Posted on 07/13/2006 4:55:12 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Just been listening to Karl Rove's address to La Raza ("The Race"), the far-Left white-hating Hispanic lobbying group. You can hear the address here . It's 23 minutes and change.
It was pretty much WH boilerplate on immigration. "Hispanics, and all immigrants, are real Americans [So I guess illegal immigrants are 'real Americans'.] ... Mindful of the dignity and value of every human being... shared values... The President understands that immigration is a benefit for America... Current immigration system is broken [No it isn't. It just needs E-N-F-O-R-C-I-N-G]... Needs comprehensive solution... First, we must secure the borders [Five years after 9/11, we must secure the borders. Great idea!] ... The system's broken... Biometric ID card... All these measures will come to naught without a temporary worker program... Match willing employers with willing workers for jobs Americans will not do [And so long as the willing workers are Hispanic, I guess. Why shouldn't Chinese, Africans, Indonesians, Bangladeshis, Egyptians, etc. have a shot at being 'matched'?] ... Out of the shadows... We must address the status of the undocumented...
There was an odd little contradiction. At one point Rove seemed to claim that Mexicans just want to stay here a while to save money, to start a business in Mexico (which, said Rove, costs $5,000). Five minutes later he was talking about "Illegal immigrants who have roots in America... who want to stay..." What happened to those sojourning entrepreneurs, Karl?
And then there was the standard snow job on illegals "getting in line behind those who've applied legally..." Those who've applied legally, Karl, are waiting patiently **in their home countries** for the chance to come live in the USA. Some of them have been waiting for DECADES. If illegals are to wait in line behind them, then they too should go back to their home countries to wait. Seen from abroad, the great prize is not US citizenship; it's US residence. You are giving this tremendous prize away to law-breakers, many of whom couldn't care less about citizenship.
Rove's address included a long and implausible parallel between 19th-century Norwegian immigration (his own forebears were Norwegian) and present-day Hispanic immigration. "Norwegian immigration didn't occur without a backlash..." etc. The population of Norway in 1900 was 2.2m. Current population of Latin America: 470m. First rule of immigration: NUMBERS ARE OF THE ESSENCE.
The seems to be a lot of heckling and booing. Rove just talks right through it (making it hard to follow some of the address). He got a big cheer at the end when he mentioned Bill Richardson, though. Why? Because Richardson is half-Mexican. It's race, race, race. That's why they call themselves "The Race." My guess is that most of the people in that convention hall don't know where Norway is, and couldn't care less. As La Raza's sister organization Mecha says: "For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." Race, race, race—-that's what these people are all about. This is an outfit the administration wants to court?
It is shameful, shameful and disgraceful, that a senior adviser to our Republican President should be truckling and pandering to these Hispano-racists.
Yeah fruity Rudy will prolly pile gay immigration rights on top of the GWBush-Senate amnesty
Makes my blood boil. Per Polipundit:
Voter ID For Mexicans In Mexico, But Not In Georgia
Looks like a Judge has stopped the Georgia identification law to vote:
“The same federal judge who threw out Georgia’s voter ID law last year blocked the state Wednesday from enforcing its revised law during this year’s elections.”
This is not a Judge following the law, he is practicing politics.
Once again per Polipundit:
La Raza Sucks On The Golden Teet
Well, I thought it was bad that Karl Rove went to speak to La Raza.
Could it get worse? Michelle Malkin has some detail:
“According to GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia, The Race snapped up $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone and more than $30 million since 1996. Undisclosed amounts went to get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. The U.S. Department of Education funneled nearly $8 million in taxpayer grants to the group for a nationwide charter schools initiative.”
She also reminds us of of the old “new tone” garbage:
The White House will tell you that The National Council of The Race is a “moderate,” mainstream civil rights group.
Michelle, if you read this, I want to defend The White House. I think you are the finest Conservative writer around but you need some nuance. “The Race” is indeed a “moderate” organization when the people making that claim are the same ones that called the Minutemen “vigilantes:”
“He (Bush) condemned the organizers of Project Minuteman as “vigilantes” even though they have broken no law and pledge not to do so.”
I have a question for political guru Karl Rove. Karl, how much of those “undisclosed amounts” that “went to get-out-the-vote efforts” supported Republican candidates or conservative positions?
He absorbs the slings and arrows because that's what his job entails. He IS a red herring.
Some folks think that Rove's "brilliant mind" is superior to the President's and that he leads GW into all paths.
I think it's the other way around. The President chooses to go down his own various political highways and byways and Rove goes to prepare the path for him.
Karl is also there to tidy up when wreckage accrues on the road. Hence his speech to La Raza, a speech actually aimed at anti-immigrationers everywhere via the media.
This is how things work in major league politics.
Leni
At least it was "Dirty Harry" that did this deed:
Cornyn Outs Harry Reid [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Via his office last night:
An amendment to help DHS end “Catch and Release” was just killed by Sen. Reid. He raised a “point of order” against the amendment, preventing a vote on Sen. Cornyn’s amendment.
That amendment was:
CORNYN AMENDMENT WOULD SPEED EXPEDITED REMOVAL, HELP END ‘CATCH AND RELEASE’
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the Immigration and Border Security subcommittee, offered an amendment to the pending homeland security funding bill Tuesday that would end the practice of “catch and release” for hundreds of illegal immigrants each week. The Cornyn amendment would require federal judges to take into account national security and border security when imposing any injunction that restricts the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to administer immigration laws. The amendment closes a current loophole in the law for illegal immigrants from El Salvador.
A 20-year-old injunction on the deportation of illegal immigrants from El Salvador created a situation where upwards of 600 Salvadorans are released into the United States every week rather than being deported as the law requires. Because of the injunction, the Department of Homeland Security is unable to apply Expedited Removal to Salvadorans. In the first few months of this year alone, the Border Patrol has already arrested more than 6,600 Salvadorans—they are now the largest OTM (Other Than Mexican) group illegally in the United States.
“This is a simple, commonsense approach to a serious problem,” Cornyn said. “This amendment would require judges to consider our national and border security before issuing any order that limits the ability of DHS to enforce the immigration laws. The alternative is to continue releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants into our cities every week. That alternative is unacceptable.”
Sens. Cornyn and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) are the authors of The Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005 (S.1438). The legislation will strengthen enforcement, bolster border security, and reform immigration laws.
I gotta ask. Would he show up to talk to the Klan? A Neo-Nazi group?
susie
Such a good question. When you get an answer will you ping me?? ;)
susie
No...it's broken.
The system cannot process enough immigrants needed to sustain our current economy [which has been a BOOM in any language] and status quo.
Favoring Mexican and Central Americans [read:christian catholic] is the safer route than the one taken by our "friends" in Europe. [read: muslims].
I notice you have DC in your moniker. LOL! Clueless is all I can say!
Sigh. Yup :)
But I suggest we don't hold our breath while we wait :(
how sad
Yet again, your side omits the key word "illegal" here. We are not anti-immigration. We are anti-illegal-immigration. And the omission is deliberate, an effort to paint the other side as xenophobic, nativist and even bigoted. In other words, the tactics of Jesse Jackson.
Good advice! ;)
susie
Have a pleasant day!
Bookmarked.
Fruity Rudy-----LOL-----love it.
No question, you are FR's resident poet.
IMNSHO, you should put down the bong and back away slowly.
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