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September 14, 2007
 Put
George W. Bush On The 3:10 To Yuma!
By Joe
Guzzardi
For most of the VDARE.COM contributors and readers,
the problem of immigration consumes us. No matter where
we may go or what
we might be doing, reminders of
mass immigration’s impact are everywhere.
In 2004, I
wrote about a Christmas trip to New York where, at my
favorite Italian restaurant
Patsy’s, I was served by a
Polish waitress. She was a nice kid but almost certainly in
the U.S. illegally. According to her, she came to the U.S. on a
tourist visa to join her husband. That was quicker, she
explained, than applying for a
legal K-3 visa.
To say that the incident ruined my evening would be too
strong. But I couldn’t really shake it. And I couldn’t help but
wonder: are there no
Italians in
New York who would like to rake in the mega tips from the
expense account crowd at Patsy’s?
Sadly, I scratched Patsy’s from my list of restaurants that I
will patronize on future trips.
Now a similar off-putting incident has occurred. A remake of
3:10 to Yuma was released last week, starring Russell
Crowe and Christian Bale. The
original, a
wonderful yarn about a murdering outlaw taken to the train
where he will be transported to trial, featuring the underrated
stars Glenn Ford, Van Heflin and Felicia Farr is one of my
favorites (although not quite good enough to make my top ten
list of best westerns—read my list
here).
If I was free of immigration concerns—but who is these
days?—I would have been first in line to buy a ticket.
Instead, I thought: “Yuma, Yuma…isn’t that the
Arizona city where President George W. Bush went in April to
deliver his pack of lies in support of what he loves to call
‘comprehensive immigration reform’?”
And, my busy mind continued: “Isn’t Yuma in the
gerrymandered
7th congressional district represented by
reconquista/ MEChista Raúl Grijalva?”
The sad answers, of course, are “Yes” and “Yes.”
Analyzed five months later, Bush’s Yuma performance stands as
a lasting testimony to
his arrogance and
his contempt for patriotic immigration reform.
Excerpts: (read the entire speech
here)
- “Securing the border is a critical
part of a strategy for comprehensive immigration reform.”
- “People are coming to work, and
many of them have no lawful way to come to America, and so
they're sneaking in.”
- “It is impractical to take the
position that, oh, we'll just find the 11 million or 12
million people and send them home. It's just an
impractical position; it's not going to work. It may
sound good. It may make nice sound bite news.
It won't happen.”
My comments:
- Securing the border is “critical”
but it remains wide open.
- Deporting people is “impractical”
so “it’s not going to work”, eh? How about trying the
VDARE.COM
solution proposed by our contributor, “An Economist?”
Congressman Grijalva, a Democrat, didn’t
attend Bush’s insulting speech. And he wasn’t one of the 14
people Bush thanked during his canned comments. But I’m sure
Bush admires Grijalva’s passion for open borders.
This is what Washington D.C. touts as
bipartisan—a Republican and a Democrat who share the mutual goal
of
abolishing America through immigration.
Grijalva, no surprise, reaffirmed his
MEChista perspective as recently as August when he endorsed
the piecemeal approach to amnesty now being pushed by the White
House after the defeat of the “comprehensive” approach
this summer.
At an “immigration round table,”
Grijalva tediously spoke out in favor of the much denounced
Dream Act, a guest worker plan and a fast path to
citizenship for illegal aliens. [Grijalva
Says Immigration Reform Not Dead, By Cesar Neyoy,
Yuma Sun, August 24, 2007]
Like Grijalva, Bush— despite his
devastating “Comprehensive
Immigration Reform” defeat late this spring, a real
grass-roots vote of no-confidence—refuses to give up.
On August 10, Bush
announced that his Cabinet, with special input from his two
right hand bag men on immigration
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, have developed a “fact
sheet” to “improve border security and immigration within
existing law.”
The twenty-six point “fact
sheet” makes fascinating reading—most especially for its
use, thirty-six times, of the verb “will” and for its
amazingly vague language.
Bush makes so many promises—but, at this
point in his Presidency, has so little time!
Aside to the President: how about issuing a
“fact sheet” when you can outline your accomplishments in
the past tense?
For example point number 11: “In
The Coming Months, The Administration Will Publish A Regulation
That Will Reduce The Number Of Documents That Employers Must
Accept To Confirm The Identity And Work Eligibility Of Their
Employees.”
Change that to: “Yesterday, the administration published
a regulation….” and your poll
numbers might go up.
The “fact sheet” provisions are
truly scary. Each of you will have the ones that offend you the
most but let me direct you to mine.
Under the subsection titled “Assimilation”
are the last two points.
- Number 25:
“The Office Of Citizenship Will Provide Additional
Training For Volunteers
And
Adult Educators Who Lead Immigrants
Through The Naturalization Process.”
Pursuant to this, in
October, 2007—a mere two weeks from now—adult educators of
immigrant students will be summoned to one of eight USCIS
sponsored training sessions to “improve our ability”
to teach history, civics and naturalization.
Odd, although I have been an
ESL instructor for
twenty years, I haven’t received the notification. Perhaps
I’m out of the loop for key memos from school administrators—but
I doubt it since I’m the
senior staff instructor.
- Number 26:
“The Department Of Education Will Launch A Free,
Web-Based Portal To Help Immigrants Learn English, And
Expand This Model Over Time.
This one just isn’t going
to happen. Teaching non-English speakers the language and
computer skills is simply too much for them. Take it from
someone who has tried.
What is possible is to
establish basic computer skills and slowly merge into low-level
English language programs. But as for learning civics and
American history online—forget it.
In August,
I wrote that Bush is America’s worst president ever. Few
readers challenged me.
Because of his stubborn,
non-stop efforts to
end American sovereignty, Bush is also the most frightening
president ever.
Bush’s quest to
abolish America ends when the 44th president is
sworn in…and not a day before.
Put Bush on the “3:10 to Yuma” to face a jury for his crimes
against America.
Joe Guzzardi [e-mail
him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor.
In addition, he is an English teacher at the Lodi Adult School and has
been writing
a weekly newspaper column since 1988. This column is exclusive
to
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