeybusiness?

22. #22
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:51 am, puhiawa said:

    Illegals and crime.
    http://www.legal-immigration.com/costs-of-incarceration-of-illegal-immigrants.html

23. #23
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:53 am, changjin89 said:

    Good Friday Morning Mrs. Malkin and loyal community. You and so many in this community are wise from long bitter experience to the motives of the Bush Administration and necessarily very wary of any announced program purporting to address our grave concern. It is concern for the integrity and character of our country; it is concern for the safety of ourselves and our loved ones. The bottom line is: we cannot permit the stealthy establishment of some pan-American multicultural corporatist entity to supplant the nation we received from our Founding Fathers. Rather, we must body-and-soul recommit to the principles of our Constitution and to our faith, and proceed from there.

    I should add, that if the above is agreed here, then much of the contemporary conservative consensus in foreign policy, energy policy and much else begs earnest reconsideration.

24. #24
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:55 am, ajmontana said:

    Michelle said:

    The “new” initiatives amount to promises to do the basic work they should have been doing years ago and which Congress and past administrations on both sides of the aisle should have implemented decades ago:

    Nail/Head

25. #25
    On August 10th, 2007 at 12:04 pm, Just A Grunt said:

    Just like what is being done in Iraq the same thing is going to have to happen here. “That” being that the local and state law enforcement is going to have to step up and address the problem. Maybe that is what Bush wanted all along rather then a federal answer. At this point I don’t care but I am glad I live in an area that is being very proactive in addressing the illegal immigrant issue and trying to make some progress. Sorry for those who live around us since the illegals are fleeing to your neighborhoods.
    Stories on steps Cobb County in GA are taking.
    Here:
    and here
    So for all of those being overwhelmed look south. Home of Newt Gingrich and Bob Barr.

26. #26
    On August 10th, 2007 at 12:10 pm, xler8bmw said:

    #25

    That is what local gov is trying to do but, the ACLU and liberal judges are overturning the laws they are trying to implement.

    Our Judicial sysytem is out of control per the constitution the framers gave that branch the least powers. Wouldn’t seem that way now would it?

27. #27
    On August 10th, 2007 at 12:22 pm, Laree said:

    August 20-21 President Bush, President Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada, will meet for the Second SPP summit. Security Prosperity Partnership Summit. On the Agenda: The North American Union. They want to agree on people moving, back and forth btw all our shared borders freely. That is my take on it, I could be wrong, I am open to more opinions. This so called immigration enforcement, would be nothing more then window dressing if the above is true.

28. #28
    On August 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pm, jrlingreenbay said:

    Speaking of our ‘Founding Fathers’ - just how do you think they would have reacted to thousands of foreigners coming into the boundaries of the original colonies?

    I believe they would have had a term for it - Invasion.

29. #29
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:17 pm, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    Below is the kind of ignorance that will get you killed. And, as one might suspect, it is from the publisher of the Virginia Gazette in Williamsburg, VA. The thing that ought to hit you immediately is his reference to knowing that there are exactly 816 hispanics, no more no less. The shame is that we have to endure a constant stream of this garbage as well as left wing propagande masquerading as news just to get some sense of what is happening locally.
    ————–
    Immigrants
    W. C. O’Donovan | Publisher
    August 1, 2007

    Before she retired as executive director of Olde Towne Medical Center, Judy Knudson used to say that her staff treated patients on the basis of their sickness, not their nationality.

    Now we have a James City supervisor seeking an ordinance that would presumably restrict illegal immigrants from services at the clinic and elsewhere. This would be a more legitimate issue if we were overrun with immigrants, but they make up such a small part of the population as to be negligible. Some 816 Hispanics of both stripes comprise 1.7% of the population of James City. The percentages rise to 2.5% in Williamsburg and 2.7% in York, according to 2006 Census data.

    Supervisor Bruce Goodson is seeking to redress a problem that doesn’t exist in that he doesn’t want local tax money spent on people who are here illegally. Coming shortly before Election Day, this is a blatant ploy to mollify Republican conservatives who are furious that he voted for James City to join the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority. Next we’ll see him on Lou Dobbs.

