WE CAN MAKE THEM GO HOME ON THEIR OWN!

President Bush is now on record as saying that a massive deportation of illegal aliens in this country just wouldn't work.  OK, so he didn't call them "illegal aliens."  He used the "immigrant" word.  That doesn't work for me.  Immigration is a legal procedure.  Rushing across the border without permission is not immigration.  It's trespassing at best, an invasion at worse.  But .. we digress.  Bush has now told Republicans that "massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic.  It's just not going to work."

He may be right.  I've said it before right here.  If we started loading these criminals onto busses and airplanes and tried sending them back to Mexico, the Mexican government would simply deny  permission for those busses to cross the border and for those airplanes to fly into Mexican airspace.  The United Nations would then immediately start screaming about massive human rights abuses on the part of the U.S.  Forced repatriation with Mexico for the invaders is simply not going to work.

Before we get to a plan that would work, let's review the problem.

Since 1990 an estimated 25 million Latinos have crossed the Mexican - American border .... northbound.  The reason you keep hearing the 11 million figure is because the other 13 to 14 million were given amnesty during the mid-1990s.

Mexicans have come to view crossing the border into the United States in order to work and send money back home as a way of life.  According to an AP article by Mark Stevenson (4/23/06) "Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue -- and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow."

Stevenson also reports that Mexicans -- the ones actually living in Mexico -- are giving their babies American names like Johnny and Leslie so that they will fit in better once they've moved to the United States. 

Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, considers the illegal aliens to be "heroes."  Why?  Because they send those tens of millions of dollars back to their families, thus, at least to some extent, relieving Fox of the necessity of tackling corruption in the Mexican government and reforming the Mexican economy so that these people can earn that money there instead of invading the United States to get work.

And please don't forget our friend, Professor Charles Truxillo of the University of New Mexico.  Professor Truxillo says that there will be a new, sovereign Hispanic nation formed within the United States and northern Mexico in the not-too-distant future.  The good professor says that this new nation, called "Republica del Norte" will take in all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, as well as several northern Mexican states.  How will this all happen?  Truxillo says it will come as a result of electoral pressure of the "future majority Hispanic population in the region."

You think it can't happen?  Well, could you please tell me, then, why Mexican magazines are publishing articles praising the exploits of the "reconquistadors"  while politely informing American citizens "with all due respect, Los Angeles is ours?"

Now, back to the president's remarks.  As it happens, I agree.  We aren't prepared to handle the reaction from Latin America and the howls of protest from the United Nations if we actually try to gather up these invaders and send them back from whence they came.  There is, however, another way.  Let me lay it out for you step-by-step.

1.  Close the borders.  Not next month.  Now.  Send the National Guard.  Send American troops.  What are they for if not to defend the borders of this country?  Start stringing the barbed wire.  Patrol with dogs.  Do whatever needs to be done, but shut the border down.  Let the rest of the world scream, but we have every right to defend our borders against invaders.

2.  Immediately pass legislation providing for harsh penalties for any and all businesses and individuals who hire illegal aliens.  No half-measures.  Make it hurt.  Last week immigration officials arrested over 1000 illegal aliens working for one company that makes pallets and shipping crates.  The officers of that company should be headed to jail, and the company should be seized by the government and sold at auction with the proceeds being used to pay for securing our border.  Put employers in jail --- take their stuff.  Let them know that this is serious and that hiring illegal aliens is tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy.  The hell with their campaign contributions.  Fine them and jail them.  Make 'em scream.  As for getting these jobs done?  Pay a wage that will attract Americans.  It won't hurt.  The majority of people working in agriculture and construction in this country are citizens.  They'll do the work.  Spreading pine straw may be a problem.

3.  Heavily tax all wire and other transfers of money from illegal aliens to their homelands. If Mexico is getting $20 billion a year from illegal aliens in the U.S., seize about 30% of it.  Call it a fine. That $7 billion could also be spent on border and immigration control.

4.  Change the law so that any child born to a person in this country illegally does not automatically become an American citizen.  That child will adopt the citizenship of its mother. 

5.  Put an end to providing all but emergency social services to illegal aliens.  No food stamps, no welfare benefits, no access to taxpayer-funded government schools ... no taxpayer-funded government services except for life saving medical care. 

