Why are we arguing here? Isn't illegal immigration all Bush's fault?

Question

Yeah yeah yeah, Clinton signed the NAFTA agreement, but I am sure he did not have intentions of giving away the whole country to illegals which is going on now. Bush is the one who turned his back on the border. IT IS HIS FAULT AND ONLY HIM TO BLAME. He is commander in chief. He could have kept the National Guard on the border or assigned more. Why don't we take the beef to the culprit instead of argueing here? Is Bush lone responsible for giving away our country to illegals or not? Don't blame Mexicans or illegals...every American citizen knows they would have crossed the border too. No....I am not...I am white and born here to American citizens 42 years ago.

I told John Kerry the country would not survive 4 more years of Bush. His team told me he did read my campaign ideas. I was right, we did not survive. This is not America anymore, it is illegal alien counties invading and taking over all of America's tradition and well being. Doesn't anyone in the news here us here?

Answer 1

Why are we arguing here? Isn't illegal immigration all Bush's fault?

I feel your pain. But the problem really exploded long before Bush. And it wasn't an elected official who changed the way the laws could be read.

In the Supreme Ct decision of Plyler v Doe, a 5 to 4 majority decided (against all previous decisions to the contrary) that the jurisdiction of children here illegally could not be distinguished from the jurisdiction of any other child. Therefore, all services should be available to them.

The case, from a group of illegal aliens in Tyler, Texas, concerned a Texas law prohibiting illegal aliens from using our citizen-funded services, including school attendance. Plaintiffs argued that, under the 14th amendment, as these people were not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof (of the U.S.) they were not entitled to things allocated for citizens only.

By this decision, alone, the court ended representative law. How? Because the 14th Amendment most DEFINITELY DOES clarify who is subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Not within the wording of the Amendment itself but in the explanations recorded in the Congressional Globe of the 39th Congress who ratified it. In debates leading to ratification, not one single argument was made suggesting that aliens are subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Many statements were profoundly clear to the opposite effect, however.

And the Court has always referred to the Globe as a source of clarification of intent in its decisions. So they obviously knew what they were doing.

Basically, the court usurped the power of our vote by ignoring the clearly-stated intent of those we elected.

My friend, our problems go way beyond which of our two impotent parties is to blame. We need a complete overhaul.

I call for a "Month Without a Citizen," meaning a complete boycott of all roads, schools, clinics, stores, airports, seaports, rail lines, buses, EVERYTHING of IMPORTANCE SHUT OFF until and unless an amendment is ratified granting the power of veto over any item of any and every bill passed by the Hill and BEFORE it goes to the White House.

Enough is ENOUGH!!!!

Answer 2

The only President, in recent history that ever did anything about illegal immigrants (actually it was illegal Mexican immigrants) was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he started what was known at the time as "Operation Wet-B*ck" The police and feds rounded them up and shipped them back.

In 1986, we granted Amnesty to all illegal immigrants, that was 14 years before Bush was elected and we were promised by Senator Ted Kennedy that would be the last Amnesty Bill we ever passed, but then again he was co-author of the recent Immigration Reform Act (aka Amnesty). Bush supported that stupid bill as did John McCain and several Democrats (most of the supporters were democrats)

Answer 3

You can blame the sheer numbers of illegal aliens in our country on EVERY president since our LAST amnesty in 1986 until today. NOT A SINGLE PRESIDENT did anything of merit to solve the problem. It remains to be seen if any future President ever does.

Answer 4

In American politics, it is always shallow to lay all blame on one person.

Answer 5

All Bush's fault?. Did you come to that conclusion all by yourself or did your mommie help you?

Answer 6

Yeah, and Bush killed the dinosaurs too.