Senate Amendment to End “Sanctuary” Cities Defeated
 
Strong on enforcement? That’s what proponents of the Senate immigration bill would have you believe. Then how do many of these same Senators explain voting against an amendment that would have outlawed the noxious practice of local law enforcement officials willfully refusing to enforce federal immigration laws?
How does Republican Senator Lindsey Graham justify voting against this measure? My guess is that he is too wrapped-up in moral preening on the issue to even contemplate that he is being intellectually incoherent or inconsistent.
Senator Ted Kennedy, the principal architect of the Amnesty Bill, strains one’s credulity, as he tries to say with a straight face that his bill is tough on border enforcement and enforcement (wink, wink to La Raza representatives) yet in the same breath decries attempts at enforcement.
Upon close scrutiny, the proposed “enforcement” measures contained in the Senate bill are purely illusory and largely ineffectual. The reason for their inclusion was simply to continue the guile of mollifying those who don’t believe in open borders.
Friday, May 25, 2007
By Johnny K