Thread: Watch your step, D.C., with foul immigration mess

Friday, April 30, 2010

SIMMONS: Watch your step, D.C., with foul immigration mess
By Deborah Simmons

D.C. keeps shooting itself in the foot. Last week, Democrats rightly withdrew congressional legislation that would have granted a vote to the city's nonvoting delegate, and Arizona laid down the law on illegal immigration.

This week, D.C. lawmakers are expected to learn whether the city has deficits or surpluses and fashion explanations for Congress, and the open-borders crowd yells, "May Day, May Day," in rallies across the nation.

Next week, two D.C. lawmakers are expected to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with legislation that would handcuff police to "immigration un-enforcement."

If the proposal isn't tamped down, it could pose new problems for D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who would be expected to beat back congressional intervention.

The Arizona law has folks in a frenzy - and well it should.

The measure empowers police to do what they always have done, and that is to ask someone to produce identification.

For the average Joe Sixpack, that ID is usually a driver's license and/or a work ID with a photo. If Skip Gates of Harvard University had been permitted to produce ID when he was suspected of burglarizing his own home, President Obama would have had to find another reason to have a mini beer confab at public expense.

Now, instead of a respectable less-filling/tastes-great debate, we could be in for a nasty brawl.

On one side stand law-and-order/states' rights advocates, and on the other, lawbreakers and their enablers.

It's that simple: If you are in this country illegally and cannot prove who you are - or, for that matter, who you aren't - then you are in trouble.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... tion-mess/

It's that simple: If you are in this country illegally and cannot prove who you are - or, for that matter, who you aren't - then you are in trouble.

Bravo!