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Border Bait and Switch: Promising immigration enforcement but delivering amnestyJust an excerpt from a current Amcon article Maricopa County may not be closest to Arizona’s border with Mexico but it is nevertheless at the center of the state’s growing problem with illegal immigration. County Attorney Andrew Thomas hopes to be part of the solution. His office is sponsoring the Southwest Conference on Illegal Immigration, Border Security and Crime in Phoenix, reaching out to nationally known commentators and experts on the issue. The roster of invited speakers includes many noted allies of immigration restrictionists, including Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), representatives of the Federation of American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, and U.S. News and World Report columnist John Leo. But also on the agenda are two names more familiar to restrictionists for their opposition—Stephen Moore and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal. It might be asked what two pundits from the biggest editorial booster for open borders might contribute to a dialogue on solving the border-state illegal alien crisis. But these days, supporters of mass immigration don’t often decree “there shall be open borders.” Instead they are talking about the need to get tough on border security—just as soon as we make our legal-immigration policy loose enough to accommodate the crackdown. They insist they are not opponents of immigration reform; they are just more realistic reformers. If this is a strategic shift, it has resounded at the highest levels of American politics. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and her New Mexico colleague Bill Richardson were widely praised when they declared a state of emergency on their states’ southern borders. Both are Democrats and neither has been particularly friendly to immigration reformers. Napolitano, for instance, opposed Arizona’s successful Proposition 200 ballot initiative to prevent illegal aliens from receiving taxpayer monies. President Bush also seems to have gotten the memo. In late August appearances in California and Arizona, he stressed the need to guard the border. Bush acknowledged that illegal immigration was “putting a strain on your resources” and pledged “that the federal government will work closely with the state government and local government to provide assets, manpower [and] detention space … to make sure this border of ours is secure.” The Bush administration has backed a self-styled Coalition for Border and Economic Security to marshal the resources of industry groups behind a guest-workers program. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie is a principal organizer. The co-chairs are former Congressman Cal Dooley (D-Calif.), whose district included many immigrant workers, and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), a favorite of economic and social conservatives. Membership may have its privileges, but they do not come free: the Los Angeles Times reported that admission into the coalition costs between $50,000 and $250,000 to fund the upcoming amnesty campaign blitz. The idea is to marginalize conservatives who favor reduced immigration by triangulating the issue. The group also seeks to recreate the left-right coalition that torpedoed serious immigration reforms at least nominally supported by the Clinton White House back in 1996. http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_11_07/article1.html Posted by jonjayray on Friday, November 4, 2005 at 10:12 PM in U.S. Politics Comments:2
Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 08, 2005, 11:33 PM | # Excellent comment, John Bolton! Vdare.com has an excellent article up on this topic:“The Bush Administration’s ongoing public relations offensive for its massive illegal alien non-deportation plan was resurrected recently with the testimony of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 18. Now Secretary Chertoff is bringing the “Secure Border Initiative” (SBI) propaganda push to a new audience—his own DHS employees. It’s not working. [...] The danger in this latest propaganda effort is that if Congress believes the Big Lie of SBI, America may one day wake up with: more broken promises of border enforcement, more broken promises of interior enforcement, and a massive, fully-implemented illegal-alien amnesty free-for-all by stealth under the guise of a ‘temporary worker program.’ ‘SBI’ is the thinly-veiled harbinger of another disastrous amnesty betrayal.” Next entry: Another tradition under attack in England Previous entry: Ugho: Brown Power |
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Posted by John S Bolton on November 05, 2005, 05:15 AM | #
They’ve been raising a war chest for a smear campaign against immigration restrictionists of renown. Who knows how inclusive it could get; perhaps they’ll tell us about Samuel Huntington’s sex life some decades ago? Imagine if doctors raised money to fight socialized medicine, and the centerpiece was to revisit Chappaquiddick. The showing so far, smearing Tancredo and the Minutemen, indicates they feel that no rational arguments are available for the amnesty, nor any for the lassitude of immigration law enforcement . If arguments convincing to the majority could be found, they would be used, not money for smears.