Tempus Fugit

The President’s words on immigration:

America’s immigration system is also outdated — unsuited to the needs of our economy and to the values of our country. We should not be content with laws that punish hardworking people who want only to provide for their families, and deny businesses willing workers, and invite chaos at our border. It is time for an immigration policy that permits temporary guest workers to fill jobs Americans will not take, that rejects amnesty, that tells us who is entering and leaving our country, and that closes the border to drug dealers and terrorists.

President Bush: State of the Union 2005

No. Screw them. If they want to work, they should overthrow the corrupt Mexican government that is keeping them poor by allowing drug lords to rule entire sections of the country. We need tighter restrictions on immigration, not an open invite to anyone who purports to be a worker. Remember, most of the 9/11 terrorists were in this country legally, some on student visas. Does Bush honestly believe that a guest worker program won’t be similarly abused by our enemies?

More from Rob Port (whose strikingly similar words I read after I wrote mine…):

We cannot keep the drug dealers and terrorists out under the current immigration laws, what makes him think we’d be able to do it with laws that are more lax? Is he forgetting that many of the 9/11 hijackers were here legally on student visas which are in reality a lot like the “guest worker” program he’s suggesting?

As far as I’m concerned, if these people want to come here and work for a living they can jump through the hoops of becoming a citizen. If that means we need to allow more immigrants in per year than so be it, but this “guest” citizen stuff is nonsense.

Say Anything: State of the Union Address

And from Michelle Malkin:

No recognition at all here from Bush that the vast majority of Americans favor stricter immigration enforcement against both “willing” employers who have put profits over national security and the willful illegal alien lawbreakers they are employing. No word of support for House Republican efforts to push for secure identification and asylum reform. Even Hillary would have done better.

Michelle Malkin: State of the Union: Quick Notes

Ouch.