Update: Check out a new-to-me blog, Beyond Borders Blog.
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New Mexico Governor and former Clinton crony Bill Richardson has declared a “border emergency” in New Mexico:
As Governor I have a responsibility to protect our citizens, property, and communities. Recent developments have convinced me this action is necessary — including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling, and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants.
Blah, blah, blah.
Translation from PC-speak to English: I really don’t care about my constituents or illegal aliens, but the pesky people who put me in office are bombarding me with phone calls, e-mails, and letters, demanding that I do something about the menace at the border. So in a symbolic, tough-on-illegal-immigration stance, I’m pledging millions more of your dollars to “fight” a problem that should have been handled years ago. Hey, what can I tell you?
The translation is only my interpretation. Perhaps Richardson really does care that illegal aliens are wreaking havoc on his state.
A commenter in this thread wrote (profanity and name-calling deleted):
The immigration issue is one where he [Bush] shows his true corporate conservative colors. He could stop the illegals from coming quickly if he just pushed through policy that would fine employers $1000 per illegal they hire. Use the money to finance the extra immigration officers needed to enforce such an effort.
With no jobs to lure them here, immigrants would be alot less likely to come. Liberals couldn’t legitimately whine about such a policy, but Bush’s money people would complain that he was cutting into their profits by taking away their sweatshop workforce. That’s why it would never happen- not because he’s left of center like some of you [DELETED] are saying.
Bush has the worst of conservative traits and the worst of liberal traits. He is a corporatist jack*** who’s got two main goals: keep the richest Americans happy at the expense of the poorest Americans – and – Keep the [DELETED] fundamentalists voting against their own best interest by drawing attention to abortion and gay marriage.
I’m inclined to agree.
More from CNN. “Border Wars,” by Michelle Malkin.
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