November 08, 2008 Saturday ForumGlenn Spencer Agrees: Chertoff Took Border Security Seriously; etc.From:
Glenn Spencer: (e-mail
him)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column:
McCain, Obama—Who Cares? The Real Question: Who Replaces
Chertoff?
I agree with Guzzardi about Chertoff.
Within the past four months Chertoff has taken
border
security seriously. He terminated the ill-conceived
virtual fence effort and moved $400 million into the
real fence.
Not only that but based of our
American Border Patrol aerial surveys, the
Department of Homeland Security is finally building
real fences that stop people at the border. Most of
the stuff they had been building was designed to make it
easy to climb.
Chertoff, at the last minute, is trying to create a positive legacy for
himself.
As I said when his effort started, the
Secure Border Initiative [SBI] was designed
to fail. The deceit was coming from Open Border
bureaucrats but Chertoff either didn’t have the
management skills to understand what was going on or he
didn’t want to know, or both.
Chertoff didn’t like the idea of a fence in the first place and, like
George W. Bush, wanted to believe in the virtual fence.
As he faced the abject failures of SBI and other problems as reported by
the Governmental Accountability Office— using, I am
convinced, data from our aerial surveys, Chertoff
decided to try to rescue his reputation.
Here’s an update for your readers about our latest efforts.
Beginning on Nov. 10, I will fly the
border from
Our survey of Sept 29 - Oct 2 spotted lots of fence material stockpiled
from
Within about a week, I will release a video report that links increased
border security to drug-war-related deaths in
The cartels
are feeling the pinch and they see the handwriting on
the wall – or should I say the writing on the border
fence.
Glenn Spencer is every immigration reform patriot’s
hero because of his tireless efforts on [PermaLink] [Top] [Letters Home] A California Reader Says Chertoff “Promised” To Enforce Immigration Law
From:
Tim Aaronson (e-mail
him) At the
Federation for American Immigration Reform’s recent
annual gathering in Myers was dynamite. And her comments gave every indication of why
Chertoff and
ICE
have been doing such a great job. I asked her, "Given the administration's
abysmal record of enforcing our
immigration laws, how have you been allowed to do
your job?" She responded, "When I interviewed with Chertoff I was
promised that I would be able to enforce the laws."
Myers strongly praised the effectiveness of the
E-Verify program that the Senate balked at
extending.
Asked how to support enforcement efforts In the face of criticism of the
ICE raids by
open borders advocates, Myers suggested writing
letters of support to regional ICE officials and
Congressional representatives. So, yes, I agree that Chertoff has been fantastic, completely
opposite our expectations based upon his illegal
alien-worship at the outset. And I offer my kudos to Myers, too, for carrying through.
Immigration reform patriots were
hard on her when she began. Myers will be missed The unanswered question: why President George W. Bush has allowed
enforcement since he could so easily cut it off? Is it because there would be such an outcry that the Open
Borders agitators would demand
“comprehensive immigration reform” and could
point to
various sob stories as examples of what happens when
ICE upholds the law? [PermaLink] [Top] [Letters Home] An Oregon Reader Says ICE Wants To Do Its Job
From:
Andrew (e-mail
him)
Guzzardi is quite right that Chertoff has been doing a very good job
recently, speaking firmly and sensibly in defense of
immigration law enforcement.
However, I am fearful of what
President-elect Barack Obama will do to stop the
progress that we've seen in the last several months.
From the
letters and
columns
I have read on VDARE.COM,
I know many career ICE agents want to enforce the law.
But until Chertoff, they've been hamstrung and prevented from doing so
during most of
George
W. Bush’s administration.
Joe Guzzardi comments:
Earlier letters that we
posted in our October 18 Saturday Forum reflected reader
suspicion about Chertoff’s motives. Read them
here,
here and
here. This week, we continue to receive correspondence from nervous readers
wondering who will take Chertoff’s job. Let’s hope for
the best.
Remember, though, that as Tim Aaronson pointed out
above we were originally
skeptical—to
say the least—about Chertoff and Julie Myers. Both
turned out to be pleasant surprises.
So regardless of whom Obama chooses, let’s not jump
to conclusions [PermaLink] [Top] [Letters Home] An Iowa Reader Says Postville Aliens Have A Savior On The Way—Rigoberta Menchu!
From: Dubuque Observer (e-mail him)
Re: Paul Nachman’s Blog:
Immigration Enforcement Is Acceptable Every February 29—Maybe As Nachman noted, the Agriprocessors plant in Postville is bankrupt and in a legal tailspin.
Now comes the corker.
Rigoberta Menchu— a fraud and a liar who won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize based on her completely fabricated life story claiming to be an oppressed Guatemalan peasant revolutionary— will be in Postville on Saturday November 8 to express her solidarity with the 400 illegal alien Guatemalans who have been in custody since the May raid. A long list of the church groups joining Menchu is here, as well as a list of other awards she has won, also on false pretenses.
Nowhere in the
news coverage does it mention, however, that
Menchu is a
con artist.
The
Joe Guzzardi comments: Having lived in
[PermaLink] [Top] [Letters Home] A Canadian Reader Sees A California Trend Coming Her Way
From: “Little
Otter” (e-mail
her)
Re: James Fulford’s Blog:
Tyranny of Nice: Canada’s Hate Speech Laws Exposed
Things in
Canada are going downhill fast. This is
just a wee thing but on a
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation radio program today, November 1st,
it broadcast a show about ghosts and the like. Go to the
three-minute mark to hear it. Well, as
long as I've been around, November 1st was always
referred to as
“All Saints Day". According
to the above mentioned radio show, though, it's now
"Day of the Dead”.
What is wrong with
"day after
Hallowe'en" or
"All
Saints Day"? But if you are on the
liberal CBC, anything goes.
I could understand if I was in
But I live in [PermaLink] [Top] [Letters Home] |
