Tonight, President Bush will address the nation on the topic of illegals entering the United States. By all early-bird accounts, the President will announce plans to use the National Guard to help patrol the Southwest border and will re-iterate his guest-worker/tiered-mass-amnesty plan.
If this is true, then I will be disappointed. I will be disappointed with the President and members of Congress (particularly Republican). Disappointed because the voice of the American people, Republican and Democrat alike, is being heard and absolutely ignored.
I say that our voice is being "heard" because President Bush and Congress clearly seemed to hear the American people when the issue of selling U.S. ports to Dubai came to the table. I say "ignored" because instead of actually trying to take into consideration what many Americans are calling for (secure borders and enforcement of penalties on those who enable illegal aliens), President Bush and presumably Congress are taking the low road.
Mr. Bush will announce the use of the National Guard to patrol the borders, but without special Congressional permission, they will not be able to do anything of any significance to actually secure our borders. My husband and I might as well stand near the border, for all the security that will provide. Then, most likely right after the mid-term elections, the National Guard will be recalled, and all the extra "security" will be gone.
This is pacification. It will work on some people because they don't think through issues for themselves enough to understand that what President Bush is proposing this evening is nothing more than an attempt to placate his base. This will do nothing, however, to actually fix the problem, and so my prediction is that the base will not only NOT be placated, but will now be insulted and even more frustrated. This is not a good plan, a fair compromise or even a good-will gesture. This is stubborn refusal to listen to the citizens of America and represent their wishes, plain and simple.
Former President Ronald Reagan became famous for his historic words to former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev when he said, of the Berlin Wall, "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" I contend that President Bush also has the opportunity to make history. Perhaps he should consider a similar statement. Perhaps his speech this evening could be summed up in this manner: "Mr. Fox, we're closing this gate! Mr. Fox, we're going to build a wall!"
That would make a lot of American's happy and President Bush's poll numbers would skyrocket. A win-win situation for all of us.
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You and your husband should bring your daughter with you to stand by the border. When the would-be illegals see how cute she is, they'll stop their journey, say "cutie pie" in Spanish, forget what they were doing, then turn around and go back home.
It could work.
Well, while that's a nice sentiment, Skyepuppy, the reality would go more like this:
We'd take Emily to the border, she'd refuse to listen to us and stay close to her mom and dad, run across the border, and then stand in Mexico, taunting us with a too-smart-for-her-own-good grin. Either that or she'd throw one heck of a temper tantrum, distracting us from our border duties, and allowing even more illegals to cross the border.
But it was a sweet idea.
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