Tom Sowell has a new column, as ever making some interesting new points:

No issue discussed in this column has brought in so much virtually unanimous mail, so full of outrage, as the issue of amnesty for illegal aliens living in this country.

People have power in immigration debate Norwich Bulletin July 12 2006

Quite a statement from as battle-scarred a controversialist as Sowell!

He is hopeful about the influence of public indignation

Public outrage made the Senate and the President of the United States back down from their amnesty bill.
That’s the bottom line that counts — not whether you get a personal reply to your letter to a member of Congress or whether your letter to your local newspaper gets printed.
Never think you don’t count. You are what count most of all. Politicians understand votes if they don’t understand anything else. They are virtually obsessed with public opinion polls

Sowell has thought of a new way of deriding the inane arguments of the awful Mayor Bloomberg:

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is still pushing the line there would be economic collapse without illegal immigrants. But, despite the scary picture of 12 million illegals being suddenly deported, the cold fact is 12 million young Americans in the prime of life were removed from our economy to go into the military during World War II and the economy did not collapse.

Bloomberg is reported as saying he might spend $500 million of his own money on an independent run for President.

What the Immigration Patriots could do with one hundredth of that money!

When I hear Latino Activists (their label not mine and I still don’t know what it means exactly) likening the plight of modern day illegal aliens to say, the struggles of Black slaves or the battle for civil rights I just want to break something.

More to the point, I cannot believe that any American (let alone the NAACP) would stand for it…but we do.

Well…at some point during the special session hearings and hoopla on immigration reform in the Colorado Legislature this week, one elected official decided to continue this absurd strategy and even take it a step further.

[Some see racism in session by April M. Washington, Rocky Mountain News (7/11/06)]

According to the story in the Rocky Mountain News, “Sen. Dan Grossman, D-Denver, wondered aloud if all Colorado residents would have to be fitted with an identity chip or a gold star much like European Jews were forced to wear under Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.”

The State Senator tossed out this zinger…yes, he actually said it outloud:

“I’m going down to my tailor to see if he can sew a gold star on my shirt,” said Grossman, who is Jewish.

Yeah, how about instead of a gold star his tailor sews on a giant “I” for IDIOT or maybe a “DQ” for Drama Queen.

The Senator can be reached here if you have any other suggestions.

This photo of the audience at the July 10 Senate hearing in Miami was an impetus for me to revisit the Irish contingent of the complaining aliens brigade.

The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform is the source of the many Legalize-the-Irish t-shirts showing up at various venues. Senator Spector seemed happy to receive one.

Irish Voices continues to be a tiresome blog of whining and bogus entitlement. One recent post refers to House defenders of US sovereignty as “Know-Nothings.” Another called the House hearing in Texas a “cynical sideshow.” That was the hearing where border sheriffs described the escalating border chaos, like the recent torture-murder of an officer:

SHERIFF SIGIFREDO GONZALES, ZAPATA COUNTY, TEXAS: Last Saturday, a detention officer of the Starr County Sheriff’s Office, 100 miles southeast of here, went to Mexico to visit his girlfriend. He was reported missing the next day on July 2nd. On July 3rd, his body was found close to Monterrey, Mexico, had been brutally tortured, had been brutally beaten, hands were tied behind his back. His eyes were bandaged. He had been shot in the back of his head, the bullet exiting in the forehead.

WIAN: Gonzales testified that at the officer’s funeral two days ago one of the mourners was kidnapped allegedly by a Mexican illegal alien already suspected in another U.S. murder case.
[Lou Dobbs Tonight transcript, 7/7/06]

Apparently illegal Irish don’t care that the majority of Americans across the political spectrum want immigration to be legal, controlled and reduced, starting with the House approach of enforcement first. Otherwise, the Irish wouldn’t be insulting a core belief of the people whose country they say they wish to join.

As we know, the Senate bill is a blueprint for treason, to end the American nation-state and institute a North American flophouse based on globalist economics and the model of the failed European Union. But the illegal Irish think it is a fine document because it gives them their desired amnesty — at the expense of the American people.