?Qu? Parte De Ilegal No Entiende, Presidente Bush?

J.J. Jackson* | December 13, 2005

Driven by constituents, House Republicans have pushed legislation to tighten control of US borders and to clamp down on the hiring of illegal immigrants, without offering new avenues for such immigrants to find lawful employment.

Thank goodness some Republicans are actually behaving like, well, Republicans.

Unfortunately, the ring leader of the GOP isn’t happy about this.

President Bush and his Republican Party chairman, Ken Mehlman, have implored House leaders not to take up what they call an ”enforcement-only” bill. They have argued that such a measure could jeopardize years of Republican outreach to Latinos.

Is this the reason why you are giving our nation away to Mexico, President Bush, so you can reach out to Latinos? Is it really worth the sacrifice, Mr. President?

New enforcement measures are bound to fail, they have argued, unless immigrants drawn to the economic opportunities of the United States are given some chance to work here legally.

Have you ever heard of a passport and a visa, Mr. President? That is the chance to come work here legally. Allowing people to break our laws and then give them a chance to work here legally is like stealing a car, and then being given the title to it.

Thankfully, J.D. Hayworth is not following the current GOP script, unlike Flake:

”With all due respect, this is not a political problem to be managed,” said Representative J. D. Hayworth, a Republican from Arizona. ”This is an invasion to be stopped.”

Representative Jeff Flake, another Republican from Arizona and a conservative who rarely disagrees with Hayworth, all but accused Hayworth of grandstanding. Flake linked his colleague to Tom Tancredo, a Republican of Colorado, who is known in Congress as an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration.

”Hayworth has gone Tancredo on us,” said Flake, who agreed with Bush that a guest-worker program must be part of any immigration bill.

Hayworth said that his position, not Flake’s, represented the views of his border state. ”I have not been Tancredo’ed,” he said. ”I’ve been Arizona’ed.”

Mr. Flake, why does any immigration reform need a guest-worker program? I thought the whole idea of this problem was to actually enforce the laws.

Mehlman, who has led the Republican efforts to reach out to minority voters, tried not to confront House Republicans directly. But he repeated his concern about any bill that clamped down on border security without offering an outlet for legal employment.

”There’s no question you have to start at the border, but if the House bill stops at the border, you are not addressing the nation’s problem of illegal immigration and homeland security,” Mehlman said in an interview.

Why is it necessary to sell out in order to reach out to minority voters? What part of illegal do these groups not understand? Or, since we are trying to reach out to minority voters, “?Qu? parte de ilegal no entienden?”

Being legally here is an outlet for legal employment! If you wish to broaden the rules, fine. Just don’t reward disrespecting our nation’s sovereignty in the process. By doing so, disrespect our nation’s sovereignty also.

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