Stupid White Politicians (And Businessmen) Trying To Revive Amnesty

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Mexican President Vicente Fox`s little visit with
President Bush at the Asian summit meeting in Bangkok
this week got a bit upstaged by Mr. Fox`s

Malaysian counterpart and his

comments about Jews

ruling the world, but what happened between the
Mexican and American presidents at the summit may have
been a good deal more important than what filled the front
pages.

Mr. Fox seized the occasion to bring up the delicate
subject of what is now called

"immigration reform," the latest

euphemism for amnesty for illegal aliens.

A

Knight-Ridder news story last week reported that
"On the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation forum, Fox once again will press Bush for
steps to make life easier for the millions of Mexicans
who live in the United States illegally," and for
illegals, the livin` is easy only when amnesty is on the
political picnic table.

The story also noted that what Mr. Fox wants for the
3.5 million of his fellow citizens who now live in this
country and are

able to vote in Mexico should be a bit of "a
tough sale" to Mr. Bush, who has the

California election under his party`s belt and a
load of evidence that making life easy for illegal
aliens is political suicide.

Nevertheless, never underestimate the capacity of the

Stupid Party to miss the point of the

election returns.

Americans who don`t want amnesty were well advised to
hold their breath until Mr. Bush was far away from
Bangkok. In fact the two amigos did meet, discuss, and
agree to "tackle the touchy issue of immigration"
next month, the Los Angeles Times reports. Don`t
breathe yet. [Bush,
Fox Make Amends| Leaders End Rift Over Iraq, Plan
Talks On Immigration, By Maura Reynolds and Richard
Boudreaux, Oct. 21, 2003, Los Angeles Times]

Mr. Fox was also reported last week to be considering
holding his country`s support for the U.S. resolution on
Iraq in the U.N. Security Council hostage to Mr. Bush`s
support for amnesty. The San Francisco Chronicle
reported that

"Legislation that would
give legal status to hundreds of thousands of
undocumented Mexican farmworkers has won strong
bipartisan support, and Bush is reportedly leaning on
Fox to use his U.N. vote to help his cause in
Washington."

As it turned out, the Security Council vote was
unanimous, so the Mexican bargaining chip was useless,
but the story does tell us how desperately Mr. Fox wants
amnesty.[

Mexico set to swap UN vote on Iraq
|Fox, in trouble at home, lobbying Bush to
back immigration bill now before Congress, Robert
Collier, San Francisco Chronicle, October
16,2003]

The conventional explanation of his desperation is
that Mr. Fox, once

vaunted as the savior of Mexico, the man who would
push it into the twenty-first century (more accurately,
the nineteenth), is in deep political trouble. Last
summer he lost 25 percent of his party`s seats in the

Mexican Congress, and getting amnesty would show
everybody that somebody somewhere still takes him
seriously.

There is another reason too, however, which is that
the Mexicans who would really like to see the United
States grant amnesty to

millions of Mexican illegals are of course the
millions of Mexican illegals who would get it. So
grateful to Mr. Fox might they be that they would
deliver their votes to him in the next Mexican election.

This is at least one reason why having millions of
citizens of a neighboring

foreign state living illegally in your country is
not a good idea. It creates a powerful lobby that can be

manipulated by and itself manipulates the foreign
state.

This used to be known as a

fifth column. "Column" is perhaps not an
appropriate term for an army of several million aliens;
a more appropriate term for what`s happening is simply

"colonization."

Whatever Mr. Bush told Mr. Fox in Bangkok, there
remain good reasons to worry what he will do later.

In the first place, aside from the Republican genius
for missing the point of election returns, there is the
pressure for amnesty from within the GOP itself. Arnold
Schwarzenegger himself favors amnesty, and the
"legislation that would give legal status to hundreds of
thousands of undocumented Mexican farmworkers" of
which the Chronicle spoke is

sponsored by Idaho

Republican Senator Larry Craig and (everybody`s
favorite Republican)

Ted Kennedy. There are several other Republicans in
Congress who also support amnesty under one euphemism or
another.

Then there`s the pressure from Big Business. As this
week`s Economist

reports, "the `stupid white men` who run
America`s

evil corporations have somehow found time to force
the White House to retreat on a subject close to the
hearts of liberals of all sorts: the rights of
immigrants," and "Business has also begun to
fight on behalf of the 11 million undocumented workers

it surreptitiously employs" by pushing for
legalization of their status.

The point is that it may take more than election
returns to keep amnesty out of the statute books.

With the Mexican government, Big Business and major
chieftains in both political parties backing it, don`t
bet your hacienda that Mr. Bush won`t serve a little
amnesty on his table.

[VDARE.COM note:
Rosemary Jenks of

NumbersUSA has prepared a table of the


major provisions in the various immigration bills
before the House and Senate. Roy Beck writes “All
the sponsors of these three bills are publicly claiming
repeatedly that their bills

aren`t amnesties but guestworker bills. But Rosemary
shows clearly that they ARE amnesties because they give
green cards (permanent residency) to huge numbers of
illegal aliens. And that they are NOT guestworker
programs because the workers

don`t ever have to leave.“]

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