    The Goodson approach reprises an argument made by a few in the city of Williamsburg last fall that foreign workers are a threat to neighborhoods. Critics were confusing the Eastern European J-1 visa students with largely Hispanic immigrants found in the landscaping and construction sectors of our local economy. City Council got so wound up as to impose special rules on motels to regulate the stays of foreign students. (They only work abroad for 90 days at a time anyway, but you never know what peril lurks.)

    Critics of the students refused to realize they form financial pillars of our tourism industry. Critics of Hispanics fail to realize they are hard-working people who pay sales taxes and contribute to the economy directly through day-to-day purchasing just like the rest of us.

    In a perfect world, there would be no illegal immigrants and we wouldn’t have to consider turning them away from health clinics.

    But before we start writing laws that make James City look discriminatory, it might be better to identify exactly what the problem is, if indeed there is one. Evidently the police chief doesn’t think so, except for the inability to deport illegals who break the law. Police are hamstrung by federal policy, but Goodson’s idea may have merit if it can expedite deportation.

    Apparently Social Services and the clinic don’t think the problem is excessive, since they have yet to rebel against helping people. Local churches aren’t complaining. The library seems to be coping as well. Our public schools are teaching these children. If there is some vast overload of services, where is it?

    Various statistics point to a Hispanic population of around 2% in the summertime when jobs are more plentiful. While they consume 15% of the health clinic costs, that is hardly grounds for denying medial or dental care, especially if they are paying their fair share of the fees. And no one really knows how many are illegal.

    One cannot stereotype immigrants as poor, either. The latest income Census numbers from 1999 show Hispanics and Latinos in James City with a median family base of $56,500, compared to $66,171 for the total county population. A wire story in the paper Tuesday found that the nation’s growing number of foreign-born residents are “keeping the bottom from falling out” of the housing market.

    So let’s run the numbers of gross national product by immigrants as found in the micro-world of greater Williamsburg. Compare that number to the public services they require.

    Are their criminal acts disproportionate to the rest of society? Xenophobes point to Oswaldo Martinez as the worst example, and it’s true that he’s charged with the brutal rape and murder of a young girl. But he is hardly representative of all Hispanics, legal or illegal. Of course the police should be allowed to expel illegals who are criminals, but it’s a federal issue.

    I spend time at the 7-Eleven, where I have found lots of Hispanic men of all ages stoking up carbs before a full day’s work. They are at once boisterous and respectful. They are contributing to our society in many productive ways, not the least of them through consistent and robust spending. Good for them.

30. #30
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:24 pm, jrlingreenbay said:

    Portion of a question from this morning’s Press Gaggle with Dana Perino:

    “Why should people have confidence that this is going to actually make a difference when the law itself is broken? Isn’t this stepped up enforcement of a broken law?”

    Wake up media-people: It’s not the law that is ‘broken’ - it’s the lack of enforcement of the laws on the books!

31. #31
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:24 pm, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    Oh, I forgot to add, because of the above non-problem, the good citizens of greater Williamsburg will have to build a new jail or substantially enhance the size of the old one at tens of millions of dollars.

    Yep, just stick your head in the sand (I am being polite here) and the problem just goes away.

32. #32
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:33 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

    I have said this before, but what about the OTHER immigration problem that never gets talked about…blue staters migrating to red states.

    Arizona is overrun with AARP liberals demanding services, and the Florida border is under siege. Not the border near Cuba, but the border near South Carolina. The New York liberals keep coming. Who moves to Massachussetts?

    I wish the President would seal off red states and force blue staters to live in the misery they created and leave the rest of America alone.

    http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/our-other-border-problem/

    Respectfully,

    eric

33. #33
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:35 pm, jrlingreenbay said:

    From Foxnews.com:

    U.S. Border Patrol Agent Shoots, Kills Suspected Human Smuggler
    Friday, August 10, 2007

    EL PASO, Texas — A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a suspected smuggler at a fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico after the agent felt threatened by the man, authorities said Thursday.

    Mexico criticized what it described as an “excessive use of force” against immigrants and demanded an investigation.

