Monday, August 29-Bush did talk to Chertoff... about illegal immigration

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050829-5.html

So, Bush called Chertoff on, glory be, a phone that Air Force One had, to talk to him about immigration because he knew his road show might ask him about it.

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I don't know if you know this or not, but hundreds of thousands of people have been detained, trying to illegally cross into Arizona. In other words, what I'm telling you is, there's a lot of people working hard to get the job done, but there is more we can do.

I spoke to Mike Chertoff today -- he's the head of the Department of Homeland Security. I knew people would want me to discuss this issue, so we got us an airplane on -- a telephone on Air Force One, so I called him. I said, are you working with the governor? He said, you bet we are. That's the most effective way to do things, is to work with the state and local authorities. There are more resources that will be available, we'll have more folks on the border; there will be more detention space to make sure that those who are stopped trying to illegally enter our country are able to be detained.

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