-Caveat Lector- For an immigration time-out: http://www.projectusa.org/ Bush: Americans should respect illegal immigration Issue 91: August 24, 2001 +== TIME OUT PROJECT ==+ You have to give President Bush credit. He isn't even trying to hide the fact that White House immigration policy is all about importing cheap labor. In statements Friday in Crawford, Texas, Bush, visibly impatient with a reporter's question, continued to retreat from the word "amnesty," but said, "So long as there's somebody who wants to hire somebody and somebody willing to work, it seems like to me it's in our nation's interests to make sure the two go together." Bush might as well have said, "The cheap labor needs of my corporate friends come first, regardless of the impact on low-income Americans, the environment, our sense of community, our educational and health care systems, or future generations." Americans should ask themselves what the long term consequences of Bush's cheap labor policy would be, especially considering there are nearly five billion people in the world living in countries poorer than Mexico -- many of whom are probably "willing to work" in the United States. __________ Words do matter and 'illegal' is one (Houston Chronicle) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1001522 Illegal Mexican immigrants get 'respect' from Bush (Washington Times) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010825-53307418.htm Bush: No Amnesty for Immigrants (AP) http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84789366 Average Mexican 25% richer than world wide average (CIA World Fact Book 2000) http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mx.html#Econ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#Econ 4,922,522,781 people in countries poorer than Mexico (CIA World Fact Book 2000) http://projectusa.org/Resources/world_standard_of_living_ranking.html.htm +== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+ In Crawford, President Bush also urged Americans to "respect" the illegal immigration of Mexicans who "walk across miles of desert to do work that some Americans won't do." (Not the immigrants themselves, it is important to note, but the act of illegal immigration itself). It is bad enough that our government irresponsibly refuses to protect our borders and enforce our laws, but there is something almost unbelievably reckless about an American president urging Americans to "respect" (respect!) law-breaking -- particularly when it involves a huge, unregulated and irreversible influx of foreign nationals. Furthermore, the myth that there are "jobs Americans won't do" needs to be debunked once and for all. All the jobs now performed primarily by illegal immigrants have traditionally been done by Americans, but for a living wage. Between 1925 and 1965, the United States experienced virtually zero net immigration, and we still somehow managed to get our dishes washed, our lawns cut, and our children tended. Also, during that time, we invented computers, had a healthy labor movement, initiated a space program that put men on the moon, made great strides in civil rights and environmental legislation, built the largest economy the world has ever seen, and successfully prosecuted WWII against two great powers on two fronts simultaneously. The idea that somehow we suddenly can't run a country without an endless supply of foreigners is absurd. Call President Bush and tell him: I oppose your efforts to import cheap labor for your corporate friends. I think our country can, and should, do its own work. Phone the White House comment line during business hours at 202-456-1414 Or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+ Blind faith in free trade is as much of a menace as protectionism. Molly Ivins Creators Syndicate Inc. August 17, 2001 +==EMAIL OF THE WEEK==+ I would like to say that I believe that each country must solve its own problems and control its population. 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