A Disturbing Letter from a Saudi

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | March 15, 2K2 | Saudi Citizen to David Horowitz

[Twodees]

State level LE and bureaucrats will be the logical people to do the checking. Every illegal who is staying here is going to have to go to a local government office sooner or later to get ID, or a permit for something or to apply for some sort of benefit, or is going to run into local LE in one way or another. I think what we're going to see is that Bush won't even approach this issue.

This may come down to a few states challenging the federal usurpation of state power to approve or deny immigration of foreign nationals. That usurpation was accomplished piecemeal, with a provision concerning citizenship in the first section of the 14th amendment and then later by legislation. There was never a Constitutional amendment passed to grant the federal government the power to admit immigraqnts and grant them citizenship. That was a reserved state power and under the terms of the 10th amendment, it's still a reserved state power which can be exercised by any or all of the states.

To silence the critics of ethnic profiling by the states, the 14th amendment would have to be repealed. I think it should be anyway, but this situation is a very strong contemporary argument for doing so. Ashcroft announced that ending racial profiling would be a priority in his administration of the DoJ. I don't think he has any political courage in this area myself.

We may not agree on methods for implementing the solution, but we agree on what the solution obviously is. To me it's very obvious.

[UbIwerks]

FYI, compadre: Ann Coulter: Detainment isn't enough!

[rdb3]

Not a bad idea by Ann. Now if she would just eat a Big Mac or two. . .

[Countyline]

"Anyway, concerning the content itself, it strikes me as the sort of piece that isn't written to change minds, rather to reinforce an existing belief (a belief which I happen to hold already, in case you hadn't guessed). So on the scale of importance, it just doesn't rate very high."

True.

[ThePythonicCow]

Three days later, Horowitz has just posted an apology for portions of this letter concerning Hussein Ibish. See the new FR post An Apology to Hussein Ibish.

[rdb3]

That's my browser's homepage. I read it.

I'm glad everything was kept front and center.

[patent]

bump

[Travis McGee]

Interesting!