Monday, May 22, 2006
It only took 15 days from the “Day Without an Immigrant” march for President Bush to come out and throw cold water onto the protest.
All that marching got for you was the National Guard being deployed to the Mexican border and, as Bush said in his speech, “the most technologically advanced border security initiative in American history.”
So if there was so much support for illegal immigrants, why is the Guard heading to the border and Hi- Tech fences being put up?
It’s because Americans have spoken. They want the borders to be secure and for illegal immigrants to be sent back.
Well, one out of two isn’t bad. As the president pointed out in his speech, the issue of immigration stirs up intense emotions. But the supporters of the marches thought they had pushed all the right emotional buttons to get the U.S. government to go their way.
Bush, however, trying to have his cake and eat it, too. He’s trying to court future Hispanic voters while ignoring the will of legal citizens.
In his speech, President Bush proposed a temporary guest worker program as a way to stop illegal immigration. This, of course, is completely ridiculous. If Mexicans wanted to enter this country legally, they would just need to apply for citizenship.
But instead, they come running across an unprotected border. We should not give them this back door amnesty for being successful at breaking the law.
But Bush thinks with this guest worker program in place, immigrants will go back to their country when their work is done.
Well, that mindset didn’t work so well on September 11, 2001 when some immigrant “guests” decided they didn’t want to go back to their home country.
The sad fact is that Mexico is more then glad to be rid of these immigrants. They are provided with printed maps and local army troops directing them right to our doorsteps. The President doesn’t have the will to go out and fi nd and prosecute those that have so brazenly broken the law.
He has put up his hands and given up. Amnesty by any other name is still amnesty, whatever form it takes.
Then the president goes on and talks about the great “melting pot,” which has made us one nation out of many peoples.
I guess he didn’t see those marches on May 1. The people there wanted nothing to do with this American melting pot. The President hasn’t realized that some don’t what to assimilate. They want to turn the United States into Mexico – just with higher wages.
The president is playing the middle of the road and is going to get hit by both sides.
