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I'm thinking the reason this immigration bill is so important to Bush might be because:

He feels obligated to provide homes to the underpriviledged, under paid, less fortunate around the world due to his sense of guilt. You know, like his obligation to other folks. For instance, his outpouring of support, aid and dollars to New Orleans' victims. Now that was truly christian of him.

Also, regarding Immigration Bill, I'm sure he's likely figured out by now that with his being in office till 2008, there just won't be many other countries left around the world to find refuge in. SO, I'm sure his compassion is the driving force behind that Immigration Bill. What else could it be?

What?!

Bush can not be serious..."this bill requires illegal workers to pay a fine, register with the government, undergo background checks, pay their back taxes and hold a steady job.”

Does he really think illegal aliens with have the will, not to mention the means to pay back taxes and register with the government???

You have to be kidding...what kind of naive statement is that?

Forget more volumes of meaningless laws to deal with this country's immigration problem.

Simply ENFORCE the laws on the books; unless or until you can do that, you are simply wasting time and money getting "creative" (read stupid) with examples like the last volume of gobeldy-gook smoke and mirrors BS.

Honestly, you have totally lost touch with reality. The more you people talk in DC, the more mentally deficient you all sound, be you Demopublican or Republicrat.

I suggest serious mental health screening for the majority of Senators and Congressmen.

President Bush describes the current immigration laws as "unacceptable". I too think it is "unacceptable" that the current immigration laws have never been enforced. Why should we believe they will enforce any future laws?

The only immigraton bill we need is one that enforces the deportation of all illegal aliens in the country. No amnesty, no birthright citizenship to illegals' children and NO federal or state aid of any kind. Illegals need to go back to their own country and apply through the US front door like everyone else. Anything else is preference, and that's not going to fly!

When will the fools in DC get the idea that the American voters do NOT want to give away any more of America? We don't have that much left. Efforts should be made to improve high immigration countries - not dump on us!!

How many illegal aliens crossed the border during the Republican debate? That's the issue. Six years after 9/11, there are thousands of people walking across the border and into our cities and towns every week.

This Congress and president have been so arrogant and irresponsible on the immigration issue, they've lost all credibility. They have violated their Constitutional duty to defend established borders, and their breach has been supported by the major media and multinational corporations. These three entities–multinationals, the media, and corrupt legislators and executives–have taken control of our republic.

The president is delusional if he thinks Americans want this bill. He and vice president Cheney are and have been on the side of big business. They want anything that is good for big business. Cheap labor is good for big business. But they do not care that it is bad for Americans who cannot get jobs. And why should they care about the average American, when they're getting $11 million tax refunds and all their buddies are raking in the dough, including heads of oil companies making record profits while we're paying all time high prices for gas, even adjusted for inflation.

He also keeps saying the Iraq war will turn around if we just give it 6 more months. And the war has supposedly needed 6 more months for about 3 years now. And yet we're still sending more kids to die every day. For what? Cheap oil? Then why are gas prices still so high?

I think this president's judgement is severly flawed. And I think he will go down as one of, if not THE worst president ever. I can't wait until his term is over.