February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
“We should not be content with laws that punish hardworking people who want only to provide for their families and deny businesses willing workers, and invite chaos at our border,” Bush said.
“It is time for an immigration policy that permits temporary guest workers to fill jobs Americans will not take, that rejects amnesty, that tells us who is entering and leaving our country, and that closes the border to drug dealers and terrorists.”
Notably, the president did not state support for moves in Congress aimed at allowing undocumented immigrants achieve full legal status through the process of so-called “earned-legalization.”
GALWAY MAN
SURVIVES CRASH
A Galway native walked away from the dramatic crash of a corporate jet at Teterboro airport in New Jersey last Wednesday. Rory Murphy, 28, suffered only a knee injury when the jet failed to lift off, roared across a highway, struck two cars and slammed into a warehouse.
Murphy’s family learned of the crash and his miraculous escape when he e-mailed his brother in Dublin, the Irish Independent reported.
“He rang from hospital about half an hour later and said he was fine but he sounded quite shocked,” Murphy’s brother David, who manages the Clarion Hotel in Dublin, told the paper.
Murphy, who was on his way to Chicago for a meeting, was working for Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11. Hours passed that day before his family learned that he was safe. Murphy currently works for the New York equity investment company Kelso. Fourteen people were injured but there were no fatalities in the Teterboro crash.
NEWSDAY: U.S.
SHOULD INTERVENE
The U.S. needs to intervene in the Northern Ireland peace process before the situation gets any worse, according to Newsday.
In an editorial published Tuesday, the Long Island daily said that the “stumbling” peace process “appears to have come to a complete halt, with ominous intimations of a return to violence after the Irish Republican Army scuttled its offer to disarm.”
The paper stated that the U.S., a key player in crafting the 1998 Good Friday agreement, now had an obligation to become “re-engaged” in the process, possibly by appointing a new special envoy.
The editorial stated that the Bush administration was “right to consider” excluding Gerry Adams from the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House.
“To his credit,” Adams had warned of the “devastating consequences” if there was a return to violence. But the Sinn F