CLOSE THE MEXICAN BORDER... Arnold says he's sorry!

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Schwarzenegger Sorry for Border Comment

Thu Apr 21, 8:44 AM ET
U.S. National - AP

By TOM CHORNEAU, Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Blaming his faulty English, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday said he misspoke when he suggested that California's border with Mexico should be closed to help solve the nation's illegal immigration problem.


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Schwarzenegger made the remark while speaking to newspaper editors and publishers Tuesday. He said he intended to say the border should be secured.

"Yesterday was a total screw-up in the words I used," the Republican said at a news conference. "Because instead of closing, I meant securing. I think maybe my English, I need to go back to school and study a little bit."

The governor's contrition seemed to quell the issue at the Capitol, where a key Hispanic lawmaker accepted the apology a day after criticizing the remark.

"I don't think the governor identifies himself with that kind of rhetoric," said Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat. "I don't know why he said it, but I'm very pleased he has totally removed himself from those folks who espouse that kind of hatred."

In his remarks Tuesday, Schwarzenegger told journalists: "Close the borders in California and all across Mexico and in the United States Because I think it is just unfair to have all those people coming across, have the borders open the way it is, and have this kind of lax situation."

Although a big bloc of Hispanic voters supported Schwarzenegger in the 2003 recall election, the governor's relationship with California's largest minority group has been uneasy since he took office. Hispanic leaders have criticized Schwarzenegger's unsuccessful efforts to cut public health and social services that would have hurt low-income families.

Most notably, however, the governor forced the Legislature to repeal a bill that granted driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Although Schwarzenegger since said several times he would accept some form of the legislation if security issues could be resolved, no compromise has been reached.

His remark about the border was taken as a further slight by some in the Hispanic community.

"That's not what we expected given the fact that the governor himself is an immigrant," said Francisco Estrada, a spokesman for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

 

how the fuck did he get elected in the first place?

 

This spineless pandering to illegal aliens has to stop:

http://www.oregonir.org/undermining_american_workers.htm

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

 

He's married to a Kennedy.

 

California has a drug problem, and all the stoners thought it'd be cool to have the Terminator as governor, atleast that's my theory.

 

Reagan was an actor too.

 

He's rich, and he is dumb.

That's pretty much a guarantee in the plutocratic US.

 

He's a great governor. Arnold for President.

 

Living in England, you would know this how, pray tell?

 

I read.

 

How is Arnold a great governor when the state of California has went even further to shit since he's been in office?

 

i actually 100% believe that to be the case, how else would it have happen
unless he's actually a robot from the future sent to destroy mankind...but what are the chances of that

 

Ah yes, PB reads. Given his typical regurgitative sloganeering for media darlings, populists, and excused criminal abuse of power by our leaders, it's not hard to guess what it is he reads nor its level of investigatory legitimacy.

 

The papers are full of propoganda bullshit. If you believe everything you see and hear without question your stupid.

 

I am sure Arnold isn't for closing or securing the border, just like his friends Karl Rove and Bush and the rest of them. I'm sure Arnold just said this for Publicity and to make people think that he is.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

Am I the only one who sees no problem with closing the border for a few years unitl all illegals are intergrated into American society?

 

No.

Peace and Love,
Dan

 

In order to do that we would have to stop trading with latin american countries. Plus, it wouldn't do a damn thing because the border's are "closed" to illegal aliens but they still get in.

how bout we just give back texas to the mexicans, would that make everything better?

 

Wrong.

Again, there is a difference between legal and illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has nothing to do with trade.

You are incredibly minsinformed, because the borders are NOT closed, and that is why so many illegals are entering at such an astonishing rate.

You don't understand that this is deliberate. There is a deliberate attempt in the works to lower the wages in America. So now, when the average working-class American has his job sent overseas and is out of work, and he has a family to feed, he might have to resort to one of the jobs that are currently being filled by illegal immigrants. Except they'll already be taken.

WAKE UP, PEOPLE!

 

Are there any "1st-world" countries that have closed borders?