Update II: Tomorrow around 12:30 p.m. EDT, I’ll make a second appearance on Tammy Bruce’s radio show to talk about illegal immigration.
Here’s an op-ed written by a liberal who opposes illegal immigration. Good stuff. I said the same thing, more or less, in Greatness Falls.
Update: If I may be so dramatic, there’s a tug-of-war for America’s soul going on. The winner has yet to be determined.
Blogger and editorial writer (and fellow Reformed Christian) Mark Tapscott says, “Americans won’t be blackmailed.”
Leave it to The Onion to make us laugh in the midst of this cultural war. Humor is good for the soul.
Did you know the Minuteman Project had a blog? Me, either. They’re on the march to protect the borders. Black Americans are volunteering too, including “rasta Republican” Ted Hayes.
An “immigrant activist” said of Hayes: “He has a right to express his opinion, but I don’t agree with him. Many and most African American leaders think otherwise and we’re appreciative of their support.”
Thank you, Lord in heaven, for being all the leader I need!
Interesting, but not surprising, news: Hispanics Carry Lopsided Share Of DWI Arrests in Wake County, North Carolina. More interesting is how many drunk driving hispanic arrestees are illegal aliens. But local law enforcement officials aren’t allowed to ask. Hispanics probably make up a significant percentage of drunk drivers in the D.C. area, too, as well as uninsured drivers.
Bush wants to reward such people with amnesty instead of punishing them with deportation.
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A big hat tip to my friends at Help Save Herndon for letting me know about last night’s ouster of Herndon’s mayor and Town Council members who voted for a taxpayer-supported “day labor” center for illegal aliens in Herndon, Virginia, just down the road.
Yes, using public funds for illegal purposes is, well, illegal, but why quibble? Last year I wrote a two-part op-ed for Townhall.com about a then-proposed day labor center in Herndon. For the first part, I interviewed Council Member Dennis Husch — who opposed the center and was reelected to his seat. (Council Member Ann V. Null also opposed the center) I sought comment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the spokesperson fed me an empty line about “working with law enforcement partners.” In the second part, I followed up on the developments.
Only 3,000 voted in the Virginia elections yesterday, but it’s a big victory for law and order. From the Washington Post:
Residents replaced the incumbents with challengers who immediately called for significant changes at the center. Some want to bar public funds from being spent on the facility or restrict it to workers living in the country legally. Others want it moved to an industrial site away from the residential neighborhood where it is located.
The labor center forced the western Fairfax County town into the national spotlight last summer as the immigration debate grew deeply contentious…The council voted 5 to 2 last August to establish the center, but yesterday’s vote created an apparent 6 to 1 majority in opposition. Steve J. DeBenedittis, 38, a health club operator and political newcomer, defeated Mayor Michael L. O’Reilly with 52 percent of the vote.
Most day center-supporting members got a swift kick to the curb, including Mayor Michael O’Reilly, who I called a fool for implying that taxpayers in Herndon had no right to influence the feds or their local legislators. How dare they complain about public funds being used for illegal purposes! Right now, O’Reilly’s probably wondering what right the people had to vote him out of office. Whatever America is — a democracy, a constitutional republic, a borderline Socialist nation, take your pick — a dictatorship it ain’t, and the people have the right, the duty, to express their will by voting and influencing people who write the laws.
I hope and pray the recent illegal immigration “demonstrations” backfire and cause a backlash, as some activists fear they will. Perhaps seeing and hearing unjustifiably irate foreigners demanding rights they don’t deserve will wake up complacent Americans.
Highly recommended: A Day Without an Illegal Immigrant, by Congressman Tom Tancredo. I met him in person last week. I’ll give you an update later.
Also recommended: Nobody blogs about ICE the way Debbie Schlussel does. See posts like See Why Women REALLY Don’t Run Plants…Or Immigration Agency’s Corruption Investigations. She’s dubbed the inexperienced, unqualified chief Julie Myers “The ICE Princess.” I wish Debbie had an “ICE” category for easy linking to all the posts. [Update: Debbie posts an internal ICE memo]
Also see this week’s Vent at Hot Air.
Other bloggers: A Certain Slant of Light, Church and State, Mary Katharine Ham, Latino Issues, Michelle Malkin, Gringoman, Daily Pundit…
[T]the great waves of American immigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries swept ashore in a harsh, sink-or-swim society where you either fit in and made your own way or died trying. The Latin American immigrants of today, on the other hand, show up in an advanced welfare state under the seemingly ineradicable spell of officially imposed multiculturalist dogma. So the first generation will be as hard-working and family-oriented as anyone could wish. But just wait until our educational system gets ahold of their children. Just wait. In the blink of an historical eye, their work ethic and family values will be replaced with a sense of aggrieved victimhood and entitlement to state compensation, with all the appalling panoply of ills that follow in their wake. After that, it will be ethnic separatism and socio-economic dysfunction as far as the eye can see.
Related posts:
Illegal Aliens and You
Insulation
Every little bit helps:
- After Protests, Backlash Grows
- Sheriff to Start Posse Patrols to Curb Illegal Immigration Flow
- Republicans set sights on aliens’ employers
- Senate OKs $2 billion to stop illegals
- Minutemen Gaining in Immigration Debate
