Speech Blog

”America needs to secure our borders -- and with your help, my administration is taking steps to do so. We're increasing worksite enforcement, deploying fences and advanced technologies to stop illegal crossings. We've effectively ended the policy of "catch and release" at the border, and by the end of this year, we will have doubled the number of border patrol agents. Yet we also need to acknowledge that we will never fully secure our border until we create a lawful way for foreign workers to come here and support our economy. This will take pressure off the border and allow law enforcement to concentrate on those who mean us harm. We must also find a sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally. Illegal immigration is complicated, but it can be resolved. And it must be resolved in a way that upholds both our laws and our highest ideals.”

President George W. Bush January 28, 2008

I believe that this statement by the president hold an empty answer. By empty answer i mean that he is just tell people whatever they wanted to hear to help them feel more safe at night. I the address you can see that there isn't a really clear solution on how he is going to solve the problem. It is all just blind trust that the people must put into him and his administration. when he brings up the issue on solving the problem he just states "we will never fully secure our border until we create a lawful way for foreign workers to come here and support our economy." This shows that he has given little thought on how to solve the problem and that he doesn't even know how. This empty answer is just his way of letting someone else deal with the problem and tackling it himself. Another example on how this piece blurs the truth is the expression "Catch and Release" statement. By catch and release what does he really mean by that. It seems that his administration have been just catching illegal immigrants then just tossing them back into Mexico. Is that what we really pay taxes for? I believe that this was a long problem and that it just didn't spark up right at the end of his term as president.

"America needs to secure our borders. First by hiring more Agents to patrol the border. Then by working with the Mexican government to help prevent illegal crossings. This will be costly but if the American people believe it is necessary then it will be done."