George W. Bush,  Illegal Immigration,  Politics

Illegal Immigration Watch: President Bush – WAY Too Little, ALOT Too LATE

A U.S. Border Patrol agent outside Laredo, Texas, May 4, 2006. President Bush is expected to call for thousands of National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to help curtail illegal immigration as debate over the divisive issue heats up.

ASSociated Press: Bush to Propose Guard Troops for Border

President Bush will call for thousands of National Guard troops to be deployed along the Mexico border in support of patrols aimed at keeping out illegal immigrants, White House officials said Sunday on the eve of an Oval Office address announcing the plan.

White House aides worked into the night Sunday to iron out details of the proposal and allay concerns among lawmakers that using troops to man the border would further burden an overextended military.

Two White House officials said Bush would propose using troops as a stopgap measure while the Border Patrol builds up its resources. The troops would play a supportive role to Border Patrol agents, who would maintain primary responsibility for physically guarding the border.

And in the return for this SHOW of border security the public is supposed to rally to Bush’s Guest Worker and Path to Citizenship propsals ala the Kennedy-McCain bill?

Mr. President, with all due respect, this is a “DOG AND PONY SHOW.”

California demonstrates “REAL” problems with illegal immigration. We have too many illegal folks who are eating away at society both financially and socially. Their arrival has meant a REDUCED QUALITY OF LIFE for legal residents.

Mexican immigrants walk in line through the Arizona desert near Sasabe, Sonora state, in an attempt to illegally cross the Mexican-US border, 06 April 2006.

Mr. President sending National Guard troops to the border with Mexico is WAY TOO LITTLE, WAY TOO LATE. You and your administration have done NOTHING while hundreds of thousands of Mexican illegal aliens have illegally crossed the border. You have NOT enforced existing immigration laws against employers who brazenly IMPORT these folks to work at sub-minimum wage while paying NO income taxes. Sir, you have NO credibility on this issue.

Your conversation and wimping out towards the President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, does not bespeak your leadership in this regard.

Therefore, what does Flap recommend:

1. Send the National Guard to the border but allow them to bolster enforcement until more border patrol agents are trained and ON THE JOB.

2. Support legislation in the Congress to fund the training and deployment of additional border agents/officers. Ony when these officers are deployed in sufficient numbers to deter illegal immigration should the National Guard be redeployed away from the border.

3. Support legislation to fund and build physical barriers and walls to physically impede the flow of illegal aliens coming across the border. “Virtual” fencing is NOT acceptable alone. There must be REAL physical impediments to the flow of people.

4. Enforce existing immigration laws against employers. Fine them big, jail corporate leaders, if you have must. America must be freed from the addiction of cheap Mexican and illegal labor.

After you have accompliushed these four proposals, and the border is sealed, THEN AND ONLY THEN, we can discuss Guest Worker and Path to Citizenship proposals for the folks who are already here.

Will you obtain a compromise reform proposal by Memorial Day?

NO WAY!

Mr. President, after these many years and inaction, Flap simply doesn’t trust you on this issue.

U.S. Border Patrol agents detain three men in the desert near Sasabe, Arizona, in this April 24, 2006 photo
Michelle Malkin has TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

What does he take us for?

You want the American people to buy into “comprehensive immigration reform?”

Message to Congress (since the White House still isn’t listening): Drop the guest worker plan and the amnesty sham. Comprehensive immigration enforcement first. Enforcement now.

No more bull.

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Grass-roots conservative blog reaction gives Bush two thumbs down. Way down.

Round-up at Polipundit
Right Wing News
Cavalier X
La Shawn will be liveblogging.
Scrappleface spoofs.
Bizzy Blog on more things Bush won’t talk about tonight.
Scott Johnson on the flabbergastingly idiotic Hagel-Martinez bill.
Andrew McCarthy dispenses with the mass deportation canard.
John Derbyshire on the Bush speech: “milk-and-water leaky-bandaid stuff.”
Ankle Biting Pundits: Throwing a bone…
Related:

Tim Graham busts the Washington Post’s Minutemen coverage
Tom Tancredo at Human Events Online: Come home, Mr. President.

Stay tuned………

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