Thread: Newsweek GOP Could Try 'A Willie Horton Replay' on Ariz Immi

Newsweek Warns GOP Could Try 'A Willie Horton Replay' on Arizona Immigration Law

By Tim Graham
Sun, 05/09/2010 - 06:43 ET


Willie Horton

Political junkies under 30 might not be so familiar with Willie Horton, the murderer who stabbed a gas station attendant like a pin cushion. He became a major issue in the 1988 presidential race when supporters of George H.W. Bush noted that under Gov. Michael Dukakis, Horton was let out of jail on weekend furloughs, and on one, he abducted and raped a woman in Maryland.

Ever since then, liberal reporters have pounded those TV ads as the depths of Republican race-baiting. Some still do. The May 10 edition of Newsweek brings that agenda to the Arizona immigration law, with an item headlined "A 'Willie Horton' replay in Arizona?" http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassi ... eport.aspx

Reporter Mark Hosenball relayed the news that Arizona may want to deport aliens, but sources inside the Department of Homeland Security say they won't get much help from Team Obama. The only danger is the race-baiting potential if the alien is a criminal:

Critics say the catch-and-release approach could have severe political consequences: if an alien freed by the feds subsequently commits a terrible crime, Obama's opponents will replay the "Willie Horton" tactics used to sink Michael Dukakis. But the president has time on his side: with civil-rights groups lining up to sue Arizona, the law could be bogged down in court for years to come.

Left unasked by Newsweek: if you were the woman raped by Willie Horton in Maryland, wouldn't you feel that Gov. Dukakis made your assault possible by letting the murderers out for the weekend? This hasn't just been a cheesy campaign issue: it's a real matter of public safety. If an illegal alien commits violent crime, and the Obama administration is soft on it, how is that not a real issue?

Hosenball comforted the liberal readership of Newsweek that Obama administration officials "already signaled to Arizona police that it will most likely detain and deport only violent criminals. Everyone else will get a written notice requesting that they appear for a future hearing—warnings that some immigration officers call 'run letters' because recipients so rarely show up."

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.

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Sadly,it would be easy since thousands of people,including children have been murdered by illegal aliens. a 2012 AD could show Obama talking about person being asked for ID while getting icecream with his son and then play youtube clip "Illegal Alien kills child +2 women in Icecream shop"watch the video

Also,what report failed to say was first,Al Gore dug up willie horton and second dukakis allowed horton a weekend pass while in prison and he used it to kill and rape.people that did not want this told to the public were sick in the head and #$&#holes!People should know that a person that wanted to be president allowed a murderer to have a pass and commited more murders.Only an evil person would want that kept quiet from the voting public.shame on you!