Does Bush Have a Plan He Forgot to Tell Us About?
What the hell is the deal with Bush’s border policy? This is the one needling frustration I have with the man. I happily voted for him twice, originally considering him to be a “placeholder president”. Mostly someone to keep Gore out and keep the chair in the Oval Office warm until the 2004 election. Then came 9-11 and the man stunned me with his leadership, intelligence, and common sense. I voted for him eagerly and proudly the second time around. So why is it that his IQ dropped below that of a tree stump on border policy?
Michelle Malkin has written on this topic eloquently and thoroughly. There is an abundance of material on her blog in a post entitled Shame on President Bush. In it she provides information and links to other sites that detail the outrageous insanity of his policy.
Originally promising to tighten border security in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks he is pursuing a path that will make it weaker. Security and economic considerations, as well as increasingly rare common sense, dictate a diametrically opposed course of action.
Outrages include: Agreeing to a policy that will allow illegal aliens to drain hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Social Security funds into Mexico, forgetting his promise to upgrade the Border Patrol, proposing yet another amnesty program that will encourage even more illegal immigration, insulting the members of the Minuteman Project (American citizens who patrol the border voluntarily) as vigilantes, and others.
How does a man who sails so gracefully through some of the most troubling times in decades get a vital issue like this so wrong? I can think of a few reasons, none of them good. One, he doesn’t want to offend his Hispanic in-laws, he’s afraid of alienating Hispanic voters, he’s afraid of Vicente Fox, he believes the dreck about illegal immigration being good for the country, or he fears that businesses using illegal labor will turn against him. The only other possibility I can think of is that is part of some greater long-term strategy such as lulling terrorists and other criminals into a false sense of security in order to apprehend them later. Even if this last reason is true I think it is a big mistake. Allowing anonymous potential evil-doers to slip into the country is a formula for disaster.
Michelle Malkin has written on this topic eloquently and thoroughly. There is an abundance of material on her blog in a post entitled Shame on President Bush. In it she provides information and links to other sites that detail the outrageous insanity of his policy.
Originally promising to tighten border security in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks he is pursuing a path that will make it weaker. Security and economic considerations, as well as increasingly rare common sense, dictate a diametrically opposed course of action.
Outrages include: Agreeing to a policy that will allow illegal aliens to drain hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Social Security funds into Mexico, forgetting his promise to upgrade the Border Patrol, proposing yet another amnesty program that will encourage even more illegal immigration, insulting the members of the Minuteman Project (American citizens who patrol the border voluntarily) as vigilantes, and others.
How does a man who sails so gracefully through some of the most troubling times in decades get a vital issue like this so wrong? I can think of a few reasons, none of them good. One, he doesn’t want to offend his Hispanic in-laws, he’s afraid of alienating Hispanic voters, he’s afraid of Vicente Fox, he believes the dreck about illegal immigration being good for the country, or he fears that businesses using illegal labor will turn against him. The only other possibility I can think of is that is part of some greater long-term strategy such as lulling terrorists and other criminals into a false sense of security in order to apprehend them later. Even if this last reason is true I think it is a big mistake. Allowing anonymous potential evil-doers to slip into the country is a formula for disaster.
