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.
I've lost my source of this info, but I read awhile back that his father left his family to move back to Africa so he could practice Islam. I'm not sure if it was before or after his dad died, but his mom married a second time - another Muslim! He was raised as a Muslim until he was 12. Add 2 years of Muslim schooling to that, then 2 years of Catholic schooling and he comes out pro-actively pushing PBA and doesn't believe Hell exists. You decide which culture/religion influences him more.
AH! Another Buchananite signs on to FR.
Romney won't get your vote. So what? The primaries have yet to commence and he's not even the nominee. Wow.
Yep, ole Pat had some good political point on occasion, mixing with this RINO dissolved what credibility I had left in him away.
So that's where global warming came from. The rocks are keeping us warm here in NH this December. Never seen nothin like it. Somebody notify algore.
The welfare industry.
Jimmy quit before he was thrown out of the SB.
That's right. His father got his PhD from Harvard, moved back to Kenya to "help his country and people" --- traveled once to see Barack Jr. who looked about age 8 at the time and gave him a basketball and some African things --- mother divorced Brack Sr. and married an Indonesian Muslim --- had a daughter with him --- divorced him and she died of ovarian cancer.
He definitely leans Muslim, but will claim Catholic.
And there you have it.
I'm not Catholic, but I'm pretty sure they're pro-life and believe Hell exists. lol
The entire Kennedy Clan is Catholic.
I am, we are and we do believe in Hell.
My favorite book was about Hell - Dante's Inferno.
See Torie's link in #73?
Yeah, well like someone pointed out above, Clinton was Southern Baptist.
It all comes down to our walk. Do we walk the walk or just talk the talk?
Obama isn't walking the walk.
Nah, he claims to go to some Congregational Church in Chicago. Can't remember the name of it, but it's not Catholic :)
LOL! True enough.
Have someone read some passages to you from Dante's Inferno in Italian. The prose is sublimely euphonious. It is as soothing as Bach to the jangled nerves.
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