    Jose Alejandro Ortiz Castillo, a 23-year-old man who had been caught crossing the border 28 times since 1999, died in Mexico shortly after the Wednesday night shooting, Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said.

    An unidentified agent spotted Ortiz apparently leading two men and a woman through a hole in the border fence just east of downtown El Paso. Ortiz, who was carrying bolt cutters, picked up a rock as the agent was arresting the woman, Mosier said.

    Mosier said the agent “felt threatened by the actions of the assailant who was holding a rock and bolt cutters.”

    The agent fired several shots, hitting Ortiz “multiple times,” Mosier said. It was the agent’s first fatal shooting.

    Marco Antonio Torres Moreno — public safety director in Ciudad Juarez, the city across the river from El Paso — said Ortiz was shot once in the chest and once in the right forearm.

    The Mexican government demanded in a statement that “all the weight of the law be brought to bear against the person or persons responsible.”

    “The Mexican government expresses a firm protest against the use of lethal weapons in the face of situations that do not represent a proportionate risk,” the Foreign Relations Department said.

    Ortiz had been deported from the U.S. in 2004, Mosier said.

    Jesus Castillo, 43, Ortiz’s brother, initially acknowledged that his brother had worked as an immigrant smuggler. But after speaking to investigators, he said his brother worked in construction and occasionally crossed the border to look for work in El Paso.

    “The only thing I know is that they shot him head on, as if he were an animal, and neither Mexican nor American authorities had the courtesy to notify me about it until noon,” Castillo said.

    Wednesday night’s shooting is the fifth fatal shooting involving Border Patrol agents in border states this year, federal officials said.

    ————-

    This story further illustrates the Mexican government’s complicity in their citizens’ illegal activities and rush to blame hard-working border patrol agents for a crime when they are doing their job.

    We need cojones in the White House to tell Mexico to step up to the plate and do something on their end besides whine.

34. #34
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:39 pm, ajmontana said:

    I heard this earlier jrl, I’m guessin you heard the other story of el poopo (raw sewage) coming across to our side daily while NOTHING is getting done to stop it.

35. #35
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:41 pm, ajmontana said:

    In other words they are poopin all over us.

36. #36
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:47 pm, jrlingreenbay said:

    Hadn’t heard that one - but if it is known - funny how the environmentalists haven’t made it front-page news….

37. #37
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:47 pm, xler8bmw said:

    #35 AJ LMAO! Thxs

38. #38
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:52 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The Mexican government demanded in a statement that “all the weight of the law be brought to bear against the person or persons responsible.”

    Note to Mexico: The resonsible party is dead.

39. #39
    On August 10th, 2007 at 1:52 pm, jferg49 said:

    What next….will Bush and Co. make employers write on the blackboard 1000 times: “I will not hire illegals”…they see the writing on the wall and are trying to make themselves seem like it’s too little…too late….we are wallowing in illegals and our country is being taken over by the hispanic culture, criminals, users…if I wanted that, I would have moved to Mexico years ago…I like America…I like our real culture….I don’t hate hispanics…but I like the U.S.A. better…and our 4th of July picnics…and Thanksgiving and XMAS…and..well, you get the idea…put fences around the U.S. and I agree with Blacktygrr…put fences around the red states too…let the blue folks live with their messes…and should you think I’m against hispanics only…I’m ready to keep all illegal folks out of the country…I don’t care where they come from…just so happens, that the hispanics are the majority of illegals at this time…

40. #40
    On August 10th, 2007 at 2:10 pm, xler8bmw said:

    Wow now we have diseases that we never had here before coming over the border. Well they will kill us one way or another.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/us_nm/dengue_texas_dc

41. #41
    On August 10th, 2007 at 2:34 pm, Alphonse said:

    http://www.watchingamerica.com/diewelt000007.shtml
    In this conflict, George W. Bush, for once, has adopted a liberal position. Back in the summer of 2001, he and Mexican President Vincente Fox had reached an agreement on a policy of open borders, including wide-ranging legalization and dual citizenship. The INS – the then Immigration and Naturalization Service, now part of the Department of Homeland Security - objected vehemently, and in the aftermath of September 11th the plans of the two presidents were in any case, shelved.

