That’s what liberal firebrand Maxine Waters, Queen of the Congressional Black Caucus, said at a House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims hearing last week, according to frequent immigration writer and blogger Heather Mac Donald, who testified before the subcommittee. She writes:
Enter Maxine Waters. Waters has poisoned racial politics in Los Angeles for years; she essentially declared the Los Angeles riots a strike against racial injustice. Never saw a cop she doesn’t think is a racist. Yet here she was at the hearing declaring herself absolutely fed up with the race war between Hispanics and blacks that is raging on the streets of downtown L.A. “Why isn’t anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?†she thundered. ‘I don’t care if you’re pink or purple or white or black or brown, I want you out if you’re committing crimes.’ There is no excuse not to control the border, she said. ‘I’m a liberal with a capital ‘L’,’ she said, ‘but I’m sick of it. (Source)
Waters is finally doing some tough talking for the right side…for a change. During Bill Clinton’s impeachment, she was fit to be tied that her guy’s “private” sexual affair was being discussed in front of the whole world. Waters had an attitude problem every day of the hearings. One of her many quips to Henry Hyde, Chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary:
“Mr. Chairman, I don’t want you to default on your good name and leadership. History will not be kind to you and the stark contradictions of your leadership. It would surely be a sad commentary on your long years of service to be regarded as one who led the selective impeachment of the president of the United States, not based on a consistent philosophical belief, but rather on a petty, partisan need to satisfy; the need to retaliate, embarrass or feed the insatiable appetites of a group of hate-mongering, right-wing anarchists who will stop at nothing to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton.” (Source)
Lots of inconsistencies and errors in that blurb, but I’ll let you pick it apart. The point is that no matter how liberal people may be, everyone has a limit to what they’ll tolerate, and foreign criminals fighting in her district must be hers.
Waters had better be careful with all that “control the border” talk, though. Her liberal friends might accuse her of being a “hate-mongering, right-wing anarchist who will stop at nothing to destroy” America’s wide open borders.
(Take it, Michelle!)
Update: AgJobs provision fails in the Senate. For now.
Six hundred and fifty new border agents are headed south:
The move is a rebuke of President Bush, who signed a bill last year calling for 2,000 new Border Patrol agents each year for five years, as well as increases in the other areas, but submitted a budget calling for only 210 new agents and far fewer detention beds.
“We ask how and why illegal aliens continue to pour into our country, and the answer lies in every Border Patrol increase we do not fund, every agent we do not hire and every illegal alien we release due to lack of detention space,” Mr. Byrd said.
Byrd shares his colleague’s frustration. It’s encouraging to know that liberals are becoming fed up over this national security threat, too.
