If you have a Mexican consulate in your state or city, you can expect plenty of meddling and encouragement of illegal activity.

So it’s heartening that some Idahoans are resisting the establishment of a new Mexican consulate in Boise. They are right to do so.

According to a report in “One News Now” (a website operated by the American Family News Network), opposition to the proposed consulate includes a U.S. congressman:

In March, Congressman Bill Sali (R-Idaho) sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging her to hold off on approving the consulate until the government can assure Idahoans that a consulate will not foster the continued presence of illegal immigrants in the state. Sali, who earlier this month was recognized by the American Conservative Union as one of the “best and brightest” in the U.S. House, said the prospect of a Mexican consulate in the state’s capital has “provoked concern” among his constituents that it could be “exploited” by individuals to gain “illicit ‘legal’ standing” in Idaho.

Well, Representative Sali and his constituents are exactly right about what a Mexican consulate would do in Idaho. Besides, there are already plenty of Mexican consulates nationwide, we don’t need any more, that’s for sure.

Another Idahoan who understands what goes on at Mexican consulates is Bryan Fischer, who directs the Idaho Values Alliance.

Bryan Fischer…agrees with Sali’s concerns that a consulate would be used to facilitate illegal immigration in the state and to issue identification cards known as “Matrícula Consular.” He contends the pro-family community in Idaho agrees as well. “Illegal immigrants can take these Mexican ID cards and use them to open bank accounts here in Idaho and kind of establish a presence here in the state, even though they have no legal right to be in the country,” he states.

Right on, Mr. Fischer, and it’s great to see values activists getting involved in the fight against the illegal invasion, because protecting our country is a big value. Fischer also said that

“There is at least some level of risk to our national security through these Mexican consulates,” says the Idaho activist. “[W]e just want to make sure that the workforce that we have here has the legal right to be in the country — and the presence of a Mexican consulate right here in Boise is going to make it much harder to control that.”

However,

Fischer is disappointed that the State Department has yet to respond to Sali’s concerns, perhaps indicating the government is prepared to move ahead with approval of the consulate.

Sad, but probably true. What activists need to do is oppose the establishment of any more Mexican consulates, there are more than enough in the U.S.A., we don’t need any more meddling.

Bryanna Bevens, who has been very busy with kids and dogs and such,  and thus temporarily absent from the immigration reform battle, will be on the Frosty Wooldridge Show, on Thursday, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CST. You can listen online at Republic Broadcasting.

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I love a sniffly going-home story about a cry-baby foreigner who doesn’t feel welcome any more. Like we should put out the welcome mat for illegal alien job thieves. Boo hooey (in Spanish of course).

Here’s Mexican whiner du jour, Hector Salinas:

It was the constant fear of being detained by U.S. immigration, especially after the relative with whom he shared a home in West Kendall got stopped while driving without a license. After that, they sold the car and got around with great difficulty on a bicycle.

Finally it was the loneliness. He did not bring his wife and young children, whom he had not seen for 2 1/2 years, for fear of the risk of arrest and detention.

“I never lacked for work, but I never felt good here,” Salinas, 43, said in Spanish one recent afternoon, his last in Miami before boarding a plane to Mexico City. “The patrones pay only what they want. You live with very little, and then you’re also alone, and always fearful of arriving at work and having them come looking for you.

“I don’t like living with this uneasiness.”[More Immigrants Choose To Leave U.S., Go Home, By Andres Viglucci, Melissa Sanchez And Jack Chang Miami Herald,  June 01, 2008]

That’s right, bub. Lawbreakers are supposed to feel uneasy, although complete terror would be a preferable emotion. And didn’t you understand you would be exploited? Illegal Mexicans wear an invisible Kick Me sign, and employers like it that way.

Have a swell trip home, Hector, and don’t forget to tell the family and friends how mean Americans are toward illegal aliens. Hooray for attrition!

