Mailbag: Is Swati Pandey soft on border-wall-hopping terrorists, a shill for anti-immigrant zealots or both?
Two views of Swati Pandey's recent Opinion Daily "Tancredo moves the lethal center."
Citing that hypothetical but remarkably popular suicide bomber from Mexico, Richard Eide says one o' these days...
Regarding your article on Tancredo's politics about illegal immigration, everything you said, and everything anybody else has said all goes out the window the moment we have a suicide bombing in this country. If the bomber is found to have come across the southern border the argument is over. The wall will go up ASAP along with the military on the border. Congress will be down there digging the fence post holes themselves, anything to keep their jobs in the face of a furious voter revolt. One suicide bomber and the immigration battle is over.
The tersely named "Raj," on the other hand, feels Pandey is just helping Tancredo demonize poor undocumented workers:
"But if Tancredo's ad — and Barack Obama's speculation — are to be believed, immigration will be a major issue in 2008, along with terrorism. And recent numbers suggest that voters are leaning toward tough-on-illegal-immigrant positions."
Swati Pandey needs to do more research before printing this garbage. This is not what we heard from the voters in Virginia and Kentucky two states where the Dems won handily instead of being a mouthpiece for anti-immigratn folks. For a reality check read Anita Kumar's article in Washington Post...Swati's is garbage in garbage out, a kind of reporter that Tancredo relies on to spread his lies.
RegardsRaj
From the Kumar article 'raj' references.
Prince William slowed its march toward Democrats on Nov. 6. Once reliably Republican, Prince William voters supported Timothy M. Kaine (D) for governor in 2005 and James Webb (D) over Republican George Allen last year for U.S. Senate. Based on those results, Democrats were hoping to unseat several GOP legislators from Prince William. Stewart's push to crack down on illegal immigration doomed Democrats' chances of making big gains. Democrats did pick up one open seat in Prince William after Paul Nichols defeated Republican Faisal Gill. Republicans also failed to unseat Sen. Charles J. Colgan (D-Prince William), despite his opponent's efforts to label him as soft on immigration.
Raj ought to learn to read further into an article. Republicans ought to learn to nominate folks that, to paraphrase Pres. Clinton, look like their voters.
And of course there was a connection between the 9/11 guys and more traditional illegal immigrants.
Hijackers Hani Hanjour and Khalid Almihdhar meet Luis Martinez-Flores, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Falls Church, Virginia. Martinez-Flores is paid $100 cash to accompany the two to a local Department of Motor Vehicles office and sign forms attesting to their permanent residence in Virginia. Given new state identity cards, the cards are used the next day to get Virginia identity cards for several (five to seven) additional hijackers, including Abdulaziz Alomari, Ahmed Alghamdi, Majed Moqed, and Salem Alhazmi. [Arizona Daily Star, 9/28/2001; Washington Post, 9/30/2001; Wall Street Journal]
Maybe the LA Times board should think twice about Gil Cedillo's 'pet issue' of giving ID cards out to anyone.
Any no one blames illegals or legal immigrants for everything. But from education to traffic to growing income inequlity to loss of open space, mass immigration makes things worse, not better.
Posted by: Mitchell Young | November 15, 2007 at 01:35 PM