Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:00:00 PM
Just like I said recently, we are being prepped for another shamnesty push. A couple of recent pieces in the Los Angeles Times make that clear. The other day, they ran this editorial.
Comprehensive immigration reform emerged from the shadows last week when Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez of Illinois and a group of Democratic congressmen submitted a 600-page bill to jump-start the process.
Hey, why not? In addition to National Health Control and the Pretend Climate Control, why not? Elections have consequences, after all.
The Gutierrez bill is a testament to the growing exasperation felt by many champions of reform.
That would mean people who want shamnesty for the sake of having more Democrat voters and people who want cheap labor that the rest of us subsidize (schools, medical care, infrastructure, law enforcement, fire protection, public transit, and other public amenities and programs).
Proponents of legalizing the status of undocumented immigrants, many leaders in the Latino and other immigrant communities, and some business interests such as the agriculture and hospitality industries had hoped for a speedy and seismic shift in U.S. policy under Obama.
The writers at the paper simply can’t bring themselves to use the legal term of "illegal alien". Almost none of these people are undocumented. Quite a few have forged documents with stolen identities.
Some good news:
Federal immigration prosecutions jumped 16% in 2009. A record number of people were deported in the last 11 months -- 287,000, including 136,000 criminals. More than 1,500 companies had their employee verification forms audited by Homeland Security -- a 1,000% increase over last year. And instead of halting a controversial program in which local law enforcement partners with Homeland Security to catch undocumented criminals, Obama revamped it to minimize abuses, while expanding it to more departments.
Keep up the good work.
Here's a story from today’s paper, written by Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger.
Senior White House aides privately have assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation next year to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
Let's be sure to screw over all of the people who are trying to do things the right way, while encouraging more illegal aliens to stay here!
In an effort to enlist the kind of business support that helped drive its healthcare initiative, for example, administration officials have reached out to the National Restaurant Assn., which represents an industry that employs thousands of immigrants.
A lot of businesses – especially ones that are location-dependent and thus can't relocate to third world countries - would love more cheap labor, while the rest of us pick up the tab, having to pay more in taxes for more programs to help the "poor" employed in these jobs.
Democrats are going to try to create new (legal) voters with this. Republicans should fight to make sure that we have 1) demonstrated, lasting, effective border protection, and 2) a more libertarian system of government – before any widespread new "path to citizenship" is implemented for illegal aliens. Republicans need to appeal to legal immigrants, and their children and grandchildren to shore up resistance to rewarding lawbreakers.
Previously: On Illegal Aliens