The disastrous “birthright citizenship” misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment is a VDARE.com pet peeve, usually totally ignored by Treason Lobby enthusiasts and their MSM allies.

So it was nice to see a reasonable statement of the issue in The Washington Times (Born in the USA By Frederick Grab April 3 2007 Access may require free registration.)

It seems equally clear that it was never intended to legitimate the citizenship of children whose parents are this country illegally.

Grab’s essay trails off into limp-wristed ineffectuality: not apparent in the subsequent letters: W.J Layer writes (scroll down):

The children of illegals are illegal. The maxim of the law, as every first-year law student learns, is that the malefactor may not profit from his malfeasance…When the government does not enforce the law, the law is turned on its head….

Those who argue birthright citizenship deny history and common sense; those who aid and abet illegal aliens, or demand amnesty, reward the malefactor. In so doing they are gleefully inviting the destruction of their own nation. The rest of us have no obligation to acquiesce in cultural suicide.

Increasingly, letters and web site threads are the best part of MSM immigration coverage.

Michael Bloomberg, who runs a large sanctuary for illegal aliens on the Hudson River, is criticizing the Mayor of Hazleton for fighting back against the illegal aliens who are ruining small-town life in his part Pennsylvania. Bloomberg, as a rich man surrounded by NYPD bodyguards is fairly safe from the immigrant crime that affects New York actually more than it does Hazleton.

But the other obvious point is that even as a fairly safe New Yorker, who doesn’t have to ride the subway, for example, Bloomberg has lived all his life behind locked doors, in constant peril of crime, keeping a close eye out for people on the street who might attack him. I don’t believe he has any concept of what small-town life might be like, except to mock it.

To give you a counter example, when Denny Hastert, who lives in Yorkville, Illinois, became Speaker of the House in 1999, his new security detail went to his home to install new, high security locks on the doors, they found that that there were no locks there, period. They had to install them from scratch.

PRO-IMMIG MIKE STICKS IT TO THE STICKS
By DAVID SEIFMAN, New York Post
April 1, 2007 — MAYOR Bloomberg has come out swing ing against a fellow mayor trying to impose one of the most restrictive bans against illegal aliens in the nation.

At a civic meeting in Brooklyn last week, Bloomberg verbally attacked Louis Barletta, the mayor of Hazleton, Pa., who enacted a law barring undocumented immigrants from holding jobs or renting apartments.

The law gained nationwide attention, leading to a challenge from civil-rights groups. A federal judge is currently weighing whether it’s constitutional.

Responding to a question from the audience in Sunset Park, which has seen an influx of immigrants in recent years, Bloomberg vigorously defended immigrants as hardworking.

He then recalled his brief encounter with Barletta last summer.

“I testified before Congress and New York’s a city of 8.3 million people. The guy who testified after me came from Hazleton, Pa., which is 30,000 people, and according to him, there has never been a crime committed in Hazleton, Pa., that wasn’t committed by an undocumented,” said Bloomberg.

Scrolling through Google News on “Immigration” is always a valuable exercise. The clear message is that the impact of mass immigration is a much more powerful issue at the Grassroots than the MSM wants to admit. Apart from their quickly reporting immigration-caused disasters, quite often important conceptual articles can be found in the local media, never to appear in the household name national outlets.

One case in point is 98 percent of those arrested for illegal immigration never prosecuted - Alicia A. Caldwell | The Associated Press April 7, 2007
a perfectly sound if unsurprising documentation of a national scandal which as I write appears to have been carried only by one New Mexican newspaper.

But of more immediate importance is Democrats, White House at odds early on immigration reform Staff ReportsApril 7, 2007 By Michael Welles Shapiro

Medill News Service
which at present only seems to have been picked up by the Greeley Tribune in Colorado.

WASHINGTON — The shaky alliance formed last year between Senate Democrats and the White House on immigration appears to be under stress as Congress moves toward consideration of a new reform bill this spring.

On its face this story suggests that the trouble is the arrogant demands by pro-immigrant forces that the various loopholes the White House has devised be cheaper and less restrictive:

the only interpretation we can have is that this is a way for political reasons of undermining the process,” said Eric Gutierrez, legislative staff attorney for Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Gutierrez pointed to what he considers to be “exorbitant” $10,000 citizenship fees that the White House plan would charge for undocumented workers already in the U.S. The plan also would limit the ability of immigrants to bring adult family members into the country. Those are examples of unreasonable bargaining positions, he said.

My own view, however’ is that in reality the Democrats, realizing that the GOP has what Marxists used to call a “Contradiction” between the nation-murdering impulses of the White House and the reservations of the party at large, prefers to go into the next election with the Republicans unable to present a clear message.

But what is clear is that all players are apprehensive of the shadow cast by the evil Tom Tancredo and his like:

The pressures of the presidential campaign trail demonstrated recently why Democrats want to take up immigration reform sooner rather than later….On Monday, immigration hardliner Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., announced his presidential bid on an Iowa talk radio show, saying undocumented immigrants are putting “enormous strains on your social service system, on your educational system, on your prisons, on hospitals and health care.”

Priscilla Falcon, (email her)a Hispanic Studies professor at the University of Northern Colorado, called the statements of Gingrich and Tancredo “a lot of public posturing”

“They know right now that this is it.”

Alas, for the historic American Nation, this may indeed be “it”.