Thread: Amnesty Again

Amnesty Again

Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:16 AM EDT

"Never use the 'A' word - amnesty. But rather, find other words that don't convey the power of what we are about" - Cardinal Roger Mahoney, Archbishop of Los Angeles, concerning 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' to the National Council of La Raza, 2007

Cardinal Mahoney was offering sage and experienced advice to the very large and well-funded group of proponents of amnesty and open borders.

If you are curious about whom he means when he says "we," perhaps a simple translation of the group's name will help. In English, "La Raza" means "The Race."

Mahoney went on to insist, "Our current immigration laws are, in a word, unjust."


By "our laws," he meant American laws.

"We" take in more than a million legal immigrants a year. Unjust?

His guidance, while certainly not a new concept, has been taken to heart by a very unlikely group of people pushing the latest attempt to legalize the millions of illegal aliens who represent a large portion of Mahoney's constituents - I mean "flock."

In politics, it is important to have a "message." Successful politicians become so because they have learned to find a message that resonates with voters and stay with it over and over again, no matter what.

Mahoney's message is clear enough. To get another amnesty for illegal aliens, don't ever call it amnesty. And stick with that message.

The president's message for years now has been that we must legalize the illegal aliens who are doing "jobs Americans will not do."

Try hard to disregard the base insult from the leader of the American people in telling us that we are either lazy or over-paid. I have never decided which he means myself, but am leaning toward it being both.

Presently, the president's message on the "grand bargain" in the Senate is that it will "help enforce our borders, but equally importantly, it'll treat people with respect. This is a bill where people who live here in our country will be treated without amnesty but without animosity."

The president broke Mahoney's rule; He used the "A-word" in denying what most Americans can plainly see: If any legislation - under any name - grants legal status to illegal aliens, it is amnesty.

At present, the mind-boggling bill in the Senate grants "probationary status" to any illegal alien who is willing to give up his fingerprint, take a chance on the inept Department of Homeland Security actually being able to run a background check in 24 hours (It cannot, it lacks the resources) and swear that he will keep his job.

The now legalized alien can stay in the U.S. indefinitely in the "temporary" probationary status.

The promise, again, is that afterward, we will secure our borders and create a verifiable ID for the workplace.

Like we did in 1986?

The message from the U.S. Border Patrol Union Local 2544 in Tucson on the bill is that it is a "Senate sell-out."

The message on the pending legislation from Kris Kobach, a professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, who served as chief consul on immigration law to the U.S. Attorney General 2001-03 is this: "The bill effectively shuts down our immigration-court system.

If an alien in the removal process is eligible for the new 'Z visa,' the immigration judge must close the proceedings and offer the alien the chance to apply for the amnesty. The wheels of justice won't just turn slowly, they'll go in reverse."

Newt Gingrich has a message on the Senate bill as well: "This bill is a disaster. It is a failure. It should be defeated. It should cease to exist."

The president has been working toward amnesty-again since his inauguration and has refused to secure American borders even during a war on terror.

The president lacks the integrity to be trusted to fulfill any promise of future border security.

It is sad to see that most of the American people can plainly see what many U.S. Senators cannot.

This is amnesty-again.

While different from Cardinal Mahoney's, the message to Georgia's senators from Georgians is equally clear: Securing the border is a basic duty of government. We will no longer suffer the lack of that security and any attempt to make it a condition of another amnesty is will be treated with animosity - no matter what.

Listen to the citizens of Georgia, senators. We admire and respect you.

We will stick with you as long as you stick with us.

D.A. King is president of the Marietta-based Dustin Inman Society, a coalition dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.


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The president lacks the integrity to be trusted to fulfill any promise of future border security.

Exactly. How can anyone be expecetd to believe he will enforce any NEW laws, when he refuses to enforce the laws already on the books? Just last year he signed into law the bill that would demand the building of 700 miles of fence. How many miles of fence has he completed so far? JUST TWO. Two miles of fence in nearly a year. Does anyone think this is NOT intentional? And he promises that this new law will be enforced and 370 miles of fence will be completed, instead of the 700 miles he was supposed to have built in last year's NEW law.

Who the heck would ever believe anything this known liar says about enforcing the law against the illegal alien invasion? Does anyone really believe that even the reduced number of 370 miles of fence will actually be built? There will be loophole after excuse after loophole and then the replacement of a real fence by a so-called 'virtual fence'.

This clown lies and then insults us by promising to enforce a NEW law that is essentially the same as the existing laws he already has repeatedly refused to enforce before. And what about these so-called border security triggers that must occur before any amnesty ...oops, excuse me, legalization provisions take effect? It says in the bill, what many people may not know, is that regardless of the progress of any border enforcement requirements occurs, the legalization portion of the legislation will be implemented in 18 months. That's right, regardless of how much, or how little progress is made in the security side of the legalization, the amnesty provisions will go automatically into effect.

So his promise that the security triggers must be met before the amnesty part takes place is total B.S. How many miles of fence do you think he WON'T build in those 18 months? TWO? FOUR? ONE?