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I wish you were right, of course. My big fear is that our intelligence services may have picked up on something regarding the southern border.

Jaded: I don't see the Democrats picking up enough House and Senate seats to try another CIR in the first 100 days. Without a Republican president to act as scapegoat for CIR and a large majority, they probably won't fall on their swords. Also, the employer crackdowns have been substantive and real this time. Something is different now.

they have been seriously attentive to terrorist border crossings, which they can be without regulation waivers for a fence.

Of course, I want a fence and opposed amnesty, but I do think there is evidence Bush has been doing a lot more than people give him credit for on the border even before the defeat of the amnesty bill.

I just don't see a connection between intel received and the court case.

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Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
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"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

I will grant you that the border fence/environment issue became ripe before the 2006 and 2007 CIR debacles. Nonetheless, I have noticed a more robust effort to curtail illegal border crossings and employer violations. While an assumption on my part, there very well may be a warranted fear that al-Qaeda may want to give President Bush a going away present and more attention is being paid to national security. I would like to think that the Administration has been more attentive to border matters than credited, but I have seen little proof of it.

Jaded: I'm sure it will be tried again. But it has become next to impossible to slip this one by the public now.

but not seven years of luck

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

"Always be honest with yourself. Even if you are honest with no one else."
--me

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

loud and angry there was support for the bill....like I said just my opinion...but I have watched this fiasco for close to two years and I just know they will try again.

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candidate to say the border is secure upon the first 100 days and than get congress to pass the "comprehensive bill" for the new President to sign....but as I told my son the other day there will be challanges on that legislation and it will take a couple of years for an answer to it.

We are aware that either of the two candidates is willing to "open" the borders....legal challanges will be all we have at our disposal....but McCain is still the best on Iraq...so I cannot hold out on this issue even as angry as it makes me.

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cynical!

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Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

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Of course, being cynical does not mean you are wrong!

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“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.” – Ronald Reagan

that setting up a border fence isn't going to be enough to curtail illegal immigrantation. The truth is, Mexico has been exporting potential revolutionaries up here. Why? Because if they took time examining their own lives, they'd know that sending remittances isn't gonna solve the top number one problem: Mexican government.

Corruption and lack of real democratic values at the highest level of Mexican government are very real dangers and should be addressed by Mexicans. Unfortunately, they've been running up here and putting their heads in US soil, thus avoiding the biggest problem in Mexico. If they rose and actually did something meaningful like forcing Mexican government to be reformed and turning more of Mexican economy to private sector, then the issue of illegal immigrantation would resolved significantly along with a border fence to keep the unwanted ones out.

Is it really in our interest that Mexico remains a third-world country? In ways more than merely addressing illegal immigrantation, we're going to have to develop some sort of foreign policy on Mexico, it just can't be business as usual.

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Daniel 2:20 And he [God] changeth the times and seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.

prevent those that suffer under their corrupt government from escaping into the US.

I wrote of this here in the dead tree MSM:

http://gamecock.blogtownhall.com/2007/07/15/mexicos_needed_revolution_li...

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Do any of our leaders realize that Mexico's corrupt government encourages its disgruntled citizens (who might lead a revolution against them) to go north? The 90 percent of Mexicans still living in Mexico might have experienced more compassionate results if the disaffected who left had been required to solve their problems at home.Instead, they came to the U.S., encouraged by the desire of Big Business for cheap labor and the desire of the Democrats for a steady flow of victim voters.

America's future does not depend on cheap labor. It was only after we ended chattel slavery that we became the nation that could defeat fascism, communism and any other evil form of totalitarianism that dared to rear its ugly head against liberty.

Meanwhile, country-club Republicans would trash the indispensable rule of law in fear of forever losing the Latino vote that they have never owned. Do they so lack the courage of their convictions that they refuse to even try to persuade new voters that conservative principles and policies are the way?

American citizens repeatedly fill jobs after raids of plants employing scores of illegals. This betrays the claim that illegals were doing jobs that Americans won't do.

False accusations of racism

The ugliest part of the immigration debate has been the suggestion by many Democrats, not a few prominent Republicans and even the president himself that opposition to the poorly drafted bill was led by racists. The greatest of all ironies occurred when South Carolina's senior senator compared opponents of the bill to those in decades past who declared that "Blacks, Jews and the Irish need not apply." GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham made that assertion to a Hispanic group named "La Raza," which means "The Race."

No amount of e-mails from kooks can erase the reality that today's America is the most racially tolerant nation the world has ever seen. We know that immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere have been a part of our great Melting Pot since before 1776, but that for the ingredients of the pot to melt, there had to be the Great Lull in the 1920s and a crackdown at the Rio Grande in the 1950s.

Maybe more importantly, past immigrants didn't encounter essentially unassimilated native cultural elites in academia, entertainment and the press, nor an ambition-sapping welfare state.

Americans understand that the Shining City on a Hill cannot retain its luster if all the huddled masses of Planet Earth move here. They know that the city won't shine unless one can marvel like the Psalmist and exclaim: "Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"

Our nation's motto is E Pluribus Unum -- out of many, one.

What Mexico needs is a new revolution that would inspire their many to want to be one within their own borders.

Mike

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Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

I agree wholly.

I've thought for a long while that leaving the oppression and corruption for sub-standard wages (which may seem like good wages to them, but are still little more than second-class citizen pay) not only keeps such people held back (especially since most do not learn the english language, required to succeed here in the United States) but also does nothing to end he oppression in mexico.

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Then maybe, instead of bring Mexicans to America, we should bring America to the Mexicans...

"Always be honest with yourself. Even if you are honest with no one else."
--me

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." - The Chief Justice

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