    Bush’s goal is and has always been the free passage of Mexican labor into the United States. Anything else that comes out of his mouth is suspect as manipulative BS.

    The reason Bush sounds so inarticulate sometimes is that his goals are so repugnant and disgusting to the American people that he must constantly watch his tongue lest truth comes out.

42. #42
    On August 10th, 2007 at 2:54 pm, CC said:

    There’s a website called wehirealiens.com where you can report companies you know are hiring illegals. They list them and report them.

43. #43
    On August 10th, 2007 at 3:44 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

    Jferg, people think that most illegals are Mexicans, but think about it. They look different and are easier to spot. If we were overrun by the Canadians, how would we know? They blend in. They cheated in the 1993 hockey and baseball finals, therefore they are the scourge of the north.

    They are as polite as people from Minnesota and North Dakota, so for all we know those states are overrun. Plus Michigan’s Governor is Canadian.

    Ack!

    eric

    http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/mighty-ducks-win-take-that-canada/

    http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/on-july-4th-american-supremacy-continues-especially-in-brooklyn/

44. #44
    On August 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm, ajmontana said:

    jrl,
    Heres a link for the Scoop on the Poop. This has been going on for years. Alot more if ya google it.

    http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20070711-9999-1m11bajagua.html

45. #45
    On August 10th, 2007 at 4:30 pm, Laree said:

    #43 Eric,

    Don’t even get me started on Canadians and Sports just have a look at the treatment of this innocent American Rugby team, minding it’s own business. Scroll down to the brief bio of how they aquired their name GRIN

    http://www.maggots.org/

46. #46
    On August 10th, 2007 at 4:31 pm, Rick Moran said:

    I received this as an email from a long time reader who is not registered to comment.

    It is a letter to President Bush:

    Dear President Bush,

    Build our border fence, stop seeking amnesty for illegal aliens, and do your Constitutionally assigned duty to protect this nation!

    Your charitable desires towards our neighbors to the south should not trump your mandated duty to the security and self-interest of this nation.
    There is a principle of unrestrained charity that helps no-one–It’s called, “Giving away the Store”. That is what your desired immigration policy will do to the sovereignty of the United States of America.

    Stop your unwise, unsound and yes, unconstitutional policy of “limited” amnesty with all its false promises of –”then we’ll secure the border”. It is a big lie.
    If you won’t protect us from illegal border crossing murderers and sleeper cell members now, you won’t be able to protect us after you’ve given them all the rights and privileges of citizens.

    These awful murders by illegal aliens are in some measure your responsibility, because of your dogged refusal to secure our borders and deny access to people who desire to come here illegally.

    That you find common cause with your political enemies that slander you relentlessly–and that you are breaking faith with those who loyally support you; should inform you at its most base level your desired immigration policy is unsound and immoral.

    You Disappoint Mr. President.

    God Bless You,

    Sincerely,

    Average American

47. #47
    On August 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm, 24Klady said:

    The very worst possible thing for POTUS and the AG to do would be to pursue charges against the border patrol agent. It would sink anyone running for office in 2008. The very best possible thing for the liberals would be for the Repubs to pursue charges against the agent. All they’d have to do is sit back and watch as we devour our own.

    I hope the moron in Texas that prosecuted the two now serving sentences recuses himself. I don’t think either party with it’s elected elites understand how fed up people are with secret deals with Mexico/Canada - Mexico telling Americans how to protect their own borders - and the voters expected to pay for it all, losing jobs/safety/freedom/financial security in the process.

48. #48
    On August 10th, 2007 at 4:37 pm, 24Klady said:

    Rick Moran - stunning e-mail/letter from your long time reader. Our thanks. Do we have the author’s permission to send on?

49. #49
    On August 10th, 2007 at 4:58 pm, Schweggie said:

    Ditto, couldn’t have worded it better myself. Then again, there’s not much of anything I can word better…Actually, I suppose I could send the same letter to the President, signed by me?

    Now hmmm, which beer should I pair with The Malkin Factor tonight…

50. #50
    On August 10th, 2007 at 5:00 pm, tarpon said:

    Michelle, I agree with your skepticism, but it is moving in our direction. The new plan is about 1/2 what is needed, a good start. It just shows that now is not the time to sit down.

