posted May 18, 2006 12:35 PM            

On the bright side, if President Bush's amnesty proposal for illegal immigrants ends up hurting Republicans and we lose Congress this November, maybe the Democrats will impeach him and we'll get Cheney as president.

At least Bush has dropped his infernal references to slacker Americans when talking about illegal immigrants. In his speech Monday night, instead of 47 mentions of "jobs Americans won't do," Bush referred only once to "jobs Americans are not doing" – which I take it means other than border enforcement and intelligence-gathering at the CIA. For the record, I'll volunteer right now to clean other people's apartments if I don't have to pay taxes on what I earn.

Also, someone must have finally told Bush that the point about America being a "nation of immigrants" is moronic. All nations are "nations of immigrants" – as Peter Brimelow pointed out brilliantly in his 1992 article in National Review on immigration, which left nothing for anyone else to say.

Of the "nation of immigrants" locution, Brimelow says:

No discussion of U.S. immigration policy gets far without someone making this helpful remark. As an immigrant myself, I always pause respectfully. You never know. Maybe this is what they're taught to chant in schools nowadays, a sort of multicultural Pledge of Allegiance ... Do they really think other nations sprouted up out of the ground?

Brimelow then ran through the Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman-French, Welsh and Celtic immigrant influences in Britain alone.

Instead of a moratorium on new immigration, I'd settle for a moratorium on the use of the expression "We're a nation of immigrants." Throw in a ban on "Diversity is our strength" and you've got my vote for life.

Bush has also apparently learned that the word "amnesty" does not poll well. On Monday night, he angrily denounced the idea of amnesty just before proposing his own amnesty program. The difference between Bush's amnesty program and "amnesty" is: He'd give amnesty only to people who have been breaking our laws for many years – not just a few months. (It's the same program that allows Ted Kennedy to stay in the Senate.)

Bush calls this the "rational middle ground" because it recognizes the difference between "an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently and someone who has worked here for many years." Yes, the difference is: One of them has been breaking the law longer. If our criminal justice system used that logic, a single murder would get you the death penalty, while serial killers would get probation.

Bush claimed the only other alternative – I assume this is the "irrational extreme" – is "a program of mass deportation." Really? Is the only alternative to legalizing tax cheats "a program of mass arrest of tax cheats"?

This is the logic of the pro-abortion zealots (aka "the Democratic Party"): Either lift every single restriction on abortion or ... every woman in America will be impregnated by her father and die in a back-alley abortion!

Those are your only two answers? Do you need another minute?

How about the proposal made on Brimelow's website, Vdare.com, that illegal immigrants be told they have two months to leave the country voluntarily and not have their breaking of our immigration laws held against them when they apply for citizenship from their home countries – or not leave and be banned from U.S. citizenship forever?

Or how about just not giving illegal aliens green cards – as Bush is proposing – and deport them when we catch them?

Instead of choosing immigrants based on the longevity of their lawbreaking, another idea is to choose the immigrants we want, for example, those who speak English or have special skills. (And by "special skills" I don't mean giving birth to an anchor baby in a border-town emergency room.)

Why not use immigration the way sports teams use the draft – to upgrade our roster? We could take our pick of the world's engineers, doctors, scientists, uh ... smoking-hot Latin guys who stand around not wearing shirts between workouts. Or, you know, whatever ...

As Peter Brimelow says in his book "Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster," why not choose immigrants who are better than us?

Bush thinks it's not fair to favor people with special skills – a policy evidenced by his Harriet Miers pick.

How about this: It's not fair to want to go out with someone just because that person is attractive and has a good personality because it discriminates against people who are ugly with bad social skills! That's our immigration policy.

posted May 18, 2006 01:12 PM            

I think this absolutely demonstrates that while Conservatives support Bush in many areas, we are not afraid to voice our dissent when we feel he is making a mistake. Unlike many knee jerk Democrats that would chant "sell your mother" if Ted Kennedy proposed it as a way to increase ones revenue. I guess in that party dissent is paramount to being a traitor.

Illegal immigrants and border enforcement affect our Country as a whole and is not as easy as some would like to state in a catchy phrase. Sure some illegals would LOVE to become an American and pay taxes, but until then we spending hundreds of thousands in lost tax revenue, health care and education for each family over time.

The failed concept that illegals are doing jobs we wouldn't needs to also stop being repeast as Ms. Coulter so eloquently put. Construction, fast food, janitorial services are all being provided to illegal immigrants NOT because American's won't do them, but when that $5 per hour is being taxed and your paycheck is cut in half - no way- whereas illegals get the $5.00 per hour under the table, welfare, housing, foodstamps and education for their anchor babies.

MORE Liberal Americans should be outraged that the people they so loudly state to represent (the poor population in America) CAN'T get jobs because they CAN'T compete with the cheap labor.

Companies need to be held accountable.. no wait... the current laws holding companies accountable NEED TO BE ENFORCED!!!

Illegals need to make the trek back home and apply to come to America just as ANY OTHER COUNTRY has to have their citizens apply to come here.

Is it fair to those in Ireland, India, England, Spain, etc.. to have to wait 3 years to come to America, then apply for their greencard - promising to hold a job or be sent back- take the tests, pay taxes etc... when others sneak across the border and collect a monetary reward for such behaviour.

Mr. Fox is in for a rude surprise when the cash cow dries up and illegals are no longer able to send the millions of dollars each year to Mexico (yes, we are the biggest economic contributor to Mexico- our taxpaying money going to programs etc.. so they can send their non-taxed illegal proceeds back to their families).

Some ask "Pidaua don't you have a heart?" Yes, I do, but I hate seeing farms going out of business, able bodied men that used to be in construction making a decent earning are now losing their jobs to day-laborers that work for a third of the price and don't pay taxes.

The one thing I can say about this county is that we don't see many illegals in our hotel industry. That is a direct result of our enforcement of laws that heavily fine companies that employ illegal immigrants- construction though is still harder to regulate.

I think Bush needs to get on board and face the reality that we are tired of footing the bill. I hope more Conservatives push for tighter regulations, deporations and enforcement of existing laws.

posted May 18, 2006 02:18 PM            

Illegal immigration is a weapon aimed at the United States, a weapon which drains resources and creates an almost eternal underclass who will not assimilate and who owe no allegiance to the United States.

That's the reason you don't hear leftists opposing illegal immigration. Weapons aimed at the United States are the stuff of wet dreams to leftists.

You are right, funds sent back to Mexico by illegal immigrants and legals constitute a large, if not the largest foreign contributions to the economy of Mexico. It's estimated to be $16,000,000,000 per year...that's 16 Billion US dollars flowing out of the US economy into Mexico's. Unlike oil revenues, much of which gets stuffed into Mexico's politicians offshore bank accounts, those Billions get spent into the Mexican economy.

I know it's difficult for leftists to understand there are Conservatives and Republicans who will call Bush out when he puts the wrong foot forward.

Unlike leftists who failed and still fail to call Clinton, Kerry and others out for their treason against the United States. That's understandable in as much as treason against the United States is the permanent mindset of leftists and therefore, to be applauded.