Posted on 12/16/2006 2:51:38 PM PST by Jeff Fuller
Right on, Romney!
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Gov. Mitt Romney, leaving office, has just taken a modest step to protect the people of Massachusetts.
Romney signed an agreement with the feds to empower 30 state troopers - to be trained by the feds for five weeks - to determine if crime suspects are illegal aliens. If so, the troopers could hold them on immigration violations.
If an MS-13 gang member were arrested for assault and battery, and the victim was too terrified to testify, the state troopers could hold the alleged assailant, call in immigration authorities and have him deported. Troopers would also be empowered to detain illegal aliens leaving prison, to ensure their deportation by the feds.
But never underestimate the suicidal bent of a Bay State liberal. Recall: This is the commonwealth whose governor used to grant weekend prison furloughs to the likes of Willie Horton.
Deval Patrick, the incoming Democratic governor, thinks Romney has a “bad idea” because state troopers have “enough to do.”
But Romney’s plan does not force troopers to do anything. It empowers them. And what is more important for police to do than assure that felons, who do not belong in this country, do not return to Boston, or that gang members are sent back where they came from, rather than set loose in Springfield?
What the Romney plan challenges is the “sanctuary” policy many cities have adopted under pressure from ethnic lobbies. Under New York’s policy, backed by Rudy Giuliani, five illegal aliens, several with long rap sheets, were still in the city in 2002 and able to gang-rape a woman in the shadow of Shea Stadium.
Nine states have adopted versions of the Romney plan.Resistance to this common-sense idea reveals how ingrained is the ideological hostility to any idea that might halt the flow of illegals into our country. For open-borders champions, the real criminals are those who wish to reduce immigration.
Anger has also surfaced over the raids on six meatpacking plants of Swift & Co. Of the 7,250 workers at the plants, 1,271 - nearly 18 percent - are suspected illegal aliens.
According to The Washington Post, 100 have already been charged with various crimes, including identity theft. Federal and company officials estimate up to 40 percent of all plant workers may have stolen or falsified identity documents.
In recent weeks, Swift discovered false or stolen documents for some 400 workers, who either quit or were fired. The folks at Swift apparently knew something was coming down. But while there has been a slowdown in production, Swift says it anticipates “no adverse long-term impacts.” What does this tell us?
First, that the Bush propaganda that illegal aliens only take jobs Americans won’t do is patently false. There is probably no industry in which illegal aliens are more heavily concentrated than meatpacking. Yet even at Swift, we are told, 60 percent to 70 percent of the workers are neither illegal aliens nor do they have phony IDs.
Stepping back, consider the rampant criminality the feds unearthed by turning over a few rocks at Swift & Co.
These illegal aliens had to break the law to get into our country. Many were probably assisted by human traffickers who rob the men of money and the women of much else. The illegal aliens then paid for forged or stolen documents provided by organized crime. They then are hired by firms that know they are here in violation of federal law.
These companies are triple cheats. They cheat competitors by hiring illegal labor. They cheat the government of taxes. They cheat the community by passing on to citizens the costs in higher taxes of schools and social services.
What we have here is a chain of corruption. A society that passes laws its leaders refuse to enforce, the violation of which is condoned by its corporate and media elites, is a society on the way down and on the way out.
Patrick J. Buchanan is a syndicated columnist.
Here in IL, I have stopped listening to the local news. The coverage of Obama is annoying. Sadly it is having an effect. People, I know who don't follow politics at all, think Obama would make a great President because he is a Freshman Senator and untainted by Congressional scnadal. Stupid, yes. But that's how indies think. Mormon Mitt arguably accomplished more than Obama.
I rather have a Mormon in office than a fake evangical or someone who uses the Bible when someone is in trouble...
I think he could win in a similar way to how W. Bush won in 2000, by showing general core conservative values but a 'compassionate' and practical side that would attract common-sense moderates from both sides. The obvious difference in comparision to Bush is that Romney's much quicker-witted and more well-spoken. I doubt Romney would seriously use the term 'evildoers'.
Well, coming from a British liberal like yourself, you might be a little biased. ;-)
I think Romney tends to Veto more than GW...
Well if anyone can do it, Romney can. He's just that smooth.
He's hiding the fact that his Kenyan father was Muslim and he's not using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama. The biography I failed to mention religion.
Mo and I have come across a lot of factual information about him, but she is the one who's saving it. I have never learned how to keep a proper filing system.
He refers to himself as a black man --- his mother was white --- and as a champion of the people. Penned a book (ala JFK) and his ambition is insatiable.
You're arguing on the same level that I do...
You used to be better than this.
He spent 2 years in a Muslim school and 2 years in a Catholic school. As a teen, he did cocaine and marijuana. He still keeps in constant contact with his Muslim family - uncle, aunt, father, etc. via e-mail and personal visits. He's a hero in their village for becoming an American Senator.
I believe you. I have read and heard too many people say that his inexperience is a plus! We're talking Commander-in-Chief, Chief Executive, and his inexperience is a plus?
Thanks for your first hand Mass experience.
No matter how much info you give them, the Romney supporters refuse to see that he has never been concerned with illegal immigration until recently, just like all the democrats and some Rinos went out against it JUST before the election.
Duncan Hunter is the one with the immigration record that makes sense.
LOL. That is an effective swat at me, I think. What can one say?
This whole program is a joke. The training for the 30 SP isn't even schedulued until September of 2007, and Deval will cancel the program anyhow. In January of 2003 Mitt could have ordered the State Police to check the immigration status of all arrestees and to hold illegals for the INS. He's just doing this now as a cheap political stunt because he's running for president.
So doing what the voters want is a bad thing?
American cars may have been the best at the time, but they sucked. The Japanese had easy pickings.
Exactly so! The biography I watched dealt friviously with his drug use --- like it was a sing of the times and he's grown up. Well, lah-tee-dah!
Same bio, showed him in Kenya visiting with his very large family. Home sweet home, but again NEGLECTED to mention they're Muslims!
I love Pat. He was far ahead of his time on immigration. Romney is a north eastern liberal and won't get my vote.
We just had the ICE raid up here and they got huge numbers of aliens including moslems from Sudan and other possible terrorist states, not to mention the criminals taking jobs from Americans. What I now want to see is large numbers of Swift executive indicted for conspiracy to violate federal law and obstruction of justice. Get ready for that!! That will chill some of this illegal alien stuff.
what a happy happy situation ... not.
My ancestors have been in the US since rocks cooled, at least some of them. Some came in later from Scotland via Montreal of all things.
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