A BIG Illegal Alien (News) Roundup

1) Let's start with Pat Buchanan's recent commentary on the war within conservatism. I could not agree with him more.

Buchanan sees 'war' within conservatism
Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

"A desire to secure the nation's borders against an immigrant invasion has nothing to do with the 'nativism' that critics ascribe to him, he says.

'I say, look, the kind of immigrants we want are people who want to come here and become part of the American family ... not just to work and then go back home.'

He warns of long-term consequences.

'Look, you're going to have 100 million people of Hispanic, primarily Mexican, descent in the American Southwest by the middle of this century, and I think you are in danger of losing the American Southwest, de facto. I think this country is risking coming apart, like other countries in the world, over issues of language, culture and ethnicity.' "

2) I'm a bit behind in posting - busy busy - but I had wondered whether or not Jesse and Al would munch on this a bit. I was disappointed that we didn't get a full blown rage out of at least one of them. Fox is U.S. educated; he knew EXACTLY what he was saying and how it would be taken. It occurs to me that Vic the P**ck is up to no good. Now Al and Jesse are going to pow-wow with him. Vic wants to expand his influence over our government any way he can, so cutting deals with the second largest minority's leaders would suit him well. He's already got between 10% and 20% of his population living in the U.S. already (most illegally). He's promoted the idea that being descended of Mexicans makes one a Mexican.

Is there such a thing as back-door political hegemony? That's the best way I can describe what the sleazeball leader of Me-hee-co is trying to pull off.

Vicente Fox - Foot firmly in mouth

"Mexican President Vicente Fox called recent U.S. measures to stem illegal immigration a step back for bilateral relations on Friday and said Mexican migrants do jobs 'that not even blacks want to do.'"

3) Mark Krikorian really cuts through the B.S.

Borderline Realities
Larry Scholer - Accuracy in Media

"Supporters of a broad immigration policy often justify their position by contending that immigrants do jobs that Americans won't do—a myth, Krikorian said.

'No work would not get done in the absence of immigrants,' he said.

In the absence of a large population of immigrant workers, American employers would raise wages and attract American workers. Employers would also develop technologies that would replace the unskilled labor pool, according to Krikorian.

Krikorian also challenged two of President Bush's immigration proposals: temporary worker provisions and amnesty provisions. Temporary worker programs, or 'circular migration,' would allow immigrant workers into the country for a determined period of time, after which the worker would return to his native country.

'Never in human history has a temporary worker program worked….There's nothing as permanent as a temporary worker,' Krikorian said.

The United States had a temporary worker program, the Bracero program, that began in 1942 and ended in the Sixties.

An amnesty program is often touted as a means of increasing security—another myth, Krikorian said. While such an assumption is logical, it 'assumes we have the bureaucratic capacity to screen 10 million people.'"

4) If this guy gets to Mexico before we catch him, he'll never see justice. It is good to see that the citizens of Denver aren't please with the mayor for hiring illegal aliens that murder cops. Now, if only we could get them stirred up BEFORE someone gets killed...

Alleged cop killer an illegal immigrant
WorldNetDaily

"Cherry Cricket managers told police that Garcia-Gomez presented a resident-alien card when he applied for the job, according to a police source close to the investigation.

'You could see that this card was fake,' the police source told the Rocky Mountain News. The card was falling apart and typewritten, the sources said.

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., yesterday blasted the Hickenlooper administration's handling of the case, saying federal immigration officials should have been contacted after each of three traffic citations issued to Garcia-Gomez in Denver because police could not confirm his legal status.

'Denver's sanctuary policy prevents local law enforcement from cooperating with federal officials on immigration matters, despite federal law which explicitly prohibits such a policy,' Tancredo said in a news release."

5) I'm late with this one, too. How absolutely stupid can a bunch of bureaucrats get? It is widely known that the rank and file Border Patrol agent is demoralized and frustrated. Did they really think that an order not to arrest illegal aliens would stay in the chain of command? This would be great comedy if it weren't so darned dangerous.

Border Patrol told to stand down in Arizona
Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

"U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were 'not to go up' along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

'It was clear to everyone here what was being said and why,' said one veteran agent. 'The apprehensions were not to increase after the Minuteman volunteers left. It was as simple as that.'
Another agent said the Naco supervisors 'were clear in their intention' to keep new arrests to an 'absolute minimum' to offset the effect of the Minuteman vigil, adding that patrols along the border have been severely limited. "

6) And now for something sillier than the paper-pushing ostrichocrats that manage the Border Patrol from far, far away...