    Trust but verify, RR said it best.

51. #51
    On August 10th, 2007 at 5:04 pm, ajmontana said:

    Nice letter Rick, This Average American needs to register to comment…..

52. #52
    On August 10th, 2007 at 6:00 pm, dmartin said:

    It would probably unify us in the short-term. But liberals operate on pure emotion… once the feeling subsides they will go back to their “anti-everything” position.

53. #53
    On August 10th, 2007 at 6:04 pm, Rick Moran said:

    The author is pleased to give his permission to use the letter in any way your choose to advance the cause of border security.

54. #54
    On August 10th, 2007 at 6:27 pm, ajmontana said:

    Send “The Letter” to the press, oh wait they only print how to….you know. or We need another….you know….etc etc etc…..

55. #55
    On August 10th, 2007 at 6:27 pm, orlandocajun said:

    Color me underwhelmed too. So they’re going to raise the fines that they’re not collecting. Wow, that is tough enforcement.

    Start deportation by the thousands, hire about 20,000 border and deportation officers, seal the border (with the military if necessary), build detention centers capable of holding 500,000 to stage deportation, build the fence, fine a couple of employers (just to show us that you will), turn them right back around when you catch them, stop offering benefits to illegal aliens, make English the official language and stop anchor babies. Do that and then make an announcement. Until then, we don’t believe you anymore then we did when you tried to ram the Amnesty Plan through.

56. #56
    On August 10th, 2007 at 6:50 pm, ScottyDog said:

    GWB is a Globalist and this is just another attempt to soften us up so they can pass amnesty.

    Bush, like corporate America sees us all as customers. 20 million more illegals are 20 million more customers for big business.

    Until they put the national guard on the border, we will not be able to stop the invasion from Mexico.

    According to A Line in the Sand, a congressional report, “as many as 4 million to 10 million illegal aliens crossed into the United States” from Mexico in 2005.

57. #57
    On August 10th, 2007 at 8:23 pm, Bruce said:

    Americans should demand accountability from the judges who let these thugs out, the President who has neglected his Constitutional responsibility for decades, and from the Congress who does nothing to fulfill its role in the “check and balance” system.

    Our government is complicit and liable for thousands of murders, sex crimes and assaults. Add to those the identity thefts and other fraudulent activity that has harmed millions of legal American citizens.

    We need to get us some national fortitude and self-respect to hold the Federal Government responsible for the damage it has intentionally done to us.

    As long as we tolerate these situations we share responsibility for them.

58. #58
    On August 10th, 2007 at 9:14 pm, puhiawa said:

    When does Bush begin to get embarrassed that he is being kicked around by a corrupt narco-State because he is scared of being called a racist. Bush would rather the kids of America be raped and killed by illegals than do anything. Get a backbone, dude.

59. #59
    On August 10th, 2007 at 10:43 pm, Leatherneck said:

    It is about open borders. GWB, Chertoff, and Condi are all on the same Gobalist team. If they were not, the southern border would be secured.

60. #60
    On August 10th, 2007 at 10:47 pm, JWS said:

    Let me take a stab at this, as my BS-ometer is blaring like crazy: this is nothing but a heaping helping of crap, served as an appetizer to the entre…AMNESTY…

61. #61
    On August 10th, 2007 at 11:17 pm, puhiawa said:

    MM just announced on Fox that Newark is a sanctuary City. The Mayor killed these kids as sure as day. Spit.

62. #62
    On August 11th, 2007 at 1:02 am, Buzzy said:

    As much as I would like to think that President Bush woke up to the fact that his legacy is going to be the LAST Repubican President of the US and decided to do the right thing about border enforcement and the illegal alien problem, I seriously doubt it.

    It’s all misdirection to quiet the outraged majority that shut down their ShAmnesty plans while they quietly pass the AgJOBs bill and slip other residency provisions into the back of other laws they pass.

    These open society shills aren’t going to give up so easily.

63. #63
    On August 11th, 2007 at 3:58 am, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

    I personally think the motivations are simple on this move and it comes down to something Republicans need to stop doing: republican politicians need to stop listening to the left-wing media spin machine.

