'Soft' Bush vows to expel all illegal migrants
By Francis Harris in Washington
President George W Bush has promised to expel millions of illegal immigrants as part of a major new initiative to end fierce criticism from fellow Republicans that he is too soft on border security.
Mr Bush told senior congressmen and intelligence officers in the White House: "Our goal is clear: to return every single illegal entrant, with no exceptions." His words amounted to the toughest pledge on immigration from the Bush administration to date.
Mr Bush: 'You got people sneaking into our country'
Officials estimate that there are now 11 million illegal migrants in the country, most of them Spanish speakers from Mexico and other parts of Central and South America. They now outnumber legal migrants.
The president noted that "several million" migrants had been expelled since America began raising security on its southern border after the September 11 attacks.
2006-09-06 12:40:22 · 18 answers · asked by ibelieve 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
August/2005
2006-09-06 12:41:07 · update #1
President "Flip Flop" Bush
2006-09-06 12:47:50 · update #2
THIS INTERVIEW WAS PUBLISHED IN AUG/2005 -- I wanted to see what others thought were on how our President seems to "FLIP FLOP" on every single issue at hand.....I didnt write it I just Posted it
2006-09-06 12:50:36 · update #3
flip-flop...
2006-09-06 12:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by bradcymru 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Again, I hate when people are mis informed about present political issues. Start reading the Newspapers and political sections in the Times. We are doing a bad thing by bashing the issue with Illegal Mexican's. Show me one American that wants to work on a farm and picking our fruit and veggies? Show me one American, who wants to work as a Waste management to clear us from our daily waste and trash? Show me one American that wants to be a slave and do labor intensive work? Ha, I could just laugh about all of you for your insensetivity towards human beings! Really, go down there to the South American continents. Live there for a while, and you hopefully have an eye opener of what really is going on? Let them live, sure legally, but not to threw them out. They been here long enough, to gain their citizenship!! Integration is better than Deportation and actually less expensive!
2006-09-06 12:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by angelikabertrand64 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i agree he's a flip flopper. the illegals started coming in a long time ago. i worked at a food processing plant up until two weeks ago. couldn't talk the crap any more. there are so many illegals in these plants under false info. the dumb *** Americana's that sell there info to them should be fined. there's illegals there that have been there for years. the only way they get turned in. is when another illegal gets mad at them and turns them in. when an American Tell's there asked, do you want to keep your job? and when these illegals get fired these plants do not report it to immigrations. there let go and they find other dumb *** Americans hire them so they can have cheep labor.
2006-09-06 13:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, that's it. These millions of illegal immigrants only crossed the border starting in 2000, the year Bush was elected. Before that, we had absolutely, positively no illegal immigrants of any kind in the States. Not even one! Yep, this is definitely Bush's fault!
2006-09-06 12:43:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I'm glad to see he has come around to my thinking on this issue. This was the only issue we disagreed on. If he would have only taken a minute to call me in the first place it would have saved a lot of time and millions of Illegals would already be back where they came from.
2006-09-06 12:59:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
um,one question? do u guys want the immigrants to live here legally and there wouln't b any problem,or just get out of here even if they are or came legally here? would u consider yourself racist against immigrants? if i can remember in history class,isn't this the land of opprtunities and were't the asians who came here and discoverd the americas?
2006-09-06 12:55:06 · answer #6 · answered by tf 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good! If they want to immigrate--they can do it legally! It should free up millions of public assistance dollars for AMERICAN CITIZENS and LEGAL IMMIGRANTS who've not yet received their citizenship!
2006-09-06 12:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by Cherie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
None of this matters... illegals are not going anywhere. We are already going out of our way to welcome and make life easy for them here. Every public venue caters to English and Spanish speaking people. Business are catering to the Latino community because they want their money... illegals are here to stay like it or not.
2006-09-06 13:02:12 · answer #8 · answered by Sugar 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
And you believe this Francis Harris? You're very gullible!
2006-09-06 12:53:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Apart from the fact that that would be impossible, even if this article is based on fact, why would anybody believe him, even the raving Christians?
2006-09-06 12:47:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
We would like to see those bean-snappers kicked out of our country. Unfortunately, bleeeding-heart liberals, the Dems, the ACLU, and MECHA won't let that happen. Sad, the way America is going down, down, down.
2006-09-06 12:44:16 · answer #11 · answered by lifeloom 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