Such a victory! And, I'm sure those who profit from massive illegal activity are quite happy about it, including crooked banks and businesses, the Mexican government, and those corrupt politicians who want to gain political power the gray way.

The reader should consider a few points that the author didn't mention or doesn't know about:

1. The Bush admin may have designed this program to fail.
2. The ACLU is indirectly linked to the Mexican government.
3. WesternUnion - a company that profits from illegal immigration - gave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce "in the high six figures" (NYT).
4. Other groups that profit from illegal activity donate to the U.S. CofC as well.
5. When "undocumented workers" join a union, they pay dues and that means that those unions are profiting from illegally-earned wages.

The author might want to consider the impact of massive corruption - both by those in the government and by businesses and labor unions - on the middle class and others.

Posted at November 25, 2007 1:28 PM in response to Lawsuit Halts Misguided Bush Immigration Policy: A Victory for … Labor?

Bernstein might want to imagine what's going to happen if people start doing what I suggest here. The positions of almost all of the front-runners are so weak that someone who's familiar with this issue and is able to ask one or more real questions can help discredit a candidate and show that they aren't thinking things through and/or they're completely corrupt.

The only silver bullet for the Democratic Party is to stop supporting and enabling illegal immigration. (Rest assured, I can provide endless examples on request.)

Posted at November 9, 2007 1:38 PM in response to Block that Extrapolation

Now, from an American living in Mexico, read the other side of the story.

That includes this translation of one of their hits:

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A thousand times they have shouted at me,
“Go home, you don’t belong here”
Let me remind the Gringo
That I didn’t cross the border, the border crossed me
America was born free—Man divided her
They drew the line so I would have to jump it
And they call me Invader
That’s a big error
They took eight states from us—who is the invader here?
I am a stranger in my own land
I don’t come to make war—I’m a working man

(Chorus)

If history does not lie, the Powerful Nation was seated here in glory
Composed of valiant warriors
Indians of two continents
Mingled with Spaniards
And if we go by the centuries
We are more American [“Somos Mas Americanos”]
We are more American
Than any son of the Anglo-Saxon
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P.S. I can translate that into German if anyone wants, and I can even try my best to avoid using the phrase "Blut und Boden".

Posted at October 6, 2007 1:03 PM in response to Finally, Los Tigres del Norte

Actually, despite what Quinones says, there's at least one "elected Mexican politician" in Chicago.

A state senator, Martin Sandoval - in addition to possibly representing the interests of U.S. citizens - serves on an advisory council to the president of Mexico. Would anyone be foolish enough to believe that the advice just flows one way, from him to the Mexican government?

And, several people linked to the Mexican government and Mexican political parties helped organize Chicago's big immigration marches.

And, Barack Obama spoke at one of those marches.

If you think all of that is just fine, then please get Obama to sign the pledge in the description to that video.

Posted at October 6, 2007 12:57 PM in response to How is Mexican immigration different, Part II

Leaving all other issues aside, I seem to have missed the part where you or Schmitt detailed how Risch wasn't largely correct. Whatever the feds should have done or did do, I don't think the response by many of the residents in NO would have been quite so chaotic if those residents had not been very used to the welfare state.

As for Schmitt's main point, perhaps he'd like to discuss how the Dems and the media helped Bush with his scheme to move the underclass out and move in illegal aliens from Mexico who worked (through layers) for connected contractors (including, allegedly, Halliburton) at a low wage and under unsafe conditions.

Didn't Nagin, Blanco, and Landrieu (all Dems) initially complain about that situation? What happened? That'd be a great thing for Schmitt to discuss at a later date, if he really is concerned about this issue.

Posted at September 1, 2007 12:25 PM in response to Meet the New Hypocrite...

Good for you. Now, here's more on the Border Human Rights Working Group, a coalition that includes the SPLC and various ACLU chapters.

It's headed by one Peter Schey, an infamous (Plyler v. Doe) immigration lawyer who - at least at the time of the ACLU/SPLC joining his group - is/was collaborating with the Mexican government on a legal project (http://web.archive.org/web/20060426001655/http://vocesunidas.org/), and who's written an "opposition research" paper for the Mexican government (portal.sre.gob.mx/ime/pdf/IV.8_Anexo.pdf), and who was at least (more was alleged by the DA) introduced to clients by the Mexican government.

What exactly were the SPLC and the ACLU thinking when they got involved with a coalition with someone who has at least three (and perhaps more) links to the Mexican government?

Posted at June 28, 2007 5:16 PM in response to Immigration Bill Causes More Havoc on the Right

They aren't "support[ing] immigrants", they're supporting illegal aliens. And, here's what else they're supporting:

- 14% of Mexico's workforce moving to the U.S., depriving that country of the people it needs

- the crooks who run Mexico being able to pawn off their problems on the U.S., in exchange for money sent home

- widespread political corruption in the U.S. (why do you think so many illegal aliens have been allowed to come and stay here anyway?)

- increased political power inside the U.S. for the Mexican government; they have direct or indirect links to various NGOs such as the SPLC and the ACLU, and their consuls are extremely aggressive, such as by attending city council meetings promoting the acceptance of their ID cards, passing out "free" propaganda textbooks to U.S. public school children, and the like

Land and his counterparts on the left (Wallis) are either fools or corrupt (or both).

Posted at June 27, 2007 8:18 PM in response to Immigration Bill Causes More Havoc on the Right

Complaints about Real ID might be taken seriously if the same people complaining weren't also strong supporters of illegal immigration.

If you want to oppose Real ID and be taken seriously, couple it with (real) opposition to illegal immigration.

Posted at June 19, 2007 1:18 PM in response to Return to DMV Hell

In addition to somewhat agreeing with the previous comments, I'll point out that "brain-draining" other countries isn't exactly a good thing for any attempts by those other countries to build their economies. And, enabling large numbers of "imports" from one country provides a profit incentive to those countries to keep sending us people because of the money that their "exports" send home. That encourages corruption both here and there. And, if things like computer programming move offshore, teaching and studying computer programming will eventually move offshore as well, leaving us dependent on India or other countries for computer programming. Not exactly a good thing.

Posted at June 4, 2007 12:05 PM in response to Understanding Immigration –Thinking Globally

Nathan Newman: is economics all that matters? Surely, if you want to discuss everything involved in this issue, you should be willing to note the non-economic benefits of the proposed plan and argue for or against them. Right?

P.S. I don't support the Senate bill or any form of amnesty, but I might support a bill that just had the changes noted above.

Posted at May 30, 2007 9:47 AM in response to Immigrant Family Unification is a Job Creator