Update (6/23): Firefighters fired because they don’t speak Spanish…
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Thanks to Dennis Hastert’s hardball maneuver, it looks like President Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill is floating on the surface of the political pond like a putrid dead fish. Shame on all Republicans who voted for it.
Keep border and interior enforcement provisions and dump all provisions leading to citizenship for lawbreakers.
By the way, my first Examiner column is up. Check it out. This morning I walked to the corner news stand and grabbed a few hard copies. It looks so much better in print. The smell of the paper, the ink on my fingers…it was nostalgic! (Also see page 19 of the PDF)
I jumped off Bush’s “nation of laws, nation of immigrants” bandwagon and ran. In theory, we’re a nation of laws, but in practice — Read Part I and Part II of my column on the Herndon, Virginia, day labor center and other topics.
Related posts:
- Herndon’s Day Labor Center-Supporting Politicos Kicked to Curb
- Illegal Ingrates
- Secure Our Borders Campaign
(Image courtesy of Schoolhouse Rock)
Addendum: Ed Morrissey, fellow Blog Board of Contributors member, writes:
Americans have no real ethnic ties to bind them as a nation. This nation bound itself from the beginning on an ideal, one that we have frequently failed but always aspired to achieve: equal treatment under the law. At the time, the notion that a functioning state could survive without a monarch as at least a symbol of national unity seemed ludicrous, but the real challenge as we grew was the notion that disparate cultures could come together, cast off their allegiances to ethnicity and religion to be Americans first and foremost. The one binding cultural touchstone was the ideal of equal treatment under the law, and the laws that implemented it.
It therefore rankles and enrages when we have new immigrants come to this country, and in their very first steps on American soil disdain the laws that bind us as a culture.
(Emphasis added)
