What The White House Wants You To Know About Tonight's Address
Here are the top two quotations highlighted in a morning dispatch sent to reporters.
President Bush To Address The Nation On Comprehensive Immigration Reform. BARTLETT: "What the President will talk about is a dramatic expansion of Border Patrol agents. We've already increased funding for the border under his Presidency by 66 percent, but as we build up the capacity of the Border Patrol Agency, and that takes time, in a more immediate function, the President will ask a number of our National Guard units to help in a supporting role. Now, I know a lot of people have questions about this, but this is something the Guard is already doing on a much more limited basis right now, but in this capacity, they will be in a supportive role. They will not have law enforcement powers in and of itself, but they will help building infrastructure, surveillance, and those things. So it's not necessarily a militarization of the border, but what it is is filling an immediate need to free up more Border Patrol agents so they can do the arresting and detention there on the spot." (FOX News' "FOX And Friends," 5/15/06)
The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol Says President Bush "Is Going To Win" On Immigration Reform. KRISTOL: "He is going to win, I think, on the centerpiece of his legislative agenda in 2006, which is immigration reform. He shouldn't kowtow too much to people who want him only to talk about border security and the National Guard. ... But I think he's actually -- they have done a good job in the last, actually, couple of months on their legislative strategy on immigration reform." (FOX News' "FOX News Sunday," 5/14/06)
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