Posted by William A. Jacobson
on May 04, 201343 Comments
Rewarding law breakers is not a good idea, whether we're talking about the securities laws or the immigration laws.
The Gang of 8 plan rewards law breakers. We're told that we need to legalize law breakers because it's the humane thing to do. But in so...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 25, 20135 Comments
There are many news reports about the preliminary decision issued by Judge Reed O'Connor in the Northern District of Texas in a lawsuit brought by ICE agents challenging the Obama administration's administrative DREAM provisions which direct Homeland Security not to commence removal proceedings as to people who...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 22, 201324 Comments
And the reason we need "immigration reform" urgently is?
I'm getting very uncomfortable with the rush to vote on an 844-page bill.
Let it hang out in the air for a while.
If it doesn't stink, the fresh air and sunshine won't hurt it.
If it does stink, the...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 09, 201312 Comments
I already don't like it if they have to say it in 1500 pages, undoubtedly to be followed by 15,000 pages of rules and regulations.
Which means the language has been loaded up to avoid it meaning what we think it means, with all sorts of...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on April 02, 201333 Comments
There has been a political push to remove words like "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant" from usage as part of political messaging by amnesty/open borders advocates.
The preferred term is "undocumented," as if it's just a question of paperwork. Once the language is redefined, it becomes a much easier sell to treat the breaking of our immigration laws as just a formality.
Not only that, "illegal alien" supposedly is racist, as if illegal alien were a race, as I posted in What race is an illegal alien?
This is all a charade. It’s the typical Color of Change race card shakedown.
The advocates of eliminating the term “illegal” want to alter immigration policies. They can’t win on the merits of open borders, so they smear others as racist.
It’s just a dishonest word game using false accusations of racism as a political lever.
Back to the subversive question: What race is an illegal alien?
Today a major victory was achieved for those seeking political control of the language as AP removed the term "illegal immigrant" from its style book, ‘Illegal immigrant’ no more:
The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.
AP has no term to replace "illegal immigrant." Instead of the accurate term, we're going to get explanations:
illegal immigration Entering or residing in a country in violation of civil or criminal law. Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant. Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission.
Except in direct quotations, do not use the terms illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented.
Do not describe people as violating immigration laws without attribution.
Specify wherever possible how someone entered the country illegally and from where. Crossed the border? Overstayed a visa? What nationality?
People who were brought into the country as children should not be described as having immigrated illegally. For people granted a temporary right to remain in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, use temporary resident status, with details on the program lower in the story.
This is just another step towards linguistically enforced progressive politics.
With what is AP replacing "illegal immigrant"?
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) April 2, 2013
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on March 22, 201326 Comments
I've been a pretty harsh critic of David Frum, but when he gets something right, I'm willing to acknowledge it.
And he's right about the pro-amnesty wave taking over the Republican Party, which mistakenly thinks rewarding lawlessness is a good thing.
Frum writes, Immigration Amnesty: The Path to...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on January 29, 201321 Comments
The Gang of Eight yesterday:
Individuals who are present without lawful status - not including people within the two categories identified below - will only receive a green card after every individual who is already waiting in line for a green card, at the time this...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on January 28, 201324 Comments
Rather than enforcing our current laws, and for purposes of political expediency, we are moving toward another vast expansion of federal government monitoring and information collection.
Look at what we are going to have to do in order to not hold people who came here illegally accountable...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on August 11, 201248 Comments
Well, that didn't take long.
When it became clear that Paul Ryan would be the Veep nominee this morning, the New York State Immigrant Action Center posted what might be the first race card play against Ryan as Veep nominee, accusing him of using the allegedly...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on July 18, 201220 Comments
How sweet it would be to see Obama's pandering on immigration backfire on him even in states like New Mexico. The decision to enact a mini-Dream Act via non-enforcement was a move Obama earlier said he could not do, but then did the day before he...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 25, 201257 Comments
Drudge ran a classic headline today regarding the decision of the Department of Homeland Security to suspend all existing cooperation agreements with Arizona in light of the Supreme Court's unanimous upholding of §2(B), permitting authorities to check the immigration status of persons otherwise lawfully detained:
While...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 25, 201280 Comments
The Supreme Court decided the Arizona immigration law, S.B. 1070. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion.
The Court struck the provisions dealing with state criminal penalties and other provisions which imposed procedural requirements on illegals in the state. Among the provisions the Court struck is the...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 15, 2012107 Comments
Who asked a question.
And the MSM is going wild on Twitter.
Here's the offense:
The "offender" was Neil Munro from The Daily Caller.
Updates:
NBC has now given reporter/heckler more coverage than Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal.— Dan Curry (@dancurry) June 15, 2012
Neil Munro is now #1 trend on...
Posted by William A. Jacobson
on June 15, 2012105 Comments
So much for the rule of law. This guy wants reelection, so to hell with the Congress.
Via Associated Press:
The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding...
