One day

We’ve considered the basic facts before, but they must be seen again and again. Read Hugh Hewitt’s discussion of Section 601(h) of the bill. An illegal alien gets “provisional” (in reality life-time) legal “Z” status if no cause to reject him turns up within one day of his application. Foreigners who want to immigrate legally to the U.S. can spend years of their lives acquiring a green card—meaning legal permanent residency. Under this bill, tens of millions of illegal aliens get the functional equivalent of a green card in one day.

In itself, it is an outrage against all moral sense and decency, all belief in law and fairness. That it is being advanced under the rubric of “triggers” and “enforcement first” makes it, in addition to being a moral outrage, the biggest fraud in American history.

As Rick Darby writes at Reflecting Light:

[The bill] goes beyond ordinary politics and any rationale that people of good will can disagree about.

This is the kind of measure that authoritarian governments are prone to, a pure power play cynically designed to boost the control of self-serving, malevolent interests through vote buying, in open defiance of the wishes of the majority of citizens. It mocks the rule of law and ignores the common good.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 21, 2007 10:58 AM | Send