Laura Curtis

It’s come to this – students getting school credit for attending a protest advocating for illegal aliens continued “right” to break our laws.

Brit Hume is unhappy with the media’s “grossly overdone” hysteria about Arizona’s new law which essentially copies and pastes a bunch of federal penalties for illegal immigration onto the state books.  He says, “a lot of the news stories simply flat had it wrong, and a lot of the critics of the bill itself have also got it wrong.”

Mr. Hume is too kind. They didn’t simply flat have it wrong. They’re willfully lying because they know if they keep it up long enough the lie will take hold and they’ll win.  They’re relying on us not to fight back effectively.  And they’re probably right.

CBS, while moaning that Arizona has made illegal aliens feel “unwelcome” disingenuously reports that 51% of people think the law is about right.  The screen graphic omits the 9% who feel it doesn’t go far enough.  Sixty percent of Arizonans support this law, versus 36% who oppose it, a fact CBS downplayed while it hyped the heartbreak of the 12 year old girl whose best friend’s family fled Arizona for California because of the mean ol’ law!!

A couple hundred people crowded into the grade-school gym to hear a chilling message from Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West.

“You farmers, I’m telling you right now, arm yourselves,” he said. “As they say the old story is, it’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by six. Damn it, I don’t want to see six people carrying you.”

That seems like a real sensible approach. As opposed to preemptively announcing that we won’t use our most powerful weapons to impede narcotics traffickers smuggling poison over our border.  Or even better, prosecuting homeowners for defending themselves and their property.

Here’s a nice change, after the rash of shootings in New Orleans:

Neighbors initially called police about 11 p.m., while the men were yelling, playing loud music and urinating outside their home at 945 N. Magnolia St., Foltz said. Officers told the men, who appeared to be drunk, to tone it down and take the party inside, and had to return about 20 minutes later to repeat their warning, he said.

The men were undeterred, however [Read more...]

I can’t believe she actually thought this, much less said this out loud. It’s like some kind of sick media trifecta – an apology for illegal aliens, a swipe against an economy which is weak by our standards but still has lower unemployment and better metrics on pretty much everything compared to – well, pretty much everywhere else, and the typical MSM quest for the ultimate victim. Which seems to be the mother of the murder victim’s three children. I guess. Or sweet, kind, gentle “undocumented immigrants” in general, having to tolerate those vicious, evil white people. Or just everybody, since we’re ALL victims of the Chimpy McHalliburton/ Darth Cheney theft of everybody’s share of the extremely limited supply of wealth in this country. But she went there. Oh, yes, she did:

When economic times are tough as they are now for so many, it can put a big strain on families as they struggle to get by, and that same tension can spread through an entire community as more people compete for fewer jobs. It can even pit one ethnic group against another. Some believe economic hard times played a part in the explosion of violence one night this summer in a poor Pennsylvania town.

Some believe that. Nobody in the story seems to, but somewhere, some believe it… like in the newsroom where Ms. Couric works amidst a cloud of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

I wonder what her theory is for why illegal aliens commit murder. So what happened?

A late night street fight punctuated by ethnic slurs ended in Ramirez’s death. Four high school students, all on the football team, are charged in connection with the homicide.

Let’s see – small town, big shot football players, pumped up on testosterone like high school boys generally are, driving up and down the strip because there’s nothing to do. Yep, only in small towns with large populations of illegal aliens and weak economies does that that scenario EVER end up with someone yelling ethnic slurs and fighting. The video clip showed the victim in the hospital, so evidently they beat him so bad he needed to be hospitalized, and he subsequently died. Another report gives a bit more detail:

Preliminarily, though, they have determined that Ramirez, who worked in a factory and picked strawberries and cherries, got into an argument with a group of youths that escalated into a fight in which he was badly outnumbered.

“From what we understand right now, it wasn’t racially motivated,” Nestor said. “This looks like a street fight that went wrong.”

I guess since there aren’t enough bodies to satisfy them in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mainstream media has to resort to small town thuggery and street crime. But using the economic angle, as an indirect way of blaming it on Bush? Well played, Ms. Couric.

