A Charge To Keep: on Immigration


More border guards to compassionately turn away Mexicans

We must do a better job of stopping those who seek to come into our country illegally. I support strict border enforcement programs such as Operation Hold the Line, which concentrate border patrol officers and resources at known border-crossing points. I believe it is far more compassionate to turn away people at the border than to attempt to find and arrest them once they are living in our country illegally.
Source: “A Charge to Keep”, p.237.

  • The above quotations are from A Charge To Keep: My Journey to the White House, by George W. Bush.
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Other candidates on Immigration:
Pat Buchanan
George W. Bush
Al Gore
Ralph Nader
Harry Browne
Dick Cheney
Joe Lieberman

2002 Candidates:
Elizabeth Dole
Janet Reno
Jeb Bush
Robert Reich


Withdrawn Candidates:
Lamar Alexander
Gary Bauer
Bill Bradley
Steve Forbes
Orrin Hatch
John Kasich
Alan Keyes
John McCain
Dan Quayle
Bob Smith
Donald Trump
Paul Wellstone
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