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August 09, 2007
NYT Editors: The Mean-Spirited "Misery Strategy" "The path the country has set on since the defeat of immigration reform "The country will have a long time to watch this approach as it fails. The politicians who killed the Senate bill for offering 'amnesty' have never offered a workable alternative. Their one big idea is that harsh, unrelenting enforcement at the border, in the workplace and in homes and streets would dry up opportunities for illegal immigrants and eventually cause the human tide to flow backward. That would be true only if life for illegal immigrants in America could be made significantly more miserable than life in, say, rural Guatemala or the slums of Mexico City. That will take a lot of time and a lot of misery to pull that off in a country that has tolerated and profited from illegal labor for generations." [FAIR comment: This is the perfect encapsulation of the pro-illegal immigration viewpoint and the inability to understand the motivation behind the move to enforce immigration law. The object is not to make life more miserable for illegal aliens (in the sense of corruption, lawlessness and crime) - it is to deny the jobs magnet that draws illegal aliens here. Tens of millions of Mexicans are quite happy living in Mexico - a lot would go to the U.S., but many more would stay. Moving to the U.S. is an economic decision, and enforcing the law makes that move non-economic for many Mexicans and other would-be illegal aliens.] Penn. State Judge Says Cities Should Be Able to Enforce Immigration Law "In a public discussion of policy rare for a member of the judiciary, Romney: Giuliani Made NY A Sanctuary for Illegal Aliens "In a surprisingly strong attack, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney New Remittances Report Shows Drop in Money Sent "This year a smaller percentage of Mexican immigrants in the United States More Guard Troops Pulled from Border "National Guard troops assigned to help increase security along the Hearings Demanded on Ties Between Drug Gangs, Terrorists "A ranking House Republican yesterday demanded a hearing based "Likewise, Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, said the DEA document revealed startling evidence that Islamic radicals are camouflaging themselves as Hispanics while conducting business with violent drug-trafficking organizations. 'I have been ringing the bell about this serious threat of Islamic individuals changing their surnames to Hispanic surnames for three to four years,' Mr. Culberson said. 'Unfortunately, Homeland Security's highest priority is to hide the truth from Congress and the public. I just hope we're not closing the barn door after terrorists have already made their way in.'" |
in the Senate in June enshrines enforcement and punishment above all else. It is narrow, shortsighted, disruptive and self-defeating. On top of that, it wont work. What it will do is unleash a flood of misery upon millions of illegal immigrants. For the ideologues who have pushed the nation into this position, that is more than enough reason to plunge ahead," says the New York Times in an editorial today. 
a Superior Court judge said the federal government should give local law enforcement authorities the power to arrest illegal immigrants. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials often do not prosecute illegal immigrants for minor offenses, Judge Correale F. Stevens told the Palmer Township Kiwanis Club on Wednesday. Yet local police who arrest illegal immigrants have sometimes been told by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to release them, he said," the AP reports. "Yet local police who arrest illegal immigrants have sometimes been told by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to release them, he said. Stevens said he favors federal legislation that would allow local and state police to arrest illegal immigrants without federal approval."
said Republican rival Rudy Giuliani had turned New York City into a sanctuary for illegal immigrants during his two terms as mayor. Immigration is a hot-button issue in the GOP and may play especially well in Iowa, an early battleground state where the federal government has raided meat processing plants employing illegals, and where some longtime residents feel their pay is being undercut by cheaper-working immigrants," CBS News says. "'If you look at lists compiled on Web sites of sanctuary cities, New York is at the top of the list when Mayor Giuliani was mayor,' Romney said at while campaigning in Iowa. 'He instructed city workers not to provide information to the federal government that would allow them to enforce the law. New York City was the poster child for sanctuary cities in the country.'"
sent money back to their homeland than in 2006, according to a 
U.S.-Mexico border are being pulled off the line a year earlier than promised, and some state and federal officials are not happy about it. 'The drawdown of Operation Jump Start's strength level is ill-timed and should be halted and re-examined,' Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano wrote in a letter last week to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff," the Washington Times reported. "Miss Napolitano said President Bush's deployment of the Guard troops in her state had 'made real progress' in cutting the number of people sneaking illegally into the country, and noted that the Border Patrol is not yet up to the manpower totals promised by the presidentially mandated program. The reductions, which began July 1 and will be completed by Sept. 1, will result in a cut of Guard troops in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas from 6,000 to 3,000 half of that promised by Mr. Bush in 2006."
on recent reports that Islamic terrorists embedded in the United States are teaming with Mexican drug cartels to fund terrorism networks overseas. Rep. Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document first reported yesterday by The Washington Times highlights how vulnerable the nation is when fighting the war on terrorism," the Washington Times reports.