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Jewish World Review April 27, 2005 / 18 Nisan, 5765 Bipartisan bungling on borders By Michelle Malkin
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Whip-cracking Hillary Clinton (call her Hillary Buchanan) wants a "border
czar." In a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary
Michael Chertoff and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Sen. Clinton
(D-N.Y.) wrote this week: "National security and, in particular, security
at our borders, must continue to be paramount."
Catch no. 1: Sen. Clinton only wants a border czar for the border between
U.S. and Canada, despite the fact that the vast majority of illegal
border-crossers come from the south.
Catch no. 2: Though stipulating that national security must be "paramount,"
Sen. Clinton also insists that the Bush administration "be sensitive" to
"tourism and the regional economy" which is why she opposes a quite
reasonable Homeland Security plan to mandate the use of passports for
travelers entering the United States from Canada or Mexico.
Imposing this security measure on short-term visitors would put needed
pressure on both of our neighbors to shore up their ID validation systems.
Entry into this country is a privilege, not a right. Yet, border dominatrix
Hillary opposes the rule.
Now, before my fellow conservatives get all outraged about Hillary's
politically calculated doublespeak on border security, here's another
catch: President Bush has the exact same position as Hillary. When he
learned about the passport requirement plan earlier this month a plan he
signed into law last December as part of the so-called intelligence reform
bill he worried that it could "disrupt the honest flow of traffic." After
expressing ignorance about his own policies, Bush ordered State and
Homeland Security to reconsider the passport rules.
What a pair: Sen. Conniver and President Clueless. Pick your poison. Either
way, we're committing national suicide.
I have said often that the only thing saving the Republicans on the
immigration issue is the Democrats' stupidity. No more. Hillary may only be
playing dress-up on border security, but that's far more than most of the
cowering GOP elite in Washington is willing to do. And she's not alone
among Democrats who are beginning to exploit the White House's
vulnerability. Sounding positively O'Reillyian, Sen. Dianne Feinstein
(D-Calif.) complained that an agricultural illegal alien amnesty bill
sponsored by GOP Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and defeated last week would
have been a "huge magnet" for illegal immigration. Sen. Robert Byrd
(D-W.V.) sponsored a successful amendment funding Border Patrol agents,
immigration investigators, and interior enforcement agents that the Bush
administration had shortchanged.
And as Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald reported on our group
website, The Immigration Blog (www.michellemalkin.com/immigration),"Maxine Waters, who represents South Los Angeles, erupted in a tirade against Hispanic and black gang members last week" on illegal alien gangs.
Railed Rep. Waters:
"Why isn't anyone talking about the Mexican Mafia (a gang of illegal
Mexicans that controls the California prison system)?" she thundered. 'I
don't care if you're pink or purple or white or black or brown, I want you
out if you're committing crimes." There is no excuse not to control the
border, she said. 'I'm a liberal with a capital 'L',' she said, 'but I'm
sick of it.'
This week in D.C., following on the heels of the successful Minuteman
Project, hundreds of citizen lobbyists descended on Capitol Hill to send
the same message. They are being led by some of the nation's most
influential conservative radio talk shows in every major market including
organizer Roger Hedgecock from San Diego, Melanie Morgan from San
Francisco, The John and Ken Show based in Los Angeles, Lars Larson in
Portland, and Michael Smerconish in Philadelphia. On their agenda: fixing
the nation's broken deportation and detention system; ending sanctuary
policies that give illegal aliens safe haven; strengthening interior
enforcement; and shutting off illegal alien magnets including health,
education, and Social Security benefits.
One participant reported that the staff of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.)
refused to admit her to his office. But the reception from Beltway
Republicans hasn't been much warmer. And the White House still won't meet
with pro-immigration enforcement leaders such as Rep. Tom Tancredo
(R-Colo.) and the House Immigration Reform Caucus.
As long as the elites in both parties continue to act like scared monkeys,
Americans will be forced to take homeland security into their own hands. We
are all Minutemen now.
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JWR contributor Michelle Malkin is the author of, most recently, "In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror". (Click HERE to purchase. Sales help fund JWR.)
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