I saw that and posted in another thread that the editorial board of the paper must have been kidnapped, and replaced. I also noticed that all but one front page story in today’s edition(11th) was about illegal immigration. The paper simply cannot ignore it any longer.

For your digestion, check out the MJM opinion on “Illegal immigration plans that work”

http://www.manassasjm.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MJM%2FMGArticle%2FWPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352697357&path=!opinion

I love this snippet:

“That’s why we are encouraged when we see localities take steps to ensure that work is a right for legal residents and harder to obtain for illegal residents.”

Are they turning?

I agree with AWCheney. You do not have your voting stats right. Frank Wolf has indeed fought against “illegal” immigration at every vote.

I also agree that Colin Powell is out of touch, he was wrong on IRAQ too as history will show it to be another Vietnam. It’s easy to arm-chair quarterback, but you’d think we’d learn our lesson you cannot fight and win nationalist, cultural wars, until International law is upheld by leaders who advocate and support only “individual” rights and deny “group” rights as “illegal”. Until then, the best you can do is remove bad leaders and then as a matter of policy and sanity quickly leave the country to its own cultural, religious, ethnic group hatred alignment affairs, unless you can commit to WWII resource sustainment levels and loss of life. It better be a World War, before you make that large a commitment, not just a regional business self interest chess game for crafty. arrogant, and deceitful politicians.

Advocator, you must have missed my comment in one of the threads. I received a response from Frank Wolf to my inquiry regarding his record on the illegal alien issue and, in every case that an issue arose in Congress favoring illegal aliens, Frank has strongly opposed it. Greg has a scanned copy of the letter, and I believe he was going to do a post about it at some time. In the interim, allow me to quote portions of it:

“Amnesty is an insult to all law-abiding immigrants who have been waiting in line patiently and legally for their immigration number to come up. Such an amnesty would only intensify an already significant immigration problem and overwhelm our already overburdened social services and law enforcement systems.”

And he has put his actions where his beliefs are (caps are mine, for emphasis):

“When the House considered major immigration reform legislation in 1986, I VOTED TO STRIKE a provision in the bill to grant amnesty to those who had entered the country illegally. When that amendment failed, I voted AGAINST the House bill that included a legalization provision which subsequently became law. YOU CAN FIND MY COMPLETE VOTING RECORD DATING BACK TO 1997 ON MY WEB SITE AT http://wolf.house.gov.”

And I think he makes his position clear, in summary:

“It is critical that we get control of our borders as the first priority for any immigration reform effort. Please know that I will continue to work toward that goal as immigration policy changes are considered.”

As you can see, Advocator, Frank Wolf is NOT a “Johnny-come-lately” to the fight. He was fighting illegal immigration BEFORE most, if not all, of us were aware it was a big issue. Give him credit for considerably more foresight than his constituents. Now, who is it you want representing us in Congress, particularly on this issue…Frank Wolf or Judy Feder?

The editoral board is made up of idiots. It is just not this issue they are wrong on. I seriously wonder if they are just having a laugh at the expense of us. Because it is hard to see how any collective group of people could be so wrong about an issue.

Yes Powell is wrong. I agree with him that there is nothing wrong with immigration, but only when it is legal. A nation has no sovereignty if it has open borders as he is suggesting.

But at the bottom, the poll actually asks, “should local police be able to arrest illegal aliens?”. Of course they can. They can arrest ordinary citizens, can’t they? But arrest solely for an immigration violation? My feeling is “No” but I have no problem if local police ask everyone to verify their status in connection with a lawful arrest or traffic stop (as long as it’s done consistently which means everyone, even if they appear “American” be asked to produce the same proof). Let the local police then compile or forward the information they’ve obtained in suspicious cases but to detain for solely a perceived or possible immigration violation should not be within their jurisdiction and would be a power ripe for abuse.

Where exactly has the MJM been “rather supportive” of the BOCS and their attempt to crack down on illegals?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/colin-powell-te.html#more

Such a list that you request would truly be helpful, if it could be compiled. However, like most political issues, the people involved are accomplished at doublespeak, duplicitousness, and outright deception (how’s that for illiteration?). For example, since this is a federal issue, and since this (Manassas, Fairfax, Arlington, Loudon) area has been so effected by the problem, you’d think that the federal representatives of the area would be on the leading edge of finding a solution. The exact opposite is the truth. Our fair-haired Republican representatives from the area, Frank Wolf and Tom Davis, have done absolutely nothing over the past 10 years as this problem was developing to either address the problem or to even identify it.

Others on this blog have come to these individuals’ defense, but I haven’t seen anything from those defenders offering anything of substance to show me that we should hold these two representatives up to anything else than public ridicule for refusing to shoulder their responsibility to their constituents and to the country. But some people would put them on a list of candidates who would be “for” illegal alien reform. Not only would I not put them on such a list, I say they’re even more dangerous than open border advocates because they profess support for reform, yet do nothing. When I see them in public I’m hard pressed not to urinate on their footwear (piss on their boots, as they say in Texas).