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12/22/2002 03:51:00 AM | Jared Alessandroni Perhaps I Wasn't Clear Though I did read Tim's post. I'm sure I'm getting semantic groupings mixed up for want of sleep or mental resources. But, as a particularly interested party, I saw that even while Bush was playing his catchthelatino games, his talk wasn't matching. One commentary notes: But in his speech governor Bush also stressed again and again that the U.S. must enforce its borders and--in other venues--he has argued that those controls should be even stronger than the ones currently in place. This begs the question: what would a kinder, gentler, but tougher Bush immigration policy really look like? Also, we must note that while the Republicans brilliantly strategized, Bush vocally opposed LIFA. I understand that the rhetoric was pro-Latino, and to that extent pro-immigrant, but the actual platform, I took a different way than Tim. I think it's just as dangerous to ignore this duplicity of rhetoric. As for the post-9/11 references, I should have clarified that those were the most obvious examples of this duplicity. In terms of Bob Jones - while their policy on immigration might not be well documented, you can easily infer an opinion on immigration by looking within their site for the word immigration or, as I did when I first heard he was there, making the perhaps unfair but very natural correlation: If these people can, with a straight face, say that they are better than a minority group, what are the chances that they won't extend that to a group that ghasp isn't even American? (And, yes, in my experience, the continental nomenclature - the use of American for someone not from the US - leaves many of this ilk looking back at you like you'd just been let out of some cage). I have yet to see an argument that the tone if not the rhetoric of a campaign is defined only purely in words. Bush made a point to a lot of right-wingers with that visit - for those of us who were looking, he made other points as well. I should have said, to me, it felt like he talked like that guy in that article I referenced when it came to border control. And, as a side-note, I remember the day I heard the sentence Texas' Border with Mexico boasts 3rd world health-problems. after which any other rhetoric was to be laughable. Though he wasn't even consistent in that. See here and here and here. Love in the last one: and I support expanding the H-2A temporary agricultural workers program so that willing workers can help meet America's labor needs. Yes, kiddies, he's talking about migrant workers. In any case, any responses to my questions about education anyone? perma link |
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