Enact those proposals, and what would we have?  Those who have already illegally crossed the border will have one helluva time finding work in this country.  No trabajo, no dinero.  If they do find work they'll have another problem sending the money they earned back home.  So .. they're here with no job, no prospect of finding a job, and no way to send their money back to Mexico without a heavy fine if they do happen to find work.  Plus, they can't tap into the great American welfare state.  What is there left to do?  Go home!  That's about it!  And please notice that this is all accomplished without passing any laws making the illegals felons or threatening to deport them or put them in jail.

I heard of one other possible solution recently ... one that is apparently being given some consideration in Washington.  Simply pass a law about illegal immigration that matches, word-for-word, the law in Mexico.  Being in Mexico illegally is a crime, yet Mexico screams when we try to criminalize illegal aliens in this country.  If our law read exactly the same as does theirs, what are they going to say?

THE WONDERFUL, PEACEFUL RELIGION OF ISLAM

Islamic terrorist blew up about 22 or so tourists and injured another 150 in an Egyptian resort yesterday.  Three of the injured were Americans.  This particular Egyptian resort is popular with Israelis, and many visitors there were celebrating Easter. Ain't Allah great!  While these Islamic maniacs are busy killing people in Egypt and elsewhere, they're also busy in Europe trying to get restrictions put into place that would prohibit newspapers, broadcast stations, and ordinary people from saying anything about Islam that Muslims might find offensive. 

In the meantime, Americans are gripped with anxiety over who is going to come out on top on American Idol this week.

WILL THE LAST EMPLOYER LEAVING MASSACHUSETTS PLEASE LAUGH ON THE WAY OUT

I've been telling you that this is on the Democratic agenda for years, and now it's coming to fruition in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.  Democrats in Mass. are going to introduce yet more regulations of private business.  This time it will be a requirement that all workers in Mass. be paid for up to 12 weeks of leave every single year for time off to care for newborns, adopted children or sick family members.  The entire social welfare program will be financed with yet another tax ... another payroll tax.  This will be $1.50 per week per worker.  No... wait!  Now they're saying it could go up to $2.50 a week!  Any bets on just how high this new tax could go? 

Today, Massachusetts, tomorrow the rest of the country.  Democrats have been dreaming of paid family leave since the unpaid variety became law many years ago.  Just more of the womb to tomb government paternalism that we all love paying for so much.  Don't we?

REMEMBER WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT OUT THERE

USA Today has a story in today's edition about a great new list that has been compiled by Victoria's Secret. It's the list of "sexy" who's who.  You get the sexiest city in the world, the sexiest city in the US, the sexiest car, the sexiest food, the sexiest video, the sexiest movie ... etc.  For those of you out there who are immersed in the celebrity culture, and who simply won't take a magazine off the newsstand unless it has the word "sex" on the cover in some context, here's your link for the USA Today story.  I know, if you were wired that way you probably wouldn't be reading the Nuze ... but maybe a few of you slipped through.

CAIR UPSET ABOUT E-MAIL

Well. what do we have here.  Looks like a small case of some people being able to dish it out, but not take it.  Let's start at the top.  The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.

Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association.  The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were "hate speech."  Enter Professor Wichman.  In his e-mail, he said the following:

"Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.

I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavain girls and women (called "whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France.

This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile "protests."

If you do not like the values of the West -- see the 1st Amendment -- you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially, I. S. Wichman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering"

Well! As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well.  They're demanding Wichman be reprimanded and mandatory diversity training for faculty and a seminar on hate and discrimination for freshman.  How nice.  But now the Michigan chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray.  CAIR ,  the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.

For its part, the university is standing its ground.  They say the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. That will probably change.  Wichman says he never intended the e-mail to be made public, and wouldn't have used the same strong language if he'd known it was going to get out.

How's the left going to handle this one?  If you're in favor of the freedom of speech, as in the case of Ward Churchill, will the same protections be demanded for Indrek Wichman?  I doubt it.

INVESTIGATING GAS PRICES

Do you think gas companies are price gouging right now? Yes No

Here we go.  As expected, President Bush has decided to order an investigation into high gasoline prices.  He is scheduled to announce the probe today in Washington.  This is in response to an ignorant public that demand politicians "do something" about high gas prices.  This is so pathetic on so many levels...so we'll cover just a few.

Just like with the other calls for investigations into price gouging...this will go nowhere.  A lot of money will be spent investigation oil companies...and just as a bunch of times before, no evidence of any such price gouging will be proven to have taken place.  Besides, what is price gouging anyway?  Just a buzzword used by the anti-capitalist, government-educated among us.

