Saturday, February 1, 2014

"You know what the best predictor of future behavior is? Past behavior."

Excerpts of a National Review editorial "Wrong on Principles".

"The way to do enforcement first would be to pass enforcement bills and leave it at that. If the Senate passes them and the president signs them and subsequently enforces them after they survive legal challenge, well, then you have enforcement first. But everyone knows that none of this would happen — such bills wouldn’t pass the Senate, or even get a vote if Harry Reid had anything to say about it. And even if they did and the president signed them, no one can have any confidence that he would enforce them."

"For some reason, House Republicans have fastened on eventual citizenship as the key issue. It isn’t. What will matter most to the illegal population is getting legalized. The experience of the 1986 amnesty was that most formerly illegal immigrants didn’t take advantage of the opportunity to become citizens. And it is the legalization itself that will act as a magnet to new illegal immigrants. They will take notice that we eventually welcome anyone who manages to come here to live and work in defiance of our laws."

This post title quote is a line from the movie Side Effects (2013), now streaming on Netflix.

14 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

America used to have a frontier and notions of the "American Dream" are otherwise tied to the prosperity that followed victory at war and the spoils that went to fighting men who would have been otherwise employed as farm laborers or low-skilled factory workers.

Anybody talking about that?

In a weird way, I sort of hope not.

Unknown said...

Whenever I hear anyone in the GOP (or anyone for that matter) talk about "Securing the border" - I think --100% bullshit. Stop it. Not going to happen.

Shouting Thomas said...

Steve Sailer has pretty much covered everything here. We Americans own this place. Well, anyway, we should.

I am not taking an anti-immigration stance when I say that our first priority should be ensuring the economic viability of the lives of the owners first.

Taking care of our self-interest first is not some sort of sin of bigotry.

edutcher said...

During WWII, we only needed a brigade of horse cavalry to secure the border, and that was eventually broken up, dismounted, and sent to the Pacific and the CBI as elite infantry.

You get the feeling the whole Left is going to have to be in prison before that sort of thing can come back.

Michael Haz said...

"The way to do enforcement first would be to pass enforcement bills and leave it at that.

There are enforcement laws on the books. It is illegal to enter this country without the proper documentation.

This administration has directed ICE to NOT enforce those laws; to let those entering illegally to freely enter.

Does Congress really need to pass a bill into law telling the administration to adhere to the laws already in place?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

tomorrow is groundhog day.

chickelit said...

I liked this piece on PowerLine about immigration.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

Our politicians are either insane or stupid or .....more likely both.

rcocean said...

What can you say? The Republican party has been trying to commit suicide since 2005. And just when the Obamacare rollout turns voters off - the Republicans ride to Obama's rescue with Amnesty.

Insane. But no doubt many of these Republicans have been bought off or feel their primary loyalty is to big business - and not their voters.

rcocean said...

All this stuff about "enforcement" is bullshit. Listen to Schumer, listen to Pelosi, listen to Obama.

The Democrats will NOT enforce immigration laws. They will not agree to effective border controls.

Period. So all this, "we struck a deal" "they agreed to enforce the laws" "they agreed to employer sanctions" "its a grand bargin"

Its bullshit.

The Crack Emcee said...

""You know what the best predictor of future behavior is? Past behavior.""

Thanks for explaining white racism.

I don't always get it on my own,...

Revenant said...

During WWII, we only needed a brigade of horse cavalry to secure the border

Well, yes, because all our enemies lived on other continents separated by thousands of miles of ocean controlled by British and American navies.

If we were trying to keep a lid on a massive wave of illegal Japanese and German immigration, the same tactic would work today. :)

rcocean said...

Thanks Crack for showing up. Y'know I really appreciate the Black American support for Amnesty and importing millions of more whites, Asians, and other NOT black people into this country.

It makes black vs. white nonsense even less relevant.

The Crack Emcee said...

rcocean said...
Thanks Crack for showing up. Y'know I really appreciate the Black American support for Amnesty and importing millions of more whites, Asians, and other NOT black people into this country.

It makes black vs. white nonsense even less relevant.



Really? You give blacks praise for being more open-minded than whites have historically been - and then use that as a pretense to diss us. That's pretty twisted. And, historically, dissing us is what white racists have always done, no?

Having pointed this out, I think you should take some time to ponder the sickness playing out in your mind, otherwise known as white culture,..