Defending the Innocent: Arizona and Immigration

First Things ^ | 4/28/2010 | Peter Mailaender

[marajade]

don’t you have to be a registered voter to get an absentee ballot?

[c-b 1]

Yes. It is not hard to register illegals, the person helping to fill out the form checks the ID of the person registering. The Democrats, and Acorn affiliated organizations have voter registration drives, I suspect that they only care about getting the person registered.

Many illegals registered before they had to show ID.

[lentulusgracchus]

Ooooh, nice ring! </ring envy>

But when Napolitano was talking about "infrastructure" on the website, she surely wasn't talking about the website itself being "the infrastructure"?

Infrastructure is roads, utility lines, water sources and distribution grids. What infrastructure would anyone be building down on the border, except to support either maquilas (which are passe', the work having emigrated to China 10 years ago), or ..... illegal immigration?

Again, the meanings are not clear. Why didn't she say, "we built roads and utility grids to support factories" if that was her meaning?

Is it me? Is tuna salad making me stupid? Or is there a load of whale-dung on that website?

[lentulusgracchus]

I sure hope Arizona gets hot like, next month, on scrubbing the voter rolls, checking them for illegals. And passing a law that says "bring your passport, birth certificate, or state driver's license with you to the polls, 'coz you're going to have to prove you're a citizen, registration card or no registration card!"

That would be fair, given the problem and ACORN's history.

[okie01]

And passing a law that says "bring your passport, birth certificate, or state driver's license with you to the polls, 'coz you're going to have to prove you're a citizen, registration card or no registration card!"

Arizona already has such a law. They passed it in 2005 and it survived every legal challenge the liberals could muster.

[Liz]

Somebody wrote that for her-—they had no idea what infrastructure means.

They had to throw in a multi-syllabic word to make Napolitano sound good.