In Move Sure to Please His Pal, Vicente, Jorge Bush Speaks Out Against US Citizens Who Want Border Laws Enforced

Story dated 24 March 2005

"President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as 'vigilantes.' He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law. More than 1,000 people -- including 30 pilots and their private planes -- have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol. Mr. Bush said after yesterday's continental summit, with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at Baylor University, that he finds such actions unacceptable. 'I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America,' Mr. Bush said at a joint press conference. 'I'm for enforcing the law in a rational way.'

Enforcing the law in a rational way, Mr. President? Rational. . . like "pressuring Congress to further loosen immigration law" was it? How can one claim to be 'enforcing' the law in any manner (rational or otherwise) when one's solution to the breaking of that law is to make it even easier to break with impunity? If you're going to loosen the law to help law-breakers, why don't you grant amnesty to all the people being persecuted by the IRS? Any while you're at it, relax the tax law and make the top marginal rate 10% -- if it's good enough for God, it sure as anything ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

posted by The Sovereign Editor | 10:52 PM

_____________________________________________