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"The Plan...the Plan"

President Bush announced his plan for dealing with illegal immigration last night. Since then, Alabama's gubernatorial candidates have given their two cents on Bush's call to send the National Guard to the border.

Bob Riley:

"If we'd done this years ago, we'd have put a stop to illegal immigration."

"I do support placing military forces on our border. When I served in Congress, I voted to authorize the placement of military troops on our border, so I'm glad to see we're finally moving in that direction."

Lucy Baxley:

"I believe long-range planning should be something other than continuing to increase the demands on the citizen soldiers, which make it very difficult on their family lives and professional careers."

"Securing our country's borders is the responsibility of the federal government, and any action by the president in this matter is long overdue."

Chip Hill (spokesman for Don Siegelman):

"He [Siegelman] would never agree for the Alabama National Guard to be used as border patrol agents on the Mexican border."

"It's the Mexican border. It's not the border of Alabama."

Roy Moore:

"I'm glad he's suddenly realizing the policy we've been pursuing the last five or six years has been detrimental to our society."

"It is the duty of the federal government to defend our borders from an invasion, whether it's a foreign army or a foreign nationality."

Loretta Nall [Libertarian for Governor]:

"The last thing I want to do is make it more like a police state...We should naturalize them [illegal immigrants] and make them part of the tax base."