Michelle Malkin on Hugh Hewitt MONDAY (11/25) at 5pm: "How should the GOP deal with immigration?"

Michelle Malkin is qualified to speak on the subject of illegal immigration, because she's studied the issue, she's intelligent, articulate, can think on her feet and can keep her head under pressure.
At least we are all in agreement about THIS part. :o)

What I would like for Hugh to ask her about is a variation of THIS question:
"Now that we have re-taken the Senate, and have the ability to implement our policies, what does the GOP do about immigration reform NOW?"

Here is a part of her answer that I would like for Hugh to explore, from:

MICHELLE MALKIN: NO MORE AMNESTIES, PERIOD
Human Events ^ | Nov. 20, 2002 | Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on 11/21/2002 7:30 AM PST by madfly

-- snip --
H[uman]E[vents]: For the first time since 1954 we have a government totally under Republican control. What should this all-Republican government do legislatively to begin getting this problem under control?
Malkin: Well, it’s not legislative, but the first thing that President Bush should do is replace INS Commissioner James Ziglar pronto.

HE: He’s announced his resignation, but is still sitting in the office. Do you have a candidate to replace him?
Malkin: I like Pete Nuñez, who was a Bush I Treasury Department official, and who is teaching immigration law right now in San Diego. He really understands that immigration has to be treated as a national security issue first.

HE: So once Pete Nuñez becomes INS commissioner, what’s step two?
Malkin: Getting serious about fixing our deportation system. In my book, I quote the late Rep. Barbara Jordan [D.-Tex.], who headed a federal immigration reform panel several years ago. She said, and I paraphrase, that credibility in immigration policy requires three things: letting people in who deserve to be here, keeping people out who don’t deserve to be here, and kicking people out who got here illegally. As the case of sniper suspect Lee Malvo shows, our deportation system is in complete shambles.

HE: Estimates of the number of illegal aliens in the United States run as high as 11 million. Are you ready to quite literally deport every one of them?
Malkin: Yes. Either our laws mean something or they don’t.

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© Human Events, 2002

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Saber, has the left been able to dismiss and marginalize J.C. Watts, Alan Keyes and Walter Williams?

Does the over-whelming percentage of minority voters still vote Democrat?

It's great to have Michelle on the conservative side of the Illegal immigration debate, but because she's so good.

Malkin: I like Pete Nuñez, who was a Bush I Treasury Department official, and who is teaching immigration law right now in San Diego.
He really understands that immigration has to be treated as a national security issue first...
See also, from www.humaneventsonline.com:

"...In order to get that law-and-order person at the INS now that a Republican occupies the Oval Office (the previous Democratic administration was not noted for its concern for law or order), [president of the American Council for Immigration Reform (ACIR), Joan] Hueter is pushing the candidate for INS commissioner favored by activists who believe in sovereign borders, Peter Nuñez. She recently squired him to a meeting of influential Washington conservatives and has made rounds on Capitol Hill trying to drum up support.
A member of the Naval Reserves, lawyer, and lecturer in the University of San Diego’s political science department, Nuñez favors strictly enforcing the laws against illegal immigration–a position that seems logical but is actually controversial.
"Peter Nuñez has given congressional testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight. . . . Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Also annual appearances before the Senate and House Treasury appropriations subcommittees," says an information sheet about him prepared by ACIR. Nuñez was U.S. attorney for San Diego under Reagan and assistant secretary of the treasury for enforcement under Bush Sr., and was chairman of the Southwest Border Committee.
"I believe in Peter," said Hueter. Nuñez’s boss would be Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft. "Sen. Ashcroft is a strong law-and-order person. Mr. Nuñez is a strong law-and-order person."

From www.sandiego.edu:

Peter Nuñez, J.D.
Peter K. Nuñez began his career in law enforcement in 1972 as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorneys Office in San Diego, California. He held a number of positions in that office before being appointed as the U.S. Attorney by President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Mr. Nuñez served as the U.S. Attorney through August of 1988, when he left to become a litigation partner in the San Diego office of one of California's largest civil law firms.

In 1990, he was appointed by President George Bush to be the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement in Washington, D.C. He was responsible for all law enforcement functions of the Treasury Department, including the Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Criminal Investigations Division of the Internal Revenue Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Since 1998 he has been involved in providing training, advice, and technical assistance to various foreign governments with respect to legal reform and the improvement of their criminal justice systems. He has been a law enforcement advisor to the Governments of Armenia and El Salvador under a program sponsored by the Treasury Department. He has also worked with government officials in Georgia, Ukraine, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and Israel in the development of legal reforms in the criminal justice and law enforcement systems.

