New York Governor Spitzer has decided recently that his state is going to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The decision is wrong in so many ways that it boggles the imagination. Across the country, driver’s licenses are an accepted form of photo identification. A driver’s license is a valid “ticket to ride” in all … Continue reading New York State driver’s licenses are a joke
Okay, Bank of America, your new policy of issuing credit cards to people who don’t have Social Security numbers (read illegal immigrants) is totally unacceptable! Let ’em stay and help them to do it?! I went to your web site today to send you an email of protest, and guess what? I couldn’t enter my … Continue reading Bank of America, here’s my card
President Bush just finished addressing the nation from the Oval Office, having been driven to it by the current cacophony over illegal immigration into the U.S. He didn’t say much of anything new, repeating his old and well-known position on enforcement and a guest worker program, and a comprehensive bill including both. He started by … Continue reading Bush talks about illegal immigration
Seeking a little background information from the Hispanic side of the illegal immigration issue, I went to the La Raza website. My attention was drawn immediately to their display of photos from many of the recent, massive public demonstrations. I browsed from photo to photo, city by city, and — can you believe it? — … Continue reading La Raza captures the flag
In Tuesday’s Denver Post, columnist Cindy Rodriquez wrote that, basically, calling illegal immigrants “illegals” is incorrect and misleading and that they should, more accurately, be called “necessary workers” or “essential workers.” Feeling that her logic was seriously flawed, I sent her the following email: You were quite correct in your assertions that our choice of … Continue reading We call them ‘illegals’ because they are
Posted today by Lou Dobbs/CNN: The following is one of my favorite thoughts on the issue of immigration. It’s from President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919, 10 years after his presidency. —Lou Dobbs In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in … Continue reading Worth repeating: Roosevelt on immigration
