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 ...

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yep, that the guy who helped two of the hijackers get drivers' licenses was an illegal alien who had been here since 1994.

[JCEccles]

If anything, the Miers debacle proved that Coulter has enhanced her credibility.

You're spinning an embarrasing and humilating loss (suffered by the pro-Miers crowd) with skill and style that Howard Dean would envy.

[mafree]

The jury is way out on Alito. He struck me as having the potential for "growth" in his hearings. We all know what "growth" means when it comes to USSC justices nominated by Republican presidents.

Yeah- a wee bit scary eh?

[Peach]

I wasn't the pro anything crowd, but nice of you to make assumptions about which you clearly know nothing.

[Hawk1976]

Based on the ongoing situation with the water tables in certain areas, the answer to your question is overpopulated.

If the water tables keep dropping the law of the minimum is going to bite us squarely on our hindquarters.

[Senator Pardek]

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.

My accountant recently got caught swimming across the Rio Grande - going from the USA to Mexico and then to Costa Rica.

I'm *******.

[Texasforever]

My accountant recently got caught swimming across the Rio Grande - going from the USA to Mexico and then to Costa Rica.

I knew it. You are Jerry Seinfeld.

[Hawk1976]

How many years passed between WTC 1 and 9/11. Statistically speaking, we would not have been hit by now. We weren't hit again, even with a Democrat as president, in the same time frame.

At the end of the day, time is on our side wrt terrorists. They can hit us every great once in a while, but we can hit them much harder, in return.

That being said, the president has my support in the middle east. I don't necessarily agree with nation building, but so long as terrorists keep running into Iraq to get killed that's good enough for me.

Illegal immigration on the other hand can destroy this country as we know it. The big problem the government has, is that it has acted in bad faith, not President Bush or the Republicans entirely or solely, the government as a whole. If the government had instituted strict control of the border and strict interior immigration management we wouldn't be in this situation.

However I am one of the one's holding Bush's feet to the fire over illegal immigration. Why? Because he has had the job for six years, and instead of a general improvement we have seen a deterioration of enforcement of immigration and employment laws. Bush was hired by the American people to do a job, and that is to see the law upheld and enforced to the best of his ability. All of the laws whether he agrees with a particular law or not. He has created the impression that he has not done so, that's his fault not mine. If I didn't hold him accountable for what is happening on his watch, regardless of what happened on someone else's watch, I would not be doing my job as a citizen.

Some will say other priorities meaning the WoT to be more important. We have a massive military and intelligence apparatus to do that. We also have a massive law enforcement apparatus to enforce the laws in this country, so on these issues as well as many others we are more than capable of doing both at the same time.

[Hawk1976]

America needs another Andrew Jackson. Too bad for us, there isn't one to be had in today's world.

[daguberment]

Disagree with Ann or agree with Ann, this has become a make or break issue for the Republican party and its base, or the conservative base anyway.

As gravity exists, then, as now.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Well, the close runner-up to your point there in my book is how these people have become so paranoid about a forum being taken over by this supposed cabal. They are starting to sound a lot like the Birchers and a whole slew of other entities that they currently are using to malign the rest of us.

[daguberment]

Instead of choosing immigrants based on the longevity of their lawbreaking

Mods, please ban any of this Coulter stuff, immediately. Thank you.

Can't belive I need this, but to be safe... sarcasm, you get that or, well....

[AZ_Cowboy]

Thanks as always. This ought to be a fun night.

[Rastus]

*2*

[AZ_Cowboy]

I feel a mass purge about to happen on this site

Actually, a lot of people will just bail out if it stays this nasty out of fear of having a stroke or something.

Either way, I really don't give a damn.

[antceecee]

Just....wow!
Taken to the woodshed by Ann.

[antceecee]

BTTT.

[antceecee]

"MCain,Specter, Kennedy and Hagel need to take a refresher English course, they don't know the meaning of the word amnesty..a bunch of real banana heads."

Guess they're hoping they've dumbed down the educational system enough that no one listening will know the meaning either.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP for an Ann Coulter masterpiece!