"Political posturing. He decided to speak spanish to illegals throughout his election campaign. I wouldn't hold my breath that he won't pull a Clinton and try to define "blanket"."
"Listen to me, I'm only going to say this once, I did not have blanket amnesty with that banana republic, Ms. Mexico."
Our porous borders
Mexico: The next Lebanon?
"Mexico's National Security Adviser Adolfo Aguilar Zinser made the sensational announcement that Islamic terrorist organizations have a presence along the U.S. border and may be making contacts with Mexican guerrilla groups.
"We have evidence that organizations or people linked to Islamic organizations could have a presence here or be passing through," Aguilar told a local radio program. Though declining to identify the specific groups, he also said the groups could have indigenous guerrilla ties."
Old Luis the terrorist friend is in a pitched battle with a Mexican/american for his seat in which Mexicans outnumber Ricans by a large amount in his district so this is an obvious pander move.
GOP SILENT ON CLINTON-GORE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
Published: 4-21-00 Author: Samuel Francis
Posted on 04/24/2000 00:10:33 PDT by jordan8 April 21, 2000
Unknown to most Americans, but widely noticed in the Spanish-language media of immigrant communities, the Clinton administration has endorsed legislation that would grant amnesty to some 500,000 illegal aliens already in the country. The administration's endorsement, announced late last month by Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, is transparently politically motivated -- Gore needs the vast Hispanic vote to win the election. It will be interesting to see how his Republican counterpart reacts.
On April 12, the Los Angeles Times carried the news of Gore's endorsement, on behalf of the Clinton administration, of an obscure House bill that makes illegal aliens living in the United States eligible to apply for legal residency if they are of "good moral character" and have lived continuously in this country since 1986. Apparently the fact that they entered the country and have lived in it for 14 years in blatant violation of federal law does not detract from their character.
Virtually no other major newspaper has mentioned the amnesty proposal since the Times' report. But then, why would anyone expect the media to report on a politically driven devaluation of American citizenship? Since both legal and illegal immigration is welcomed by the American governing class, the administration's decision is merely one more logical step up the ladder of abolishing citizenship -- and nationhood -- outright.
But if the media were silent about the amnesty, neither did most Republicans have much to say about it. GOP presidential candidate Gov. George W. Bush mumbled that "he did not support an expansion of the amnesty program at this time," the Times reported. Of course, like many of his statements on other issues, this one left open the possibility that he might alter his position at some other time. But since Gore's announcement was dropped at the very moment Bush was speaking to Hispanic groups in California, and since Bush also wants Hispanic votes in that state, this was probably not the time for the governor to say anything intelligent about it.
Nor have any Republican noises erupted from the House and Senate. Although the amnesty legislation is not expected to pass by itself, it might get attached as an amendment to a larger bill allowing more skilled workers to enter the country so the computer industry can fire its higher-paid American workers.
Republicans generally plan to vote for that bill, and if the amnesty is linked to it, they're unlikely to say nay to it either.
Besides, when was the last time a Republican lawmaker met an immigrant he didn't like? The Times reports that Bush seized the opportunity while in California to "distance himself" from a new version of Proposition 187, the 1994 ballot measure that denied welfare benefits to illegal aliens and which passed overwhelmingly.
Not a few Republicans -- including California Gov. Pete Wilson -- rode 187 to victory that year, when their party swept into the majority on Capitol Hill, but ever since then they've been terrified of immigration issues at all. Committed to the fiction that the party must win the Hispanic vote in order to win at all, almost all Republicans now say they're "for" legal but "against" illegal immigration.
Well, the Clinton-Gore amnesty gives the Republicans a chance to prove it. The silence with which the party is greeting the administration's endorsement suggests that they can't, that they really support immigration pure and simple, whether it's legal or not. After all, mass immigration provides cheap labor for the large agri-business interests that support the GOP and also helps drive down the cost of American labor. As the party of business, the Republicans have good reasons to keep quiet about Clinton's amnesty brainstorm.
But if the Republicans care nothing for the integrity of the law that regulates immigration or for the character of their own nation and its citizenship, they might still care something for their own political survival. The largely Hispanic immigrants who have flooded the country for the last generation or so vote overwhelmingly Democratic, and there's no reason to think that will change if the proposed amnesty goes through. Indeed, that's why the Democrats are backing it. Republicans like Bush may strut about how open they and their party are to immigrants, but the immigrants themselves know which party has pandered to them the most.
There have been four different amnesties for illegal immigrants in the last 14 years, and every time one is adopted, it helps weaken the standing laws on immigration further. If there is anyone left in either party of the American governing class who any longer takes seriously either the rule of law or the integrity of citizenship, he needs to do something to stop Clinton's latest transgression of both and wake up the Republicans to the threat it poses.
Seems like only yesterday.......................I'd laugh but it isn't very funny, is it?
Nothing worse than a pig without loft. =o)