Mr. Nuñez graduated from Duke University in 1964, served in the U.S. Navy, and attended law school at the University of San Diego, graduating cum laude in 1970.
nunezfam@juno.com

And, from http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin082102.asp:

Please, President Bush, another soft-on-crime Beltway back-slapper won't do
(08/21/02) http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Good riddance to James Ziglar, the hopeless head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service who announced his resignation last week.

This is a man whose main qualifications for the nation's top immigration enforcement job were his boyhood friendship with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott and his effortless ability to suck up to Sen. Ted Kennedy.

This is a man whose law enforcement background consisted of less than three years as the U.S. Senate's sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, protecting the Senate gavel and playing Senate hall monitor. This is a man who freely admitted before his confirmation that he had "no discernible experience in immigration law and policy."

This is a man whose idea of increasing U.S.-Mexican border security was to give his beleaguered agents pepperball guns, and whose idea of leadership was to openly assure millions of illegal aliens earlier this spring that it is "not practical or reasonable" to deport them. Everyone knows the INS lacks the proper resources and manpower to do its job. But good grief, did we really need the nation's top immigration officer using his megaphone to advertise his own cluelessness and question the reasonableness of the laws he was supposed to enforce?

But let's not be too hard on Ziglar. He didn't seek out the job. It was his elbow-rubbing pals who promoted his nomination, and it was President Bush who ultimately put him in power. Administration insiders are saying Ziglar wasn't pushed out. But when his impending departure is coupled with the recent "retirement" of the State Department's Consular Affairs chief, Mary Ryan-she was sacked after intrepid National Review reporter Joel Mowbray relentlessly blew the whistle on her office's terrorist-friendly visa policies-it seems on the surface that the Bush administration is finally getting rid of the pre-September 11 furniture and updating the bureaucratic front offices for the War on Terror.

Whether or not the INS gets folded into the proposed Homeland Security Department, it needs top executives who understand that immigration in the post-September 11 era must be treated first and foremost as a national security issue-not as a politically correct entitlement, not as a social engineering experiment, not as a diplomatic tool, and not as a cash cow. The agency needs someone with:

the dedication of Detroit-based Border Patrol officers Mark Hall and Robert Lindemann, who guard the northern border and, at risk of their own jobs, offered prescient warnings to Congress about the threat of terrorists and other criminal aliens exploiting lax immigration enforcement;

the guts of Neil Jacobs, the former assistant director of investigations at INS's Dallas office, who suffered retaliation for helping expose the Clinton-Gore administration's corruption of the naturalization process;

the foresight of Mary Schneider, a 20-year veteran of the INS in Orlando who warned a deaf Justice Department years before the September 11 attacks that aliens connected to Osama bin Laden were operating in Florida and illegally gaining residence;

the wisdom of Bill King, a retired senior Border Patrol agent who knows the perils of granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens after having administered the 1986 amnesty program for the INS Western Region;

and the administrative experience of Peter Nunez, a former U.S. attorney for San Diego who served under President Reagan and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement in the first Bush administration, acting as liaison on border issues between the INS, the U.S. Customs Service, and Drug Enforcement Agency.

In short, Ziglar's replacement should be someone from the enforcement side of the trenches. Someone who has led by example and who will send a message to INS employees that their jobs-patrolling the border, tracking down immigration outlaws, and kicking them out of the country-are not only "practical" and "reasonable," but more important than ever during the War on Terror.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, warns wisely that perhaps we shouldn't hope too much: "After all, the State Department has nominated a clone to succeed Mary Ryan, and an important member of Ziglar's team remains dangerously in place: INS policy director Stuart Anderson, a libertarian ideologue who has crusaded tirelessly for years, in and out of government, for open borders."

Please, President Bush, another soft-on-crime Beltway back-slapper won't do.

It sounds like she knows quite a few of the players, and has put together a pretty good list, but she seems to be too modest to include the MOST IMPORTANT name that should be on that list of possible replacements for James Ziglar:
Michelle Malkin

Wait 'till she recites the pledge the new citizens make. Your heart will sit up and take notice, until she mentions there is a move a foot for the new citizens to recite the pledge in Spanish.

Learning and reciting the pledge in Spanish doesn't sound like a bad idea at all for all Spanish-speaking Americans and FReepers. I sorta like this version. It sings.

