Posted on 11/30/2004 11:02:34 PM PST by kattracks
The obtuseness of the open-borders lobby never ceases to amaze. Here we are, three years after the 9/11 hijackers easily exploited lax borders, and the OBL continues to argue that cracking down on illegal immigration and tightening terrorist-friendly loopholes are "anti-immigrant."Banging. Head. Against. The. Wall.
How do you maintain sanity when wading through the emotional drivel that passes for the OBL's reasoning? Tip: Whenever they say "anti-immigrant," substitute "pro-enforcement." And shout it at the top of your lungs.
Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism. By smearing the overwhelming majority of Americans who support real borders as racists and xenophobes, the OBL obscures its deadly agenda: sabotaging our existing immigration laws and blocking any new efforts to punish those who abuse the system.
Flavia Jimenez of the National Council of La Raza illustrates perfectly this blustering open-borders tactic in a hysterical "action alert" this week titled: "STOP ANTI IMMIGRANT PROVISIONS FROM BECOMING PART OF THE INTELLIGENCE REFORM BILL." La Raza and their fellow travelers argue that tough enforcement measures "needlessly scapegoat all immigrants," are "extraneous" and "harsh," "would not have prevented the terrorist attacks and will not make us safer," and are "non-solutions that will only drive people further underground and cause panic among immigrant communities."
"Extraneous"? These same critics had no problem when a $1 billion illegal alien health care bailout for border hospitals was tacked on to the mammoth Medicare Prescription Drug bill.
"Non-solutions"? The 9/11 commission itself blamed "a lack of well-developed counterterrorism measures as part of border security, and an immigration system not able to deliver on its basic commitments, much less support counterterrorism."
"Anti-immigrant"? If you actually read the immigration enforcement provisions supported by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner and his fellow maverick House Republicans (side note: just once, I'd like to see the mainstream media call a Republican other than John McCain a "maverick"), you will see clearly and unequivocally that these vital measures are anti-terrorist. Anti-criminal. Anti-fraud. And above all, pro-enforcement.
Open-border activists not only oppose the most-publicized provision that would deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens, they also oppose provisions:
-- Adding at least 2,000 new border patrol agents, 800 new interior enforcement investigators, and 150 additional consular officials overseas.
-- Increasing illegal alien detention facility space by 2,500 beds.
-- Expanding the number of foreign airports with counterterrorist passenger prescreening programs.
-- Creating a uniform identity document rule for all aliens present in the United States
-- Toughening criminal penalties for using or trading false identification documents.
-- Reducing bureaucratic delays that allow illegal aliens who obtained fraudulent visas to re-enter or remain in the country even after their visas have been revoked.
-- Creating an information- and intelligence-sharing system at the Department of Homeland Security to track terrorist travel tactics, patterns, trends and practices and disseminate the data to front-line personnel at ports of entry and immigration benefits offices.
-- Making it easier to deport terrorists and alien supporters of terrorism by curbing their avenues for appeal and delay.
-- Speeding up the development of a long-delayed entry-exit system to guard against terrorists slipping through the cracks.
-- Requiring asylum-seekers tied to guerrilla, militant or terrorist organizations, and who claim asylum without submitting corroborating evidence, to provide credible proof of their "persecution."
As usual, mainstream reporting on these specific immigration-related measures at issue has been skimpier than a Bratz doll's wardrobe. That's because so many national editors themselves subscribe to the open-borders gospel. Since 9/11, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have published countless news items and editorials decrying immigration enforcement: sob stories about families caught evading deportation orders; foreign students complaining about new registration requirements violating their "privacy"; Latino activists outraged about border patrol agents doing their jobs; Middle Eastern tourists protesting visa screening measures; and illegal aliens clamoring for protection of their "rights."
Rep. Sensenbrenner and his GOP colleagues face not only the OBL on the left and in the media, but also at the highest echelons of the Bush administration. The mavericks need all the help they can get. Before it's too late, call the White House now and yell: It's the enforcement, stupid!
Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist and maintains her weblog at michellemalkin.com
©2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Excellent column this time. She can scream all she wants BUT they don't listen to us sweetie. No cares what the children of legal immigrants think.
That would make a grrrrreat bumpersticker!
Michelle is a true patriot.
Someday, our party will wake up, and realize the securing the border and enforcing the law is a conservative value. The question is whether it will wake up in time, before Hillary seizes the issue and tramples right over a RINO with no principles in 2008.
"Political correctness is the handmaiden of terrorism."
You are right. That would be a great bumper sticker. I think I just found a tagline.
"Someday, our party will wake up, and realize the securing the border and enforcing the law is a conservative value."
Saddly, that will happen after a terror act across the border...then we'll see how much mexican votes are worth to the GOP.
A lot of Washington politicians are motivated by self-interest, rather than our interests.
But that can be exploited. I never hesitate to remind anybody that a third-party, anti-amnesty candidate could derail a Rove-backed, pro-amnesty nominee in 2008, just like Ross Perot derailed George H Bush in 1992. Or that RINOs in conservative districts need to remember that there is a primary. (We came close to getting rid of Specter and Kolbe.)
So, when you call talk radio, write a letter to the editor, or call your representative, never forget to remind them that their job is on the line, if they don't carry out the people's will.
A lot of Washington politicians are motivated by self-interest, rather than our interests.
But that can be exploited. I never hesitate to remind anybody that a third-party, anti-amnesty candidate could derail a Rove-backed, pro-amnesty nominee in 2008, just like Ross Perot derailed George H Bush in 1992. Or that RINOs in conservative districts need to remember that there is a primary. (We came close to getting rid of Specter and Kolbe.)
So, when you call talk radio, write a letter to the editor, or call your representative, never forget to remind them that their job is on the line, if they don't carry out the people's will.
OBL = It means more than Osama Bin Laden. Is it apopros the Open Borders Lobby and the most notorious terrorist of the age share the same three initials? You might think they're one and the same. The American OBL is characterized by its crass disregard for American security for the sake of corporate profits.
Just found my new tagline.
Believe it or not, I think Hillary just made a passing comment in favor of border control last week, IIRC.
She may have a strategy of flanking the GOP to the right on some issues. It won't work on me, or anyone who really pays attention, but millions could be fooled.
Pray and work for the defeat of Bush on this issue.
Damn good point.
I'm going to follow your lead on that point!
This is one idea that just might add "tipping point" weight if all of FR were to get behind it.
Arghh! My fiance and I are friends with a couple from Mexico, whose parents came here legally in the 60's. This is a major gripe of theirs. His wife's cousin is a major welfare queen who laughs at them for working hard while she drives a new Navigator and pays $200.00 on Sec.8 housing. They tell me drug sales pay for most of her toys. LOL I'm in the wrong line of work.
MALKIN PING!!!
Thank you Ms Malkin. I would like to take a couple of your questions and use them here (slightly modified to fit):
How do you maintain sanity when wading through the emotional drivel that passes for the pro-guest worker reasoning?
"We need the workers. If you disagree you are a knuckle dragging, anti-immigrant bigot."
Why do anti-law enforcement folks limit their arguments to outbursts of emoting? Ans: That's all they have.
We've had immigration reform that would have worked (the 1986 law that prohibits employing people not authorized to work here) but anti-law enforcement "Americans." said screw it. I put Americans in quotes because America is suppose to be a nation of laws not men.
Anti-law enforcement "Americans" won't honor any law that interferes with their pocketbooks and their "cheap" labor. Their only choice is to use the liberals' patented invective to try to deflect criticism of their feeeeeeeeeelings.
ping
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