Thread: Easy Target, Cheap Politics (LATimesOpinion- Schwarznegger)

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Easy Target, Cheap Politics
May 2, 2005

His approval rating sinking and his agenda stalled, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently has decided it's time to regroup. Unfortunately, instead of reverting to the bipartisan governor who just last year crafted compromises over cigars, he's keeping the tough-guy act. He has found a new group to rail against that he knows will prove less popular than teachers and nurses. Enemy numero uno is now illegal immigrants.

The governor of California has every right to be frustrated with this nation's dysfunctional approach to immigration. The United States relies heavily on undocumented workers while paying lip service to the idea that they are not welcome, a surreal contradiction that imposes any number of burdens on local and state governments. Schwarzenegger, in our view, has taken the wrong position on one of the classic dilemmas facing state governments â€â€

Same thing here in Northern California media.

I'm not saying Arnold's support of the MMP is not genuine;but his timing sure is bad.He has enough work to do here to keep a one-armed paper hanger with the hives busy but he can't stay out of the way of a camera or microphone.Okay Arnold,we know you back the MMP.Now get to work.

Wait just one little minute..........what does this mean exactly?

Schwarzenegger, who earlier in the month carelessly said that the nation should "close the borders," is the governor of a state in which one out of every four residents is foreign born. Yes, there is a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants, but stimulate enough backlash and that distinction disappears.

Actually with the loss of home grown Californians and constantly arriving newcomers the ratio is more like 2 out of every 4 are foreign born.

Yes, there is a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants, but stimulate enough backlash and that distinction disappears.

I find it curious that they never seem to want to do anything about it.