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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

NATIONAL: Environmentalist left's fingerprints on anti-immigration effort

Greens vs. Illegals

By Andrew Walden FrontPageMagazine.com May 3, 2006 ...Democrats have only two post-Jim-Crow models for capturing the presidency: Watergate and Ross Perot. Efforts to rerun the Watergate scenario against President Bush have yet to produce anything except embarrassment for the Democrats as they are caught exposing classified elements of the U.S. efforts against al-Qaeda. On the other hand, Democratic efforts to stampede isolationist voters made sudden headway with the Dubai Ports deal controversy – even as Bill Clinton embarrassed Hillary by lobbying on behalf of Dubai as she opposed it.
Most conservative protectionists will not vote for a Democrat Party they correctly see as appeasing Islamic terrorists. These are voters who see Republicans as not doing enough to fight terrorism because U.S. borders are still crossed by thousands of illegals daily. They may vote for a third-party candidate similar to Ross Perot in sufficient numbers to deliver the Presidency to the Democrats. They have already proven this twice.
In this context, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats ride into the fray by keeping the felony provisions in HR 4437. This forces Republicans into opposing the protectionist Right – a group happy to demand illegals be made felons. Meanwhile, Democrats need not take responsibility for the fact that 11 million federal felony prosecutions – each carrying a mandatory federal prison term – are neither a realistic nor humane way to solve the illegal alien problem. They need only direct their unions – such as AFSCME – to lead the giant illegal alien demonstrations, thus further gathering the protectionists’ ire at any who are seen as soft on illegals: Both ends working against the middle....
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