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 ...

[antceecee]

I noticed that also. Pitiful.

[Lurker]

Hey Jim,

I'm just asking, but is it within the rules of the forum to imply that a nationally known syndicated columnist who has long been a friend of this forum is a racist?

I'm just asking for some clarification here.

Personally I think it's more than just a little bit over the line to imply that Ann is a racist but it's your forum.

We all know she lurks here from time to time and I'm just wondering if you're all right with her checking in and seeing folks being allowed to impugn her character in this way.

Thanks,

L

[Lurker]

Apparently it's now alright for posters to imply that a nationally known syndicated columnist who has been a long time friend of this forum is a racist.

I've asked Jim for some clarification on the matter.

Maybe he's comfortable with folks implying that Ann is a racist.

L

[AZ_Cowboy]

It seems that if you're NOT for mass immigration, you're a racist yahoo.

Only on here and even then that is only within the keyboard superhero crowd. For that group, it is absolutely what many of them think and might even believe. Of course, to their credit, their insults have branched out well beyond the standard liberal taunts of racist and yahoo.

[Lancey Howard]

Careful about posting Michelle Malkin columns - - her stuff is posted at this "vdare.com" site.

She must be some kind of racist.

[sinkspur]

vdare.com cannot be linked to Free Republic due to the objectionable matter posted by some of the contributors.

There was no implication that Coulter is a racist. But, her article does link to a site that cannot be linked to from FR.

[Riverman94610]

Vdare?I haven't been there in a few years but as I recall,a non white person who so much as sneezes loud gets called out while white people get a completely free pass.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Cheney/Rice 2007!

[Lancey Howard]

I'm laughing at the people that, two years ago, salivated at the mention of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, etc., and demanded a picture to go with the post, who are now trashing them.

Yeah, it's usually just the liberal fat chicks who come on these threads to smear Ann, but now they seem to be joined by regular freepers who are frightened by the prospect that a smart, independent thinker like Ann vehemently disagrees with the President.

[antceecee]

That's the way I understood it, and as a Catholic I take no offence. I think Ann was pointing out in her witty sarcastic way that this is indeed a religious war.
Radical Islam vs. the rest of the world's religions, especially Christianity and Judaism.

[Lurker]

Bull.

L

[antceecee]

Now you are doing what she was accused of doing to Miers.... guess it's allright because it's you, right?

[Texasforever]

Now you are doing what she was accused of doing to Miers.... guess it's allright because it's you, right?

Meirs is not a 40 year old woman wearing black leather mini-skirts.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

LMAO!

[antceecee]

Sarcasm is her style. She scolds the LIB Dimwits and errant RINOS. Serious is not her style.
Perhaps YOU could launch a career and take your own advice. Maybe it will fly, then again maybe it won't.

[antceecee]

I'm with you.

[rolling_stone]

Careful about posting Michelle Malkin columns - - her stuff is posted at this "vdare.com" site.

She must be some kind of racist.

LOL...

[AZ_Cowboy]

Yes, I am a Catholic and figured the same thing. However, it has come to my attention that some people are convinced that the Inquisition is imminent. There's a fundamentalist under every green tree with that crowd.

[antceecee]

LOL.... I was just thinking "Bill Kristol is an idiot" and then read your response!!!

[Jim Robinson]

Ann has doesn't need my help in handling her detractors.