Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, March 12, 2007 8:23:20 PM
Tom Raum of the Associated Press
tells us that Guatemalans resent us enforcing our own laws in our own country.
President Bush's message of goodwill in Latin American ran into a wall in Guatemala on Monday, as his defense of U.S. immigration law met with disapproval from his hosts.
Have they not paid attention? I’d hardly call Bush a stringent enforcer of immigration law and border control.
Bush pleased Guatemalans by promising to push hard, and quickly, for changes that would include a temporary-worker program for illegal workers in the United States.
His job is to please US, not them.
But he gave no ground in the face of questions over deportations of illegal workers, such as a raid in Massachusetts last week. Federal authorities detained over 300 employees of a leather goods maker - most from Guatemala and El Salvador - for possible deportation as illegal aliens.
300 out of at the very least 12,000,000 – you do the math.
"The United States will enforce our law," Bush said. "It's against the law to hire somebody who's in our country illegally."
If only that were true - that we'd enforce our laws.
Responded [President Oscar] Berger: "The Guatemalan people would have preferred a more clear and positive response - no more deportations."
Well, Mr. Berger, the American people would prefer your citizens not break our laws and mooch of our foolishly socialistic programs. We can promise no more deportations if no more of your citizens come to or stay in the U.S. illegally, and if the ones already here illegally go back home. Why do you want to get rid of your own people?
Legal immigration, not illegal trespassing. We have the right to control our own borders.