Leading the senseless is The Wall Street Journal editorial page, which I admired in the past for its stalwart promotion of the rule of law and abhorrence of race-card demagoguery.
On March 18, the paper betrayed both principles.
LINK.
"So Atta got his visa. That's no reason to kick out Mexican workers," pooh-poohed an online summary of an editorial titled "Immigrants and Terrorists." In it, the Journal's unrepentant open-borders proponents approve of bipartisan efforts - foolishly embraced by President Bush and favored by Mexican president Vicente Fox - to extend partial amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have been in the country since 1998.
The so-called 245(i) provision of federal immigration law will allow illegal aliens who have found employer or family sponsors to obtain visas in the United States for a $1,000 fee, instead of being forced to return home - where consular offices would thoroughly scrutinize their native criminal records before approving applications. The 245(i) program would also allow these applicants to bypass a 1996 federal law barring illegal aliens from re-entering the United States for up to 10 years.
The administration's initial attempt to ram this proposal through, by a stealth "cloaked" vote, was cravenly Clinton- esque. But not a peep of complaint was heard from the Journal on that...
Wow.One of the most important editorials written this year.
Kudos to Michelle Malkin!
