Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Doesn't add up

If you look at the points in this report of a speech Obama just gave on immigration, this tone doesn't jive with his earlier talk, plus the desires of the (D)onks to add those 30 Million new voters to their rolls. A more accurate report of de facto immigration policy can be found here.

The points:

• Provide a way for those illegally in the US to eventually gain citizenship.
• Strengthen the borders against illegal immigration.
• The Feds oppose employers who use illegals to drive down wages.

It's the program for the illegals already in the country that is the most intriguing, however:

• Apparently, those illegals will have to return to Mexico (or whatever other country they're from) and apply for entry.
• They will be put BEHIND other applicants who have already applied and are waiting.
• The illegals/applicants must pay a fine and taxes.

In order for this to work to actually get these prospective new (D)onks on the voter rolls soon enough to do Obama any good politically, some of this fine talk would have to be SERIOUSLY modified.

As legal immigration from Mexico goes, it is VERY slow and VERY limited. If all 30 million illegals in the country now have to stand behind all of those hundreds of thousands to maybe millions who have already applied, then that program absolutely will NOT work to the favor of the (D)s. A few years ago when I was touring Guadalajara, MX, a tour guide told me that thousands show up at the US Consulate every day for these applications, and only a few dozen are admitted to the applications process. I forget the figure he mentioned for the actual number of legal visas issued, but it wasn't large, no more than a few thousands per year.

Fines and taxes? Impossible. The latin-advocacy groups would NEVER sit still for the $2500 fine that has been proposed. You KNOW that there would be an indigent clause in there and that such fines would be waived. Also, just whose figures are going to be used on what wages the applicants might have actually earned as here illegals? They all have a complex system of names, and all use different combinations of names when applying for work, or just signing up for day labor. The one computer that tracks these names is manned by ICE, and they won't even let local LEOs connect to it. No, these taxes are going to be "estimated", and at that, estimated on the LOW side. The Mexican government controls their banks tightly, and probably has the data on how much money a particular account holder sent home while working illegally, but don't bet that they will share this data with the US.

Nope, this program actually seems fair on the surface of it's skimpiness, but it wouldn't have the quick results of adding voters to the (D)onk rolls, so it will NOT be adopted. I'm still expecting a law with a blanket amnesty for the 30 million illegals here now.

Scandal

If there is even one Federally-backed mortgage issued to an illegal immigrant invader, that's a scandal, but the argument on the subject seems to revolve around how many millions of such mortgages exist, not how they were issued or why the Federal policy on backing issued mortgages was so loose as to allow the practice.

If there ever was a time for a Special Prosecutor, this is it.

H/T to the Four Right Wing Whackos

Mull this over

Solution to the Mexican issue #67.1

1. Make a generous offer to buy the whole country.
2. Make it explicit in the offer for purchase that the deal must include all the citizens, on the head of each will be paid a bonus to the retiring government.
3. Watch as said government recalls all it's millions of illegal immigrant citizens.
4. Install the US Army at the border with orders to assist returning Mexicans in every way possible, but fiercely resist any new immigration.
5. Close on the purchase.

What say ye?

Three-time loser

The Amnesty Bill got trashed, again. 46 tools, commies, airheads, Senators voted to limit debate, 14 short of the number required. Actually, the entire bill wouldn't have survived this vote. 53 stalwart American Senators voted to refuse cloture, including all of the GOP Senatorial POTUS candidates except McCain, who voted with the (D)onks and the rest of the Log Cabin, turncoat, hoseheaded GOP Senators.

The votes add up to 99. The 100th vote would have been that of Bernie, Sen Tim Johnson, (D) SD, but he was doofus, brain-dead, certifiably a vegetable, unable to vote due to illness.

The (D)onks are divided. Most say three strikes and the bill is out, but Teddy "the Swimmer" Kennedy said he will try again. Right. Like he tried to save Mary Jo from his sunken car at Chappaquiddick Bridge.

I say we invoke the "three-time loser" clause and close the door on this turkey forever.

Comeuppance

As the one-worlder, constitution-killers are about to get their clocks cleaned on the amnesty bill for the third time, may I present a little humor aimed at them and the results of their folly?

Do not proceed below if you are at work or using a computer policed by the PeeCee crowd.

Mayor Potter commits Misprision of a Felony

Yes, it's spelled correctly. "Misprision" is an old word from the English Common Law base for our legal system. "Misprision of a Felony" is defined here. The threat of the charge, itself a felony, was bandied about during the Bill Clinton impeachment fooferaw. Numerous lefty bloggers and other supporters of Clinton wanted to blunt Monica Lewinsky's effect by charging her with misprision, for having blown the prez, who, by accepting the BJ, had likely committed a crime. The twisted lefty logic at the time said that because Monica hadn't turned in Bill for the crime of sex in the oval office, she was guilty of misprision. All of that in the face of those same Friends of Bill saying that the BJs were not a crime. Oh, well.

Now, for an application in today's context.

Tom Potter, better known in the Soviet of Portland, OR as Hizzoner, commented on yesterday's huge raid on a Del Monte produce packing house in the city. It seems that the Feds took an Hispanic, made an informant out of him, and sent him to the contracted labor agents for Del Monte to get a job. The informant told them he was an illegal immigrant. The labor agents hoked up a fake SSAN for him, and the chase was on. It turns out that 165 workers, almost the entire day shift at the plant, were illegals with phony SSANs.

ICE brought in a fleet of busses (I've been offered the job of driving them in the past) and scarfed up all 165, doing spot checks on their SSANs to serve as probable cause. Down in Fresno, CA, they busted two of the three agents for Del Monte's labor firm.

