“ANOTHER JOB AMERICANS ARE NOT DOING”

(In Addition to U.S. Senator and Congressman)

(Bush Revisits Immigration Controversy in the West)

Alas, another job that Americans are not doing, being president of the United States of America! Mr. Bush being so comfortable speaking Spanish could sneak across the Mexican border and run for president there, (if he is not shot according to the laws of the Mexican constitution concerning illegal immigration), then we could have an illegal alien do the job of American president not being done now? Surely, one of them would sell-out America for less money then Mr. Bush is earning to do the same thing?

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ARTESIA, N.M. - With lawmakers preparing for the contentious work of negotiating a compromise on immigration reform legislation, President Bush tried to stress areas of agreement during a visit to New Mexico Tuesday.

Bush — in a different speech given during a stop in Laredo, Texas — also said the U.S. needs a national way to treat people who are arriving to do work that Americans are not doing.

“We’re making progress toward a comprehensive bill,” Bush insisted in New Mexico, noting that since his last visit to the border last month the Senate has passed legislation that would allow foreigners to get temporary work permits in the United States.

Bush showcases Spanish skills
The president may have undermined that message somewhat while at the Juan Diego Center, as he joined in a class, preparing students for their U.S. citizenship tests. Though the instructor addressed students in English, Bush mostly chose their native Spanish to greet and quiz them. When the students couldn’t answer his question — how many father-son duos have served as president — Bush explained in Spanish that there have been two, the Bushes and “Juan Adams y su hijo Juan Q.”

In Nebraska, immigrants are filling jobs at meatpacking plants and in the farm fields. Their increased presence was a factor in the May 9 Republican governor’s primary in this solidly GOP state and is expected to figure in Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson’s re-election race against Republican challenger Pete Ricketts.

Nelson opposes Bush’s ideas, which largely track with a bill recently passed in the Senate that contains a guest worker program and a shot at citizenship for illegal immigrants along with increased border security. Nelson prefers the approach adopted last year in a radically different House bill, which is generally limited to enhanced border enforcement and hard-line measures such as making all illegal immigrants felons.

Nelson said he doubts that House and Senate negotiators — who have yet to begin meeting — will be able to bridge the divide and craft compromise legislation. “The Nebraskans I know and talk to want to secure the border first,” he said.

Nelson’s Senate colleague, Republican Chuck Hagel, is an outspoken supporter of the Senate measure. At the event with Bush, he earned the president’s praise.

Consensus emerging despite ‘elbows’
With business groups who want a steady supply of cheap labor, the driving force behind a temporary worker program, Bush noted the support of Nebraska’s hospitality and agricultural industries. He also countered pessimistic sentiments like Nelson’s.

“I know you probably look at Washington and think it’s impossible to develop a consensus in Washington, D.C. It probably seems that way, doesn’t it, when you pay attention to all the sharp elbows being thrown and, you know, the people opinionating and screaming and hollering and calling each other names,” the president said. “But there is a consensus emerging on this issue.”

Bush’s Omaha visit wrapped up a two-day journey devoted to immigration. On Tuesday, Bush traveled to two border states — visiting the Border Patrol’s agent training facility in Artesia, N.M., before going to the agency’s busy sector headquarters near the Rio Grande River in Laredo, Texas.

© 2006 The Associated Press