Posted on 06/17/2007 6:09:18 AM PDT by gpapa
I forget where I was when I first heard the phrase ''undocumented worker.'' Possibly it was after swimming the Rio Grande and emerging dripping on the northern shore to be handed a fake Social Security number and a driver's license. But I assumed, reasonably enough, that this linguistic sleight of hand was simply too ridiculous to fly even with the American media. I underestimated my colleagues, alas.
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Steyn is always a great read. Thanks for the Father’s day present.
hard to believe that this guy is just figuring this out now!!!
ML/NJ
Geraldo Rivera has spoken of the lower crime rates among the “undocumented” than American citizens. This ignores the fact that their real crime rate is 100 percent because the “undocumented” are breaking the immigration laws to begin with.
I actually believe we need some of these people since we have aborted tens of millions out of the workforce but cannot accept the idea that the law can be broken with such impunity.
I also cannot accept the fact that we are unable to secure our southern border with a fence and a real military force down there.
The endgame in Washington could very well be to sneak something through in the next few weeks around the July 4th holiday. We shall see what tricks they come up with.
“hard to believe that this guy is just figuring this out now!!!”
Why are you trying?
Among the many Steyn gems: (I paraphrase), one of the things wrong with this bill is that it brings millions of undocumented aliens ‘out of the shadows’ and throws millions of people waiting in line for a chance at citizenship off the back of the bus.
We place a big letter "I" on their forehead with indelible ink. If they are caught a second time, it's off to the "tent jail" run by the "I'll-never-forget-what's-his-name" sheriff in Arizona. After 6 months of hard labor and no pay, they get injected with a tracer bloodstream dye and sent back to Mexico. If they get caught a third time, we execute them.
As to businesses, they get fined $10,000/day per illegal. If they get caught for more than three offenses, they get to meet the sheriff in AZ to be with their workers in jail.
While I say some of this in jest, the lesson is real: you have to punish people who break the law and, until you do, this whole problem is never going to be solved.
I've been a die-hard Republican all my life, but GW is really pushing me to the brink with his amnesty bill.
‘’undocumented worker.’’
Definitions are the guardians of reason and logic. Euphemisms and new concepts introduced into the lexicon (Z-visa) are often subtle tools of the deceiver.
re: Hewitt on Trent Lott- Talk radio comment
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/2f364818-2d17-406f-930d-bc7f4879d5b9?comments=true#commentAnchor
Commenter jtb-in-texas (via Hewitt’s blog), had an excellent idea... we can gather all this stuff over the weekend to put out whether someone gets a clue (obviously it has to be grassroots, it wouldn’t be the RNC0, for a 527:
Jon
We need to start a 527 like the Swiftboat Vets.
Get clips of their speeches for Amnesty, transcripts from the Congressional Record... and clips of the illegals marching in the streets... Facts and figures from the Heritage Institute...
We can let the people decide this at the polls...
I was ambivalent about all the illegals UNTIL THEY MARCHED and DEMANDED things!!! They LOST my sympathy!!
Mark Steyn had it figured out waaaaay before you became a Freeper.....trust me on this....he’s one of the SMARTEST out there.
Good one.
>>On Fox News the other night, I was told by NPR’s Juan Williams, ‘’You’re anti-immigrant!’’ Er, actually, I am an immigrant — one of the members of the very very teensy-weensy barely statistically detectable category of ‘’legal immigrant.’’ But perhaps that doesn’t count anymore. Perhaps, like Colin Powell’s blackness, it’s insufficiently ‘’authentic.’’ By filing the relevant paperwork with the United States government, I’m not ‘’keepin’ it real.’’<<
Williams is one reason I don’t watch Fox News. Not to mention the Beltway Boys and Geraldo.
I think of advocates for this amnesty bill as being in 2 classes:
1) The foolish. Those who try to make a reasonable argument for amnesty. There is no reasonable argument, but they are too dumb (or delusional) to realize it, and resort to name calling like “anti-immigrant,” even to immigrants. I put Williams and Geraldo in this category.
2) Liars. Those who know it is both wrong and impossible to implement, but don’t care. Kennedy, Lott, Bush.
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