Bush Immigration Plan Gets "Some Influence"

White House May Employ Lincoln Group In Border, Immigration Clash

Unlike Iraqi Program, PR Firm Will Plant Anti-American Stories in Mexican Media

Seeking to shore up his base, and end the growing, heated battle with Congress, and his own party’s leadership, President Bush said this morning that he may extend the contract of the Lincoln Group, beyond Iraq, to begin planting Anti-American stories in the Mexican media, as means to stem the wave of illegal immigration.

Speaking this morning at a naturalization ceremony in Washington to swear in 30 new American citizens from 20 countries , President Bush, according to the Washington Post, urged Congress to pass legislation in a "civil and dignified way" and to "move beyond tired choices and the harsh attitudes of the past."

Bu against a backdrop of millions of demonstrators protesting in Los Angeles, Chicago and cities across the country, Congress and Senate members are facing re-election later this year and proposing legislation that would ignore the President’s “Guest Worker” program and make illegal immigration a felony.

Tancredo Wants “Star Wars Wall” Along Border

Yesterday, on ABC News’ "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Senator. Arlen Specter (R-PA) sent the warning that there are "11 million undocumented immigrants in the country" and, "We have a national security problem. … We need to know who they are and where they are."

Appearing on the same program, Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) called for stronger measures.

Tancredo would like to see a “Star War Defensive Wall” built along the border between the United States and Mexico, as well as enforcing current laws and also prosecuting businesses who hire illegal immigrants.

Senate Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), who threatens to submit his own Immigration bill tomorrow, said he’d like to see a video of the President’s plans, and any others by his colleagues, before taking any action.

The White House has been scrambling to come up with a solution.

According to sources close to the White House, President Bush “is signing anything that will put a plug in this mess.”

“He’s looking at Executive Orders, Signing Statements, anything,” says David Aaronson, editor of 'What Color Is My Coat Today?’ the Capital Hill Newsletter that tracks politicians who turn on their own party

Aaronson said that the first instinct of the White House was to have Karl Rove launch a smear campaign against those in the Congress and Senate who oppose the President’s plan, but White House Chief of Staff Andy Card reined in Rove before the smears were released.

“I think Card felt it would have been too difficult to translate the smears into Spanish, “said Aaronson, “or that they would end up having a different meaning or context.”

The White House ruled out blaming the media for the immigration troubles, feeling they have to keep that focused for the problems their having with the War in Iraq

Lincoln Group al Rescate

Aaronson, and multiple sources, are saying that, from a chance, off-handed comment, the White House is looking at employing the Lincoln Group, the PR firm hired by the Department of Defense to “influence” the Iraqi media with pro-American and pro-U.S. Military stories.

Reportedly, at a breakfast meeting over the weekend, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made an off-hand comment that had the President and Card just look at each other, in stunned amazement.

“You should let my guys take a crack at it, “said Rumsfeld, between bites of grapefruit, sprinkled with granola, “All they have to do is flip the influence around.”

A few hours later, the Lincoln Group's Paige Craig, president and Andrew Garfield, the Senior Director for Insight and Influence were seen being ushered into the West Wing.

“Operation Rove Reverse”

It’s not known if “Operation Rove Reverse”, the title given to the Lincoln Group’s immigration program has started yet.

It is expected that the Lincoln Group will being writing news stories, in English and Spanish, that will be planted in various Mexican media, showing life in America in a “very unfavorable light”, including the threat of jail time, with references to the prison in Guantanamo Bay.

Plans also call for product placement and plot lines in the extremely popular telenovelas, or soap operas, as well as producing humorous sketches with anti-American messages for the legendary program, “Sábado Gigante”.

“I heard,” said Aaronson, “that one of the pieces Lincoln will present is that Harry Whittington was an illegal immigrant and Vice President Dick Cheney caught him coming over the border.”

The Lincoln Group may use Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting incident in their "Operation Rove Reverse" campaign, to scare off illegal immigrants