    This is all about looking good in the media because the Republicans senators are afraid they’ll not only get outflanked by Dems for the hispanic vote per se, but will again “look cruel” to the larger electorate. The problem is, of course, that they’re partially correct.

    The only way to beat the situation is to choose those issues in which conservatives are clearly in the right - like immigration - and drive the conservative, common-sense point home hard and make HUGE amounts of noise about how the Dems are insensitive to their fellow human beings. High taxes hurting families and small business is one effective example.

    Note to Republican Senators -

    Shore Up Your Base by Enforcing laws Strongly And Change Your Talking Points To Read And Sound Like This:
    

    Writing and enforcing strict immigration policy is the most sensible and humane of all possible strategies we can impliment to counteract the cold and heartless family-destroying tactics used for generations by the Democrats in their relentless quest for political power. By keeping legislation and enforcement of current immigration law at the threshold of non-existance, they lure good people across the boarders into harsh deserts where many die and into a catch-22 in the United States where they exist as non-entities working for slave labor wages but unable to move forward in our society. The also hurt those good mexican immigrants by confusing their numbers endlessly with a huge perportion of criminally-minded mexicans, driven by impulses which range from theft to rape to the sadistic murder of innocent children, and they, too, are lured by the Democrats’ soft posture on criminal punishment. Indeed, the Democrats have written and passed laws for decades which actually give less harsh punishment to illegal aliens than to American citizens for the same crime. For the sake of those good people from Mexico looking to come to America for a better life, for their lives, the lives of their children and the lives of our men, women and children who are being evermore brutalized and murdered by a growing number of criminally driven and psycotically disturbed illegal aliens, we need to cut off all criminal tresspass into the United States and deport those who have not played by the rules of our immigration policy. This endless exploitation and cruel - indeed often deadly - manipulation of this country’s illegal population for raw political power by the Democrat leadership in Congress must be stopped, and it must be stopped today.

    Once that’s done, move like the devil to build the fence, tighten state and national laws and begin wholesale deportation of illegals as quickly as possible while the Dems and MSM attempt to re-package their message into a response against an endless repetition pf variations of the above speech. Hopefully, once the smoke has ckleared and Dems regain their posture on this issue with a single, dominant MSM voice, Republicans will have a new weapon in the arsenal: short term statistic numbers which show Republican values manifesting positive results. Getting Dems on board will be tough, but if the Republican message is acidic enough, enough Dems will jump to the GOP side on votes to sneak through the congressional victories needed; in other words, voting for it before they later decide to vote againts it.

    Michelle definately has the right idea for the first step, however: get your fingers ready for speed-dialing.

64. #64
    On August 11th, 2007 at 10:58 am, Turbodog said:

    Bush is as horrible as Dhimmi Carter

65. #65
    On August 11th, 2007 at 11:27 am, Buzzy said:

    No not as horrible as Carter but a disappointment when it comes to supporting his base over the wishes of a foreign nation. We can’t forget that Bush respects the 2nd amendment and a child’s right to life even though he’s been at odds with the American people over illegal immigration, corporate outsourcing of jobs and unfair trade practices with China.

66. #66
    On August 11th, 2007 at 12:33 pm, Dersu said:

    Just heard Newt on FXNS say that he will call on Pres (later today) for a special session of Congress to address
    the Newark execution-style murders of four young students.
    He wants a law so that anyone arrested in USA to have a background check to see if they are legal or illegal.

67. #67
    On August 11th, 2007 at 12:35 pm, captivated_dem said:

    With all the lib talk about a Bush impeachment, he in no way , wants his base to start considering it too. Feigning enforcement would make matters worse for his legacy.

68. #68
    On August 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pm, twoninerkilo said:

    I didn’t see any money to back Bushs proposed border enforcement. Did I miss something?

69. #69
    On August 11th, 2007 at 1:19 pm, JWS said:

    Airport officials searched about a half-dozen airplanes at Charlotte- Douglas International Airport on Friday after a man bypassed security screening.

