Posted on 12/03/2004 5:11:21 AM PST by StoneGiant
Activists smear anyone who wants better borders
By MICHELLE MALKIN
THE OBTUSENESS of the open-borders lobby never ceases to amaze. Here we are, three years after the 9/11 hijackers easily exploited lax borders, and the OBL continues to argue that cracking down on illegal immigration and tightening terrorist-friendly loopholes are “anti-immigrant.”
How do you maintain sanity when wading through the emotional drivel that passes for the OBL’s reasoning? Tip: Whenever they say “anti-immigrant,” substitute “pro-enforcement.” Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism. By smearing the overwhelming majority of Americans who support real borders as racists and xenophobes, the OBL obscures its deadly agenda: sabotaging our existing immigration laws and blocking any new efforts to punish those who abuse the system.
Flavia Jimenez of the National Council of La Raza illustrates perfectly this blustering open-borders tactic in a hysterical “action alert” this week titled: “Stop anti immigrant provisions from becoming part of the intelligence reform bill.” La Raza and their fellow travelers argue that tough enforcement measures “needlessly scapegoat all immigrants,” are “extraneous” and “harsh,” “would not have prevented the terrorist attacks and will not make us safer,” and are “non-solutions that will only drive people further underground and cause panic among immigrant communities.”
“Extraneous”? These same critics had no problem when a $1 billion illegal alien health care bailout for border hospitals was tacked on to the mammoth Medicare prescription drug bill.
“Non-solutions”? The 9/11 commission itself blamed “a lack of well-developed counterterrorism measures as part of border security, and an immigration system not able to deliver on its basic commitments, much less support counterterrorism.”
“Anti-immigrant”? If you actually read the immigration enforcement provisions supported by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner and his fellow maverick House Republicans you will see clearly and unequivocally that these vital measures are anti-terrorist. Anti-criminal. Anti-fraud. And above all, pro-enforcement.
Open-border activists not only oppose the most-publicized provision that would deny drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, they also oppose provisions:
· Adding at least 2,000 new border patrol agents, 800 new interior enforcement investigators, and 150 additional consular officials overseas.
· Increasing illegal alien detention facility space by 2,500 beds.
· Expanding the number of foreign airports with counterterrorist passenger prescreening programs.
· Creating a uniform identity document rule for all aliens present in the United States.
· Toughening criminal penalties for using or trading false identification documents.
· Reducing bureaucratic delays that allow illegal aliens who obtained fraudulent visas to re-enter or remain in the country even after their visas have been revoked.
· Creating an information- and intelligence-sharing system at the Department of Homeland Security to track terrorist travel tactics, patterns, trends and practices and disseminate the data to front-line personnel at ports of entry and immigration benefits offices.
· Making it easier to deport terrorists and alien supporters of terrorism by curbing their avenues for appeal and delay.
· Speeding up the development of a long-delayed entry-exit system to guard against terrorists slipping through the cracks.
· Requiring asylum-seekers tied to guerrilla, militant or terrorist organizations, and who claim asylum without submitting corroborating evidence, to provide credible proof of their “persecution.”
As usual, mainstream reporting on these specific immigration-related measures at issue has been skimpy. That’s because so many national editors themselves subscribe to the open-borders gospel. Since
9/11, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have published countless news items and editorials decrying immigration enforcement: sob stories about families caught evading deportation orders; foreign students complaining about new registration requirements violating their “privacy”; Latino activists outraged about border patrol agents doing their jobs; Middle Eastern tourists protesting visa screening measures; and illegal aliens clamoring for protection of their “rights.”
Rep. Sensenbrenner and his GOP colleagues face not only the OBL on the left and in the media, but also at the highest echelons of the Bush administration. The mavericks need all the help they can get. Before it’s too late, call the White House now and yell: It’s the enforcement, stupid!
Michelle Malkin can be reached at malkin@comcast.net
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Another excellent article by Michelle. It is time our leaders wake up, including the Bush Administration.
All? No, just the illegal ones -- the criminals.
Long past time, actually. .....but it's not going to happen.
She's not one to let this issue go away...I for one agree with her whole-heartedly...
Very well put.
One attack from across the border, THEN they will close it...
"political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism."
Great, great line.
Once again, Michelle nails the traitors in their tracks.
OBL = Open Borders Lobby
OBL = Osama Bin Laden
Both should be sought out and destroyed with equal ferver.
And how is La Raza relevant? It is a racist, secessionist organization.
That's the way things work in politics.
First there has to be a calamity then comes the response.
America has become nothing more than a whore to be passed around to anyone who wants a piece... and when she can stand no more and accusations begin to fly, those who have taken all they can carry away simply say "So what, she's just a whore - Courtesy of increasingly spineless, greedy, self-serving cowardly "public servants" (there's one for the books) who are supposed to be protecting the greatest nation in the world and her citizens from among other things professional law-breaking activist racists!
Thanks for the article Michelle!
Who can dispute her facts? W and his Administration MUST do something about this. STOP pandering to Latinos, President Bush!!
All that the "architect" has done for the GOP and President Bush will be destroyed by Bush if the administration doesnt do something constructive about this problem.
I cannot beleive Bush's attitude toward this problem, we all beleived in him fighting terror yet he won't do anything to secure our borders? Makes absolutely NO sense!
He really has a weakness when it comes to Latinos. It appears now that it is coloring all of his decisions.
Yes we know other countries other than Mexico are a problem but the majority of ILLEGALS are mexicans lets face it.
The greed of American companies is putting us all at jeopardy, the need for lower wage help.
Here's an idea, keep the mexicans in mexico and outsource to them instead of allowing them in here illegally. Buy mexican made...walmart..
This is outrageous and someone needs to talk with our illustrious senators.
Don Henly said it best:
Artist: Don Henley Lyrics
Song: All She Wants to Do is Dance
They're pickin' up the prisoners
And puttin em in a pen
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
Rebels been rebels
Since I don't know when
And all she wants to do is dance
Molotov cocktail the local drink
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
They mix 'em up right
In the kitchen sink
And all she wants to do is dance
Crazy people walkin round with blood in their eyes
And all she wants to do is dance, dance, dance
Wild-eyed pistols wavers who ain't afraid to die
And all she wants to do is dance
And make romance
She can't feel the heat
Comin off the street
She wants to party
She wants to get down
All she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance
Well the government bugged the men's room
In the local disco lounge
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
To keep the boys from sellin
All the weapons they could scrounge
And all she wants to do is dance
But that don't keep the boys from makin a buck or two
And all she wants to do is dance, dance
The still can sell the army
All the drugs that they can do
And all she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance
And make romance
Well we barely make the airport
For the last plane out
As we taxied down the runway
I could hear the people shout
The said, "don't come back here Yankee"
But if I ever do
I'll bring more money
Cause all she wants to do is dance
And make romance
Never mind the heat
Comin off the street
She wants to party
She wants to get down
All she wants to do is
All she wants to do is dance
And make romance
All she wants to do is dance
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