[SJackson]

Someone should explain to Linda that concentrating on the nature of the conservative anti-immigrant crowd rather than issues may not succeed in bringing pressure to bear on House Republicans.

[stopem]

NOT!!!!! NONE of the above.

[dirtboy]

"a bipartisan effort that won support from four Republicans and all eight Democrats on the panel"

"passed punitive legislation "

Gee, Linda injected her bias into the debate in the very first paragraph. Senate noble and bipartisan. House mean-spirited and punitive.

[dirtboy]

but they are a small though noisy fraction of the public concerned with immigration.

That's the biggest joke yet, if Linda would bother to read the polling on this.

[EternalVigilance]

Funny. Someone told me Linda Chavez' radio program was canceled and replaced by a Spanish language broadcast...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Statement: "Now the debate on illegals can begin"

Response: This is the 'problem;' debate, discussion and the expression of different points of view.

[itsinthebag]

(the vast majority of whom are hard-working, tax-paying and otherwise law-abiding members of our communities)

This woman is out of her mind. Law-abiding? No, Linda, they are lawbreakers by the fact that they are here illegally.

[Dane]

Someone should explain to Linda that concentrating on the nature of the conservative anti-immigrant crowd rather than issues may not succeed in bringing pressure to bear on House Republicans

Huh I guess that the truth that the anti-immigrantion side is also pro- abortion, population control movement hurts to you.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Illegal drug use is still rampant in this country after many years of fighting it. It's time we took stock of the situation and realize that the vast majority of drug abusers are productive, hard-working citizens. We should come to terms with the situaion.

If illicit drug dealers would admit their complicity and pay fine and promise to stop, we could then clamp down on any new drug dealers who might crop up in the future. What is important is that we would have a registry of users and dealers which would help in identifying the new and predatory drug dealers who might appear to break our laws in the future.

[Mr Rogers]

She ought to leave DC and move somewhere in so CA, Arizona, etc. A place where the illegals seem to outnumber citizens, where accidents regularly involve illegals and where, if you go hiking, you can run into parties headed north.

Maybe then she wouldn't be so stupid.

[bill1952]

The debate can begin when they are kicked out and the wall built.

And if you think that I am a 'small fraction,' then you have a surprise coming very soon.

[Tribune7]

I was looking at the House plan in today's WSJ and saw it will require within six years businesses to tap into a national database of SS numbers before hiring.

Imagine if Clinton or Tom Foley had proposed that plan.

What I fear is that emotion-based reaction to illegal immigration (and those demonstrations in L.A.) will cause an unnecessary loss of freedom for the rest us.

I think the House plan will end up being Sarbanes Oxley for the private citizen.

[arthurus]

JWR is a little late to the party. The debate is over. The illegals have won. A new class of voters is being created by our elected officials that is designed to replace the uncomfortable Christian/Conservative majorty that has slowly grown up since 1964. Not only will a whole new and very large group be transformed into votes for welfare and socialism but a loud public invitation is being made to all in Latin America to join the New American Order. I am sure the flood has already begun in earnest as Latin-Americans all receive the news that they are so welcome in the land of milk and honey where they can live like kings, at least until they succeed in converting it to the corrupt, poverty stricken, oligarchic system they have left.

[ErieGeno]

We need immigration reform that addresses all three parts of this vexing problem: increased border security; a plan to deal with the illegal aliens already here (the vast majority of whom are hard-working, tax-paying and otherwise law-abiding members of our communities); and more flexible and realistic legal immigration policies that allow us to admit more permanent residents and guest workers as our labor needs require.

Just out of curiousity, what taxpayer ID does an illegal alien use to pay taxes?

[RedEyeJack]

Since the Federal government is not enforcing the immigration laws the states should not be responsible for punishing the criminals that they allow into the US. The Feds should have to construct special prisons to punish illegal alien criminals. The citizens of the states would be relieved of a huge burden placed on them by federal indifference, incompetence, or general inaction.

[MileHi]

I know this approach drives the anti-immigrant crowd crazy — but they are a small though noisy fraction of the public concerned with immigration.

Yes, but the anti-illegal immigrant crowd is quite large, Linda.

[Liberator]

I know this approach drives the anti-immigrant crowd crazy — but they are a small though noisy fraction of the public concerned with immigration.

Has Miss Chavez joined the deaf, dumb, blind AND dark-side?

[wai-ming]

Is this the same Linda Chavez that was once tapped to be Bush' Secretary of Education?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Unfortunately, these voices are driving the current debate,

Huh? Damn good thing *someone* is driving this debate. Certainly can't expect anyone but us right wing wackos to address the problem. If it weren't for us, there wouldn't even be a debate.

Hey, Linda, listen up. Do it your way, and 10 years from now that rabble you saw protesting the other day will make what is going on in France look like a cake walk. That "protest" was blackmail, pure and simple. And in 10 years they won't be bluffing anymore. Their goal is not jobs and a better life and assimilation. It is overrunning this country.

[junta]

JWR has an absolutely awful take on America its practically straight from Gramsci. If one pro-border control rally had one little insignigicant person waving a sign that was the equivalent to the "LaRaza", but for whites they would expend every bit of energy denouncing it and the whole rally. But we have rallies that are little but brown National Socialism and they (JWR) think they have an ally. Why in god's name do these people who run places like JWR inflict this upon us, and what is next pro-Islam hate the West drivel?