We Create Problems So We Can Solve Them

Keep talking, Howard. You have no idea how out of touch you are with the majority of Americans.

AP: Dean: GOP Will Use Immigration to Divide---

PHOENIX - Republicans plan to use the vast problems caused by illegal immigration to try and divide Americans voting in next year's midterm election, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.

"Once again, the Republicans created problems so they think they can come in and solve them," Dean told DNC members meeting in Phoenix.

Thousands of illegal immigrants cross America's borders each year to work better-paying jobs. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 11 million illegal immigrants now live in the United States.

Immigration is gaining prominence in politics, especially in Arizona and other states in the West, the busiest illegal entry point along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

President Bush has urged Congress to let illegal immigrants get three-year work visas that could be extended for an additional three years. Then, they would have to return home for a year to apply for a new work permit.

Dean said the government should have an "earned legalization" program in which immigrants who contribute to society and pay taxes should be able to earn the right to become citizens.

The DNC chairman also criticized Bush for not working with Mexico to confront America's immigration problems. "Work with Mexico to improve economies in rural America and rural Mexico, and you will stop the flood of people wanting to come to America," Dean said.

Republican National Committee spokesman Tucker Bounds said Democrats are out of touch with voters on border security.

"Dean's blatant mischaracterization of Bush's agenda is his best effort to mask the Democrats' unmistakable lack of a plan and any connection with voters on issues that matter," Bounds said.

Republicans created the problems of illegal immigration? I don't think so.

Granted, President Bush and our "representatives" haven't done what they were supposed to, but the Republicans don't make laws blocking law enforcement from asking someone's immmigration status (or lack there of). We don't believe in opening the border and letting all those people invade our country. We don't think those people should be allowed to stay and suck our system dry.

And what kind of logic is it to say we create problems just so we can solve them? So, we've been letting illegal ALIENS (they aren't immigrants) come over our borders just so we can create a huge mess, spend lots and lots and lots of money, have disease and crime, and then fix it all?