On Tuesday, I suggested that the national Republican’s suspension of funding support for Randy Graf’s effort to hold the Arizona 8th District House seat indicated that the Senate vote to build a border fence was a fraud. The Washington Republican leadership intends to go straight back to the Bush/Kennedy Amnesty/Immigration acceleration bill after the election.

One Republican Senator concurs about the Fence vote:

Border fence won’t happen, GOP lawmaker says
Eunice Moscoso Cox News Service Oct. 3, 2006

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and key liaison to the White House on immigration, said Tuesday that 700 miles of fencing approved by Congress will probably not be built because of a lack of money and other practical considerations

The practical objections Cornyn raised are laughably trifling. What this “key liaison to the White House” is reflecting is an absolute unwillingness on the part of the Bush administration to restrain the immigration influx in any way.

Cornyn defended the Senate vote for the fencing, saying that it was an important symbolic gesture to show that Congress is serious about protecting the border.

A gesture to try to get re elected, more like.

Cornyn started very badly on immigration issues but in the current Congress improved somewhat. He even made some useful gestures in this year’s Senate debate.Not, it appears, because he really wanted to.

Steve Sailer will be on Radio Liberty with Dr. Stanley Monteith at 9:00 AM California time-(listen here) 12:00 AM New York Time.

Escondido City Councilman Sam Abed was born in Lebanon but became an American citizen years ago and last night, he proved just how American he really is!

The five member City Council of Escondido, California last night voted on a measure which would penalize landlords who rent apartments or homes to illegal aliens…and Sam Abed lead the charge. Here’s the gist:

Under the new law, residents (actually anybody) can file a complaint with the city if they suspect a landlord is renting to illegal aliens. The city would then ask the landlord to provide identification for their residents and those documents would be passed on to the federal government for verification.

Should the information (documents such as social security numbers) prove false, the landlord would have ten days to evict the tenants or face financial penalties as well the revocation of their business license.

The new law does contain the following stipulation which I find well…amusing.

Complaints based “solely or primarily on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, or race shall be deemed invalid,”

Now that’s pretty funny! That means the following scenario is illegal…for lack of a better word:

Landlord: Can I see a copy of your drivers license and/or social security card?

Applicant (In Spanish): Here you go.

Landlord (noticing that the picture on the license is of an 80 year-old Black man): Umm, this doesn’t look like you.

Applicant (again, in Spanish): That’s me…it’s just the angle of the camera…it makes me look darker.

Landlord (noticing that the social security number provided begins with “666″): Umm, social security numbers never begin with “666″…are you sure these are your documents?

Applicant (again in Spanish): Yeah, that’s me.

Landlord: I think I will ask the city to run these numbers through the feds for verification–if everything checks out, the apartment is yours.

Applicant (again, in Spanish): You’re just targeting me because I am Hispanic! You racist! I am going to sue you!

Next thing we know, the ACLU is representing the applicant in a discrimination suit and the landlord ends up bankrupt from legal fees in six weeks.

In any event, the city council will vote again in two weeks to approve the measure. After that, there will be a 30 day waiting period before the new law kicks in. This means illegal immigrants in Escondido have about six weeks to find new residences…might I suggest their country of origin?

Even if the ACLU interferes and manages to block the new law (which is likely considering the judicial incompetency of the appealate courts) the city council of Escondido deserves a job well done!

When the surrounding communities are forced to absorb the tens of thousands of illegal aliens who will be fleeing Escondido, they may be forced to enact similar laws. Hmm…maybe this will become a catchy trend…first Hazleton, PA and now Escondido, CA!

Opponents to the measure (that would be the people who were standing outside the council chambers last night, waving a Mexican flag and calling everybody racists) claim the costs involve are prohibitive. Hmm….

A new city service? Expensive. A Federal verification process? Expensive. A community without illegal immigrants? Priceless.

A variety of students rushed the stage, sabotaging the event. No one seems to have been injured.

Via the Powerline Blog:here’s the video:

Powerline’s Scott Johnson links to this article by his daughter:

A number of campus groups, including the Chicano caucus, the African-American student organization, and the International Socialist organization, began planning their protests early this week when they heard that the Minutemen would be arriving on campus.

The student protesters, who attended the event clad in white as a sign of dissent, booed and shouted the speakers down throughout. They interrupted Mr. Stewart, who is African-American, when he referred to the Declaration of Independence’s self-evident truth that “All men are created equal,” calling him a racist, a sellout, and a black white supremacist.

A student’s demand that Mr. Stewart speak in Spanish elicited thundering applause and brought the protesters to their feet. The protesters remained standing, turned their backs on Mr. Stewart for the remainder of his remarks, and drowned him out by chanting, “Wrap it up, wrap it up!” Mr. Stewart appeared unfazed by their behavior. He simply smiled and bellowed, “No wonder you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“These are racist individuals heading a project that terrorizes immigrants on the U.S.-Mexican border,” Ryan Fukumori, [send him mail]a Columbia junior who took part in the protest, told The New York Sun. “They have no right to be able to speak here.”At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder, By ELIANA JOHNSON - New York Sun October 5, 2006

Michelle Malkin has more; she links to liveblogging by Columbia students.

A student defending the Minuteman right outside the gates on 115th was encircled by a group of protesters after a heated personal fight with just one of the protesters. The protesters then shouted, “Racist, go home!” Security showed up, and they started breaking up. Student last seen laughing on phone with friends. A mosh pit of triumphal students and community members dance and chant, “Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!”