After defending congressional crook William Jefferson last month and demanding the return of the documents seized in an FBI raid, Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, may have redeemed himself.
An emasculated Senate went through the motions of deliberation and quickly passed George Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens plan. The House passed a bill that at least gave a nod to enforcement. As is the usual practice, a committee made up of members of both chambers will get together and sort out the differences and compromise (oh, how I hate that word!).
Hastert wants to slow down the process and hold a few hearings on the legislation before a compromise is reached. I don’t know what he has in mind, but if it can stop Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens plan, I’m all for it.
Incidentally, did you know that aliens can use up to 20 documents to verify legal status? It’s a mockery. The point is to render the whole “legal papers” process meaningless and allow illegal aliens to remain in the United States with fake papers. Workers should present valid visas or guest worker permits. Period.
But we know the Bush administration and other elites want the country to remain flush with cheap labor, so there’s no point rehashing that tired point. As I am not a “day laborer” and don’t have to compete with below-the-radar criminal aliens for jobs, I’ll let the so-called civil rights leaders, activists, and others socialists deal with that. [Message for new readers: The device used in the previous sentence is called sarcasm. I care very much about the ability of low-skilled Americans to earn a decent living, but it is being undermined by illegal aliens.] Then again, it’s not only low-wage workers who have to worry.
In other news, hispanic gangs account for the increase in violent crimes in the U.S. As you may know, thugs known as MS-13 have infiltrated the Midwest and areas like Northern Virginia. Gangs are no longer confined to inner cities. The FBI’s report may not specify MS-13 gangs, but intelligent people can read between the lines. (See my Gangs of Illegals post and Heather Mac Donald’s The Immigrant Gang Problem.)
If you want to know what’s going on with Immigration and Customs (Non)Enforcement and related topics, Debbie Schlussel is the go-to blogger. She blogs about Bush’s self-serve enforcement system and his complicity in burdening our social services infrastructure.
Next Thursday I make my debut in the Washington Examiner with a column on legal aliens and naturalized citizens. Remember them?
Related posts:
- Washington Post Journalist Admits Biased Immigration Coverage
- Lame Duck, Straw Men, and Cosmetics
- Morning Reading
By the way, Check out The Most Absurd Rape Story of the Year, but please don’t discuss it in this thread. Discuss at Duke Rape Case: That Motion!
Update: This sort of thing is pointless if they’re going to release these people back into the general population in a few days. Stop the show “busts” and deport!
Unrelated Update II: Senator Joe Lieberman, the “conservative” Democrat, is considering running as an Independent. I haven’t thought about him since I wrote Limber Lieberman Breaks A Leg. I wrote some nice things about Bush in that piece. Time changes all things… 
Update III (5/15): Guess what’s contributing to the ER crisis but isn’t mentioned in this article at all?
Victor Davis Hanson on “selective compliance”:
Selective compliance, Socrates warned, would undermine the moral integrity of the entire legal system, ensuring anarchy. And so, as Plato tells us, the philosopher accepted the court’s death sentence and drank the deadly hemlock.
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The alien from Mexico chooses which American laws he finds convenient. He wants our border police to leave him alone — until he becomes lost in the desert or is attacked by robbers…The employer expects trespassing laws to be enforced to keep vagrants off his premises, but then assumes that the same vigilant police will ignore the illegal status of his cheap labor force…And does the city council that orders its policemen not to turn over arrested illegal aliens to the border patrol similarly allow townspeople to ignore their municipal tax bills?
