Karl Rove On Illegal Immigration

Let the games begin...

Hewitt: Last question, a political one, a time bomb, really, for the Republican Party concerns the border. The House of Representatives passed an act at the end of last year. It hasn't yet come up in the Senate. What is your advice to the Senate about the House's decision to crack down on the border and build the fence?

Rove: Well, we support the border security initiative. We are a little bit concerned about the fence. I mean, look. There are now parts of the border, particularly in urban areas, where a fence is necessary and helpful. Frankly, building a fence along a 400 mile part of the Texas border that is high cliffs along the Rio Grande River is probably not the best expenditure of our money. We like to think of the concept of a virtual fence, where we use a combination of fences, barriers at critical points, sensors and technology to in essence strengthen the border. And I'm confident that the Senate is going to take this up. I know this is a strong concern to Senator Frist, the Senate Republican leader. I think the Senate is likely to tackle the issue in a more comprehensive fashion, and not only look at border security, but also look at the issue of a guest worker program as a way to relieve the pressure on our border, so that whatever technology and manpower and resources we've got on the border are concentrated on the border, with fewer people trying to come across because we have got a program to match willing worker with willing employer for jobs that Americans won't do. But we'll see. They're going to try and take this up, I think, in March. We're doing a lot more on the border.

Hewitt: When people say guest worker means amnesty, what's your response.

Rove: That it doesn't, because what we do is require people to come here to the United States, if they want to come here to the United States, they've got to apply. They've got to be matched up with a job. They can stay here for a certain number of years to work, three years or four years. They might be able to renew that for one time. Look, most people who come here, every bit of evidence that we've got, is that most people who come here don't come here with the expectation that they're going to spend the rest of their life in the United States. They come here in order to get together a grub steak, and go home and support their family. For example, the average capitalization of a business in Mexico is $5,000. Most, particularly younger
workers who come here, they're hope and expectation is I'm going to be able to put together a couple of thousand dollars, and maybe go back and buy some land, or buy a tractor that we can use on the land my family owns, or I'll buy the little gas station at the corner, or I'll open up a shop, or I'll gain a skill to make it in life. But we are so good at once they get here, making it difficult for them to go home, that they lose all connections with their home community or home nation. And after ten years of being here in the underground economy, they wake up and way you know what? It doesn't matter to me anymore. I have no connection. What we need to do is have a program where we have rigorous defense of the borders, but workers who come here are allowed to travel back and forth across the border freely, so they can keep those connections, build that little nest egg, and go home. And you know, our economy depends upon immigrants. We are a nation of immigrants. We're an economy that benefits when smart people and bright people and energetic people come here. And we've got to find the right mix in order to keep that balance.

Here's the bit that jumped out and bit me...

They come here in order to get together a grub steak, and go home and support their family. For example, the average capitalization of a business in Mexico is $5,000. Most, particularly younger workers who come here, they're hope and expectation is I'm going to be able to put together a couple of thousand dollars, and maybe go back and buy some land, or buy a tractor that we can use on the land my family owns, or I'll buy the little gas station at the corner, or I'll open up a shop, or I'll gain a skill to make it in life.

Allow me to say right off the bat, I think he's so full of crap he needs a breath mint! The president and the parties (R)(D) want continued access to low wage slaves. The American people don't, which is why Congress is currently excreting large brick shaped objects. So it will be truly interesting to see how this plays in the upcoming weeks.

However, back to the story. So NOW America is a small business incubator for the citizenry of Mexico?

Ummm, maybe I missed a memo somewhere, my office is a bit untidy, but, huh? Each of those $5,000 chunks leaves our economy and will not be seen again. It will be spent (or misspent) in another country. So any jobs created will not be created in the States, any benefits from this money will accrue to mexico.

Again, I don't claim to be a financial genius, but I can feed myself and manage to use the waashroom with some facility, so I think that is about all the smarts you need to see through this tripe.

Karl Rove could give an economy sized rat's patoot about these 'guys'. He wants their votes and he's hardly the only one. Unfortunately this requires that America become a less pleasant place to live. Billions of American dollars, I'd guess, roughly about 20-30 (probably more) billion hemorrage over our borders every year. While we pay more and more for the privilege of living in a country that seems less like home every day.

How many businesses could be started in this country with that money? How many jobs could be created? How strong would our economy be then?

How did creating jobs in another country become the object of America? Wouldn't it be better to create them here?

But that's just me, an average American. Maybe if I was all smart and junk I would understand how propping up a wealthy country with our jobs and dollars is good for us.

h/t RCPblog

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