Posted on 07/01/2007 5:11:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Michael Gallagher, conservative talk radio host; Mark Green of Air America Radio.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; Lanny Davis, former Clinton special counsel; Ben Ginsberg, former counsel to the Republican National Committee; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
I'm afraid that's correct. There will be no actual governing, only constant "campaigning."
Another reason for the difference between leftwing and rightwing radio is the basic difference in the outlooks of the two sides. For lefties big govt. is great, the bigger the better. They do not bash government programs, they love them. so aside from personal attacks on particular politicians, they don’t have much to actually talk about.
Conservatives have a basic dislike and distrust of big government, so lots of discussion can carry on every day as to how to reduce the effects of government in our own (the listeners’) lives.
My understanding was that the governors of California and Arizona were for the CIR bill the Senate just voted down. That leaves just New Mexico (Bill Ricardo-son, Dem Clintonista) and Texas.
Wow some great links here Ali.
Only the federal government has the time, money and hubris required to calculate exactly what it does not know, and since illegals in this country have stolen identities and pretended to be somebody else in order to secure government services they are not entitled to, that makes it even more difficult to know how many there are.
As far as the content of the proposed law, nobody has actually read the whole thing from cover to cover, so everybody relies on somebody else's intepretation.
And knowing what laws already exist is a bad idea, since that would indicate that the existing laws actually exist, and would resolve our crisis IF THEY WERE ENFORCED.
Like large cities in the US, London is populated by non-natives to a huge majority. Way over 60%, but I don’t remember the exact figure.
What is wrong with fencing off the entire border with the necessary cameras, perimeter road, barbed wire, increased border patrol etc. It dramatically improved security for Israel. Hundreds of Private contractors incentivized could build the fence in little or no time if the resolve and desire was there, since the money(some of it) already is.
And thanks for those links
There is even a effort to prevent the collection of such data. We have been trying to get legislation enacted in VA to start having hospitals, schools, law enforcement and state agencies to collect such data without penalizing the individuals, but just to gather the information. The ACLU, Dems, and ethnic interest groups have been thwarting such efforts. IMO the information would probably be devastating and there would be a huge reaction from the public once they understand what kind of resources are being expended supporting people who shouldn't be here in the first place.
Unless you live in a cave or some remote area of the US, you only have to look around you to see how significant the demographic changes have been in just a decade or so. Today, one in every 8 residents of America is foreign born and will soon approach one in 7, the highest it has ever been in our history. You can't hide at least 36 million people.
This issue is not going away. It is the elephant in the room and growing larger every day. No matter how much spin the politicians use to disguise what is happening, it boils down to whom do you believe, the politicians or your own lying eyes? Grassroots organizations are springing up all over Virginia and the rest of the country. We are committed to taking our government back from the political elites of both parties who are disconnected from reality. "For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind."
Yes, but the objective is to get Cheney. They're not interested in some stinkin' report or the bureaucrat who wrote it.
grassroots organizations are springing up all over Virginia and the rest of the country
The job will get done it's just a matter of who does it.
It has to be at least 40 million illegals here based on ERs, social services, law enforcement pickups and the sheer number (multiply please), of the couple of plants they show bust with stolen SSNs (huge percentage btw). On my block alone, it has to be hundreds... one block. I’m talking mostly Mexican, Somalis, Ecuadorians, Salvadorians, you name it... i’m in NYC, it’s bad... and I was stationed in the SW years ago and it was unreal re: closing hospitals, prisons, enforcement. Here, they did door to door census last time... how did the results come out, they need another box to check.
You’re right, one bill at a time... never ‘comprehensive’.
Remember they’ve fudged each time on previous immigration legislation. Not enough money, manpower... blah. The exit program was said to have glitches and would be too expensive, Chertoff himself said the environuts hold them up over cacti (yep), not to mention the constant cutting and dumbing down on what should have started not on 9-12-2001, but way before. Do we really want CAIR and Ft. Dix six (as well as Dearbornistan), relatives brought in? I would love for all to read on all the hijackers/jihadis that had expired visas that attacked or attempted to attack our country chronologically. Steyn did a good job on it. The fact Atta was sent another card 6 months after 9-11 and the system is STILL not computerized and is backlogged now... should be common sense that this should be done ASAP.
The border HAS to be shut down.
We HAVE to know who’s in this country illegal, those here on expired visas have to be found, and we have to stop letting people from certain countries come here period (including tourist, student visas), sure ID can be faked and folks can fly in from other countries, but it cuts down the odds here on the ground.
Isn’t Hunter’s district where elaborate tunnels under a border fence, including rail tracks, have been found?
I tend to agree with your 40 million figure, as one who has had his homeland stolen by third worlders legal and other, it’s not pretty and no fun to go through.
I wish someone would've addressed one of the main reasons for the antagonism toward illegals: their demands for their "rights", as evidenced by their protests and demonstrations, all the while waving their mexican flags and denouncing the U.S. That is what awakened the "Sleeping Giant" of the American citizenry. Having lived in Central California for 21 years, we could see this coming a mile away, but the rest of the country wasn't paying attention. They sure are paying attention now.
Times being what they are, don’t you think it’s time for a special door-to-door census? Undercover to begin? See who stirs...
They also need to check out their ICE employees on the DL, as well as those who issue visas (that put the actual ID portions together), as well as the immigration lawyers.
There are a lot of forgers out there, they have to learn somewhere.
Some of those against building a fence or physical barrier at the Mexican border do so because they don't want what they consider to be a negative image for the US [Berlin wall analogy] or an insult to Mexico. But the reality is quite different. "No other First World country has such an extensive land frontier with a Third World country. The significance of the long Mexican-U.S. border is enhanced by the economic differences between the two countries. “The income gap between the United States and Mexico,” Stanford University historian David Kennedy has pointed out, “is the largest between any two contiguous countries in the world.” They will keep coming unless we physically stop them.
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