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CATCH AND RELEASE will end as immigration policy.  No word on whether fish are still safe, but illegal immigrants beware.  Bush apparently thinks people are like fish.

This practice of catch and release has been the government's policy for decades. It is an unwise policy and we're going to end it. (Applause.) To help end catch and release, we need to increase the capacity in our detention facilities. Last month at the White House I signed legislation supported by the members of the Arizona delegation that will increase the number of beds in our detention facilities. We're also working to process illegal immigrants through the system more quickly, so we can return them home faster and free up bed space for others.

BUSH ALSO THINKS for now that sending Mexicans back to their home towns in Mexico will keep them from coming back.  Oy.  Where do you think the motivated Mexican comes from?  [White House transcript] [CNN] [Bloomberg] [Previous Heretik on this]

AND THE BLOGS GO NUTS Pudentilla at Skippy says: it wasn't an ad-lib, inadvertantly revealing the contempt awol feels for those not blessed by god, as he was, with a birth on third base. it's in the white house text of his comments on immigration. he's talking about human beings. the speechwriters were told to make a deliberate appeal to his racists base. in a previous century politicians employed such dehumanizing rhetoric.  THE MISSING WORD IS AMNESTY Joe Gandelman: Indeed the Bush plan does seem to be an attempt to do verbal gymnastics to avoid the use of the word "amnesty." FROM THE RIGHT Red State: Bush Misses Another Opportunity.  The Heretik is sure Bush will go fishing for another opportunity soon.

MIAMI COPS WILL FREAK OUT local residents to show terrorists we are unafraid, just a little jumpy.

Deputy Police Chief Frank Fernandez, who announced the program Monday, said as an example, officers might surround a bank, check the IDs of everyone going in and out, and hand out leaflets about terror threats.
"People are definitely going to notice it," he said. "We want that shock. We want that awe. But at the same time, we don't want people to feel their rights are being threatened. We need them to be our eyes and ears."

FRANK MESSAGE TO FRANK FERNANDEZ Surrounding a bank when terrorist aren’t there might take some resources away from where terrorists actually are. Talk Left says: Is this what we've become? Who said the terrorists didn't win the terror war?

THE HERETIK RESPONDS this is not what we have become, this is what Frank Fernandez has become.  We will only become this freaky freak show if we allow it to continue.

PUBLIC HUMILIATION old new punishment is back here with a vengeance.

[The Supreme Court] rejected Gementera's appeal Monday of a lower court's sentence that the San Francisco resident [Shawn Gementera] stand outside a post office for 100 hours wearing a sandwich board that reads: "I have stolen mail. This is my punishment."
In February 2003, Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco added the sandwich-board penalty to Gementera's sentence of two months in prison and three years of supervised release. Gementera had pleaded guilty to charges that he stole mail in San Francisco and nearby city of Burlingame in May 2001.

GUESS LOCKING him up in stocks and having people throw rotten food at him wasn’t an option?  Talk Left harps: Hester Prynne and the Scarlet "A" is A-Okay with our Supreme Court.

THIRTYSEVEN MILLION GOES A LONG WAY Lobbyist Jack Abramoff sought the help of U.S. Interior Department officials to save the job of an Indian leader under fire for $37 million in fees his tribe paid Abramoff and a partner, according to interviews and e-mails.

THE HERETIK NOTES members of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana who did not have access to millions of dollars in tribal money as Abramoff did had little chance against him. While Ambramoff um liberally spread his money in conservative Congressional circles, his former partner John Scanlon will be testifying soon.  Thirtyseven million may earn Abramoff and who knows who else short trips to the big house. 

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Comments

[blogenfreude]

Cunningham went out there and acted ashamed ... turns out all he had to do was wait for a judge to do it ...

[Neil Shakespeare]

Bush's new policy is "catch & eat". Details at my place.

[thorny1]

Bush's whole discussion is so simplistic and wrongheaded. First of all "these people" (like we can tell who that is) are not all from Mexico and they don't all have a place to go back to. Here in Calif it is difficult to tell (without asking) who has documents and who does not. Those undocumented workers I know of are as hard-working as the next guy; they are very family oriented and law abiding. They want the same thing everybody else wants--to feed and clothe their families, raise their children with a decent education and live in relative safety. I hate the whole jokey quality of "catch and release" like they're not people. Many Americans employ them, not to exploit them, but to help them.

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