"First things first" and the sooner the better
First things first
Paul Mirengoff
George Will argues in favor of a fence to seal the Mexican border and a guest worker program to supply what the U.S. economy demands. I agree in principle. However, ... [Read on here.]
Paul questions whether we have the "resources, will, and competence" to do what needs done. As I see it, this is still America and if we have the will, we can make it happen. Step 1 is to make George Bush and Congress realize that the majority of the American public wants it done.
George Will: Ich Bin Ein Ost-Berliner?
Ed Morrissey
George Will makes his conservative case for the moderate approach to immigration reform, giving enough room for hard-line enforcement while arguing for eventual absorption of the illegals already inside the US. However, he starts out with an almost unforgivable analogy that will have border-enforcement readers seeing red before they ever get to the rest of his arguments: America, the only developed nation that shares a long -- 2,000-mile -- border with a Third World nation, could seal that border. East Germany showed how: walls, barbed wire, machine gun-toting border guards in towers, mine fields, large, irritable dogs. And we have modern technologies that East Germany never had: sophisticated sensors, unmanned surveillance drones, etc.
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Ed thinks Will would have been better off using Israel as an example instead of East Germany, but the East German example doesn't bother me a bit. Good fences make for good neighbors, and as Harold Hutchison points out it in Ed's comments, "Walls can work both ways." We aren't just talking about hard-working people wanting to come here for a better life; as long as the border's open to them it's also open to drug runners, jihadis, and other assorted scum. After we get the border under control, using whatever means necessary (we know how), and only after that, we can start talking about a system to sort los buenos from los malos and decide who we want as neighbors.
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The leftist media have tried to portray this weekend’s massive protests against House measures to curtail illegal immigration as the uprising of “The Other America”: forgotten, humble, hidden Hispanic members of the working poor simply demanding their “rights.” As events spanned from California to Detroit, Phoenix to Washington, D.C., the media kept up its anti-enforcement drumbeat. Although some have credited Latino DJs for the 500,000-strong illegal immigrant turnout in Los Angeles alone – and some credit is deserved – the real legwork was done by a more eclectic group of organizations: leftist labor unions, George Soros-funded agitators, Open Borders lobbyists [...]
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Thank you Papa Ray for reminding me about the Capt. Z solution -- I remember reading it when he posted it but I'd forgotten about it.
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Let's see, we've got something like a 1500-mile border to protect and pretty much anybody with a decent pair of Nike's can come in the country illegally. It's not something we can fix overnight. We have to take baby steps. First, we start rounding up all the Illegals we can find. Second, we organize them in the work gangs. Third, we put them to work for us. Since they'll be in our legal system, they can get the federal limit of $.90 an hour for their work. "But what will they do, Chuck?” you ask.
They will begin building the wall. ... [Read the whole thing here.]
It looks like the House Repubicans aren't going to accept an amnesty or give up on a fence without putting up a major fight, which I sincerely hope they win.
House Conservatives Slam Immigration Bill
WASHINGTON — House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize U.S. immigration laws.
"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an opportunity for citizenship.
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