Posted on 08/08/2006 1:09:48 PM PDT by conservativecorner
Once again, Tamar Jacoby and Cesar Conda have demonstrated that they are not serious either about protecting the United States from terrorists or about assimilating immigrants. (See “Immigration Realism.”)
Among their criticisms directed at me, they condescendingly dismiss what they take to be my “outmoded ideas about enforcement” — and specifically, the measure permitting local police to check the immigration status of those who violate civil law.
I admit it: along with many others — notably John Ashcroft's chief immigration-enforcement official, Kris W. Kobach — I believe that local police should have the authority to check a future Mohammed Atta’s immigration status. Remember that four of the 9/11 terrorists were stopped for speeding, but their illegal-immigration status was not checked. Jacoby and Conda and the Senate would strip this essential tool from local law enforcement, pretending to live in a September 10 world. Five years after 9/11, maybe it is “outmoded” of me to worry so much about such thing.
Put-downs are one thing, but dissembling is quite another. Jacoby and Conda’s claim that my article “never mentions” workforce enforcement is simply false. The very first paragraph of the article, quoting an open letter on immigration from conservatives, insists that “the border and interior enforcement must be funded, operational, implemented, and proven successful” (emphasis added), and the letter that started this all itself explicitly states, “Today, we need proof that enforcement (both at the border and in the interior) is successful before anything else happens.”
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Has this idiot actually put pen to paper and written a bill?
Jacoby and Conda claim that they are all for assimilating immigrants as patriotic Americans. That’s a great idea, but I have offered them specific measures: to wit, dismantle the anti-assimilation agenda of the last few decades by ending bilingual ballots, bilingual education, ethnic and racial group preferences for new immigrants, and dual allegiance citizenship for naturalized Americans.
Sounds sensible (and obvious) to me.
as far as I've been able to tell the pence bill has been trying to do an end run around the house. It excites bush and the white house. therefor its a non starter.
This is, in a nutshell, what The Establishment wants, and they won't stop trying to get it no matter what.
I trust you are refering to Pence as the "idiot?" Because if not, and you mean Fonte, either (1) you are a W apologist or did not take time to read the article.
I'm talking about Pence and his plan.
Most Congressmen write bills. Pence writes plans.
I guess writing a bill is a little complicated for him.
You've turned into a one-trick pony. Sad.
Mike Pence has no immigration bill. He has a scheme/scam/sham that's evolving
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
That's a fact.
It wasn't me!
Well, you're in a distinct minority who think that way. But, to each his own.
That's the fact jack!!!
How do you end dual citizenship for some citizens and allow it for others?
If you do that, you are in fact creating a second-class citizenship.
Either no citizen can, or all can.
The whole point:
WHO THE HELL NEEDS A BILL?
There are MORE than enough laws on the books, which IF ever enforced, would negate ANY need for yet another worthless pile of words on the books.
Agreed!
Sink you know that is blatantly false, especially among freepers.
I will again predict the Republicans will pay a price for this immigration mess, and the fault lays directly at GW's feet.
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