Here’s what President Bush said today in regards to the recent immigration bill cooked up in Washington:

“If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill,” Mr. Bush said this afternoon at a training center for border enforcement agents located in this town in Georgia’s southeastern corner. “That’s empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens.”

Sorry Mr. President, you’re as wrong as wrong can get. What frightens people is what will happen if the proposed bill becomes law - suddenly 12 million illegal immigrants will be welcomed into this country with open arms regardless if they broke they law to get here. The proposed bill is amnesty, pure and simple. It awards illegal immigrants by allowing them to jump ahead in the immigration line, get a “Z” visa that can be renewed every four years for as long as they’d like, and awards them for jumping our border and breaking our immigration laws. The proposed bill is NOT acceptable and those in the GOP who support it are dead wrong; that means YOU, Mr. President.

“People in Congress need the courage to go back to their districts and explain exactly what this bill is all about,” Mr. Bush said. “The fundamental question is, will elected officials have the courage necessary to put a comprehensive immigration plan in place that makes it more likely we can enforce our border and, at the same time, uphold the great traditions of —— immigrant traditions of the United States of America.”

The message is not getting lost or miscommunicated Mr. President. People simply don’t like the message and reject the premise of this bill, which seems to be the legalization of 12 million illegal aliens. Here’s a new fundamental question the president should consider: Does the Congress of the United States have the courage to actually follow the will of the people and reject this horrendous amnesty proposal? Anything less than total rejection of this horrible McCain-Kennedy compromise is simply unacceptable.