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It seems that America’s so-called crackdown on illegal “immigration” (which I’m still convinced is just for show on the federal government’s part – it’s up to the states now) is causing a crisis in Canada. Our illegal aliens are rushing the Canadian border, claiming “refugee” status. (Source)

As you may be aware, a refugee is “one who flees in search of refuge, as in times of war, political oppression, or religious persecution.” A nation’s attempt to enforce its own immigration laws is akin to a time of war, oppression, and persecution, eh? Interesting.

Adios! Come back when you have the proper papers and some respect for the rule of law. Without it, America wouldn’t be a very cool place to live.

The irony is almost painful…

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The town of Herndon in Northern Virginia has decided to shut down its controversial day labor center rather than allow illegal aliens to use it. Bravo. (Source)

Brief history for those who haven’t followed the story: As they often do in too many cities and towns across the country, illegal aliens looking for work in the Herndon area began congregating at a local 7-11 store and on citizens’ property, making a nuisance of themselves. Two years ago, the town council thought it would be a good idea to use public funds to provide a place where these criminals and their criminal employers could meet up to engage in activity in direct violation of federal law.

Outrage doesn’t begin to describe Herndon’s or my reaction to the day labor center. The people booted out the mayor and other bums who voted to build it. But that didn’t end the matter. Even before the center opened, there’s been a lot of back and forth over who should be allowed to use it. A shameless illegal alien employer named Stephen A. Thomas had the nerve to cite a First Amendment right to illegally solicit workers at the center.

A circuit court judge ruled in Thomas’s favor. Illegal aliens must be allowed access to the day labor center. Which means employers are free to illegally solicit workers.

The new pro-immigration enforcement mayor, Stephen DeBenedittis, and the town council will close down the center rather than comply with the stupid ruling. Again, bravo. DeBenedittis didn’t want to break his campaign promise. A politician keeping a promise. Breathe in the fresh air, people! This is a rarity.

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No More Raid; Roaches Reportedly Happy

Last month I wrote about the federal government’s raid on Swift & Company, a meatpacking business that knowingly hires illegal aliens in violation of the law. It was showy theatrics that made for good photo ops.

The raid was the result of an identity fraud investigation, a new strategy in the “fight” to curb illegal “immigration.” The feds have decided, apparently, since they can’t round up and deport illegal aliens and penalize companies that hire them, going after select illegal aliens for identity theft is the next best thing.

Well, I can’t argue with that. Even if I did, the effort would be pointless. The United States is not interested in expelling its cheap labor force, an underclass that commits a disproportionate share of crimes and dicatates who can come and go in certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles County.

Having your identity stolen is unpleasant, I’m sure, and getting illegal aliens for identity fraud is killing two birds with one stone.

This morning I found out about a new program called “ICE (which stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Mutual Agreement Between Government and Employers” (IMAGE) via an Associated Press story. (Pet peeve: It’s bad form to use abbreviations and acronyms without writing out the entire name first, which the AP neglected to do.)

It seems the feds are “quietly” trying to “persuade” businesses that hire illegal aliens in violation of the law to “spare” themselves from “embarrassing federal raids” by cooperating and voluntarily handing over employee documents, including employees authorized to work in the U.S. An excerpt from the AP:

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As long as idiot business owners and the elite continue hiring illegal aliens, the demand for illegal aliens and their urgency to cross the border by any means necessary aren’t going away. But enforcing the law certainly would make a dent in the supply.

But for reasons unknown to this American, the federal government will not enforce immigration law.

It’s shameful, especially in the age of terrorism, that our borders are unguarded and unprotected. It’s criminal that people not only get away with violating our laws and impinging on our nation’s right to protect itself from invasion, but too many of them have the gall to use our own (suicidal) generosity against us, taking advantage of the same system of laws they spit on!

But there’s no point in getting upset.

Larger cities have been able to absorb crime and overburdened social services better than small towns. The federal government has abandoned small town America. But these citizens are not rolling over and playing dead. They’re doing what Americans have always done: trying to protect themselves and their way of life. A few examples:

Herndon, VA — The northern VA town voted out its open-borders council and applied for Section 287(g) training, which will allow local law enforcement to “help” carry out federal immigration law.

