Rep. Dana Rohrabacher recently said: “I tell you, Mr. President, if these men — especially after this assault — are murdered in prison, if one of them lose their lives, there’s going to be some sort of impeachment talk in Capitol Hill.”

I personally think this is an idle threat–and I suspect W thinks that too.

I appreciate Rohrbacher’s record on immigration–which unlike some doesn’t include compromising on guest worker visas like H-1b.

I would humbly suggest though, that the time for threats is long past. Bush has lied to congress-and willfilly failed to enforce US immigration laws. It is now time for action. Frankly the immigration issue alone, would be grounds and there are others.

If Rohrabacher or other GOP congressmen introduce a formal bill of impeachment, it will be front page news. I would also suggest that the last time a GOP president was forced out of office by members of his own party, those that did so were able to bring one of their own–Ronald Reagan–into the White House a few years later. This may not be a perfect shot to bring immigration via the GOP-but I see no other at the moment. The question now is whether folks like Tancredo and Rohrabacher have the strength of will to seize this opportunity.

India’s construction of orphanages to raise unwanted girls who would otherwise be eradicated in the misogynist society should be recognized as another nail in the coffin of multiculturalism.

Dubbed the “cradle scheme,” the plan is an attempt to slow the practice that international groups say has killed more than 10 million female fetuses in the last two decades, leading to an alarming imbalance in the ratio between males and females in India, Renuka Chowdhury, the minister of state for women and child development, told the Press Trust of India news agency in an interview published Sunday.
[Indian Gov't to Raise Unwanted Girls, Washington Post 2/18/07]

All cultures are clearly NOT morally equal (as diversity advocates argue), as evidenced by the horrific treatment of women and girls in the Third World. India is particularly egregious, with its arrogant attitude of superiority for having an alleged spiritual culture — for having invented yoga and meditation — even as Indians continue to eliminate tens of millions of females.

Some sociologists believe a severe gender imbalance of the sort which is growing in Red China and India creates a dangerous instability because of millions of restless young men at loose ends. Leaders may decide that a foreign military adventure is preferable to internal strife. Unmarried men are seen as the perfect cannon fodder, since they have no annoying families complaining about their fate.

Furthermore, India’s “model” immigrants bring their despicable practices to America, as shown by ads in immigrant newspapers pitching sex-selection services to rid Indians of their unwanted girls.

A recent article in the Mexican media quoted California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman, Michele Waslin of NCLR , and Dan Stein of FAIR.

Representative Berman (see his immigration voting record here, interviewed by the Mexican media, had a message for Mexico’s government and society, warning them that things might get tough in the next six months, but not to worry, immigration reform is on the way.

Berman assured Mexico that within a year, amnesty for illegal aliens and a guest worker program could be achieved, and also asked Mexican president Felipe Calderon to show his willingness to stop emigration.

Berman said that

“Maybe some of the decisions we take will be regarded by the people of Mexico as hostile. What we want them (Mexicans) to understand is that they are measures to enable their (Mexican) workers to come legally to this country.”[Más dureza del Capitolio contra indocumentados, alertan en EU , By Natalia Gómez Quintero, El Universal, February 16, 2007]

Michelle Waslin of the National Council of La Raza (referred to as a “pro-immigrant” organization) was also interviewed for the article , she made it clear she is for open borders (big surprise!).

[UPDATE: A reader pointed out that the translation is in error, because I missed the word tampoco:

Waslin dijo que una reforma migratoria "muy posible en este año", concretaría una migración documentada, pero dejó claro que su organización tampoco está en favor de tener una frontera abierta.

Waslin said that migratory reform is “very possible this year”, and would establish a "documented" migration, but she made it clear that her organization is not in favor of having an open border.

While the NCLR is opposed to almost all immigration restrictions, a truly open border would, in effect, put them out of business.]

The article also quoted Dan Stein of FAIR (referred to as an organization of “anti-immigrant tendency”), who said it was a myth that “Mexicans do the work Americans don’t want to do” and blamed employers who pay salaries that are too low for American workers.

John Tierney of the NYT blogs about an academic conference on the drop in crime, but I just came up with a theory I’ve never heard before (although somebody must have articulated it before me):

What device that spread throughout society in the 1990s made it radically easier for witnesses to report street crimes to the cops while they were happening, thus discouraging young people from making a career of being a street criminal?

Right: the cell phone.

[Cross-posted at Isteve.com]