Mr Voinovich,

Why on earth are you denying even a modicum of law and order for illegal immigrants in this country. If we shrug our shoulders and say, “we can’t deport 12 million people, so we may as well give them amnesty immediately”, what will we do when we have 24 million illegal immigrants in this country? There are more important issues here, Mr. Voinovich, than cheap labor. This is about citizenship, and what kind of citizens make up this country. Immigration policy currently restricts the influx of the best and brightest from around the world, but thanks to your efforts, the uneducated and poor, who have little desire to learn English or American civics, get a free pass. This schizophrenic policy is a joke as there is no incentive to follow whatever rules you set up. Illegal immigrants know that these rules will not have any teeth, that there will be no enforcement, and in 10 or 20 years another amnesty will be enforced against the will of the US citizenry to favor 24 million or more people who are citizens of other countries.

Could you please represent Americans for a change, instead of La Raza and the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal?

Does anyone but me get the impression that the Senate is in that classic mode of putting through legislation for the purpose of putting through legislation, so they can go back to the voters and say, “I lead the effort for ‘comprehensive’ immigration reform .”

Now true, if Ted Kennedy AND John McCain are both happy with a piece of legislation, I just automatically get nervous. But it seems like the “attacks” that the Senate keeps fighting back are just simple common sense. Can anyone argue that the unifying forces forming this “unlikely coalition” are very simply agri-business (sorry…BIG AGRA) and labor-unions, both lining the pockets and providing power to two political parties, 64 percent of which have somehow missed the simple fact that their constituents DO NOT BELIEVE THEM when they say they are going to be “tough” on border security, especially when the bill provides very little teeth and details on that point.

These are the times when Scottie’s national referendum rants seem to make sense…if just for a few moments.

International Herald Tribune

Rothell’s comment deserves headline status here at the Logipundit. I just came back from Houston and noticed some similar problems with workers in the hospitality industry. Asking for help was useless as I couldn’t understand the bad, broken English from the hispanic waitress and had to find a hotel restaurant on my own. Surprisingly, Houston seems to show much more animus to Katrina refugees than to immigrants of questionable or variable legal status. Say what you want about Katrina refugees, they are at least American citizens.

I have a feeling that the motivation for English-only policies in businesses mentioned in the article stems from growing agitation caused by the overwhelming number of Spanish-speaking people (usually Mexican) living and working here today.

My girlfriend meets men and women patients from other cultures who, despite being middle-aged or older, are learning or are already proficient in English despite having lived here for as little as one or two years. Virtually all of these determined individuals are Asian. The patients who can’t or won’t speak English are Mexicans. There are Mexicans who have lived here for fifteen or twenty years who still can’t speak English. It is not uncommon here in L.A. to find yourself facing a Hispanic cashier in many business establishments (usually restaurants or grocery stores) who are unable to speak English. At the cash register!

The tendency among any immigrants living anywhere to flock together is inevitable. You see this with Chinese in San Francisco or New York, with Polocks in Chicago, Persians in southern California. But most of these people arrive legally, are usually not poor, are often professionals, and have to know English to assimilate in the workplace. Mexicans arrive illegally, are destitute, usually have no skills and do work that requires next to no English. These people are typically from undereducated familes. This separates them from other cultures who’ve moved in. That is forgivable. But there is also an unwillingness or lack of interest among Mexican immigrants (illegal and legal) to learn English. This is not so forgivable. Mandating an English-only atmosphere at work is in my opinion purely the result of the ubiquity of millions of Spanish-speaking people not taking the responsibility to learn English.

The admissions dean at MIT claimed she had degrees from three different schools. The truth?

A spokesman for Rensselaer said that while Ms. Jones did not graduate from the institution, she was a part-time nonmatriculated student during the 1974-75 school year. The other colleges said they had no record of her.

Funny thing, this story. Maybe she was just doing a job no other administrative assistants would do. I mean, maybe there were no capable degree holders willing to do the work that she could. My point is that illegal immigrants with forged documents are simply undocumented, according to the Wall Street Journal and Chicano activists. They aren’t to be deported, according to the major presidential candidates (especially the Democrats). Maybe we should take this attitude towards all documentation…you know, medical licenses, bachelor degrees, drivers licenses. In this post-industrial navel-gazing economy, these are all arbitrary anyway, right?

I heard a rumor that with her distinguished background she’ll be better suited as a fact checker for Alan Dershowitz.

We all know about states rights, but what about towns rights? It’s not just for the confederates anymore.

Absolutely vital story from the NY Times as the new Amnesty bill comes up. Don’t let George Bush, or John McCain, or Ted Kennedy, fool you, this bill will hurt poor and middle class Americans the most. Business owners, small and large alike, will love it, because they can pay lower wages to immigrants at the expense of hiring American citizens and paying them a decent wage.

That’s what the State of Georgia decided and the Commonwealth of Virginia is debating, respectively. My jaw dropped when I heard Mark Warner supported offshore drilling for Virginia. If people of this country don’t see the writing on the wall and start getting that oil, well, there will be more exploration down home at least.

Posted at 10:07 pm by Johnny B

	Posted by BP @ 04/19/2006 07:30 AM PDT
	In my opinion, the Georgia thing is great news. If the States take action on thier own, the Fed can either sit by idly as it has for years, or flounder around with various and sundry versions of an amnesty bill. Either way, the states have a right to protect THEIR sovereignty.

Mexicans are now performing powerbombs from the top rope that American’s won’t do.

Posted at 02:05 pm by Johnny B

Posted at 01:53 pm by Johnny B

	Posted by BP @ 04/02/2006 11:52 AM PDT
	I’m just trying to figure out what they are actually protesting. Are they being mistreated in some way in LA?

A very interesting development. In addition to landscaping, housework, and construction, a new industry has decided to start hiring Mexicans. Now, most blue collar folk wouldn’t mind working an $18/hr starting wage, but apparently in eastern Kentucky people are too shiftless, lazy, and drug addled to become coal miners (that’s what Charlie Bearse, the guy at the mining company said). Perhaps Charlie ought to meet a few folks in Estill county and pop open an Ale-8-1 and negotiate with them instead of threatening to bring in Mexicans. I pity the Mexicans that go down the wrong hollow, if you know what I mean.

Posted at 06:13 pm by Johnny B