Hazleton, PA — This northeastern Pennsylvania town passed ordinances prohibiting landlords from renting to illegal aliens and businesses from hiring them. Open-border plaintiffs took the matter to a federal court, and the judge issued a temporary injunction. Several factors are weighed when determining whether a court should grant an injunction, and one is “irreparable injury.” A pair of fools/hispanic store owners said running illegal aliens who shop at their stores out of town will harm their businesses. Can you believe it? Obviously, the judge agreed. Read the sorry memo (PDF) for yourselves.

There ought to be a law against…oh, wait…there is!

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The beleaguered town of Herndon, Virginia, has applied to receive 287(G) training, which will enable its law enforcement community to properly and effectively carry out U.S. immigration laws. The Herndon Town Council proposal passed by a vote of 6-1. See this Washington Post story (free reg. req.).

Our co-president, Mexico president Vicente Fox, won’t be too happy about this.

My contact at Help Save Virginia (formerly Help Save Herndon) sent me a copy of the 287(G) training proposal. You may download the 19-page document here (PDF).

The Herndon “day laborer” issue is an ongoing saga in my area. For years, illegal aliens congregated in a 7-Eleven parking lot, dirtying up the neighborhood and making a nuisance of themselves. The former mayor and town council voted to build a day labor center with taxpayers’ money so the criminals could wait there to be picked up for jobs by criminal employers.

I channeled my outrage into a two-part column: A Nation of Outlaws, Part I and Part II.

When election time rolled around this past May, the mayor and most of the council members who voted for the illegal plan were ousted, kicked out of office.

Herndon has to wait for acceptance into the 287(G) training program. Once approved, officers will be allowed to ask a suspect and/or arrestee the status of his citizenship and detain him if he’s here in violation of federal law.

Also see States, Counties Begin to Enforce Immigration Law.

Update: Speaking of 7-Eleven, the convenience store is dropping Citgo, a company owned by Venezuela. Last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said some nasty things about the president. Bloggers and others were calling for a boycott against Citgo. More on the story here, here, and here.

Sunday, August 27: Diseases once eradicated have returned. Third world inhabitants who enter the country illegally bring their third world diseases and lifestyles with them.

Another Update: They all come here to work, right? The poor things…

Gang-rapes and anti-trust lawsuits and $49 billion in welfare over the next five years, Oh my!

I suspect that catch-and-release policies aren’t the most effective way to enforce immigration law. But hey, what do I know?

Update: Can’t wait to read this. (Not bad, PB.) I’m sure it’s an update to this. If you had a choice, would you rather live during the rise of a great civilization or its decline?
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I haven’t blogged about illegal “immigration” in awhile. The subject makes me very angry, I admit, and I don’t like blogging when I’m angry.

I’m angry that I can’t do anything about the Bush administration’s determination to keep the borders porous and to reward illegal aliens with citizenship. I hate it. It’s a collective slap in the face to millions of Americans who pay taxes and to legal aliens who sacrifice and go through the proper channels to become citizens.

I struggle with this issue. I definitely don’t reveal all my struggles on this public blog, but I reveal enough. It’s important to me that people know I hold myself to the same standards as I hold everyone else. Like all human beings, I sometimes fall short of those standards, but I learn from the struggle.

Exactly what I’m learning, I couldn’t tell you.

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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.

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• 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.

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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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I love it when the government does its job.

Last Thursday federal agents arrested over 100 mostly Mexican illegal aliens working at a Wal-Mart construction site. In an effort to weasel out, Wal-Mart claims it isn’t responsible because the illegal aliens were hired by a subcontractor. We’d probably buy it if 250+ illegal aliens hadn’t been caught working in Wal-Mart stores.

I’ll confess. I (used to) love Wal-Mart. I could spend hours walking around those gigantic stores piling my shopping cart with all that low-priced stuff. I’m not much of a protester, but I think a boycott against Wal-Mart is in order.

Blogger Debbie Schlussel frequently blogs about our lax and suicidal immigration non-policy. Also see Michelle Malkin, Beyond Borders Blog, and Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Sources: 100 Arrested at Wal-Mart Construction Site, Suspected Illegal Immigrant Raid in Schuylkill County, and We Hire Aliens.

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• Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Hires Illegal Aliens
• Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit Against Herndon, Virginia
• Bill Richardson Declares “Border Emergency” in New Mexico

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