In today's pages: Reinventing Kyoto and the G-8 recap
The editorial board writes at length about how to get a revised Kyoto Protocol back on track:
What's needed is a new, improved version of Kyoto that brings India and China onboard and commits them to "grow green," but still leaves the tougher cuts up to those nations better able to make them, such as the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. A better treaty would scrap the unworkable carbon-trading scheme and instead impose new taxes on carbon-based fuels.
On the op-ed page, University of Michigan law professor Samuel R. Gross discusses the likelihood of false convictions, debunking conventional wisdom that the rate is far less than one percent. Columnist Gregory Rodriguez explains why moving away from family-based immigration isn't the American way, and columnist Niall Ferguson recaps the G-8 summit and whether it should really be the G-11. TV writer and kids' baseball coach Jeff Strauss pens a letter to his teams' families.
On the letters page, readers react to the immigration bill impasse in the Senate. Santa Ana's Dan Naber asks what's on a lot of minds: "Is it going to be the same government as the one that can't get a passport out in three months that will be responsible for enforcing whatever regulations come from an immigration bill?"
Building the Fence 101: The United States has built a fence on both sides of every Interstate Highway from border to border, from coast to coast. Building a fence is no problem. And as cattlemen can tell you, building an electrified fence works.
Posted by: yours truly, johnny dollar | June 13, 2007 at 07:58 AM
The fire marshal will close America due to exceeding maximum capacity.
Posted by: yours truly, johnny dollar | June 13, 2007 at 07:31 AM
Gregory Rodriguez should realize that earlier waves of immigrants lived in a different America. In those days, an unskilled, uneducated worker could get a living wage job as America expanded economically. Today, America is contracting as fast as it can, with living wage jobs disappearing overseas or replaced with minimum wage/no benefit positions. In this kind of America, how will immigrants-and we're talking about latinos mainly-help themselves and their children move up? Through education? I don't think so, even if the school dropout rate improves and public schools miraculously become functional. Tanya Hernandez of Rutgers Univ. has written that employers perceive latino immigrants as more malleable and less choosy than American-born latinos (male). The latter group of young men then turn to gang and outlaw activities as their employment prospects dim. They will be a large component of tomorrow's American underclass. And, continuous waves of unskilled, uneducated latino immigrants willing to take jobs on any terms will only make worse dire economic straits for Americans of all colors.
Posted by: sandra m | June 11, 2007 at 07:39 PM