Posted on 08/20/2007 5:11:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will the execution-style murder of three young students in Newark, N.J., finally turn the tide in the immigration enforcement debate? Will we at last abandon the deadly, chaotic, lawless sanctuary nation experiment and restore America's lost status as a sovereign nation under the rule of law?
The death of six innocent men and women and the injury of more than 1,000 at the hands of several illegal alien 1993 World Trade Center bombers wasn't enough to convince politicians in New York and across this country to end illegal alien sanctuary policies.
The death of nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children at the hands of the 9/11 jihadists who exploited our lax entrance and visa enforcement policies in 2001 wasn't enough.
The death of 10 innocent men and women in the Washington, D.C., area at the hands of an illegal alien sniper and his bloodthirsty mentor in 2002 wasn't enough.
But now we are in the heat of a presidential election cycle. The open-borders opportunists in immigration enforcement clothing are professing to see the light. With illegal alien murder suspect Jose Carranza and his alleged MS-13 gang-banging boy helpers who are being sought in the brutal Newark murder case dominating the news on the Eastern seaboard, politicians can't find a camera fast enough to condemn the very sanctuary policies they promoted and tolerated for decades -- sanctuary policies I've highlighted for years in this column.
Amnesty-first GOP presidential candidate John McCain is now singing the enforcement-first tune. And GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani vowed Tuesday to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S.
He's touting a "tamper-proof ID card" that includes fingerprints for everyone entering the country and a central database to track when they leave.
What Rudy-come-lately fails to comprehend is that there are already multiple alien tracking databases mandated by federal law that have yet to be fully implemented, integrated and used. The reason they don't work is because open-borders interests have sabotaged them by restricting funding for them, objecting to them on civil liberties grounds, and pushing local and state governments to forbid public employees from checking them to verify citizenship status. Ring a bell, Rudy?
Giuliani's newfound border security zeal is intended to blunt criticism by GOP rival Mitt Romney of Giuliani's pro-sanctuary record as NYC mayor.
Giuliani has issued Clin- tonian denials that he supported sanctuary. But the record is clear. New York City's sanctuary policy was created in 1989 by Democrat Mayor Ed Koch and upheld by every mayor succeeding him. When Congress enacted immigration reform laws that forbade local governments from barring employees from cooperating with the INS, Giuliani filed suit against the feds in 1997. He was rebuffed by two lower courts, which ruled that the sanctuary order amounted to special treatment for illegal aliens and was nothing more than an unlawful effort to flaunt federal enforcement efforts against illegal aliens. In January 2000, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but Giuliani vowed to ignore the law.
To this day, the city's policy of safe harbors for illegal immigrants stands. Giuliani successor Michael Bloomberg defiantly reiterated the official sanctuary posture of NYC this week: "Let 'em come." Could he be more callous, cavalier and out of touch in a post-9/11 world?
From New York to Newark to Seattle to Portland to San Francisco to Los Angeles to San Diego to Houston to Miami, lawmakers have taken this go-with-the-flow attitude toward illegal alien border-crossers and visa overstayers and deportation fugitives. "Let 'em come."
But in the wake of the Newark murders and the illumination of illegal alien gang crime penetrating the country, a new rallying cry came from the lips of Newark Mayor Cory Booker: "Get this evil out of my city." That won't happen without a demonstrated commitment to cooperate with the feds to enforce immigration laws and deport violent and dangerous criminal aliens first.
A few weeks ago, I launched deportthemnow.com. Nearly 8,000 volunteers have signed up to make their voices heard. Our top priorities will be to push for the adoption of a program known as 287(g) to identify criminal illegal aliens in as many cities as possible; to repeal "don't ask-don't tell" sanctuary laws; and to support lawmakers like Newark City Councilman Ron C. Rice, who is pushing a resolution to coordinate efforts between law enforcement when an illegal immigrant is charged with a felony, and New Jersey Assemblyman Richard Merkt (R-Morris), who proposed prohibiting jail officials from releasing illegal immigrants and requiring them to be remanded to federal authorities.
It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Wash- ington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.
No more promises. No need to wait for Election '08. Just do it.
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Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.
If we ever stop this invasion Michelle can take pride in her second to none efforts to inform the American people and expose the political whores that have allowed it to go on for so long.
Regards
Michelle spells it out clearly and succinctly.
deportthemnow.com! Love it. Now that says it all right there :-). Go Michelle!
Is anyone pursuing RICO suits against the cities that have declared themselves sanctuaries for ILLEGAL ALIENS? (There, I’ve called them what they are...they are ILLEGAL, ALIENS and de facto criminals)
The truth is the exact opposite, as Malkin's family demonstrates. Those who have become Americans by the long, difficult, legal process, resent the illegals who "jump the line," and who "steal their citizenship, rather than earn it."
So, the political cowards are fools as well. All the more reason to drive them from office with a switch, and leave them sitting on the curb, wondering what ran over them.
Congressman Billybob
Malkin recently said on Laura Ingraham’s show that she likes Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter.
Front runner in the Republican party is big time “SANCTUARY” man.Guliani. Totally committed to New York City harboring illegal aliens. Is that what we want?
Rush just said yesterday, Rooty will be the nominee.
And will we settle for that? Will we lay down and take Giuliani the Dem-in-all-but=name?? Will we have two Dems running against each other??
WILL WE BE SHEEP?? (stay sheep) Is it time to stand up and be counted??
“Malkin recently said on Laura Ingraham’s show that she likes Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter.”
I don’t see how ANYONE who wants our borders effectively secured and opposes amnesty for illegal aliens, can support anyone OTHER THAN Tancredo or Hunter.
The push for RHINO’s and CFR candidates is going to threaten the very sovereignty and security of our country.
Our borders MUST be effectively secured and then ALL illegal aliens MUST GO HOME.
Amen and right on, Michelle!
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!
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Hunter or Tancredo would be terrific, but the MSM has ordained otherwise.
“Front runner in the Republican party is big time “SANCTUARY” man.Guliani. Totally committed to New York City harboring illegal aliens. Is that what we want?”
No way!
“Rush just said yesterday, Rooty will be the nominee.”
Rush also said that Colin Powell would probably be George Bush’s running mate, and Rush predicted that shortly before Bush actually announced VP Cheney.
So I doubt if Rush’s prediction will be any better this EARLY in the campaign.
Rush is a smart man, but he doesn’t have a crystal ball.
“I don’t see how ANYONE who wants our borders effectively secured and opposes amnesty for illegal aliens, can support anyone OTHER THAN Tancredo or Hunter.”
I agree, and these men also have it right on the other issues.
“Hunter or Tancredo would be terrific, but the MSM has ordained otherwise.”
It’s up to grassroots folks to fight for the best candidate, or MSM will keep picking the candidates for us.
I wish our world worked that way.
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