Posted by
Takeadair on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:27:02 PM
Tonight, it was the portion on immigration reform that mattered. The president called on Congress to "resolve the status of illegal aliens already in the country." However, their status has already been resolved -- they are illegal aliens.
What Bush wants to do is permit them to change that status (and not by leaving the country). But why should we do that? Bush did not say. Those who broke our laws and entered the U.S. illegally had no reasonable expectation that they would ever become citizens -- they decided that it was worth it to come and remain here without that enhanced status. Why then should we improve upon a bargain that was good enough when made and which the illegals could reverse by simply leaving the country?
Right now, we can't control whether folks come into the country illegally; our only control consists of making sure that those who do so cannot profit to extent of becoming citizens.
Until we prove that we can control our borders, it would be foolish to relinquish that control. But that's what Bush and the Dems likely will do.
UPDATE: There were two important lines about Iraq that Speaker Pelosi (along with many her Democratic colleagues) declined to applaud at all. One was the president's call for us to "find our resolve, and turn events toward victory."
The other was his statement that "nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East [and] to succeed in Iraq."
"Simply put, the most important question for U.S. leaders is: What set of policies is most likely to prevent Islamist terrorists from arriving in Los Angeles, or any other American community, with the capacity to kill thousands of people?"
The answer is clear: We must end Islamic immigration, for starters. However, the elites of this country won't do it because for them, "non-discrimmination" is a higher value than protecting America.