Kosoul Chanthakoummane, the 25 year old son of a “a hardworking, respectable immigrant family” was arrested in Carrollton, Texas, yesterday, accused of stabbing Sarah Anne Walker 27 times before taking her Rolex watch and silver ring:

On July 8, a Plano couple looking at a model home in D.R. Horton’s Craig Ranch development discovered Ms. Walker’s body in the kitchen. Investigators said many of the 27 stab wounds were defensive, indicating the real estate professional put up a fight in her final moments.

(Sources: DNA matches suspect’s, by Tiara M. Ellis. The Dallas Morning News, September 7 2006)

Witness statements and a sketch link Chanthakoummane, a Laotian immigrant, to the crime — as does DNA matching.

Chanthakoummane was released recently after serving 7 years out of his 11 year sentence for two counts each of aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping of two elderly women in North Carolina. His attorney at that time said of him: “he seemed to be a very hardened young man to be only 16.”

See also Hardened murders, imported.

Jamie Contreras is making a bilingual speech now on C-Span.[Watch it live.] This is a boring process where he says everything twice. Once in English, and once in Spanish.

If this catches on, it’s going to cause a lot of pain for those of who have to listen to political speeches. A similar procedure has been in place in Canada for years, and drives people nuts.(Contreras is a union leader who came to the US illegally from El Salvador, when he was a teenager.)

He’s part of the National Capital Immigration Coalition, who doing some kind of “Million Immigrant March “ today.

Contreras just made a point that Steve Sailer has made about the Hispanic vote; that six million people who are naturalized citizens didn’t bother to vote.

Bruce Gordon of the NAACP is making a speech, (aargh) his Spanish resembles John Wayne’s or Johnny Cash’s.

He said “They want to pit black against brown.”

The female translator translated this phrase as “Negros contra Latinos.”Perhaps she thought some of the audience might not appreciate being called “brown.”

Now the speaker is Eliseo Medina, who’s talking about the march he led on Dennis Hastert’s office in Chicago.

He wants more Hispanic voters, too. (See Electing A New People)

Congressman Luis Gutierrez is on now.

Congressman Mike Honda is speaking, (he’s Japanese-American) and he speaks excellent Spanish, especially compared to the NAACP speakers.

There was a slip where he said “Africanos” and immediately corrected himself, saying “Africanos-Americanos.”

Sheila Jackson Lee is up now–she can’t say “Si se puede” very well.

John Wilhelm, a white labor leader, who says that they can’t open the doors of hotels without immigrant workers. He refrains from attempting Spanish, but brings up a couple of UNITE-HERE members to speak it for him.

There’s a wall between the Wall Street Journal’s News Department, and their Editorial Page, which means that you might get some actual journalism on the subject of immigration in the news department. I’m not sure this effort by June Kronholz is it, though. However, she does manage to quote both sides, rather than quoting one side and sneering at the other as the Editorial Page types would.[ Immigration Stalemate Congress's Failure to Resolve Issue Feeds Ire of Activists on Both Sides [September 6, 2006,(should be a free link, if not, try here.]

You can read the whole thing if you like, but one point here is that various peope are blaming Congress’s “failure” to pass an immigration bill for anti-immigrant sentiment and activism. And the only kind of bill they mean is an amnesty bill–if an enforcement bill had been passed, they’d blame Congress’s success.

By raising illegal immigration as a political and national-security issue — and then doing nothing about it — Congress has given new life to an anti-immigrant movement that had long been relegated to the political fringes, say some policy watchers and think tanks.

“The conduct of members of Congress has given it license and credibility,” Rev. Rivera says. With a national election around the corner, and control of Congress at stake, “nobody from Washington wants to respond to these words being hammered against us.”

First, Congress hasn’t failed; Republicans in Congress have succeeded in blocking passage of a horrible Senate bill, and should take credit for doing so.

Second, the people who are really raising the issue are the illegals, by coming across the border in their millions–they are already illegal, felonious, and deportable without any further action by Congress.

Third, the real failure here is in the Executive Branch, which won’t either guard the border, or deport illegals once they’ve been caught.

The other point is by Representative Peter King. The reporter quotes him as an example of an unsubtle appeal to anti-immigrant sentiment:

Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa regularly accuses illegal immigrants of committing sex crimes against “eight little girls” a day as part of “a slow-motion terrorist attack.”

A ” slow-motion terrorist attack” is a good way of putting it. Criminal violence by immigrants will never kill as many people in one day as terrorism did in 2001, but it may kill the same number per year, and that’s a lot of unnecessary deaths, as well as the sexual assaults King is talking about. Perhaps the War on Immigrant Crime should get more funding from Congress.