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Taken at San Ysidro near the border, in San Diego County, in 2006.
Posted on 04/27/2010 1:54:36 PM PDT by Steelfish
A Law Arizona Can Live With
George F. Will Wednesday, April 28, 2010
"Misguided and irresponsible" is how Arizona's new law pertaining to illegal immigration is characterized by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She represents San Francisco, which calls itself a "sanctuary city," an exercise in exhibitionism that means it will be essentially uncooperative regarding enforcement of immigration laws. Yet as many states go to court to challenge the constitutionality of the federal mandate to buy health insurance, scandalized liberals invoke 19th-century specters of "nullification" and "interposition," anarchy and disunion. Strange.
It is passing strange for federal officials, including the president, to accuse Arizona of irresponsibility while the federal government is refusing to fulfill its responsibility to control the nation's borders. Such control is an essential attribute of national sovereignty. America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists "comprehensive" immigration reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Refuse to use liberal language. Never call it, “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Call it was it is. “AMNESTY FOR 12 to 20 ILLEGAL ALIENS.”
Amnesty and voting rights will give the ‘rats a majority forever, and turn us into Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.
I think you left the "M"-word out, FRiend.
Again I say.....since the problem is Mexicans crossing our borders illegally, make the bill “Illegal Mexican Immigrants” Bill. Tell it the way it is and you get away from racism and take it to Nationality. Once this is done, you can take it to other nationalities.....if it’s necessary. But for the time being, concentrate on Mexico and let them know what you are doing.
Amazing support from a cocktail party conservative. I’m surprised quite honestly.
What’s the M-word?
Taken at San Ysidro near the border, in San Diego County, in 2006.
MILLION
“Doh!” (Slapping head.)
That doesn't sound too bad. I think I could live with that. The other 20,000,000 gotta go, though! ;-)
I see George F. Will has stopped taking his Silly Pills lately. Good. Welcome back, George.
He’s been in fine pitch recently and this article is another good one. I am very confident that as Americans get to know exactly what the AZ law is, and what AZ’s — and our national-— problem is, support will be rock solid.
It was very dumb for the POTUS to open his trap and say that “AZ was acting stupidly” until he’d had time to be advised that AZ’s big bad law does nothing but track federal law and give state and local officials the authority to enforce the law that the feds won’t.
No Beer Summit this time, though. Been there. Done that. Just learn to think before you speak, that’s all I can say, Mr. President.
How is a state's enforcement of FEDERAL law, which essentially is what is occuring here, "caving to the radical fringe"? This poses an even larger semantic puzzle than Will sets out here: Can the large majority of Americans, nationwide, who support the federal law -- passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by various Presidents -- be a NATIONAL "fringe" group?
How can Obambi be out there flapping his jaws about "AZ law" when the "AZ law" does nothing more than track the law he presently is sitting on and supposedly under oath to uphold and execute as President of the United States?
Give me a break.
If you want to mouth off about how the law (AZ/Fed) MAY be implemented -- just like you want to mouth off about how the teaparties MAY incite violence -- okay, knock yourself out. But neither mere specter is sufficient to say there should be no AZ law -- which, in effect, is saying THERE SHOULD BE NO FEDERAL LAW SAYING ILLEGALS SHOULD NOT BE IN THE U.S. -- anymore than it is sufficient to say there should be no teaparties.
It's the Left that puts the nation through these nutrolls. I think we are smart enough and fair enough to find ways to understand "reasonableness" without going to the extent we sometimes do. That said, Will is right to point out that in our society we literally bend over backwards to avoid racial profiling of any sort -- well, except the sort found acceptable by the Libs.
Once again, Libs think that we are too dumb to figure out how to do this fairly. Sure, police are human; they make mistakes and sometimes they even do things that are corrupt. But if the pervasive weaknesses of human nature were always a basis for not having law, there would be NO law upon this earth at all.
Another big part of our problem is that a lot of our border territory is controlled by the Interior Department or Forest Service. They are apparently more interested in keeping the area vehicle/people free (as if the illegals are gonna comply) than in suppressing illegal crossings.
Our legislature is working on that with a BILL to allow the Border Patrol to enter these areas and do their jobs. Right now, besides the illegals, drug runners have free reign and U.S. Citizens are warned not to camp or hunt in many areas.
I imagine that if this goes through, there will be another dogs-living-with-cats outcry from the Left as we take back more control of our land.
It’s amazing how many people can be so upset by a mere call to enforce laws, the state agreeing with federal laws already in place.
Those Americans of Mexican or other hispanic descent who live in Arizona who are here legally or several generations native American simply fell down on the job by not fighting the waves of illegals and standing up for the U.S. alongside other Americans. Now, they are reaping the bitter fruits.
Ping!
Just learn to think before you speak, that’s all I can say, Mr. pResident.
It’s not just Mexicans who come here illegally, it’s illegals from other country too, including terrorists. And most come through Mexico
You can't expect 0bama to engage his brain before he opens his mouth
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