Some hope on U.S. illegals

The spotlight in the illegal immigration debate has been on Congress’s field hearings. But the action has been in Colorado, where the state legislature spent the weekend haggling over whether to cut government services to illegal aliens. Republican supporters want the issue to turn out their base in November. Democrats, meanwhile, are scrambling for the nearest political cover. Bill Ritter, the party’s gubernatorial candidate, has even told reporters that “the person I’m closest to” on immigration is President Bush.

With Washington deadlocked, the battle over illegal immigration is moving to the states. And if the fight on Capitol Hill has been ugly, just wait until state lawmakers who don’t have the power to do much, feel compelled to do something about the 12 million or so illegal aliens in this country. Rep. Tom Tancredo, the Colorado Republican who did so much to bring this issue to a boil in the U.S. Congress, may yet see his nativist ideas enacted into law, albeit piecemeal and state by state.

In Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, illegal immigration has become a hot issue not just in congressional races but in races for governor, attorney general and the state legislature. In Oklahoma a handful of lawmakers are pushing for a study to determine the “cost” of illegal immigration—a forerunner to legislation. In Pennsylvania, State House Republicans passed a bill making English the state’s official language and Rep. Mario J. Civera is holding field hearings on illegal immigration. In Arkansas the GOP’s candidate for attorney general, Gunner DeLay, is blasting his Democratic opponent for supporting a bill as a state legislator that would allow children of illegal immigrants to take advantage of a state scholarship program. Democrat Dustin McDaniel calls the attacks against him “inflammatory and inaccurate.”

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Posted by John S Bolton on July 12, 2006, 05:03 AM | #

A very alarming disgrace has occurred in the immigration hearings.
The top US military officer fell to tears and other unreason, while making a plea for illegal aliens here.
His line was that a soldier who dies in war may have relatives who’re illegal aliens.
Apparently this means we should legalize them, according to General Pace, if illegals might have relatives who died in Iraq.
How is that for a stunningly irrational non sequitir?
If a dead soldier of this war had relatives who were child molestors, burglars, muggers, traitors, bribe-takers and so on; does it somehow follow that those crimes should be legalized, amnestied or decriminalized?
The general has made the US military look dangerously weak, as if directed by an officer who is ruled by his feelings.
The soldiers are expected to be mature, not like crying children overcome with nostalgia and compassion for foreigners; how can the top officer remain in charge, while presenting such an image?

Posted by Al Ross on July 12, 2006, 05:49 AM | #

“How can the top officer remain in charge”?

Maybe there are some areas where he is not in charge, eg, the commander of The Nimitz who told a visiting Royal Navy Vice Admiral that some areas of the non-White crew quarters are off-limits to White officers.

Posted by Nick Tamiroff on July 12, 2006, 08:13 AM | #

I cannot agree more with J.S.Bolten.As a former Marine,I was apalled at his unmanly behavior in the testimony.In my day,you were a Marine,an American,a religion[or not],then an ethnic group-and in that order!But then,we had few “minorites"in the USMC,and none in Force Recon.This is the 50’s-60’s.Now we have imans and wichans as chaplains,diversity training,cultural sensitivity sessions,and inadequate leadership-at all levels! Thankfully,the PEOPLE are starting to speak,and exert the power given to them by one of the greatest documents of history-THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

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