Illegal Immigration,  Politics

Illegal Immigration Watch: President Bush to Address Nation About Immigration on Monday Evening

***Update***

Drudge is reporting, SOURCES: BUSH PLANS NATIONAL GUARD ON BORDER…

And ABC News has this AP piece: Pentagon Exploring Using Military to Patrol Border 

A member of Mexican immigration group Beta checks the border wall between Mexico and the United States during a patrol in Tijuana, Mexico, May 6, 2006. The U.S. Border Patrol said on Wednesday it had arrested 724,613 undocumented migrants crossing the 3,200-km (2,000-mile) border from Mexico since October 1 last year, a rise of 6 percent from the same period a year earlier. The increase comes as U.S. lawmakers debate a proposal by President George W. Bush offering millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, and as Hispanic activists staged protests and a work stoppage in cities nationwide.

ASSociated Press: Bush to Speak About Immigration on Monday

President Bush plans to address the nation Monday night on the immigration debate, trying to build momentum for legislation that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens.

The White House said it was seeking time from television networks for the president’s remarks.

“This is crunch time,” Tony Snow, the new White House press secretary said Friday at his first off-camera, or informal, briefing.

On Thursday, Senate leaders reached a deal to revive a broad immigration bill that had appeared doomed just several weeks ago.

Flap doubts we will hear anything new from the President. He wants an amnesty type “path to citizenship” program along with a “guest worker” component. This will not be acceptable to the GOP base unless his ideas are coupled with strong border security provisions and employer enforcement provisions.

Flap is not optomistic that an acceptable compromise will be reached this year and with this President. Bush will have to emphasis “border security” and enforcement of the existing immigration laws with more resources or the GOP conservative base will desert him – as they already have.

Captain Ed describes the process and the pitfalls of compromise legislation, Immigration Deal In Senate .

The Washington Times has the details of the compromise deal between Senate leaders Frist and Reid yesterday, Senators agree on ‘amnesty’ proposal

The Washington Post likewise has a piece about the Frist-Reid compromise, Immigration Deal Reached in Senate Provides Citizenship Opportunity

The speech on Monday night will frame the rest of the Bush presidency. If Bush gets it WRONG hundreds of thousands of voters will desert the GOP in the fall. The GOP will lose control of the House – but who will care?

In California, it may be time to consider the Republican Party as DEAD and Bush may well give an issue for the rise of a new California Conservative Party.

Stay tuned……

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