Drink this...

Planning a better solution to this...

Heather MacDonald, Manhattan Institute:

The breakdown of our immigration laws has come to this: Not only do illegal aliens have a de facto right to live here without penalty, but they also have the right, it seems, to live here without having their piece of mind disturbed by the possibility that they face any chance of being deported. This sense of entitlement does a great injustice to the thousands of law-abiding foreigners who are patiently waiting to enter the country legally, and it makes a mockery of our laws.

Duh.

Read the whole transcript of a panel discussion held on the new book The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, October 30, 2007.

Denying sanctuary to this...

Finally. Some members of Congress are at least pretending to get real about enforcing our existing immigration laws. I have long said that we can't even get to a place of evaluating how effective our current laws, quotas, etc. are if we aren't even enforcing what we already have in place.

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) has introduced new legislation that would require local law enforcement agencies to uphold federal laws, rather than ignore them. Can you believe we even need a law to enforce a law? SIGH.

HR 3531, The Accountability in Enforcing Immigration Laws Act of 2007, would: 

• Affirm and clarify that state and local law enforcement officials have the authority to apprehend and arrest illegal aliens encountered in the course of their routine duties;
• Provide additional federal funding to cooperating law enforcement agencies for the costs of apprehension and detention; and
• Revoke 25 percent of non-emergency federal Homeland Security funding for sanctuary cities that refuse to change their policies.

Awesome. Maybe now when a police officer pulls over a drunk illegal alien, they can begin the deportation process immediately rather than putting the person back into our community to potentially kill one of our citizens. Or when they're found on Home Depot's sidewalk begging for work and littering it up while they wait. Or any other regularly occurring scenario which allows foreigners to run rampant in our society with no accountability.

It would be a long road, but proper enforcement would ultimately lead to discouragement of illegal migration as opposed to the way we encourage them to work the red carpet we have rolled out for them now.

Want to encourage your representative to sign this legislation? Californians for Population Stabilization has made it quite easy for you and already prepared draft letters. Click here, plug in your zip code and send your letter immediately.

Americans FINALLY revolted by this...

Victor David Hanson: "The Revolt of Illegal Immigration"

LAPD sued for "don't ask don't tell" policy towards this...

LAPD officers are suing the department over it's "don't ask, don't tell" immigration policy because they're tired of arresting the same drug offenders over and over.

Bravo.

I'm tired of them killing people. I hope the family of Bob Clark sues the LAPD, too, and the federal government along with them for criminal neglect.

South of the Border
Is drunk-driving really a sport in Mexico?

Keep 'em out or the problem gets bigger with this...

Should we care that Mexican gangs are using the internet to recruit members for their gangs and drug cartels?

Um, considering we do nothing to keep them out of our country, that's a definitive yes. This is our problem, too.