The Immigration Speech Tonight

I’ll be watching the President tonight but it appears that I’m not going to be happy about what he will say. Reading what has been leaked out, I’m in for a disappointment. The few National Guardsmen being sent to the border would appear to play a minor role in enforcement. Doesn’t that word “temporarily” just frost you? It’s as if he’s hoping people would quickly forget about border security and then “bang” no more Guard.

Why is Bush more concerned about reassuring Vicente Fox then he is about the security concerns of the American citizen? Why is it OK to have the Mexican army cross our border but it’s not OK for us to protect it?

"Mexican President Vicente Fox reached out to President Bush this morning to relay his concerns about consideration of a plan by the United States to deploy National Guard forces to the border region. President Bush made clear that the United States considers Mexico a friend and that what is being considered is not a militarization of the border, but support of Border Patrol capabilities, on a temporary basis, by National Guard personnel," Tamburri said.
"The president reiterated to President Fox his commitment to comprehensive immigration reform," she added. Fox's office also released a statement saying Bush assured the Mexican president that any military support would be administrative and logistical and would come from the National Guard, not the Army.

Quite frankly, I feel like Bush is treating those of us who want border security and immigration law enforcement like spoiled children. He’ll give us few toys to play with and sending us off to play. We are being bribe like children so that he can get a historically disastrous, unmanageable, and utterly ineffective amnesty proposal passed. Instead of getting real enforcement we’re going to get condescension.

What Bush should be doing is to stop pandering to employer lobbies, Mexico and questionable future voters and speak to the things all Americans agree upon. No immigration policy is workable without secure borders and enforcement of current laws.