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