-archy-/-

I don't know where you live but, I have personally seen a trend towards non-assimilation and the pushing of chicano rights. We will face an aztec intifada, count on it!

I don't know where you live but,
I have personally seen a trend towards non-assimilation and the pushing of chicano rights...
I live in L.A., and I know what you mean, but there are lots of OTHER goofy trends around here that are NON-Latino:

anti-war, anti-SUV, pro-abortion, pro-gay, etc.

IMHO, we need to fight ALL of these counter-productive (left-wing) trends with POSITIVE replacements, like organization that promote church, family and civic responsibilty.

There is an easy solution to illegal immigration. When an illegal immigrant is caught in this country he or she must be deported to their country of origin. Secondly, the US must deduct $10,000.00 in aid sent to that country for each illegal apprehended. If the same illegal immigrant is caught again entering our country the price tag is now $20,000.00, three times $40,000.00. The catch is the US must must enforce a strict apprehension policy.

Tancredo-Time bump.

So you look forward to living in a third world slum. Because that is what this country will become and as crowded as Calcutta. Where is it written that everyone has a right to move here? And as for assimilating that is the problem. They do not want to assimilate they want to take over and if necessary kick us out. Their words not mine. Ignore them like others two generations ago ignored Hitlers words in Mein Kampf. Go to the colleges and hear these idiots talking about the "struggle" by La Raza. Get a clue.

If George Bush told Hewitt to jump out a window he would. I like Hugh and listen every day but he has no healthy skepticism when it comes to Bush and the GOP.

Reverse mortgage on illegal immigration

Tancredo-Time bump

Malkin, the daughter of Filipino immigrants...

Forgive me if someone has already proposed this...
but I suspect that Ms. Malkin has taken up the cause of exposing the sordid track record of
our INS for two reasons:

1. She doesn't want radical Islam to do to the USA what it's doing with The Phillipines.

2. She's basically a fair person (besides being smart).
She probably has heard from her parents about the paperwork and bureaucracy they
navigated in order to join us here in the USA.
And she's probably compared that to the miscreants who the INS treats as "customers"
(always right) in the cases of the Beltway Snipers and The Talented Mr. Atta and his crew.

I know a bit of the challenge for the immigrant/visiting Phillipino/a in the USA.
When I was in graduate school in the early 1990s, one of my fellow graduate students
was a Phillipino; a calmer, more Catholic-observant fellow you'd never meet.

One afternoon he came into the lab and was absolutely fuming (totally out of character).
I said "What's the problem?".
He said "I am so mad. I have spent three wasted hours with the INS. If I'd known that
the INS was such a mess, I'd have flown from Manila and sneaked across the border
to get to graduate school.

She is a graduate of Oberlin College.
This is what I simply find amazing.
My graduate faculty advisor got her undergrad degree from Oberlin.
While she was an observant Catholic, she was about as liberal as they come.
IIRC, some of the "free speech" movement folks in the 1960s at Berkely got their
undergrad degrees at Oberlin.

Hi, VOA - It is a good thing that Hugh has FR do do his "show prep" for him! :o)

Seriously, I have found out more about Michelle Malkin from THIS THREAD than they seem to have discovered when she was on with Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, 20/20, etc. - and we haven't even heard what Hugh will ask her yet.

Not sure about the Philippine connection, but since (from her bio) Michelle was born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents, she would appear to qualify as a "natural born" citizen - and hence, can be President, unlike Ah-nuld. :o)

Not sure about Oberlin College, either. What is their reputation?

Also - not sure that I am familiar with the INS's "catch and release" program, but I do NOT like what I am reading about it, from www.nationalreview.com:

October 25, 2002, 9:00 a.m.
Who Let Lee Malvo Loose?
What the INS did wrong.
By Michelle Malkin

