Bush's latest open borders hot air

President Bush's latest open borders blather is even more incoherent than usual. If not for the use of words like "truncated", "abutting", and "leverage", I might think he was retarded. Maybe it's not so much something like that as a combination of the fact that he can't think up any new ways to try to sell "the folks" on something that they don't want and also the fact that he doesn't think that many of "the folks" are bright enough to figure out that he's a corrupt liar.

To make it even more incoherent, I've removed the paragraphs (source: whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061011-5.html):

Yes, we're going to do both, Joe. We're just going to make sure that we build it in a spot where it works. I don't -- DHS said they want a virtual wall. I don't believe that's the only thing they've said. I think you might have truncated their statement, because we're actually building fence, and we're building double fence in particular -- in areas where there is a high vulnerability for people being able to sneak in. You can't fence the entire border, but what you can do is you can use a combination of fencing and technology to make it easier for the Border Patrol to enforce our border. I happen to believe, however, that in order to make sure the border is fully secure, we need a guest worker program, so people aren't sneaking in in the first place. And so I look forward to not only implementing that which Congress has funded, in a way that says to folks, the American people, we'll enforce our border, but I'm going to continue to campaign and work for a comprehensive bill so that whatever we do in terms of equipment and manpower works better. If somebody is not trying to sneak in to work, in other words, coming through in a way where they're showing a temporary worker pass, where they're not using coyotes to smuggle across, where they're not going through tunnels, it's going to make it much easier for us to do our job, Joe, and that's enforce the border. And so my judgment is, if the people want this country secure, we've got to do -- have a smart border, which we're in the process of developing now. It's a combination of fencing and technologies -- UAVs, sensors. I don't know if you've ever been down there, but it's a pretty vast part of country down there. It's hard to enforce that border. You've got some rugged country; you've got stretches of territory where you don't even know where the border is. You've got urban areas, like El Paso, or Southern California, where people have been able to sneak in by use of urban corridors. And so, therefore, fencing makes sense there. I went down to Arizona, the Arizona sector, and saw a place where there's literally neighborhoods abutting the border, and people come -- a hundred of them would rush across the border into a little subdivision, and the Border Patrol would catch two or three, and 97 would get in. And they're asking, what are you going to provide to help us do our job? And in this case, those who are in charge of coming up with the proper strategy to enforce the border said, we need double fencing with space, so that the Border Patrol can use that fencing as leverage against people rushing into the country. And my only point to you is that the strategy to develop this border requires different assets based on the conditions -- based upon what the terrain looks like. And that's what we're doing. But I repeat to you, when you've got a situation where people are sneaking in to do jobs Americans aren't doing, it's also going to keep a strain on the border. And so, therefore, a temporary worker plan, to me, makes sense, and it's a much more humane program -- approach, by the way. It will certainly help stamp out all these illegal characters that are exploiting human beings. You know, these coyotes that stuff people in the back of 18-wheelers for money is just -- that's not in character with how this nation works. And I think we ought to -- I think a good program that helps us enforce our border also will see to it that people are treated more humanely. Thank you for your interest.

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Give him his "guest"worker-inevitably "guests" who only leave when they feel like it-program in exchange for an end to birthright citizenship. Ireland-probably the foreign country for which Anglophone US citizens feel the most affection-abolished birthright citizenship by referendum a few years ago. The margin was about 4-to-1.

George is dead on but maybe that is what old and young Bush want us dead, the corruption of mexico is well known but yet the rulers of this nation want it, is that not funny? and telling you something about our own mass corruption inside our own government and that is what will in the end game kill us all.

Xenophobia, meet the xenophiliacs.

He leaves out a few points, like the fact that some cross the border as predator thugs in pursuit of the the quarry that they steal and extort money from. A guest worker program won't prevent these thugs or terrorists from using illicit means to cross our borders. The president cares little for securing the southern borders, and that's transparent to anyone who listens to his words and watches his deeds.

Also, a guest worker program will not prevent criminals from entering under the guise of guest workers and abandoning their jobs onces they arrive here. Our law enforcement agencies will be responsible for vetting the character of migrant labor, and they'll be dependent upon the corrupt Mexican police to provide them with background checks. Does anyone really believe that our agency personnel will have much confidence in Mexico's information?