This report, from a Liberal daily paper in Toronto, suggests that the new, more conservative, less corrupt, Canadian government may actually enforce some of Canada’s immigration laws.

The illegals in question are Portuguese construction workers, mostly visa overstayers, who came by plane. (Canada’s Southern Border is famously undefended, but they don’t need to build walls to keep Americans out.)

The Liberal government would have let them stay.

Early last year, then-Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said he would try to find a way to get legal status for undocumented workers.

“They are here already and have proven themselves to be integrated,” Volpe said at the time.
[Tories begin deporting illegal workers|Portuguese families caught in immigration crackdown, by Peter Gorrie, Toronto Star, March 21, 2006]

Mr. Volpe’s motives for this amnesty may have been pure, but there’s a simple political equation in Canadian politics: One Portuguese immigrant=One Liberal vote.

“So here’s the good news: Having an immigrationproblem is a marker of being a successful, vibrant society. And if you have to have an immigration
problem, ours is the one to have.”[A Desirable Problem, Jonathan Last, March 23, 2006, in a Weekly Standard column picked up by CBS]

Not really. All the tendency of folks to migrate to the US indicates is that the opportunities/conditions in the US are better than elsewhere. In my opinion, this means that the problems facing the world are being held off more in the US than other places. This isn’t indicative of a world that is working for the bulk of humanity-or a country that is working better
than it once did.

It is truly sad that organizations like CBS are so devoid of critical thinking–or even logical analysis that they can’t understand this.

Professor Rushton’s article today says

The discussion of race and intelligence is being actively repressed on campuses as I write these words.

We’ve had several articles on this tendency in different forms, the most recent is Professor Frank Ellis, of the University of Leeds, who was suspended for saying to a student newspaper that there is a “persistent gap” in IQ levels.

That is, he was suspended for saying what Charles Murray recently said in Commentary Magazine, and in the Wall Street Journal. Or he was suspended for saying what 52 scientists said in a signed advertisement, Mainstream Science on Intelligence, also in the Wall Street Journal.

And as the BBC report says, [Racism row lecturer is suspended March 23, 2006]he was suspended for saying what Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein said in The Bell Curve, which sold 400,000 copies.

Roger Gair, [send him mail]the university secretary who announced his supension referred to this as his “personal views .”

An emotional train wreck…that is the only way to describe Hillary Clinton these days.

A couple of months ago, I was watching her give a speech to a group of Black church leaders and she described the Republican-controlled Congress as a plantation of slave owners or some such nonsense.

To this day, I have no idea what she was talking about.

I have decided that she didn’t actually have a point to make–she just saw an opportunity to use the word “slaves” in front of Black people and couldn’t help herself. (She’s a Clinton…that’s what they do!)

Hillary hysteria is now taking aim at the Sensenbrenner bill (well, immigration reform in general is more like it) which would make illegal entry into the United States a felony.

In a news conference yesterday, the Senator from New York had this to say about the measure:

“It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures,” Clinton said. “This bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan - and probably even Jesus himself.”
Hil has a holy cow over immigrant bill By Michael McAuliff Helen Kennedy, New York Daily News, March 23, 2006]

Whoa Nelly!!

Is Hillary Clinton talking about the Jesus I think she’s talking about? I wasn’t aware they were acquainted…

It has been my experience that when a politician starts plucking nonsensical arguments out the air (especially when they reference the scriptures without actually quoting one) it simply means they have nothing else to go on.

New York Congressman Pete King co-authored the bill with Sensenbrenner and shot back at Hillary in the same article:

“I hope Sen. Clinton is a better legislator than she is a theologian.”

Hee hee…don’t we all, Congressman.