Posted on 06/06/2007 8:32:27 AM PDT by freespirited
The Kennedy-Bush-McCain immigration bill will worsen the ever-growing disrespect for our laws.
Among those rooting the loudest for immigration amnesty is a select group of hundreds of thousands of scofflaws. This group didn’t “just” cross our borders illegally, nor simply overstay a visa. They went the extra mile to thumb their noses at America’s belief in law and order. Each of them was personally, individually, and specifically ordered by our courts to leave the country — but they fled the law instead.
American taxpayers foot the bill for 53 immigration courts scattered around the nation. Their work is an expensive and lengthy process. The aliens who appear before them enjoy full constitutional rights of an accused — release on bond, legal counsel, due process, the ability to file motions, seek change of venue, and so forth.
These immigration courts conduct almost 300,000 hearings each year. About 40 percent of the subjects fail to even show up, so deportation orders are issued in absentia. Between the no-shows and those who appear, lose, and then flee before deportation, each year the accumulation of scofflaws grows by about 100,000 people.
Now we have 623,000 people inside our borders who have jeered at our court system, who went on the lam after they were ordered deported — and the immigration bill will let them get away with it.
Not only did they enter illegally, but they failed to exit when caught and ordered to leave — and our porous system permitted it. Yet the Kennedy-Bush-McCain immigration “reform” treats them the same as the rest of the 12 million or so who are here “merely” illegally. They all would get to stay, overturning the removal orders of the courts.
How is it not amnesty when the bill would permit a massive wholesale reversal of court orders? These individuals forced law enforcement to go all the way through a slow-moving and convoluted legal system. They lost their court fight, but they won because we let them get away from custody. Will they now be rewarded for their contempt of our courts, for disregarding their personal deportation orders?
Sen. John Cornyn (R., Tex.) wants to address this travesty as part of his amendment to exclude lawbreakers from amnesty or “Z visas.” But his effort faces an uphill fight in a Senate where the deck is already stacked.
As Americans, we respect our courts and their decisions. We expect equal obedience from anyone wanting to be part of our country. That respect makes us different from the lawless cultures we still see around the globe. Even when we strongly disagree with judges, we know that orderly and civil society would collapse if we didn’t honor their rulings.
It’s bad enough that the sponsors of this immigration bill want to create amnesty. Must they also broaden it to those who disregard our courts as well as our borders? What kind of citizens would they be?
Anyone in Washington who promotes such disrespect for our laws shouldn’t be trusted to make those laws.
— Ernest Istook, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation
That our president wants to sign it is no less disturbing.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And apparently they're also only for those of us with jobs who'll still have the 'right' to keep paying for all that welfare these 20 million new 'probationary citizens' will be eligible for.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Take this Sen Domenici.
Good article by the one who should be Guv of OK!
Shocking, if true. I also read that it sets up[ walls so that law enforcement can’t use data collected by the government to find and deport illegal criminals. These guys never learn. Why don’t we send those Hmong revolutionaries to Kennedy’s house and save maoney on jailing them?
Usually when I vehemently disagree with some actor, I usually can’t stomach watching them again in films. The Robbins/Sarandon playhouse team, Sean Penn and so on. So it was nice to see James Edward Olmos talk about the amnesty bill and argue for it. The first thing he admitted to is that it was amnesty. And because he’s such a great actor, he used his dramatic flair to argue for the bill. He didn’t, of course, change my mind, but his biggest argument was to pass it for compassion’s sake, and who can fault that? So rather than despise him, I am looking forward to his next movie. This guy can act.
The fact is, every Senator or spokesperson for the executive is lying when they say this isn’t amnesty. If they lie about such a fundamental issue as that, why trust them on anything else they say on this bill?
Lat year we had 700 miles of fence, if only they would have appropriated the funds. This year if we’re willing to give amnesty to up to 30 million people (judging from the ‘86 tripling of original estimates) we can have 300 miles of fence. You gotta be joshing me.
These Bozo’s thought they could slide this pile of crap right through with no problems because they were guessing that the fact they had started the wall would appease the conservative base. However with only three miles completed, It’s obvious what they are trying to pull off: Get the amnesty for the illegals then to hell with the wall.
Mr. President:
The "best" thing for America is to respect and enforce its laws.
That's what "executive" means.
--- or to repeal them.
That's what "legislative" means.
Yes, it is that simple.
America is committing slow suicide due to too many bleeding heart special interest groups who take it upon themselves to tell us what we should believe regarding this immigration problem. Why should they be rewarded? California's inmate population alone is over 50%; (most undocumented, etc.)
Look at recent “rallies” for amnesty... they blatantly wave their country’s flags in our faces with no hesitation to step on ours. We are slowly being overrun with this crap... it is literally an infestation. Why doesn’t that puke Bush call on the leaders of Mexico to put a stop to this? Mexican leaders gleefully send their people here.
It won’t be too long before our beautiful land is overrun and turned into the slums and poverty that they are running away from! They don’t care! When they take us over, they’ll head up North to Canada!
Sorry to be so blithering, but this problem makes me so darned sick!
Thanks for letting me sound off! (I know I kind of detracted from what I should have been saying, but...)
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I guess he has a “borderline” personality???? Nice catch.
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