On immigration, Chris Christie needs a commonsense path to c
On immigration, Chris Christie needs a commonsense path to common sense
If Chris Christie really does intend to present himself as some sort of conservative leader on the national scene, he's got a lot of 'splainin' to do about his position on illegal immigration.
That phrase, by the way, comes from Desi Arnaz of "I Love Lucy" fame. Desi was, quite famously, an immigrant - a legal one.
Arnaz took advantage of the "path to citizenship" that was then, and is now, available to foreigners.
So just what is Christie hinting at when he tells Jake Tapper in the clip above that we need a "commonsense path to citizenship." We already have one, and more than a million people a year take advantage of it.
What's he's hinting at, of course, is amnesty. But pols know the A-word scares voters, so they use the slippery "path to citizenship" line to fool the public. Are you fooled? Me neither.
But I love when our governor tells Tapper "there have been folks all over the map on this bill."
Yeah, folks named Chris Christie. Recently he criticized Arizona officials for attempting to do what he so conspicuously failed to do as U.S. Attorney - enforce immigration law.
It takes an almost pathological devotion to political correctness for Christie to maintain his opposition to the Arizona approach to enforcing immigration laws after his role - and his attorney general, Paula Dow's role - in those schoolyard killings of two years ago.
As I noted in this column written at the time, if then-U.S. Attorney Christie and then-Essex County prosecutor Paula Dow - now state attorney general - had vigorously prosecuted immigration violations by those arrested for crimes, two of the kingpins in that shooting of four college kids could have been either deported or at least held in jail till trial.
This was not too much to ask. As you'll see in that column, Hudson County Prosecutor Ed DeFazio told me he regularly seeks federal detainers on illegal immigrants arrested for crimes.
If Christie really intends to make a move nationally, he'd better buy up every copy of the Lou Dobbs clip below:
Both videos/story
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/20 ... nesty.html