Test of Hispanic boycott fails in Arizona
Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

"'They're boycotting because we believe the law ought to stand for something; they're boycotting because we don't think you can come here illegally and get free stuff; they're boycotting because we think they ought to be citizens of the United States before they can vote,' Mr. Pearce said. 'This has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the law.

'You can't steal your way into this country and demand stuff in another language,' he said, adding that politicians in Washington have failed to respond to the vast majority of Americans who want secure borders and the enforcement of immigration law. "

7) Makes me want to be a vigilante myself.


'Vigilantes' on the border?
Thomas Sowell - Townhall.com

"Virtually every job in the country is work that Americans will not do, if the pay is below a certain level. And the pay will not rise to that level so long as illegal immigrants -- 'undocumented workers' -- are available to work for less.

Even those who write editorials about how we need Mexicans to do work that Americans will not do would not be willing to write editorials for a fraction of what they are being paid. If Mexican editorial writers were coming across the border illegally and taking their jobs, maybe the issue would become clearer.

You cannot discuss jobs without discussing pay, if you are serious. And, if you are really serious, you need to discuss all the welfare state benefits available to Americans who won't work.

You might also want to consider the attitudes being promoted by the intelligentsia and the activists that people should do only 'meaningful work' and not accept 'chump change' but should insist on some arbitrarily defined 'living wage,' even if that is more than their labor is worth.

When you say that Americans have a 'right' to have their 'basic needs' met, you are saying that when some people refuse to supply themselves with food and shelter, other Americans should be forced to supply it for them."

8) I gotta call and meet this writer over the phone. He does stellar work!

"We've been able to sleep at night"
Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

"'All night, every night, the dogs are barking, the U.S. Border Patrol is chasing up one road or down another, and their helicopters are constantly buzzing overhead,' says Mr. Waters, whose border property is also a favorite corridor for illegals crossing into the United States.

'Since the Minutemen arrived, we've been able to sleep at night, and that's no small task,' he says.

The Minuteman Project, which formally began April 1, came to an end yesterday. It was proclaimed a success by its organizers and grudgingly credited by both the U.S. and Mexican governments with significantly cutting illegal immigration along a 23-mile section of the U.S.-Mexico border east and west of here. "

9) I want to be a Minuteman.

Minutemen effect
SignOnSanDiego.com

"National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia delivered the keynote address at a luncheon downtown honoring the Chicano Federation of San Diego County, a nonprofit community-based organization. Murguia said her group wants to ensure that immigrants in this country – including illegal immigrants – are treated with dignity but that it had no quarrel with the right of the United States to 'decide who enters the country, and who doesn't' through both border and workplace enforcement efforts.

That is good to hear. And we can't help but think that one reason we're hearing it is because Latino leaders have glimpsed the alternative – lawn chairs and all – and they don't like what they see."

10) Reason number one why I fight this fight against illegal alien invaders...

Court weighs tuition breaks for illegal immigrants
HoustonChronicle.com via Associated Press

"'I know the world's not fair but the world shouldn't violate the law,' said Chris Heath, a senior at the University of Kansas."

11) The facts just keep piling up like cow pucks while McCain, Kennedy and Jorge keep trying to sell us that the stink is cologne.

Immigration hurts American workers, lawmaker says - New arrivals account for all job growth in U.S. from 2000 to 2004, studies report
Carolyn Lochhead, SanFranciso Chronicle

"Lawmakers looking to reduce immigration turned their attention Wednesday to the slow job market, highlighting two studies concluding that newly arrived immigrants have filled all net new U.S. jobs created since 2000.

Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee panel on immigration and border security, called the results astounding and said immigration -- legal and illegal -- was hurting American workers.

The study results were sharply disputed by other experts, but even supporters of immigration in both parties found themselves on the defensive over continuing large flows of undocumented workers across the U.S. border with Mexico."

12) Churches should have a role in compassionately helping illegal aliens go back to their homelands because it helps America and our own poor.


