Nobody asked me, but...: TWO GRAND VOTES FOR LIBERTY!!

ITEM: Court Strikes Down School Immigration

YES! This blog wholly supports the SCOTUS striking down this heinous form of prejudice! In the sage words of the Chief Justice:

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Chief Justice John G. Roberts.

ITEM: Immigration Bill Fails Crucial Vote

YES!! As readers of my humble blog know, this is indeed GOOD NEWS for this nation and for all the people who long to immigrate here legally. As I said here we can fix the system in an evenhanded, compassionate manner:

Today I was speaking with a co-worker who thought I was being too harsh on illegal aliens. He knows a woman who came here, illegally, from New Zealand. She was here so long, and wished for gainful employment, so she applied to the IRS for a tax ID number. I was shocked the IRS didn't call the INS!

My colleague tells me that if she returned to NZ and applied for citizenship, she'd be denied because she'd been here already.

You know, a big part of me agrees with that. But I understand the problem.

So here's Charlie on the PA Tpk's prescription for the illegal immigration issue:

Close the fucking border. Do it now! Increase the number of Border Agents. Build a wall. Give the National Guard permission to shoot any who defy them and have them defend the nation's border! Both north and south borders. Increase funding for the Coast Guard. Do it now.
Start with the Correction System in this nation. Right off the bat: if you are in prison for any felony, once your time is done, you are immediately deported. No time to visit loved ones, nothing. You're GONE! That can't be more than a few hundred per month.

Once we have numbers 1 and 2 in place and working, we can discuss the rest of the people who are here illegally and what should be done about them. In the meantime, I have these proposals:
If you are in jail for a lessor charge, you have 90 days to leave. If your finger prints come up in the system for a crime after your release, you are immediately deported with extreme prejudice.
While this is decreasing our prison population, begin to ramp up the Social Security mechanisms to determine who is legal based on their Social Security number (or, as the NZ gal has, a Tax ID number). If a person's SS# turns up at, say 3 or more different jobs, in different states, send Immigration Control to the job sites and detain the person. It ought not take months to find out that SS# is bogus or is being abused.
While we are weeding out those who have broken additional laws involving paying their payroll taxes, alert all businesses their proverbial necks will be stepped on if they are employing known illegal aliens (i.e. paid under the table, etc.). If it becomes too expensive to pay people $2/hr., they'll pay more (probably more than minimum wage!) to hire legal residents/citizens!
Streamline the legal immigration system. It ought not to take 5-7 years to come here legally. 2-3 years? Sure. But end the bureaucracy.
Give an honest hearing to those who have come here illegally, and have kept their noses clean otherwise, and even paid taxes legitimately (hat tip to the NZ gal). Some can stay, some will be deported. If you broke the law, you have to risk the penalty.

That's not so bad, is it? And the only people who would be deported are felons, anyway, so who cares?

Enough of this nonsense about you can't split up families. Who says the kids can't go along with the deported parents?

This victory for liberty is a defeat for not only President Bush, but for Senators Kennedy, McCain and Reid. Clearly, President Bush wanted this bill for reasons that are hard to quantify; perhaps he's still trying to reinvent the definition of Compassionate Conservatism (a phrase that struck a sour note with all true Conservatives, everywhere). But everyone knows, especially his opponents across the aisle, that he's almost a lame duck, especially for new policies. That an initiative a 2^nd term president wanted failed is not exactly a surprise to anyone.

Sen. McCain hitched his wagon to this bill, and his declining poll numbers and contributions are evidence of the Republican opposition for the bill. And while he has pretended to be a Conservative, those of us who are one know he wasn't one.

Sen. Kennedy wanted this bill, and was one of the loudest voices in support of it. Of course, this loss is minor for a Senator who has survived the scandals he has weathered.

Sen. Reid, however, did take quite a beating. In spite of his efforts to paint the bill as the President's - and to be fair, Mr. Bush did take ownership of it - this is a prime example of the inability of the Senate Majority Leader unable to muster the support of his own party members.

Borrowing the Democrat Party's own rhetoric after last November's election: there is a clear mandate from the people. This bill is dead.

Next battle: the fairness doctrine ...