Ex-California governor says GOP timid on immigration

[Judi Lynn]

June 12, 2006, 9:12PM
Ex-California governor says GOP timid on immigration
Wilson claims lawmakers fear being called racist

By GEBE MARTINEZ
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - The political godfather of California's initiatives against illegal immigrants in the 1990s said Monday that lawmakers who favor citizenship opportunities for such workers do so only because they are afraid of being labeled racists and nativists.

"I think a great many Republicans have been intimidated, and I, frankly, am quite disappointed," former California Gov. Pete Wilson said during a speech at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.

Calling illegal immigration a threat to the nation's security and culture, the Republican also called for a fence to be built along the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border before a path to citizenship is offered to the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.

Wilson refrained from directly criticizing President Bush, a longtime friend who has appointed him to foreign policy advisory boards. Bush supports a guest worker program and other facets of the Senate bill that includes an "earned citizenship"program.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/3963731.html

[Robbien]

1. That is bunk. The GOP is afraid of their corporate lobbyists

The ones for guest worker programs are catering more to the big global corporations than they are to the rabid rightwingnuts.

[LeftyMom]

2. What a shock

Hatred of brown people is back in style and Pete Wilson crawls out from under his rock. Surely the timing of the two events is a coincidence. :eyes:

I remember after prop 187 passed there were noticed posted up all over my school that it was still okay to come to school no matter what one's immigration status was. It's sad that it came to that, but within a few years it was like a bad dream and most of the people who once supported Wilson and the politics of hate and fear are ashamed to admit it. I hope the same thing is true on the national level, after all California is known as the trend setter.

[Faux pas]

3. Wilson?! He was the biggest plunderer of the General Fund

they ever had in Calif. What did he do to stanch the flow of funds to the illegals? Nothing, zilch, zippo, nada. He's nothing but a greedy hump. Thank Heaven above that his bid for the Presidency flopped. He would have made georgie boy look like a gnat.
:rant:

[cagoldensun5050]

4. Hey, look at it this way...

If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have come to our senses and shifted Democratic!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PETE WILSON!!!

[Faux pas]

8. LOL too true. n/t

[nolabels]

5. Oh please, I pray for it, please let Pete lead them through the wilderness

:evilgrin:

[Raine]

6. Pete Wilson

was one of the most lackluster worthless governors to come along, course most of them have been no better. :puke:

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Ronald Reagan talking from the grave again? n/t

[zreosumgame]

9. he is the 'God Father' of the energy crisis as well

it was Pete the Sneak who took money from PG&E and So Cal Edison for to push the 'deregulation' they wanted so badly. He was the main reason Enron was able to screw Grandma Tillie. To dammed bad for kenny-boy that Grandma Tillie's grandson was on his jury.