A refreshing development in the Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration battle is the increasing evidence that the “jobs Americans won’t do” argument has become ineffective. Economics drive immigration issue –Steve Scauzillo pasadenastarnews.com 04/13/07 records the realization by the Opinion Page editor of the San Gabriel Valley Newspapers in immigrant-drenched southern California that things can be different:

THERE’S nothing like a change of scenery to gain a fresh perspective on an issue. Take illegal immigration.

I spent five days in eastern Kansas (Johnson County) and Kansas City, Mo., last week and guess what? There are no illegal immigrants hanging around the Home Depot stores. The people who bus and wait tables? Local residents, college students. Gardeners and domestic workers? Legal citizens.

Scauzillo does reflexively slip into standard immigrant-celebration, but corrects himself

They work hard and some may start their own businesses and soon, the economy adjusts, even prospers. There is also a price America pays in terms of health care and hospital emergency rooms, law enforcement and education costs. But that’s for another column. (VDARE.com emphasis.)

However, the key is that he has understood the income redistribution and wage competition effects:

Upper middle class and upper class residents in L.A. say prices of car washes, restaurant meals, day care and domestic help will rise if illegal immigration is curbed. Again, they’ve become conditioned to inexpensive labor. I say, these same jobs can be filled - eventually - but at legal wage by legal residents.

I had a friend my age who grew up in the Central Valley. He was white and poor. He and his brothers would pick almonds in the summer. Now, these jobs are usually given to illegal immigrants.

Admittedly, Scauzillo seems somewhat uncertain about what do about the problem, and years of living with a cheap brown helot class makes him doubt if “white folks” would pick almonds, for social reasons. But for a southern Californian elite member to grasp mass immigration is not necessary is a serious intellectual achievement.

Applaud Steve Scauzillo.

Not every illegal alien criminal is from Mexico, and the criminal-enabling sanctuary policies of many major cities don’t discriminate against paleface foreigners with evil in their hearts.

No indeed, sanctuary cities provide an equal opportunity license to kill for the diverse scum of the world, as shown by the murder April 2 of Rebecca Griego of Seattle by British illegal alien Jonathan Rowan. Rebecca worked as a researcher at the University of Washington.

Rowan was an ex-boyfriend from hell who stalked and threatened Griego: both she and her sister had sought protection orders from the police. In addition, he had a previously run-in with the law that should have given him a one-way ticket home as a drunk-driving illegal alien.

He was an alcoholic, according to Griego, and police reports say he was arrested last June for drunken driving after ignoring a stop sign and trying to run from police. His blood-alcohol content was measured at more than three times the legal limit.
[Months of stalking end with 2 dead at UW, Seattle Times 4/3/07]

What does it take to deport a dangerous criminal illegal alien? Apparently the preventable death of an innocent woman counts for little among the moonbats of Seattle. The city already has a de facto sanctuary policy, but is considering instituting one that goes even further and issues ID cards.

A popular fable among open borders fanatics is that sanctuary policies make illegals feel more comfy in dealing with the police. Even if that fiction were true, the mounting list of dead Americans would make the policy a terrible bargain, to say the least.

Hawaiian singer Don Ho, of “Tiny Bubbles” fame, has passed away at the age of 76.

I can’t help but wonder how he felt about the various rapppers who have been taking his name in vain for years before Imus got in trouble.