he mainstream media informed us this week that Lee Malvo, the reportedly 17-year-old youth charged as a material witness in the sniper investigation along with his stepfather John Mohammed, is a "Jamaican national." As of this writing (Oct. 24), the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to comment publicly on the exact nature of Malvo's immigration status.
Here are the facts the INS doesn't want you to know: Lee Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica who jumped ship in Miami in June 2001. He was apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Wash., in December 2001, but was then let go by the INS district in Seattle in clear violation of federal law and contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers intended, according to my law-enforcement sources.
According to INS records I obtained, Malvo was arrested by Border Patrol agents in Bellingham, Wash., on Dec. 19, 2001. Local police called the Border Patrol during an incident involving "some sort of custody dispute" between Malvo's mother, Uma Sceon James, and stepfather, John Mohammed (the ex-Army soldier with black radical Muslim ties now at the center of the sniper investigation). James admitted that six months earlier, "she and her son were passengers on a cargo ship that was filled with 'illegal asians (sic).' They were all off loaded in the Miami, FL area where she immediately located work at the Red Lobster in Ft. Myers, FL."
From there, Malvo and James traveled to Tacoma, Wash., and ended up in Bellingham. At the time of their arrest, INS records indicate, neither Malvo nor his mother had any documents proving their identities or allowing them "to be or remain in the United States legally." The Border Patrol agents concluded that because she had "no roots or close family ties in the United States, James was likely to abscond." The arresting officer noted that the mother-and-son illegal aliens, Malvo and James, would be "detained at the Seattle Detention facility in Seattle, Washington pending deportation charges."
That's not what happened. About a month after their arrest, Malvo and his mother were set free by the Seattle district INS — contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers had determined should be done. And in clear violation of federal law regarding the removal of illegal alien stowaways. According to the Detention and Deportation Officers' Field Manual:

Occasionally, you may encounter an alien who claims to be a stowaway, but cannot or will not provide information concerning the name of the vessel of arrival. Prior to April 1, 1997, such aliens could be handled in the same way as any other EWI (entered without inspection) case and placed into removal proceedings. The (Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act), however, directs that stowaways, regardless of when encountered, are to be removed without a hearing . . . citing section 235(a)(2) of the Act as the authority for the action.

The law is explicit: Illegal alien stowaways are to be detained and deported without hearings. James admitted that she and her son were illegal alien stowaways. Yet, in January 2002, James was released on a $1,500 bond; Malvo was set loose without any bond on his own recognizance. Here is my theory: Somebody at the Seattle INS office leaned on the arresting Border Patrol officers to disregard Malvo and his mother's "stowaway" status — allowing them to run free and allowing the INS to avoid the costs associated with detention and deportation.
So, who let Lee Malvo loose? The Seattle INS office referred my call to the Washington, D.C., headquarters. The national headquarters referred calls to the Montgomery County sniper task force. Standard INS operating procedure: Pass the buck and run for cover.
"This makes me sick to my stomach," says Daryl Schermerhorn, vice president of the Northwest regional chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents Border Patrol agents in Washington State. "The INS is not concerned with enforcing immigration law," he told me this week. "It's more concerned with freeing up jails and saving a few bucks than it is with protecting Americans and removing people who don't belong here."
As I document in my book, Invasion, these countless "catch and release" cases have demoralized rank-and-file INS agents and cost scores of American lives — from cops gunned down by fugitive deportees to victims of illegal border-crossing murderers, and now, quite possibly, to the innocents slaughtered in the Washington, D.C.-area sniping spree.
Eugene Davis, a retired deputy chief Border Patrol agent in Blaine, Wash., told me: "This is another classic example of how our catch and release policy for illegal aliens remains a danger to us all. What's it going to take for the American people to demand that we fix the system?"
— Michelle Malkin is author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.
COPYRIGHT 2002 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

Go to the colleges and hear these idiots talking about the "struggle" by La Raza. Get a clue.
The problem of Latino non-assimilation may indeed be very real, and it certainly needs to be addressed, but you will not convince me by citing what the "young skulls full of mush" (a la Rush) do on the local college campi. :)

We were all young and stupid once, but the actions of local college "protest" groups are not a very effective measure of ANYTHING, IMHO.

Not sure about Oberlin College, either. What is their reputation?

As for academics, I think they are ranked as one of those elite undergrad schools,
like Reed College in Oregon, and the Claremont system here in SoCal.
A lot of us average Joes/Josephines never hear of these places, but in the
ranks of the power-elites, they are sort of like what Eton is to the Brits. Or close to it.

Also - not sure that I am familiar with the INS's "catch and release" program, but
I do NOT like what I am reading about it,

A month or so after 9-11, someone here linked the forum up to an long article from
the Miami-area publication that is a sister publication to LA's now-defunct NewTimesLA.
It was nothing but a very lenthgy, enraging list of INS screw-ups regarding the
Talented Mr. Atta and associates.
What got me the most was that some virtuous INS folks said the department was
being run with the attitude that "the custormer is always right".
Apparently, even when the "customer" should be convicted/deported for their crimes...

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