    “A man”? Just “a man”? Some generic “man” bypassed security? Was the man middle eastern? Does it matter? What an effing joke…

70. #70
    On August 11th, 2007 at 4:21 pm, ajmontana said:

    jws,
    Maybe it was just a man in a big Monkey suit.

71. #71
    On August 11th, 2007 at 8:39 pm, crashemt said:

    94 days for employers to “comply” once an illegal is found working there, with no arrest, or so says the Washington Post today.

    Bush Announces Plan to Improve Immigration Enforcement

    That’s plenty of time to make up some new numbers, and a new identity for the “employee”. And what’s even more funny: This article claims that the SSA sends 130,000 “no-match” letters to businesses every year. Yet, if you search on Earning Suspense Fund, you will find that $6 Billion (yep, that a “B”) is contributed every year.

    If we assume the maximum contribution for every employee of @$6000 per year. That would give over 1 million illegal Social Security contributers! Now, given a pay rate of, oh, $20,000 a year, that would be 5 million people illegally contributing to Social Security. Just the tip of the iceberg, though, as there are an estimated 20 million illegal Social Security Number users currently in the United States

    $6 Billion a year to the US Treasury to help with Social Security insolvency is a very strong reason to ignore the problem. And that does not account for the collections via IRS tax law that never has a Tax Form claimed against it (more found money for the Treasury!)

    Meet the new slavery folks. Just take some of the old anti-abolitionist articles from before the Civil War, and replace the common phrase “negroes” with the new phrase “undocumented workers”, and the arguments are essentially the same.

    Just amazing how history repeats itself as America drives to another great divide. Illegal Immigration is building, with all the recent local laws passed, to become the next great “State’s rights” stand.

72. #72
    On August 11th, 2007 at 11:53 pm, Speakup said:

    We’re here today to show L.A., show the minority people here, the Anglo-Saxons, that we are here, the majority, we’re here to stay. We do the work in this city, we take care of the spoiled brat children, we clean their offices, we pick the food, we do the manufacturing in the factories of L.A., we are the majority here and we are not going to be pushed around. We’re here in Westwood, this is the fourth time we’ve been here in the last two months, to show white Anglo-Saxon Protestant L.A., the few of you who remain, that we are the majority, and we claim this land as ours, it’s always been ours, and we’re still here, and none of the talk about deporting. If anyone’s going to be deported it’s going to be you! Go back to Simi Valley, you skunks! Go back to Woodland Hills! Go back to Boston! To back to the Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You’re old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you, leave like beaten rats. You old white people, it is your duty to die. Even their own ethicists say that they should die, that they have a duty to die. They’re taking up too much space, too much air. We are the majority in L.A. There’s over seven million Mexicans in L.A. County alone. We are the majority. And you’re going to see every day more and more of it, as we manifest as our young people grow up, graduate from high school, go on to college and start taking over this society. The vast majority of our people are under the age of 15 years old. Right now we’re already controlling those elections, whether it’s by violence or nonviolence. Through love of having children we’re going to take over.” Other demonstrators: “Raza fuerza (brown race power), this is Aztlan, this is Mexico. They’re the pilgrims on our land. Go back to the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria.”
    –Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96

73. #73
    On August 12th, 2007 at 6:59 am, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

    Unfortunately, there are more people who support the thinking of Cebada than the MSM wants us to know. When you’ve been brainwashed to think that the land is really morally and ethically yours, then even the people with best of intentions see such speeches as correct and morally justifiable thinking. Once again the MSM and their self-loathing vengence on society fails us again - and all the more reason to stop playing around and get down to the dirty business of deportation. ASAP. As in, now!

74. #74
    On August 12th, 2007 at 7:10 am, ajmontana said:

    AS in Yesterday Mr. Cat….and Good Morning…..

75. #75
    On August 12th, 2007 at 11:34 am, JWS said:

    …and all the more reason to stop playing around and get down to the dirty business of deportation. ASAP. As in, now!…

    If only…

76. #76
    On August 12th, 2007 at 11:46 am, Pat said:

    I’m beginning to think it’s payback.

    On Day 1 of the crackdown, the ICE computers at LAX melted down and people were stuck on planes for over six hours.

    “You want enforcement? You got enforcement.”

    How long before the airlines demand ICE stop checking?