Former President Clinton agrees with Bush immigration plan

[ECH1969]

Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday said President Bush is doing a good job on immigration reform, praising his call for better border security and moderation in dealing with illegal immigrants.

"You don't want a system that can be flouted so much that you actually punish law-abiding would-be immigrants who file for immigration in a legal fashion and patiently wait," he said.

"We need to at least have some idea of who's crossing the border and whether they're at all suspicious and whether they should be looked into," Clinton said.

Clinton spoke to some 6,000 delegates at the International Council of Shopping Centers in an opening address that touched on the economy, health care and globalization.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/may/21/052110736.html

[IChing]

1. Thanks Bill, now you can take that cigar out of your mouth

My mistake, that's not a cigar.

[OKthatsIT]

15. Don't vote for Hillary...please.

Bush's immigration law will bankrupt US. Federal prison industrial complexes and corporate farms are the only winners on Bush's plan.

The globalists want us bankrupt...so of course, Clinton is pleased with Bush destructive forces.

[Southsideirish]

22. Chop off my hand first. n/t

[Southsideirish]

23. Like many people who come from dysfunctional families, he's got his nose

pressed up against the window of the patrician Bush clan mansion as they all sit in the wood paneled family room, laughing and having fun. Is he too old to be adopted?

[dysfunctional press]

2. i'm finding myself more inclined to believe those mena airport stories...

i'm thinking that maybe bill has been on team poppy for longer than anyone would care to know.

[Seattleman]

11. Team Poppy, I like that!!

Exactly right, NAFTA would have never passed without Clinton doing everything within his power to push it through.

[951-Riverside]

3. If Bill says so it IS a good plan

...sorry I had to beat the others to it

[IChing]

4. "I basically think President Bush has done a good job with this," Clinton

said;............

although he qualified it by saying he disagrees with him on most issues.

Let's give Bush a push in the polls
with that statement for now you know that will be repeated by the pundits and the MSM .

[bjb]

21. Clinton right?

I loved the man but he sure was wrong on Nafta. The Republicans have sold us out to the corporations, and the Dems have put Mexico before Americans. Time for the "American Party".

[951-Riverside]

24. "Dems have put Mexico before Americans"

Don't you mean republicans?

Don't get me wrong for the most part I agree with you these politicians have put the interests of Mexico and Big Businesses ahead of whats good for this country, I disagree with your assertion that only democrats put the interests of Mexico ahead of Americans, you have to remember WE don't hold the majority the repukes do.

[Bobbie47]

5. What Bill no punishment for

the employers. Or at least no comment in the article.

No body wants to go there for some reason.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

6. Well Bill this a problem

you passed on to the shrub, that was passed on to you from Bush 1, and on back. You threw gas on the fire when you signed NAFTA so you didn't help matters at all.

[gumby]

7. When are the right-wingers heads gonna explode?

Bush and Clinton
Sittin' in a tree
Kissin' and kissin'
on them emigres.

[Robbien]

9. If you thought the freepers couldn't get any madder about immigration

this is going to make them go ballistic.

[still_one]

8. hey bill why don't you offshore some more jobs

or bring in some more h1b visas you son-of-a bitch

who gives a damn what you think. because of your aragoance you helped destroy the democratic party, which now has to be rebuilt

[Erika]

10. Bill and W in complete agreement

Bill's just one of the Bush family. Michael Savage will love this. He'll rant and spew how horrible it is that these two families are in cahoots with each other, and then thank God that the Republicans are different and that liberalism is a mental disease.

This is SO funny. Where do Republicans go now?

[depakid]

12. Clinton's "Operation Gatekeeper" worked so well...

That he might as well pat Bush on the back for trying a similar thing on a larger scale....:sarcasm:

Then of course there's NAFTA -another matter where he and Bush agree.

[Mass]

13. Most democrats in the House and the Senate agree with the Kennedy plan

Clinton's fault is not to say it is the Kennedy's plan.

[ladjf]

14. Clinton continues to maneuver so as to serve his own self interests.

Hasn't he done enough to bring America down? Now isn't a good time to support Bush.

[sweetheart]

19. Really, the third way corporate hacker

Blair likes bush for the same reason, he is dedicated
to undermining his own constituency if it gives him power.

[Toucano]

16. There is an unprecedented volume of comment about this president

by former presidents.

6 years into his presidency and Bush still relies on the opinion of his predecessor? It's like he still has the training wheels on.

I don't recall Poppy ever commenting on Clinton's presidency.

It's very significant to me that the current squatter invites so much commentary from former presidents. All living presidents have commented about his policies at one time or another, either favorably (Ford defending Rummy) or unfavorably (Carter's frequent criticisms).

[noonwitch]

17. I think that it is an impossible issue for Bush to resolve

Nothing will make some of the people in his base happy unless mass deportations are involved. That's just not possible, plus, the people who want it come across as racists. Bush does not want to piss off latino voters.

I support stepped-up enforcement, with well-trained INS/Border Patrol workers. We can't build a fence across the border, what keeps others out keeps us in. There is a larger humanitarian issue at stake, too, that is that people come here because there are no jobs in Mexico that they can get.

[underpants]

18. Does this mean that Bush is "triangulating"? "duplicitous"?

Does this appeal to the "left wing?

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[sadiesworld]

25. Et tu Clinton?

Really no surprise, I just wanted to say et tu.

In the 60's, liberal democrats, at the behest of the likes of Cesar Chavez and Edward R. Murrow, struck down a temporary worker program. As a result, the UFW saw unprecedented gains in pay and benefits for migrant farm workers. Last week, democrats joined with republicans in a bi-partisan vote to table the Dorgan Amendment which would have removed the guest worker provision from the immigration bill.

See how far the mighty have fallen.