Sen. Jim DeMint wants to "Complete the Fence Now"

A new website dedicated to protecting our borders:

“Complete the Fence Act” that will require the completion of 700
miles of reinforced pedestrian fencing along the nation’s southern border by
December 31, 2010. The bill also requires the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) to report to Congress by June 2009 on fence construction progress
and how it plans to complete the full fence by the 2010 deadline.
In
September 2006, Congress overwhelmingly passed and the President signed a bill
that required 700 miles of reinforced fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The
“Complete the Fence Act” will require DHS to complete the 700 miles fence by
December 31, 2010, using only reinforced pedestrian fencing, not vehicle
barriers or “virtual” fencing.

Go there.

The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence

This was sent to me by John Burtis, and is written by Michelle Malkin:

Last fall, Democrats and Republicans in Washington responded to continued public outrage over border chaos by passing the "Secure Fence Act." Did you question the timing? You should have. It's no coincidence they finally got off their duffs to respond just before the 2006 midterm elections. Lawmakers vowed grandiosely to keep America safe. The law specifically called for "at least 2 layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors" at five specific stretches of border totaling approximately 700 miles...

More than a year after the law's passage, the citizen watchdog group Grassfire reports that just five miles of double-layer fencing has been built in the first 12 months of implementation of the act. Five lousy miles.

No surprise there. Washington is so out of touch with most of the country, intimidated as they are by the Media, advocacy groups, corporations, as well as memories of the Civil Rights Era, they are too fearful to upset Hispanic groups. Even the unprecedented attack on our homeland of 9/11 isn't excuse enough for politicians to defend our borders.

Liberals for Corporate Greed

Victor Davis Hanson reveals this bizarre alliance over the illegal immigration issue:

Examine the institution on its merits: illegal immigration depends on the union-busting employer’s exploitation of cheap labor that cannot bargain or organize. The Left cynically sees a new politically dependent constituency that will need group representation, and supposedly show lasting thanks for the extension of entitlements (note the Left still bristles at illegal immigration from Cuba)...

Meanwhile play-by-the-rules Asians and Africans wait for years in line and must show specialized skill to enter the US legally.

I'm still scratching my head over the Left's sympathy for Radical Islam, which seeks to destroy everything they hold dear: women's lib, homosexuality, free speech, and the rampant immorality emanating from Hollywood.

But Whoopi recently agreed with Rush Limbaugh so i guess anything can happen these days!

McConnell Defends the English Language

Some welcome and long overdue legislation is emanating in the SC State Government. Here is the Charlotte Observer:

The head of South Carolina's Senate has a message he wants to send to non-English-speaking immigrants looking to use state or local government services: No hablamos español.

Sen. Glenn McConnell's proposal, among dozens of bills filed in anticipation of the coming legislative session, would require that all government paperwork and videos use only English.

"If you go in and fill out something, it's going to be in English," said McConnell, a Charleston Republican. "There's nothing unfair about it. They have to do what everybody else has done who's immigrated here -- learn the language."

Of course, you have the critics:

Printing documents only in English won't help people learn the language, said Raul Gonzalez of the Washington-based National Council of La Raza.

He called it discriminatory legislation that, if passed, would likely be challenged in the courts and end up costing taxpayers.

Actually, failing to encourage those who come to our country to learn our language and culture is itself discrimination, since you are saying Hispanic immigrants aren't smart enough to learn our way of life, like so many millions before them. Plus, those who support having a bilingual services are fostering "two Americas", divided rather than united, and encouraging future violence of the type some Europeans countries are enduring with Islamic immigrants.

My message to our legislators: this is not racially motivated but a way to provide legal visitors to our country a chance to enjoy the blessings of liberty. They come to the US for a better way of life, not more of the what they left behind.

The Children's Crusade

The nation's Immigration Debate is starting to sound like the recent SCHIP controversy, when the Dems were claiming it meant free healthcare "for the children", when it actually was for making dependents of a lot of rich kids, i.e. future Democratic voters. Now we hear the Republican candidates on YouTube the other night changing the debate on illegals crossing our borders as, you guessed it, "for the children". Here's Mike Huckabee via the NY Daily News:

"I supported the bill that would've allowed those children who had been in our schools their entire school life the opportunity to have the same scholarship that their peers had, who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same classrooms."

So, they can cover their tracks when they give taxpayer funds from legal citizens to those who violate our laws, with misplaced morality. This I would expect from the Democrats, but for so-called conservatives to support policies which increasingly turns our nation into a state without laws is a recipe for disaster. While claiming false compassion for illegals, by pandering to them we make ourselves increasingly like the failed regimes below the border, which they sought to escape. I'm beginning to think Pat Buchanan may be right.

Good News from the Border

The long-promised Border Fence is finally getting built! So says the LA Times:

The Department of Homeland Security reached its goal of completing 70 miles of new fencing by the end of this month, nearly doubling the length of barriers on the border to about 145 miles...Whether the new fencing slows illegal immigration remains to be seen, but the project is a milestone in another way. Once limited mainly to cities, fencing along the 1,952-mile border is now going up in rural areas, where much of the illegal immigration traffic has shifted in recent years...
The Secure Fence Act, which President Bush signed into law last fall, called for 700 miles of new fencing. The administration set a goal of completing nearly 300 miles by the end of 2008.

Here's a prediction: the new fence constructed in just part of the border will be so effective at stemming the invasion form the South, that Americans will demand the barrier stretch along the entire border with Mexico.

Castro will vote for Clinton-Obama ticket

I thought he was dead! From Reuters:

"The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on
U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper,
Granma.

Granma? Actually, this could really happen if Washington passes their Amnesty for Illegals legislation. He could just fly over, vote, and then fly back to Cuba.

Good News on Border Security

I haven't posted on immigration lately. Now seems like a good time, with this poll report from Rasmussen:

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of American adults favor a proposal
requiring employers to fire workers who falsify identity documents. A Rasmussen
Reports national telephone survey found that just 9% are opposed while 12% are
not sure.

And this is just what the President is doing, as you may recall from a story last week announcing he is cracking down on employers who hire illegals. This is what we want right? Enforce the law!

Then on Fox News, I heard this story- Agents to Patrol Border and Build Fence. Talk about getting your money's worth from the government! I think this is excellent news and I hope those who turned against Republicans last year at the polls, thus allowing this "wonderful" Democrat Congress to be elected just as things come to a head in Iraq, will take notice of these positive trends.