August 15, 2007

Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn: No friend of the rule of law

By Dave Gorak on August 15, 2007 at 8:20pm

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn, who only until recently didn't know what a "sanctuary city" is, has a thing for illegal aliens that, well, really isn't compatible with our being a "nation of laws."

Immigrant Corruption In U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services?

By James Fulford on August 15, 2007 at 6:53pm

Dr. Theodore Dalrymple claims that the staff of Britain's Passport Office "consists largely of immigrants, legal and illegal."[Delusions of Honesty | Tony Blair’s domestic legacy: corruption and the erosion of liberty. , City Journal, Summer 2007]

Kaus On Enforcement--Is The Bush Administration Trying For "The Worse, The Better?"

By James Fulford on August 15, 2007 at 3:55pm

Mickey Kaus, who was kind enough to link to my Huckabee roundup, has an extended item on the recent Bush enforcement crackdown--is the Bush administration deliberately doing clumsy enforcement, in a Leninist "the worse, the better" mode, to create sob stories, and cause kindhearted Americans to say, "Aw, go ahead and legalize them," or is the Bush administration doing clumsy enforcement out of natural incompetence?

More Huckabee--Illegals Should Have Been Given Warning Before Raid

By James Fulford on August 15, 2007 at 10:18am

My previous item on Huckabee missed this one. This is from 2005, when Mike Huckabee was still governing the unhappy people of Arkansas, who haven't been lucky in their Governors. When the Federal Government, in a rare instance of getting its act together, managed to arrest a bunch of illegals in a raid, he said that they should have been given six days warning to arrange for childcare. (All the illegals denied having children at home when arrested--apparently some of the were lying.)