Whoa.
Howdy. I've been in communicado for a while (Communicado, Okla., pop. 459) but it doesn't look like I've missed much. Miers is a cipher, steady progress in Iraq, media are weasels, Bush is on the ropes and flailing...
Oh. Wait. Looks like he's connected, with a strong right to the "Bush is a squishbag" conservatives:
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department aims without exception to expel all those who enter the United States illegally.
"Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions.
It's about time. If I were a real grouch I would say Bush doesn't get any points for this, since he's just agreeing to enforce existing law. And I'm still skeptical enough to "trust, but verify" on this statement. I want to see some how and when to back up the what.
But if this pans out, it's great news. Even better is that this news comes straight from the top at Homeland Security. While immigration-legal and illegal- is a complex problem, it is primarily a national security issue. It was important in peacetime, but after Sept. 11 there's no excuse for incentivizing illegal immigration--and failing to control the borders-- as we have done. Even the CIA has said so.
Just this rhetoric alone shows that the Norm Mineta racial pussyfooting that crippled aviation security doesn't still paralyze White House thinking.
PS I wonder whether this was in response to the Right's piling on Bush about Miers? Is this a sop to pacify his base? If so, sop me some more. Sop me real good, and sop me hard. Sop me like I've never been sopped before.
PPS I am, like Rusty, in a seasonal/sporadic sort of business that is gearing up somewhat this month. So I regret that my own posting here must be light, at least until this [delete]new shipment of primo Colombian toot gets safely in the warehouse.[/delete] thing I have to do gets done.
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How many al queda are crossing the borders with the illegal aleins?
Posted by: sandpiper at October 18, 2005 01:45 PM (e/auS)
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From what I can tell of Chertoff's statement it is not nearly as meaningful as it seems. Chertoff comments were in relation to illegals who are captured as they cross over the border from Mexico. It sounds like we did not send them all back to Mexico - but apparently released some in the U.S. for lack of a temporary holding capacity. It does not appear that his comments call for expelling all illegals who are currently in this country. Such a policy would contradict Bush's proposed amnesty program. Further, it would put a knife in the RNC's plan to woo hispanics int this country into the Republican party. So, in sum, it is a helpful improvement, but a minor one (and one that I don't think most American's were even aware needed to be done).
Posted by: Cruiser at October 18, 2005 02:09 PM (L11K0)
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I hate to be a party pooper too, but it also does not address the lack of boder patrol guards and all the people who get across undetected. This is like putting lipstick on a pig.
Posted by: Oyster at October 18, 2005 02:33 PM (fl6E1)
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The AFP article linked by Drudge is wrong.
Chertoff was only referring to OTMs: "Other than Mexicans". They're currently given a notice to appear and released. Then, almost all don't show up.
Note, for instance, that he didn't pledge to crack down on those who employ illegals.
And, he pimped Bush's "guest" worker plan.
Details
here.
Regarding the second comment, here's more on the
"Hispanic vote" myth.
Posted by: Illegal immigration news at October 18, 2005 03:15 PM (m+wiY)
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There will be no serious immigration reform as long as Republican and Democratic businessmen continue to make a forture off illegal immigrants. And don't tell me these people are just doing jobs no one else will do. No, these people are just doing jobs that no one else will do for slave wages. When enough money is offered, the jobs will be taken, but most Americans do not live 20+ to a trailer or substandard house as many Mexicans are doing.
These Mexicans are driving down the wages on numerous jobs, and are not only keeping Americans in poverty, but adding a tremendous burden on our hospitals and schools. It is past time that a stop was put to illegal immigration.
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 18, 2005 03:47 PM (rUyw4)
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Don't forget the obligatory "Sa-lute!"
Posted by: Chrees at October 18, 2005 10:35 PM (+sNxt)
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I will believe it when I see it.
On another note - even with porous borders and immigration problems up the wahzoo .. and AQ and the like just dying to see blood flow on Main Street America - it has been "quiet" for 4 years now.
I don't believe its "luck". Somebody somewhere somehow someway is doing their job - "quietly".
Posted by: hondo at October 18, 2005 11:30 PM (bayez)
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yeah and I think they are going to be able to stop the estimated 10,000 tons of drugs from coming in each year.Strong penalties against the people who hire them is the only way of managing the problem. And no thank you to any legal loopholes. i.e. "we are actually an off shore entity"
Posted by: john Ryan at October 21, 2005 01:32 PM (ads7K)
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