BUSH ON FOLEY: 'WE MUST CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION'
Andy Borowitz Wed Oct 11, 6:13 AM ET
In an attempt to change the terms of the debate over the Mark Foley scandal,
President George W. Bush said today that the Foley matter "only reaffirms my
belief that we must crack down on illegal immigration."
Mr. Bush's decision to link the Foley scandal with the issue of illegal
immigration struck some in Washington as unorthodox, but the president
remained resolute that America's immigration crisis, and not the behavior of
Mr. Foley, was the true root cause of the scandal.
"The question we need to be asking ourselves is not if Mark Foley behaved
improperly," Mr. Bush said. "The question we need to ask is, were these
congressional pages in our country legally?"
Mr. Bush said he would ask Congress to appropriate $84 million to
investigate the legal status of all congressional pages at once: "What we
may be seeing is an orchestrated attempt by 16-year-old boys with hot bodies
to swarm into our country and tempt our lawmakers."
Minutes after the president's remarks, which Mr. Bush made at a Boys Club of
America luncheon in Washington, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert praised
the president for "pointing the finger at the true culprits in this case."
"It's not hard for a bunch of scheming young men with hot bodies to corrupt
an older man through no fault of his own," Mr. Hastert says. "As a former
high school wrestling coach, I speak from experience."
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