From the Houston Chronicle: President Bush urged lawmakers today to come together on the complex and emotional issue of immigration, calling it “a critical challenge” now before the nation. “We need a system where our laws are respected. We need a system that meets the legitimate needs of our economy. And we need a system…
Category: Immigration
Immigration Reform, 2007
Usually it’s good news when illegal immigrants and their supporters are unhappy with proposed legislation – that’s an indication that legislators might be on the right track. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s the case with George Bush’s new plan, which centers around the nonsensical notion of illegals going home before re-applying for admittance into the…
Assimilation
I’ve written about the need for immigrants from other cultures to assimilate when they come to the United States but as a conclusion to my last couple of posts I felt like I wanted to bang that drum again. It’s been said that the writing on Black Shards is anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim and from…
Drunk + Illegal = Murder
Check out the Texas Rainmaker’s post on the recent drunk driving crash in North Houston that killed two women. Turns out the driver was an illegal alien who had 3 prior DUI convictions. TTR says: Is anyone in immigration and law enforcement awake anymore? Consider the deaths of these three innocent people yet another tragic…
Troops on the Border
In a recent event, American National Guard troops retreated when confronted by what is presumed to be a heavily armed band of drug traffickers near Sasabe, Arizona. No shots were fired in the incident. Neither were any of the intruders detained. From the Washington Times: Maj. Gen. David P. Rataczak, adjutant general of the Arizona…
Immigration = Assimilation
I’ve discussed illegal immigration at great length in my previous blog (from which my posts will, eventually, be extracted and published here). My position is essentially that: Immigration into the U.S. should be closely managed by our government The U.S. should provide a clear, orderly process toward citizenship We should have a well-defined and regulated…
Jewish Support for Illegal Immigration?
David Schraub thinks that Jews should support Latinos in their “struggle” to immigrate to the U.S. In his post he points out that Samuel Freedman wrote: “this means creating a rational route to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants. They inhabit a netherworld, holding jobs that Americans cannot or will not take while having…
Local Immigration Laws
The ACLU and Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund say: Farmers Branch’s ordinance prohibiting apartment landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants discriminates against Latinos… Yes, it does. So what? Latinos represent the overwhelming majority of illegals; it’s correct that the law should target them. Note that this isn’t because Americans are inherently anti-Mexican or that…
Illegal Immigration = Identity Theft?
Dave Navarrette wonders why La Migra is spinning their daring raid on several chicken plants as “a crackdown on identity theft“. I don’t think this is any mystery: it’s because the other branches of the government and a certain political party that benefits from illegal immigration don’t care about the root crime itself. Immigration is…
Lou Dobbs Democrats
Lou Dobbs: “It seems nothing frightens our free trade and pro-illegal immigration orthodoxies more than putting the common good and the national interest above dominant special interests, corporate America and, of course, our darling elites in both political parties and the media.”