Exactamundo..

Trust them not as they want to extend their octopus tentacles to the Internet and bloggers.

Give politicians an inch and they will restrict freedoms a thousand miles.

This is another bill that President Judas Bush betrayed us on and signed into law when he stated in 2000 he would not.

To the politicians these days the Constitution is a piece of paper that just gets in the way.

My statements re: treatment of Okies by Californians is true and is shown in “The Grapes of Wrath.” It doesn’t matter if they were white or not. They were considered to be an undesirable underclass that threatened Californians’ jobs. I don’t disagree with your experience at all but then was then and now is now, especially in the West. If slavery was still in place, believe me, there would be very few white folks picking cotton in Missouri or anywhere else. If you visit the massive cotton fields in CA or AZ, you won’t see many if any white folk out there. The Africans were just better at it than white folk or plantation owners would have enslaved whites or hired them in the first place. If the trend stays the same, most cotton picking that is done manually will be done by illegals within the next 10 years. How many white migrant workers want to keep at it and have their kids follow them in that line of work? Their numbers are decreasing but the number of illegals is increasing. The trend is nearly irreversible if the border isn’t sealed.

President Judas Bush always says he will do ‘everything in his power’ to protect the USA and then turns around and gives the contry to Mexico.

For a few million pieces of silver from his Corporate buddies, President Judas Bush cares not what he is doing to the country and the future of the country.

President Judas Bush promises 2000 new border agents a year for 5 years starting in 2006 and then kisses us on the cheek and budgets for 200.

President Judas Bush wines and dines Vincete Fox his modern day Pontious Pilate.They eat and drink and dine at his Crawford ranch while President Judas Bush whines about ordinary citizens volunteering to do the job he will not do.

President Judas Bush has made me realize the Republican party is no better than the democrat party.

They all lie, cheat and sell the country down the tubes for silver and gold.

Great stuff! It’d be a good idea to send the same thing to the Republican senators in AZ and Texas, also. They’re doing nothing for their home states except covering for the president. If he can’t be called out on this issue by Republicans, then we’re doomed…this is a national emergency…who knows how many terrorists have crossed already and who knows what has come into the country in the 95% of the containers that go through unchecked at the ports.

Ha! Great idea!…that would be the proof everyone would need wouldn’t it? I would love to see it happen. But I would still want everyone coming legally and paid a fair wage. And I agree with restrictions at the border. I want it sealed except for legal crossings and I want folk checked as thoroughly as we are when we fly to wherever. Our national security is at stake.

Cousin Dave,

I wish the President was as clever as you’re hoping but its sadly not the case. I offer this info as proof…He had said he would add 2000 new Border Patrol agents per year but has funded only 200 this year. He could seal the border any time he wants to prevent the possibility of terrorists coming over. But he hasn’t, he isn’t and he won’t unless there is a near revolt. His action comes closer to dereliction of duty for not providing for the common defence than it does to cleverness. He’s not clever, he’s dishonest, on this issue anyway.

Second, notice the quote: “That’s why you’ve got a Border Patrol, and they ought to be in charge of enforcing the law.” Pay attention to the words: “ought to be”. Stupid chimp President careless with his words, or a very clever and subtle backhanded slap at the INS? I vote for the latter. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it was a shot across the bow.

As for Bush’s relations with Fox, well, note this: As a leader of a nation, Vincente Fox is a vain, bubble-headed poseur. The Administration has been pampering and stroking him all week, and Fox is feeling so pleased with himself that he hasn’t gotten a darn thing out of this visit and isn’t going to. I’ll admit that Bush’s proposed amnesty may have been a mistake, but on the other hand, it may have been a clever political ploy, in the time-honored practice of Presidents promising things that they know good and darn well Congress isn’t going to pass.

What do you think? Does it make sense, or am I off base?

The disease idea was just an example of standards. I’m not saying that all illegal immmigrants have diseases, but no one has any idea of what their health status is. People who came through Ellis island and other ports of entry were checked–ask older immigrants.

Having standards means evaluating who you let in and why. I know a variety of legal immigrants who can’t even visit their home countries to see their families, and others who can’t get visas for their families to visit them. I’ve met people who show incredible self-control, including the number of kids they have (or don’t have), yet they can’t get a basic visa. But our gov’t accepts anyone who comes at a cheap price, despite their character.

I have a good solution for finding workers: before the crop comes in, the agricultural community should go to Americans and announce the opportunities to work, and see if people respond. In non-agricultural areas, chambers of commerce should get together and announce when businesses are hiring–go to Americans first, especially those in economically depressed areas.

Then, if Americans do not respond or are lazy or dishonest, then the use of illegal immigration is justified. But our government doesn’t care about even looking into that.

Not true. Read Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath. The Joad’s were American citizen’s, and they were white. I grew up in the bootheel area of Missouri — that’s cotton country. Everyone I knew picked cotton. And, with a few exceptions, everyone I knew was white. We had two summer vacations from school. The first so everyone could chop cotton, the second so everyone could pick cotton. Even the school teachers picked cotton. In the late 1970′s and all of 1980, I worked as a migrant farmworker in Michigan, Virginia, and Florida. The crews I worked on were primarily white. As for as quality and quantity of work done, I’d put those crews up against any crew of whatever race, creed, or nationality.