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August 30, 2005
States of Emergency, States of Denial
A state of emergency now exists along hundreds of miles of southern border: in Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico. Bush has canceled his vacation to address the emergency brought on by nature, but the man-made disaster taking place west of Crawford--spreading as far afield as Van Nuys, California and Vienna, Virginia--receives only scant and glancing attention from the President. Bush's weak and inexcusable holding pattern on immigration--forced upon Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff--seems based upon the idea that Republicans are doomed to lose in 2008 without the decisive support of a monolithic Hispanic Vote, which they must now stroke and coddle at every opportunity.
An alternate explanation has not been put forth. But the fear and paranoia would be unjustified in their surrender of power even if the political calculus were right. In fact it isn't: legal immigrants have a vested interest in keeping their status--and its benefits--legitimate, and even illegals presently here shouldn't axiomatically appreciate the continual expansion of the labor pool they must compete from for jobs. The logic does not follow. The rationale is unsound. There is no ethnic electoral monolith. There is no Hispanic Vote.
Not only is paralysis on illegal immigration bad policy, it's political cowardice, a daft, mortifying sop to a demographical bogeyman that doesn't even exist--and won't, until 2008, when three more years of an administration that "feels our pain" from the Mexican refugee invasion will have birthed the very monster that stalks it in its sleep.
Posted by James G. Poulos at August 30, 2005 03:21 PM
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