Of course, the illegal immigrant support network here had a battle plan on the shelf for just such a situation, and they soon had 250 people in the streets, screaming and boo-hooing about how inhuman these raids are, breaking up families and similar snivels.

Then Hizzoner, being a good Commie who supports the felonious illegal invasion, stepped in, and, on the steps of City Hall, issued this statement.

Note the last paragraph. Hizzoner took pains to point out that none of his fuzz were involved. The Feds know better than to involve hostile local police. Their raid would have been tipped off and spoiled if they had notified the local PD.

What the bonehead Mayor fails to realize is that HE just demonstrated his misprision by forcefully supporting the felons.

There isn't a judge in this Commie city who would issue a warrant for Hizzoner, but look at the definition I supplied for Misprision, and ask yourself if it applies to municipal (or any level of gov't) officials who know of illegals remaining unlawfully in this country and who fail to report them.

I think Misprision DOES apply, and what's more, the evidence is all out there in the public domain, in the statements and actions of these boneheads who have zero respect for their Federal Constitution.

At some point, some stalwart will make a citizen's arrest for Misprision of the Felonies of illegal entry, and then we are off to the races.

I DO know how to put together and run an arrest team.

I need a snappy acronym for the arrest team to put on our raid jackets.

Any ideas?

Born to the shovel

....is this Mexican chap who is digging out along my sidewalk now. Wielding a clam-digging shovel with ONE HAND, he is digging  a 3'X2'X2' deep hole next to a sidewalk, in virgin clay, and eating a taco (I kid you not!) with the other hand. He is moving more dirt than I could if I was using two hands.

Illegal Immigration WTF

So you're an illegal invader, working for the hamburger parlor Wendy's in 2000 or so. Your boss, hounded by the INS, fires your illegal invader ass.

What do you do, now it's 2006?

Sue Wendy's of course.

The Real ID Act of 2005

For some years now, 10 states have been handing out picture ID to anyone who can hoke up an identity. Most of these states, of which Oregon is one, give driver licenses to foreign nationals. Their excuses for doing so vary, but you will never see the REAL reason: it fits their political agenda to be able to import liberals.

Horrors! you say, does this mean that there is liberal voter fraud? Probably some, but it may not always be relevant as a factor during elections. Where it IS ALWAYS relevant is that all those illegals are then "legalized" in the eyes of the State, and they become "clients" for State services of the welfare type, thereby vastly expanding the welfare-services bureaucracy, which, dispite it's basic illogic, IS the meat-and-potatoes of the liberal way of doing things.

You may have read about the impact of the illegals on the health-care system. Impact is NOT too strong a word, since the illegals have all but destroyed quality health care in the ERs of this state.

The same "legalized illegals" suck up huge amounts of welfare services of all kinds, amounting to well over 20 percent of the budgets, and THAT'S JUST WHAT THE HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION WILL ADMIT TO. The actual impact is probably 30 to 40% of the provided dollars being sucked up by people in the state illegally, all of which means higher taxes and LESS support for the actual folks who we taxpayers HAVE decided to support.

We all have heard of the inaction of our political leadership, but there is one piece of ACTION that they DID take.

In response to the 9-11 attacks, committed by Jihadists who used the weak ID rules to obtain false identities, the 9-11 Commission recommended a set of Federal Standards be forced on the several States that would tighten up the requirements for issuing government picture IDs.

Those standards are wrapped up in the Real ID Act of 2005 (links is to a liberal AssPress whine about implementation costs), which is the law of the land now, but doesn't go into effect until 2008.

When it goes into effect, it will end the sham ID practices of the ten states who issue DLs and IDs to illegal aliens, since one of the core requirements of the Act is that ALL applicants MUST provide proof of US birth. Actually, 40 states already have this sensible requirement, but 10 others, states where the political apparat depends on having the huge Hispanic "client base", are gearing up to try to fight the Act.

I'm not betting that the Act will survive, since to do so, it has to get by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals (for the suits to be filed in CA and OR, anyway), which will undoubtedly say it's an unconstitutional restraint on freedom of whatever. It isn't, but they will say it is, and if a Democrat is in the White House when it comes time to have the Solicitor General defend the Act, it won't be defended in front of the Supremes, and it will just die.

One of the reasons your Rivrdog got into blogging in the first place was to support the idea that one can be a free citizen and NOT have to hide behind the anonymity of weak ID laws. Three years ago, before I had this blog, I had a strong exchange of opinion as a commenter with Kim duToit, a man who I admire, over my insistence that a good citizen is never ashamed to prove his identity, and feels a duty to have a proper ID card to do so. While I agree with his position that ALL of the world's most notorious dictatorships have a strong ID requirement, the fact that a dictatorship exists and a strong ID requirement exists are NOT connected logically. The "logic" that supports such a connection is the same as saying oxygen is poisonous, since every person who has breathed it eventually dies.

I support the idea of proper identification, and not only because it will help supress the un-Constitutional desire of our Blue-state leaders to nurture and extend their illegal-alien "client base", but because we are a people of laws and of order, and having ourselves properly identified facilitates THOSE vital concepts.

Boycott Miller Beer

According to Michelle Malkin, via SondraK's blog Knowledge is Power, Miller Brewing is supporting this weekend's pro-migrant march on Speaker Dennis Hastert's personal residence.

It's time to stop drinking Miller Brewing's offerings. The complete list of their beers is on KisP, here.

Both Anheuser-Busch and Coors seem to still be run by Americans.

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UPDATE: 090506 1310 PDT: I just found a comment from Miller Brewing on this post. In that comment, Miller directly denies that they sponsored the march on Dennis Hastert's residence. I'm going with Michelle Malkin on this one, not some un-named Miller flack who has denied her report.
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