Our Mixed Up President

Border Security and Guest Workers Lumped Together for theBenefit of Special Interests in President Bush’s State of Union Address

January 28, 2008

(Washington DC) In Monday’s State of the Union Address, President Bush demonstrated his continued willingness to have U.S. immigration policy dictated by special interests instead of the American people. Stating “we will never fully secure our border until we create a lawful way for foreign workers to come here and support our economy,” President Bush mixed together two distinct elements of immigration policy border security and guest worker programs in what appears to be a deliberate effort to obfuscate a sensible approach to both. Indeed, the President’s statement implies that the government’s only option is to surrender to big business special interests and their big appetites for more cheap foreign workers if we ever hope to attain true border security.

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