Most people think that one oil company owns the oil rig that gets the crude out of the ground, the tanker that delivers it and the refinery that makes the gasoline.  This is also false.  In many cases, every step in that chain is owned by a different party.  Then, when it comes to the actual gasoline, the gas station is most likely an independent dealer...who may have a franchise from one of the big oil companies. We are to believe that all of these separate companies and individuals got together to fix gas prices artificially high?

Neal's On Fox News Today Neal will be discussing this issue with Neil Cavuto today at 4pm on the Fox News Channel. Hear what they have to say about price gouging and who is really doing the gouging.

There's also the pesky law of supply and demand.  In case you haven't checked lately, the supply of crude oil and refined gasoline is limited, but the demand is increasing worldwide.  This leads to temporary shortages and higher prices.  It's not Bush's fault, and it's not the fault of the oil companies.  If you want someone to blame, try the environmental lobby that fights any and all exploration for new sources of crude oil.

So no amount of investigations are going to do anything about gas prices.  it sounds good, but you're still looking at between $3 and $4 a gallon this summer.  If that's too high for you, time to warm up your tricycle ... or try walking.  Maybe you'll work off some pounds.

MORE BAD LUCK FOR CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

Poor Cynthia McKinney.  At this point, bringing up any more of her problems might seem like piling on.  We certainly shouldn't kick somebody when they're down, should we?  Well...in her case, the answer is probably yes.  Would she cut a Republican in the same situation any slack?  Hardly.

As a grand jury investigates her cop punching incident, Cynthia McKinney has filed to run for re-election.  Already, she is being challenged in the July Democratic primary for her seat representing Georgia's 4th District.  That challenger comes to us in the person of Hank Johnson.  He's on the DeKalb County Commission.  As McKinney's actions become more and more embarrassing, he might have a real shot at winning.

By the way, her attorney quit yesterday.  Apparently he decided to get off the crazy train before the indictment comes down.  Oh, and one more thing.  Yesterday at the Georgia Capitol, McKinney was still spewing nonsense, saying that people love her because she tells the truth:  "They know I told the truth about September 11th. They know I told the truth about George Bush's war.  And can you imagine that now, in this election season, we're talking about a nuclear strike on Iran?" 

If Cynthia McKinney is such a truth-teller, then why did she lie about punching the Capitol Hill police officer? 

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Here's another clever mailbox. And really a beautiful photograph as well. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

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As gas prices rise Republicans are sounding more and more like Nancy Pelosi.  A Wall Street Journal editorial.

The plot thickens in the Mary McCarthy affair.  She says she didn't leak the existence of the secret prisons in Europe to the Washington Post.  The CIA says she was canned for a pattern of behavior.  Apparently she liked to talk to reporters.  Not good when you're supposed to keep your trap shut.

All indications are that Tony Snow will make the jump from Fox News TV and radio straight to the White House briefing room as the new press secretary.  This should make things interesting....a debate from the podium with David Gregory is sure to come.

New House Majority Leader John Boehner writes in an op-ed in USA Today that the GOP is restoring integrity to the House of Representatives.  A nice thought, but it may not be enough to keep the ship from sinking.

Pat Buchanan makes a fine point: Mary McCarthy has been fired and is headed for prosecution and probably prison.  However, the journalist she leaked the information to, Dana Priest of the Washington Post, just won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing that leaked information.  Quite a contrast, isn't it?

Thomas Sowell weighs in on the Duke rape story.  He wonders why some people are afraid to question the story of the accuser....which looks to be a bit shaky.

Christopher Hitchens wants to know if there will be a special prosecutor in this latest CIA leak case.  You know, like there's been for the Valerie Plame (non) affair.  Somehow, I doubt it.

It's become a template: gas prices go up, politicians demand investigations and things like a windfall profits tax.  But Bill Murchison says they're really doing this to hide their complicity in the problem.

The Poodle has been doing everything he can to make sure people don't forget him since he lost his run for the White House a year and a half ago.  David Limbaugh looks at the many ways John Kerry is trying to get attention these days.

Cal Thomas says  Mary McCarthy is a traitor, plain and simple.   He says in another time, she would have been shot or served a long prison term.  What will happen to McCarthy now?  Just be fired and nothing else?

There are some 12 million illegal aliens in this country.  Phyllis Schlafly reminds us all of the heavy price we pay for illegal immigration.

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