I "Heart" Vicente ...

Crossposted from Red Hot Cuppa Politics:

Well, the scuttlebut from "reliable sources" is that Bush plans to announce the deployment of National Guard troopers along the border. But, according to the NewYorkTimes, , it's supposed to be a "temporary plan" which he discussed with Vincente Fox last night.

From NYT's :

WASHINGTON, May 14 — President Bush's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the southern border of the United States has raised the concern of his longtime ally President Vicente Fox of Mexico, who called Mr. Bush on Sunday to express his worries.

White House officials said Mr. Bush assured Mr. Fox that a permanent National Guard presence on the border was not being considered.

"The president made clear that the United States considers Mexico a friend," said Maria Tamburri, a White House spokeswoman.

Ms. Tamburri said the president told Mr. Fox, "What is being considered is not a militarization of the border, but support of border patrol capabilities, on a temporary basis, by National Guard personnel."

Let me get this straight. Bush is going to take the extrordinary measure of sending US troops to the border -- so they can support the Border Patrol's lack of defense of our borders. And, Bush has told Mr. Fox not to worry about it.

I frankly have mixed feelings about deploying American troops on our soil. But I sure as h3ll don't think our National Guard needs to be deployed in order to hang out and wait for a call from the MinuteMen to apprehend an illegal trying to sneak over.

Of course, in the words of Kathryn Cramer, who's not known for conservative thinking: "...If the existing laws were enforced and enforced even-handedly, we wouldn't need to have this conversation."

Understand, Fox has his own presidential elections, to be held in July. According to the Peninsular -- out of frickin' Qatar -- while his leftist opponent has slipped in the polls, there's still a sizeable chunk of about 15 percent of the population that embraces Castro/Chavez inspired leftist philosophy. Part of Fox's party platform is to facilitate relations (read illegal immigration here) to the US. And, no. We do not want a Chavez style government just across our southern border; Bush might be trying to throw his buddy a bone.

However, why can't politicians of two great nations figure out that Mexican voters just might vote for the candidate that actually improves their own economy -- and American candidates who will enforce our laws .... ?

While Bush samba's with Fox, the Democrats will waltz into power to a Mariachi tune. (And, we still don't get our borders defended, except by guys with binoculars in lawnchairs)

Click to the CoalitionBlog for the latest and freshest news regarding Illegal Immigration. RightTruth points out bluntly about how this issue is "driving us to drink, and change parties." LadyJane writes how Mexico is not our friend. Valgerd emphasizes that patriotism is not racism, and while you're there, click to her interesting analysis on Posse Comitatus. Heh -- James Foley invites you to chant "Om, mani, padme, om!..." with clueless Republicans. And, for a really warm, fuzzy feeling, read ChristiKing's article at the CoalitionBlog about how illegal aliens need your children -- for their social security numbers.

Oh, and BTW -- Fred was on the phone all day Friday with actual National Guard members, whose response to the possibility of being posted along the border was unanimously: "OH H3LL YEAH!!! Git er done!!!"

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