Posted on 03/28/2006 5:20:43 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 28, 2006
In all its cacophony and moments of absurdity, this morning's Today show segment on immigration was a supremely edifying example of the confusion, high emotion and complexity of the immigration debate. Matters reached their Alice-in-Wonderland apotheosis when Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California was shown in a Senate committee arguing that illegal immigrants are good . . . 'citizens.' Said Feinstein:
"They pay taxes, their children are Americans, they go to schools, they're good citizens and they're needed."
This was in line with the fait accompli argument advanced by La Raza representative Janet Murguia. She referred to what she estimated as the 11-12 million illegal aliens in the country as "people are working in backbreaking work that nobody else wants to do in this country. We need to . . . understand that they are already part of this country."
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That last pick, with the ACCESS sign.
Arab community? I thought this was about immigrants from Mexico?
Mexican Arabs...
These academic morons hate our national sovereignty that has enabled and protected their slacker lifestyles.
Isn't that interesting?
One triple-decker sh_t sandwich coming up!
The irony here is that Mexico immediately deports illegals caught making the trip to the USA from the even poorer central american countries. They also have a law which makes it a crime to offer any assistance whatsoever to them.
Such humanitarians.
It was a shocker to me, because I had thought these people were otherwise stout Republicans. As I say, I'm for free trade, but their free-trade agenda equals NO national security.
They may pay gas tax, cigarette tax, etc...but do they pay income tax.. quite misleading Ms Feinstein Democrat CA
It would be a lot easier to stop if our government weren't bent over saying "Give it to me daddy".
The establishment of a Navy was also how President John Adams kept the borders safe.
In the early 90's the people of California voted in Prop 187 which would deny government services to illegals. The libs had it overturned in the courts.
Feinstein is a great example of that species endemic in Washington, Idiotatus Senatus. If our lawmakers try to give an amnesty, there is going to be hell to pay at the ballot box. I will not vote for a single incumbent. And when is someone going to start the anti-illegal-immigration party?
I find nothing wrong with this statement. I think everybody who is within the borders should be able to work and pay his taxes.
Giving permanent resident status (greencards) to illegal aliens or giving them US citizenship is an entirely different issue. But I do believe that visitors, illegals, and everybody should have the freedom to work and pay taxes in this country.
No anchovies, please.
Yep, and, ironically, it was not Adams, but Jefferson who USED that navy to fight the first "war on terror" against the Islamic Barbary States. (See Joseph Wheelan's book, "Jefferson's War").
I was listening to Bill Bennett this morning and he was giving out statistics. He said that 2/3 of the outstanding arrest warrants currently open in California are for illegal aliens. This just makes me sick.
What's amazing to me is that these illegal-soon-to-be-citizens ABSOLUTELY HATE BUSH, even though he's the one trying to put them on a fast track to employment and citizenship. It seems as if their Left-Wing handlers have taught them that "Republican means anti-Mexican". If the GOP think that they're going to get a single vote out of these ingrates, they're dumber than they currently look.
What a load of cr@p that is. Are they expecting us all to drink the Kool Aid and accept this? The war has come to our borders, WHO IS protecting us!! NOT feinstein, mcaniac or fat A$$ kennedy and all the rest of them including the president. For some reason we have elected people we thought had OUR best interest at heart, but something has changed big time. What reason do they have to make such a mess in this country? Please someone explain this to me.
We are facing gangs, drugs, murder, mayhem, filth, bankrupcy of health services and the environment and the list goes on and on most by these people whether legal or illegal.
If they are such good citizens, why are they flying foreign nations flags? And wearing shirts with communist dictators on them??????
Give me a break.
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