Read My Lips: No New Amnesty

Human Events ^ | May 17, 2006 | Ann Coulter

[boryeulb]

On the bright side, if President Bush's amnesty proposal for illegal immigrants ends up hurting Republicans and we lose Congress this November, maybe the Democrats will impeach him and we'll get Dick Cheney as President.

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At least Bush has dropped his infernal references to slacker Americans when talking about illegal immigrants. In his speech Monday night, instead of 47 mentions of "jobs Americans won't do," Bush referred only once to "jobs Americans are not doing" -- which I take it means other than border enforcement and intelligence-gathering at the CIA. For the record, I'll volunteer right now to clean other people's apartments if I don't have to pay taxes on what I earn.

Also, someone must have finally told Bush that the point about America being a "nation of immigrants" is moronic. All nations are "nations of immigrants" -- as Peter Brimelow pointed out brilliantly in his 1992 article in National Review on immigration, which left nothing for anyone else to say.

Of the "nation of immigrants" locution, Brimelow says:

"No discussion of U.S. immigration policy gets far without someone making this helpful remark. As an immigrant myself, I always pause respectfully. You never know. Maybe this is what they're taught to chant in schools nowadays, a sort of multicultural Pledge of Allegiance. ... Do they really think other nations sprouted up out of the ground?"

Brimelow then ran through the Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman-French, Welsh and Celtic immigrant influences in Britain alone.

Instead of a moratorium on new immigration, I'd settle for a moratorium on the use of the expression "We're a nation of immigrants." Throw in a ban on "Diversity is our strength" and you've got my vote for life.

Bush has also apparently learned that the word "amnesty" does not poll well. On Monday night, he angrily denounced the idea of amnesty just before proposing his own amnesty program. The difference between Bush's amnesty program and "amnesty" is: He'd give amnesty only to people who have been breaking our laws for many years -- not just a few months. (It's the same program that allows Teddy Kennedy to stay in the Senate.)

Bush calls this the "rational middle ground" because it recognizes the difference between "an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently and someone who has worked here for many years." Yes, the difference is: One of them has been breaking the law longer. If our criminal justice system used that logic, a single murder would get you the death penalty, while serial killers would get probation.

Bush claimed the only other alternative -- I assume this is the "irrational extreme" -- is "a program of mass deportation." Really? Is the only alternative to legalizing tax cheats "a program of mass arrest of tax cheats"?

This is the logic of the pro-abortion zealots (aka "the Democratic Party"): Either lift every single restriction on abortion or ... every woman in America will be impregnated by her father and die in a back-alley abortion!

Those are your only two answers? Do you need another minute?

How about the proposal made on Brimelow's Web site that illegal immigrants be told they have two months to leave the country voluntarily and not have their breaking of our immigration laws held against them when they apply for citizenship from their home countries -- or not leave and be banned from U.S. citizenship forever?

Or how about just not giving illegal aliens green cards -- as Bush is proposing -- and deport them when we catch them?

Instead of choosing immigrants based on the longevity of their lawbreaking, another idea is to choose the immigrants we want, for example, those who speak English or have special skills. (And by "special skills" I don't mean giving birth to an anchor baby in a border-town emergency room.)

Why not use immigration the way sports teams use the draft -- to upgrade our roster? We could take our pick of the world's engineers, doctors, scientists, uh ... smoking-hot Latin guys who stand around not wearing shirts between workouts. Or, you know, whatever ...

As Peter Brimelow says in his book, "Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster," why not choose immigrants who are better than us?

Bush thinks it's not fair to favor people with special skills -- a policy evidenced by his Harriet Miers pick.

How about this: It's not fair to want to go out with someone just because that person is attractive and has a good personality because it discriminates against people who are ugly with bad social skills! That's our immigration policy.

Press "1" for English; press "2" for a new President ...

[Desron13]

"Pointing out the general failings of any given race is not racism if it's true.

Uh, yes it is."

Uh, NO it most certainly is not.

[romanesq]

Bill Kristol must own a bunch of land in the southwest and has a hundred illegals working it.

I hate him now too. Someone should punch him in the throat to clear the noise coming out of there too.

I hate elitists of all stripes from Kerry/Kennedy to Country Club Republicans.

[OldFriend]

Oh, well, that makes her comments so much better.

NOT

[OldFriend]

And she's saving some poor soul from starvation too by not eating their share.

[Arizona Carolyn]

We are in dire danger of becoming a version of Mexico istself; Rich and poor and no middle class.

[OldFriend]

Speaking the truth by referring to Harriet Meiers as the cleaning lady?

Who is using insulting barbs????????????

[riri]

Ann Coulter? She has been a sleeper all this time? Only the REAL conservatives are supporting Bush and his amnesty program, I guess.

[MichiganConservative]

We are in dire danger of becoming a version of Mexico istself

I already think the US is a strange mirror image of the Soviet Union, so what the hell?

[Texasforever]

I already think the US is a strange mirror image of the Soviet Union, so what the hell?

Yep, the only thing missing is a wall.

[Irene Adler]

"She really is as nasty as she comes across."

I hate to say this, but you're starting to get pretty nasty yourself, sink. I have read a your posts for years, now, and you are really sounding rotten, recently. Bush is in the process of letting us down horribly over this illegal immigration mess. Flame away, as mean as you like, I won't reply.

[MichiganConservative]

If they build a wall, there's a good chance the government won't use it to keep people out, but WILL use it for keeping people IN. Especially if they want to leave and take their business to a tax shelter.

The American sheeple get the government they deserve.

When/if they realize they're slaves it will probably be too late to do much of anything about it.

[Texasforever]

Yup.

[GrandEagle]

Thanks for the link!
Looks like I'll have to retract my skepticism of Jeff Sessions. He apparently really meant what he said about not voting for amnesty.

GE

[GrandEagle]

Interesting comment.
I have no problem with LEGAL immigration. I do have a problem with rewarding criminals for breaking our laws. I really don't care to have anymore folks here that have no respect for our laws. If that is racist, then I guess I'm guilty.

[tgslTakoma]

Yeah, I guess Coulter along with Rush, Hannity, Boortz, Levin and Savage are all on their way to insignificance.

You forgot Michelle Malkin. :-)

BTW, Michelle has a new "Hot Air" clip - well worth watching, regarding the connection between illegal immigration and two of the 9/11 terrorists.

[Fruitbat]

ROFLMAO!!!

Bush thinks it's not fair to favor people with special skills -- a policy evidenced by his Harriet Miers pick.

Too funny...

[isrul]

With ownership comes the privilege of caprice. Although I don't know that was the case regarding that instance.

[Fruitbat]

Its like the President's virtual fence, you can't see it no matter how hard you look, but we are told its there...

That would be funny if it weren't so sad.

[Peach]

LOL. What a perfect name for her. She's lost a lot of credibility in recent months; and still commenting on Miers, I see.

[longtermmemmory]

Too bad Ann isn't talking to an immigration lawyer.

She would find out those "long term" illegals (ten years) can turn themselves in an apply for a hardship stay and obtain a green card. Immigration lawyers charc a few thousand for this.

This is the law now.

We don't need this amnesty program. The felony exclusion is 100% a joke too. You can file for a "waiver of excludability" to by pass that too.

Did I mention these are all decided by immigration judges who are an administrative judge (aka usually political appointees from the finest our left wing law schools have to offer.)