Archive for July, 2010

I don’t care if she ultimately wins the crown, to me Arianna Afsar represents this country beautifully.  She is a former American Idol contestant recently crowned Miss California.
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Perhaps a better term to describe the Mexican-American border would be “anarchic,” since the most gruesome violence is occurring just across the Rio Grande, which is leading to a completely chaotic situation in American towns such as Ft. Hancock, Texas. The other evening, Nightline re-aired a report about that besieged town in a remarkable...
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A reader writes in with some thoughts on the current immigration debate: ************ It seems to me that Americans have always considered immigration policy to be amongst the most important domestic issues. It comes up in the Constitutional provision to hold Election Day on the 2nd Tuesday in November (and not on All-Saints Day).
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Our country is at a critical time right now.  The issues surrounding the massive influx of illegal aliens over the past decades will be decided in the coming months.  Time is of the essence. Days count.  The need for action is at hand.  It is political action that is needed.  Persuasion and organization are...
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            Earlier tonight I was watching a program called “Noticiero” on La Estrella, a Spanish-language, HD channel that airs on an affiliate station of WPIX in New York, whose chief topic was-suppress your shock for a moment–immigration! The show’s host-who I remember chiefly for hosting a news-magazine tabloid program, roughly...
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It turns out that Australia’s new prime minister is making some concessions to political reality, and has abandoned the “Big Australia” favored by her predecessors in office. Of course, Bloomberg News spins this policy shift as a tale of impending recession and economic retrenchment , replete with insinuations of nativist bigotry by the Australian populace.
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Today inaugurates an experiment that will hopefully mark a turning point in the debate over the intertwined issues of mass immigration and illegal aliens’ presence in our society, both subjects that have been largely ignored or obscured by the chattering class and open-borders elite which shape public opinion in this country. 
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I’ll delve more deeply into this ruling in the coming days, but for now let me summarize thusly: the citizens of Arizona don’t have a public interest in protecting their state from those who come there to knowingly violate their laws, i.e. criminals. Here’s a link to a brief description of Judge Bolton’s ruling,...
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One of the downsides of poorly conceived, reflexive boycotts is that they don’t take into account the needs of citizens who might use things like transportation to and from airports.
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One of the main problems with enforcing measures aimed at illegal aliens-and the individuals and businesses that enable them to flourish-is legal blowback. In this case, litigation by open-borders enthusiasts at the American Civil Liberties Union and ironically named Mexican American Legal Defence and Education Fund.
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