Earth to WSJ: Clueless on immigration

National Review Online ^ | January 28, 2004 | Mark Krikorian

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Fact and fantasy about immigration law enforcement, from the newly "fringe extremist" National Review.

The Wall Street Journal editorial which this article critiques ("Our Border Brigades: The nativist right is wrong") was posted yesterday here on Free Republic.

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Enforcing the law all ready on the books is what's necessary. And to take Vicente Fox of Mexico to task for not supplying better conditions for his people that they want to leave their country instead of making him a bosom-buddy pal. See below two articles posted today that our own system of government is being used against the American citizens.

Locals lobby for illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses
Posted by yonif
On 01/28/2004 8:58:42 AM PST
Dodge City Daily Globe ^ | January 28, 2004 | Basil Hernandez

Government pay immigrant's relatives $2.15 million [relatives of an illegal immigrant]
Posted by yonif
On 01/28/2004 9:08:53 AM PST
Star-Telegram ^ | Wed, Jan. 28, 2004 | Associated Press

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BUMP

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

anti-illiegal-alien citizenship bump

Great Article.

WSJ is always pro-illegal, but I read it anyway.

Temporary workers are never temporary.

Hoppy

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Ping-a-ling

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Wop-Bop-a-loo-bom A-siss-bam-boom

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Wooly Booly! Watch it now, Watch IT!!!!

[lelio]

WSJ is always pro-illegal, but I read it anyway.

I wouldn't call the WSJ pro "illegal" but more "pro anything that drives wages down." If it happens to involve flooding our nation with those that don't really care for it, oh well. It gives them another excuse to write a "why are we paying so much in welfare?" article.

[litany_of_lies]

Useful historical background of attempts to enforce stopped by legislators and businesses.

Heard on Rush today that our friends at La Raza want to designate anyone who uses the term illegal alien or illegal immigrant automaticallly as a racist. The Speech and Thought Police advance yet another step.

[Lysander]

Big-government types are always quick with the rationalizations when big government does not work. They always use one of three reasons: 1) The program is not big enough, yet. 2) The program is not sincerely administered. 2) The wrong people have been in charge of the program.

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Heard on Rush today that our friends at La Raza want to designate anyone who uses the term illegal alien or illegal immigrant automaticallly as a racist. The Speech and Thought Police advance yet another step.

La Raza? (Note for linguistically ignorant Bush partisans tuning in: "La Raza" means "race," and not the NASCAR kind). You've got Speech and Thought Police here on FR. Let anyone question the wisdom of rewarding lawbreaking illegal entrants, and allowing millions more to pour in to our overcrowded, overtaxed, overspending country, and immediately you're accused of having one motive and one motive only for your objections: "fear of being overrun by little brown people," as one member of the GOP-ueber-alles group here put it.

[Winston Smith Jr.]

even under this flawed system, the INS was publicly slapped down when it did try to enforce the law. When the agency conducted raids during Georgia's Vidalia onion harvest in 1998, thousands of illegal aliens — knowingly hired by the farmers — abandoned the fields to avoid arrest. By the end of the week, both of the state's senators and three congressmen — Republicans and Democrats — had sent an outraged letter to Washington complaining that the INS "does not understand the needs of America's farmers," and that was the end of that.

Once again it's the Republicrats vs. the people they were elected to serve.

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Big-government types are always quick with the rationalizations when big government does not work

The Wall Street Journal is the voice of big government libertarianism on the immigration issue. According to the WSJ, its scofflaw employer buddies should be free to employ illegal aliens, and the rest of us should be "free" to support the illegal aliens with public services (schools, health care, etc.) funded by our taxes.

In other words, the WSJ will defend the principles of a free, global labor market to the very last cent in your bank account!!!!

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Once again it's the Republicrats vs. the people they were elected to serve.

On the issue of the immigration crisis, there's about as much difference between the Republicans and the Democrats as between a skunk and a polecat.

[Lysander]

...big government libertarianism....

Some kind of oxymoron there. What on earth is that?

[Winston Smith Jr.]

Big-government types are always quick with the rationalizations when big government does not work.

Border control is "big government"?!

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The term "racist" is nothing but a Left wing polemical tool.

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...big government libertarianism....

Some kind of oxymoron there. What on earth is that?

Uh-hunh.... You got it.

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The term "racist" is nothing but a Left wing polemical tool.

Agree, but many among GOP operatives, including some of the so-called "grassroots conservatives" here, also find the term very serviceable, in the interests of their own faction's expedience. Or so I and others here have found out when we express dissension from the Bush immigration "plan."

[Lysander]

Border control is "big government"?!

Who said that? I said big-government types always want to excuse failure with three reasons. Defending the border and the coast is a responsibility of the government and the main reason to have a government.