"Bush 'amnesty' blamed for rise in illegals"
And here you thought the Bush/Fox Amnesty was just a harmless political ploy that would have no real effect except on the electorate:
The number of illegal aliens being apprehended on the southwestern border has jumped 25 percent in the first three months of 2004 compared with last year, and some are blaming President Bush's immigration proposal in January for enticing immigrants across the border...
The increase in apprehensions was driven by a spike within the two Arizona sectors, Yuma and Tucson, which saw increases of 60 percent and 51 percent, respectively...
Mr. Bush says his plan doesn't amount to an amnesty, but [Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus] said that's how those in other countries see it.
"The rest of the world knows exactly what he said. A Mexican peasant in Chiapas interpreted it correctly," he said.
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john s bolton (not verified)
Fri, 04/23/2004 - 16:48
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This is exactly what one might expect; even a proposal of amnesty worsens the problem that it is said to be capable of alleviating. It has long since been noted that amnesties do not remedy, but only intensify a problem of having millions of criminals running loose in the country. In general, appeasement is known to be likely to increase the misbehavior which it hopes will go away. The unpatriotic left, as you call them, would want this result of appeasement. They have long since given up hopes of a class war in America; what remains to revive their dreams of dystopia except the possibilities of race war? It is the use of public money , taken by aggression for intervention in the field of ideas, which gives rise to such traitorous elements becoming influential.