Turning blind eye to illegal alien crimes is not the Christian thing to do (pdf)
From NumbersUSA

The answer to illegal immigration is not to make it legal but to make it clear that crime won’t pay – won’t pay for the illegal worker and won’t pay for the illegal employer. We have to understand that people risk their lives to enter the U.S. illegally because the U.S. government has made the payoff so incredibly high. If a person dodges the Border Patrol and survives the journey, there isn’t even a 1% chance that that person will ever have to leave the U.S. because the Clinton and Bush administrations virtually stopped prosecuting businesses that hire illegal workers, and because the two Administrations adopted policies so that almost no illegal aliens are ever deported unless they have committed a violent crime.

It is not enforcement at the border but the NON-enforcement of immigration laws in the interior that kills people at the border. And it is the often-well-intended but thoughtless efforts of leaders and groups that cry out for amnesties that further incite poor people in other countries to leave their villages and risk their lives in hopes of winning the grandest lottery in the world, the chance to work U.S. jobs the rest of their lives. Mr. Ufford-Chase’s salute of Pres. Bush for wanting to “match willing workers with willing employers” misses the fact that that was the motto of the Robber Barons a century ago when they sent ships to Europe to import the labor that would break the strikes and impede the unions for decades before they finally truly took hold in the years following the 1924 great reduction in immigration numbers.

We became a middle-class and significantly egalitarian society in the next 50 years of lowered immigration, a period called by economists the “Great Compression” because of the narrowing of income inequality which was one of the important building blocks that made possible the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and the peak power of unions. Of course, I recognize that there are competing values and competing objects of humanitarian concerns in the immigration debate. How to balance them? Flooding this country with even more low-priced, low-skilled, low-educated foreign labor is the last thing we should want to do if we have any compassion for the most vulnerable members of our own community. But we should also have a compassionate way to deal with those foreign workers who have illegally moved to this country because they were enticed by illegal businesses. One of the roles of churches should be to assist illegal workers and their families in returning to their home countries.

13) YIKES!

Illegal Aliens and American Medicine (PDF)
Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Ph.D., Esq. - Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons

By default, we grant health passes to illegal aliens. Yet many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease. What is seen is the political statistic that 43 million lives are at risk in America because of lack of medical insurance.

What is unseen is that medical insurance does not equal medical care. Uninsured people receive medical care in hospital emergency departments (EDs) under the coercive Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), which obligates hospitals to treat the uninsured but does not pay for that care. Also unseen is the percentage of the uninsured who are illegal aliens. No one knows how many illegal aliens reside in America. If there are 10 million, they constitute nearly 25 percent of the uninsured. The percentage could be even higher.

14) Another attempt to soft sell Aztlan fails

Silly billboards come down
Chad Groening

"An activist group working to curb illegal immigration has successfully convinced a Spanish language television station in Los Angeles to change its billboards. The roadway advertisements offended many local Californians and other citizens by implying that the City of the Angels is part of Mexico.

William Gheen is president of North Carolina-based Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC). Recently, he received an e-mail from a supporter in Los Angeles who had seen a billboard on the 605 Freeway and photographed it. The reform activist says the man who took the picture had at first thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.

Gheen finds the billboards fairly incredible himself. 'At the top,' he says, 'they have a new address for California. [The sign says], 'Los Angeles, CA,' but there's a red X over the CA, and next to it is written the word 'Mexico.' And this is an advertising campaign for TV 62 in Los Angeles.' And some 75 such billboards have been erected around the L.A. area.

However, the head of ALI-PAC says after a week and a day of protest, the television station agreed to change the ads. 'A lot of people still don't know that there's a separatist movement in the illegal alien community that feels that Los Angeles belongs to Mexico,' he explains. 'There are activists that say, 'It's our land and we're taking it back.' So those [citizens] that are more in the know were outraged and took action, and a lot more people started to find out about what's really going on in this country.'"

15) Maybe something good will come of all this...

Tom Tancredo for president
Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

"What Tancredo is advocating are common-sense principles being implemented in nations all over the world – including in supposedly 'progressive' Europe.

It's real simple. A nation without borders ceases to be a nation. That is the threat we face with 20 million illegal aliens already here and more pouring over the border every day.

I believe this is such a hot-button issue with the American people that Tancredo, a distinguished but otherwise obscure member of the House of Representatives could actually win.

But even if he doesn't win, it is imperative that the issues he raises get a national debate before 2008. The Minuteman Project has thrust the issue before the American people. All over the country, local and state officials are taking action against illegal aliens because they recognize the threat they pose to our freedom and our security. Tancredo has done an admirable job winning over many colleagues in the House.

However, it may take a national political campaign to save this country from the looming disaster illegal immigration and open borders represent."