Usain Bolt, a young 6′-5″ Jamaican got a perfect start and with a helping tailwind just under the legal limit, set a new world’s record in the men’s 100 meter dash over the weekend at 9.72 seconds. It’s the 14th time the world record has been set or equaled since electronic timing was introduced at the 1968 Olympics (all by men of West African descent, of course).

Track and field could use a decade or so without any new world records. In the women’s 100m, nobody has come close to the late Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 10.49 seconds in the 100m and 21.34 in the 200m in 20 years, which is a good thing.

I suppose this new Jamaican could be the real deal. Bolt is ridiculously tall for a 100m man at 6′-5″, which normally interferes with starts, so he’s previously specialized in the 200m where his long stride has time to prevail. But if he nails a start now and then, he might really be this good, kind of like John Daly in golf, who is a double-jointed behemoth.

Or he just might be juiced to the gills.

You can usually get an idea by looking to see if the upper body is ridiculously over-developed. But there aren’t that many pictures of Bolt online yet and he seems to wear a rather non-form-fitting jersey, so it’s hard to tell. Lots of juicehead sprinters make it easy for you to guess by wearing skimpy jerseys and frequently stripping them off in front of cameras to reveal their Mr. Universe torsos. In contrast, after Barry Bonds started hitting the juice in 1999, he always wore rather shapeless long-sleeved jerseys buttoned to the neck. Barry is a jerk, but he’s not stupid.

In 2004, 18-year-old Allyson Felix from LA, then a slip of a girl with no arm muscle definition at all, ran a ladylike 22.18 in the 200 meters for a silver medal at the Athens Olympics. That was cheering. I could envision her running similar times for three more Olympics and winning a bundle of medals without any suspicion of doping. She’s a fine young lady, who just graduated from USC despite not having a track scholarship because she’s been running professionally for four years.

But in 2007, Felix ran a 21.81, the only time 22 seconds has been broken by a woman since it was done in 2000 by Marion Jones, who is now in prison. Women ran 200m in under 22 seconds 78 times from 1979 through 2000, but only Felix has done it in the last 7 years. Felix now has got more muscular arms, although hardly in the class of, say, Gwen Devers in the old days. I’d feel better about her if she wasn’t from LA, where a lot of bad stuff involving sprinters and doping has happened, and hadn’t left her old coach Patt Connolly (coach of Evelyn Ashford, sometimes said to be the fastest clean women ever) for Flo-Jo’s old coach Bobby Kersee.

The men’s 200m times show more progression, although hopefully nobody will threaten Michael Johnson’s 19.32 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Women’s running was just hit harder by synthetic male hormones up through 2000 because women get a bigger bang for their buck from them.

By the way, the 1993 and 1997 Chinese National Games were festivals of doping with lots of silly women’s world records being set. The official website of the Chinese Olympic Committee still boasts: “At the Games, five of its runners surpassed the world records in the 1500m, 3000m and 10000m on 13 occasions.” Yeah, sure. That was another reason I didn’t understand why the Olympics were given to Beijing instead of Paris.

And the Chinese really want to win the most gold medals in Beijing in 2008. I imagine they don’t want to disgrace themselves at home either by getting caught.

So, will the Chinese do the right thing or do the wrong thing?

You’d think that famous Cohen and Grigsby video would have caused things to go underground. I have attached a signup for a seminar on how to disqualify U.S. workers from ILW.com:Three-Part Telephone & E-mail Seminar: Solving PERM Practice Problems [PDF]

Sample text:

THIRD Phone Session on June 5th: Evaluation & Disqualification of U.S. Workers
• Basic Elements & Time Frames of a Good Faith Recruitment Campaign
• Disqualification of U.S. Workers-failure to meet experience requirement, education requirement, special requirements
• Proving the employer meant it when agreeing to accept any suitable combination of education, training, and work experience
• Demonstrating that skills could not be acquired during a reasonable period of on-the-job training