Is this some kind of joke? Los Angeles isn’t really going to do this – right?

If passed, the ordinance would require new home improvement stores that are 100,000 square feet or larger, or any building or structure where 250,000 square feet or more of warehouse floor area is added, to set aside space for day laborers seeking employment from customers.

The shelters would have to be easily accessible and equipped with drinking water, bathrooms, tables with seating and trash facilities.

Home-improvement stores would also be required to develop a security plan in consultation with the Los Angeles Police Department.

I’m already mad that Lowe’s and Home Depot can’t run off the loiterers.  Around here, they’ve staked out the area between the sidewalk and the street that the parish owns so the store can’t run them off, and the police evidently won’t do it because they’re out there, day in and day out.  The idea that the government would force private businesses to accommodate and shelter illegal aliens – at their own expense, or rather, the expense of customers who will ultimately pay the cost – is just… amazing.

Take your blood pressure medication before heading out to NPR for this story:

Immigrant Rights Groups Challenge ID Theft Arrests : NPR
A congressional panel is meeting Thursday to look at the controversial fallout from an immigration raid on an Iowa meat-packing plant in May. Not long ago, illegal immigrants swept up in such raids faced administrative charges and swift deportation. But in recent years, the Bush administration has started bringing criminal charges against immigrants who use fake documents, including stolen Social Security numbers.

… “If you want to think of it in legal terms, it would be that a person has to be put upon notice of what the crime is,” Koos said. “And in this case, it’s knowingly to use someone else’s identity. My client didn’t know he had someone else’s Social Security number, he just had a number.”

Koos lost the case on appeal, and his immigrant client is now serving five years in federal prison. But Koos’ argument has been backed by other appeals courts — and he thinks the Supreme Court may need to resolve the dispute.

Yet another example of how little the open borders crowd respects anyone’s intelligence, including the illegal aliens they’re fighting so hard to protect.  His client is so stupid that he didn’t realize the ID he “bought off the street” was illegal?  If he was really under the impression that he just needed “a number” why did he not simply make one up during his job interview?  We’re so stupid we’re expected to believe this ridiculous story?

If ignorance of the law is now going to be an acceptable legal defense, and someone’s claim to ignorance is acceptable proof, I’m going to have a ball with that.

• No, officer, I didn’t realize the speed limit was 35!  And you have a nice day, too!
• What taxes?  I didn’t get a bill, so I just assumed I didn’t owe anything.  When other people want money from me, they send an invoice, so I figured the government would too.
• Frank J. said it was our civic duty to punch hippies – you mean he wasn’t telling the truth?  Oops.  My bad!

Oh, yeah.  It’s a whole new day.

Shamnesty Republican Chris Cannon defeated in Utah primary

Every time an immigration enforcement proponent loses a seat in Congress, the open-borders Wall Street Journal and their ilk use it to argue that Republicans need to support shamnesty to maintain political viability. The WSJ falsely framed the 2006 midterm election losses of GOP Reps. John Hostettler, Randy Graf, and J.D. Hayworth as electoral rejection of strict enforcement of immigration laws–conveniently ignoring the fact their opponents campaigned to their right on the issue.

Local news here does the same thing, but read the comments for a very different story.

Some good news on the illegal immigration front, and from an unexpected source:

“It is the policy of the executive branch to enforce fully the immigration laws of the United States, including the detection and removal of illegal aliens and the imposition of legal sanctions against employers that hire illegal aliens,” in the executive order says.

The order comes as a worker verification bill has essentially stalled in Congress. A Democratic immigration enforcement bill would require employers to check the citizenship and legal status of all their employees.

What’s really strange about this is President Bush has very little to gain by this – other than doing the right thing, of course. While conservatives and sovereign-nation types like myself will cheer, Bush will never run for office again, he’s already a lame duck, and any goodwill from this will not spill over onto the GOP and especially not McCain, who is still pandering to illegals and to Mexico in spite of the fact that it’s not doing him a bit of good.

But whatever the reason, I’m delighted to see this – well done, and thanks, President Bush!