[gubamyster]

ping

[MrEdd]

The cost for the Bush administration getting a seat at the table is still building the fence first.

[VictoryGal]

Stand firm and keep the phone handy. It’s not over.

[G8 Diplomat]

If you go to Whitehouse.gov, there is a link in the upper lefthand corner that says En Espanol. Now that is sad.

[Robe]

Just abolish Welfare and they’ll be lining up for those jobs “ that Americans won’t do”

[lesser_satan]

bump

[kabar]

Great article, Mark. He nails it. The WH is cracking down to apply pressure on Congress by employers to pass some sort of comprehensive immigration reform by doing what the law requires. What a novel approach!!!

[rockinqsranch]

Predictable.

[FateAmenableToChange]

On the other hand, it may energize the repub base in time for ‘08.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Interesting timing though. Just as the long-awaited subprime meltdown sets off the long-awaited economic downturn, steps are being taken to reduce the excess labor pool that would inevitably emerge.

[norwaypinesavage]

If The USA needs a large number of uneducated and unskilled workers who can’t speak English, we should establish a quota for uneducated and unskilled workers who can’t speak English, and allow them in legally. Somehow, I think this would be a very small number.

[DCPatriot]

LOL! And what if the SS administration simply doesn't send out any letters?

Since they're the ones that are benefiting...getting all the 'free' money from withholding taxes, etc., don't expect the letters to go out anytime soon.

[org.whodat]

The same sort of thing happened half a century earlier, when the textile industry predicted disaster if child labor were ended. At a Senate hearing in 1916, one mill owner said that limiting child labor would “stop my machines”; another said “investors would never receive another dividend”; while a third said that ending child labor would “paralyze the country.”

And before that it had something to do with picking cotton! Pack'em up send'em home.

[expatpat]

As far as I am concerned, this is OK. We probably do need to hire some Mexicans here in the US, but let’s do it legally, with no special path to citizenship, or welfare and other special benefits.

[servantboy777]

We keep focusing on Bush....but he’s not the only pro-union elite. Once he’s gone, another globalist will just take his place.

There gonna get their way.

[donna]

Or as DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff put it, “There will be some unhappy consequences for the economy out of doing this.”

The non-English speaking economy.

[Radix]

Gosh, the Government is thinking about actually enforcing Laws that they created?

Oh we’ll all be sorry now.

As far as the SS BS is concerned, if you have a spouse and try to jointly electronically file Federal taxes and the spouse has not reported the name change (assuming there was one) then guess what...the IRS will not accept your return.

That is a fact.

[Normal4me]

Does this mean us white guys might start getting more construction work again?

[AmericanExceptionalist]

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

This Mencken sentiment appears to be the guiding idea behind the administration’s announcement Friday of stepped-up immigration enforcement. After its relentless six-year campaign for amnesty crashed and burned in June at the hands of the common people, the White House has come up with a new plan: to start enforcing some of the laws they should have been enforcing all along, and so thoroughly scare the public with the consequences that there will be a popular groundswell for amnesty that will finally vindicate the administration position. You can almost hear the president thinking, “be careful what you wish for.”

This explanation strikes me as a bit Machiavellian for this administration, which has generally seemed rather principled.

Still, the immigration debate may be an exception. The Bush Administration has appeared more concerned with the rapidly growing Hispanic vote than with matters of principle, as concerning this particular issue.

So maybe Krikorian is onto something, after all...

[3AngelaD]

Hilarious. Wonder if they have seen that Rasmussen poll showing 79 percent approval of the administration's immigration crackdown. See

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880477/posts