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Victor Davis Hanson: The Revolt Over Illegal Immigration "What causes this grassroots furor [over immigration], and where will it lead? Michelle Malkin: Reviving the Melting Pot "Over the last year, hundreds of thousands of illegal-alien demonstrators The fact is: We are not a 'nation of immigrants.' This is both a factual error and a warm-and-fuzzy non sequitur. Eighty-five percent of the residents currently in the United States were born here. Sure, we are almost all descendants of immigrants. But we are not a 'nation of immigrants.' [ . . . ] Even if we were a 'nation of immigrants,' it does not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control. And if the open-borders advocates would actually read American history instead of revising it, they would see that the Founding Fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration. They insisted on assimilation as a pre-condition, not an afterthought." Illegal Immigrant Crime Costs $80 Billion A Year "Crime costs America about $400 billion per year, of which WSJ Recognizes Blogs, Talk Radio for Key Role in Immigration Debate "Political activism on the Internet -- and in the so-called blogosphere, in "But the immigration bill marked the first time conservative Web logs could claim to have targeted and derailed a major piece of legislation. The triumph underscored their increasing influence and signaled that the balance of online power may be evening out in the political arena. The confluence of blogs and conservatives' dominance on radio is an especially potent mix. Talk-radio and conservative bloggers don't always work hand in hand, but they have been effective when they do." |
The public thinks anti-terrorism efforts are futile when hundreds of miles on our southern border are, for mysterious reasons, left wide open. Then there is the American sense of fair play: Thousands of would-be legal immigrants wait in line from all over the world to come to this country. So why the special considerations that seem designed to address the concerns of just one group - especially when Mexico already supplies the largest number by far of our legal immigrants?" says Victor Davis Hanson. "Illegal immigration and the efforts to accommodate it have come about from either bureaucratic prerogative - under pressure from employers and ethnic lobbyists - or court decisions. In contrast, polls, referenda and legislative action all reflect a public desire to reduce illegal immigration and close the borders now. In fact, in a June Rassmussen poll, 70 percent of the public supported an immigration bill that does that - and only that."
took to the streets lobbying for amnesty. Marchers waved 'Amnestia Ahora!' placards in one hand, the flags of their native countries in the other. Open-borders strategists quickly replaced the foreign flags with Old Glory after militant activists caused a public backlash last year. National newspapers played dutiful propagandists and splashed patriotic photo-ops of the 'undocumented' masses wrapped in red, white and blue to drum up sympathy," says Michelle Malkin. 
about $167 billion per year is government spending–-$72 billion on police, $57 billion on imprisonment, and $38 billion on courts. My blogpost 
particular -- has long been considered a liberal stronghold. But conservative bloggers show increasing signs of their own coming of age. They took a major leap forward by playing a central role in scuttling the Senate immigration bill. Meanwhile, many of the most popular talk-radio hosts are now posting on blogs, and the frequent collaboration of the two media is creating a unified conservative voice that is likely to be an important factor in the 2008 elections," the Wall Street Journal writes.