Democrat Begs: Stop His Party (And The Washington Post) Before They Amnesty Again!

Alas, the defeat of this latest foray by
my party, the Democratic majority, to ram the DREAM
Act down the unwilling throats of the American
majority will not deter further attempts. Huge
illegal immigration riders will be added to upcoming
agricultural bill legislation, according in Capitol
Hill observers.

The same day the

DREAM Act went down to defeat in the Senate, my wife
attended a meeting of a chapter of the

League of Women Voters here in DC. The featured
speaker was

Bill Clinton`s INS Commissioner

Doris Meissner. Her record there was clearly biased
toward opening borders. Now she is going around the
country talking about the shortage of labor and the need
for more immigrants. She shared the podium at this event
with a woman from Catholic Charities—who of course
played the sob sister card in front of this audience of
white haired mothers and grandmothers to excellent
effect.

And American citizens should be keenly
aware of the growing arrogance of illegal immigrants.
This "I`m
illegal but you can`t make me leave" attitude is
perfectly illustrated by the October 25, 2004 front page
article in the Washington Post,

Latino Immigrants Stand Their Ground.
 [By Pamela Constable (Email
her)]

The tone of this article is so
pro-illegal immigrant as to make you wonder whose
country the WP is in. Opening paragraph:

"Latino immigrants and
lawyers in Prince William County are trying to calm
community panic and spread accurate information, urging
people to stay and defend their rights in the aftermath
of new county measures aimed at keeping out illegal
immigrants."

What? What rights? These are people here
illegally. They are out demonstrating in our country
demanding "rights"—but if we Americans similar
demands in Mother Mexico, we would be put in jail.

Notice that Constable`s Washington
Post story tries to obliterate the distinction
between

legal and illegal with this anecdote:

"Mirabel Martinez, 25,
sat on her doorstep last Thursday afternoon, phoning a
list of volunteers to plan a strategy meeting at a taco
restaurant. She, too, is a legal immigrant and homeowner
from El Salvador who lives in a quiet county
neighborhood. She, too, said she had felt a new sting of
hostility, even from a local church, which demanded
proof of residency when she went to pick up donated food
for a needy friend."

"`I showed them my

voter registration card, and they said it was not
enough,` Martinez said. `I am here legally. But I have a
lot of relatives and friends who are still illegal, and
I can imagine how scared they are. I want to tell them
to not be afraid and try to live normally, but to be
careful and not do things like drive with

false licenses. We can`t be defeatist. We have to
stay and fight.` "

In short Mirabel thinks it is OK to
shield illegal aliens—no doubt on advice from one or
more of these open border advocates. She wants to
"stay and fight"!  

For what? The right to break American
law.

Then, of course, we have charitably
minded folks, including the immigration lawyers, who,
according to Constable, "are also trying to reassure
the Latino community that the

provisions enabling county police to detain illegal
immigrants and

turn them over to federal officials will not take
effect until at least early next year, after a

police training program."

One of them is particularly
straightforward in his counsel about how to get around
our laws  

“`We are telling people:
`Don`t react in haste. Don`t run away and abandon your
houses,` said Ricardo Juarez, a Woodbridge resident and
a leader of the Virginia group

Mexicans Without Borders, which has organized
numerous protests against the policies. `Let`s wait and
evaluate. Let`s see what happens in court.`"

“Several

advocacy groups have filed suit against the Prince
William measures in U.S. District Court. Lisa Johnson-Firth, [Email
her] an immigration lawyer in

Manassas, said her firm is advising callers and
clients about how to prepare for the possibility of
being detained and deported."

Well, at least this lawyer understands
that our laws could possibly be enforced! How quaint,

based on the record to date.

Hey, with a little help from your
friendly Congressperson and the

ACLU, our Rule of Law will be shuffled into the
trash bin.  We have had

40-plus years of failure by both parties to fix this
situation. And it will generate this kind of dilemma:

"The longtime Prince
William resident …was stunned by the cold shoulder the
board of supervisors turned to the entreaties of Latino
immigrants, who testified that the county policies would

separate families and destroy their lives.

"I came here as an

undocumented person. But I respect the democratic
process, and I believe we all have the

right to participate in it," she said, explaining
why she decided to enter county politics at a time of
intense division and hostility. "There is a feeding
frenzy to blame immigrants for other problems. We pay

mortgage taxes, sales taxes,

payroll taxes. A lot of us can`t vote, but we all
contribute, and we need a new voice."

Most of our major media, like the
Washington Post, gives front page coverage to these
illegal voices since they want to please their
paymasters in business. Moderate Americans

don`t want to blame illegal immigrants—but they have
been pleading for years to get our Federal government to

do its job and enforce existing immigration laws.
The failure of our elected officials has created this
massive invasion situation. Passing another big amnesty
bill, in whole or piecemeal, won`t fix it.

Don`t think this transition will be
easy. But, this issue has become a truly bipartisan
matter. We Democrats and you Republicans reading this
are in this together. It will take a bipartisan effort,
since too many among my party`s leadership really think
that our party`s future rests on continuing this
law-breaking importation of huge numbers of unnecessary,
illegal and mostly uneducated aliens.

There is, of necessity, going to be
considerable pain here. The people we elected to uphold
our laws should be the ones to share in the pain of
those here illegally. Those elected officials

should not be elected or reelected if they won`t
take the heat, do the right thing and deport those here
illegally—so that those who would come here illegally

realize it is not a winning strategy.

As these recent votes in Congress show,
the tide against open borders is turning in America. And
it is high time too.

Most citizens who can read realize now
that immigration is indeed out of control. They will be
looking to vote their best interests in 2008. Those
"best interests" do not include adding

another 150 million people to our present 305
million population by 2050 to share our limited
resources.

Donald A. Collins [email
him], is a freelance writer living in Washington DC and a former long time member of the board of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. His views are his own.