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more fuel for the fire.

Tamar Jacoby is so easy to dislike.

One of her particularly annoying tendencies is to be dishonest, and to hide what she truly wants. For example, she call for "more honest immigration quotas". What does that mean? Well, of course it means massive increases in already large-scale legal immigration, but of course she's not going to come out and say that. So instead she uses the word 'honest', which doesn't make one damn bit of sense, and is especially galling coming from her.

And the original letter in question does indeed make it sound like these 'conservatives' belive that foreigners have a right to come to the US to work. It just does.

That she goes on to both speak well of, and criticize the Pence/Hutchison plan is very telling. That a radical like Jacoby likes the Pence plan tell us that the Pence plan is garbage (even though Pence is an otherwise excellent conservative), but the fact that she dislikes it tells us thatt the Pence plan isn't radical, or bad, enough for her tastes.

First of all, the Pence plan requirement about English is just like all the other English requirements from all the other 'reform' bills, in that it is meaningless. Today the law says that to become a citizen, one must demonstrate command of English, yet for some reason we have Voting-Rights Act mandated foreign language ballots all over the nation. Why would that be necessary if we enforced the existing English requirements to immigration/naturalization law? And lets face it, most of the contenders for 08 would be as bad or worse than President Bush on this issue, so any enforcement from them would likely be as nonexistent as it has been under the current President, and the last one, and the one before him, .....

This English thing is just a smokescreen, an empty bone thrown out to try and mollify conservatives.

All the talk about amnestied illegals and guest workers not being eligible for permanent status for so long is also meaningless. The fact is that the 'guests' will be allowed to stay, and since most will have broought over part of their families while still technically 'guests', then its almost a sure bet that most 'guests' will choose to stay. So what if they have to wait a few more years to become citizens. They have the prize -- which is permanent residency in the US. That Jacoby wants to make their path to citizenship quicker is very suspicious seeing as how it is the same thing as increasing the Democratic voter rolls more quickly!

By this time in the article, however, Jacoby has let in a little truth, as she describes the so-called 'temporary guest workers' as what they truly are; long time legal immigrants. Now if only the Jacobys, Kennedys, and McCains of the world could be as honest when labeling their proposals. But I guess its easier to sell the fraudulent 'Earned Citizenship and Guest Worker Program' than it is the more honestly titled 'Multi-Step Amnesty and Gigantic Increase in Permanent Legal Immigration.'

But her honestly is short-lived, as by the close she is back to using calls for a more 'rational, realistic immigration policy.' Why can't you just be honest? Why not admit that your method for solving the illegal immigration problem is to so massively increase permanent legal immigration to such an extent that it meets all or most of the demand of foreigners wanting to come here; and if that means 2, 3, 4, or 5 million per year, then so be it? Why can't they just say that?

And her calls for assimilation would be easier to take seriously if she weren't calling for the above-mentioned enormous increases in immigration, which is not assimilation-friendly at all. Increasing the flow will only weaken assimilatin and strengthen all the forces opposed to it. And of course the onus to adapt should always be on the immigrant. If public resources are required to help the immigrant along, then that is another indictment of immigration policy. Taxpayers should not have to spend their money to futher along what is already a gift.

Rest assured, by the time this gets to the President's pen, the enforcement provisions will be so watered it effectively will be an amnesty only bill.

The Dems voted 39-4 FOR the bill and the Reps voted 32-23 AGAINST it. It is a DEM BILL. 'nuff said.

The article can be translated into one word: "AMNESTY"

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/09/06/us.mexico/index.html
"3 million"?

President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Frist, and the 22 other GOP legislators

Hmmm. 55 pubbies in the Senate. 33 did not vote for it. And the Republican House overwhelming rejects the compromise approach.

Yep, mostly Democrat support for this and little GOP support. When the article starts with a lie, it just goes downhill from there.

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Cripes. Before I clicked on the article I knew who the author would be. According to Jacoby we should get on our knees and thank God for the "new Americans".

THE "NEW AMERICAN".....

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We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster