The Judge And The President vs. The People
by Phyllis Schlafly, December 22, 2004
Another activist judge strikes again! Federal Judge David C. Bury
overturned the will of the people and enjoined enforcement of
Arizona's Proposition 200, which would require Arizonans to
provide proof of citizenship in order to register to vote and
require a valid ID to be presented when applying for benefits paid
for by Arizona taxpayers.
It's clear that Prop 200 represents the people's
demand that our government enforce our laws against illegal
aliens. It passed by 56-44 percent even though it was opposed by
Big Government (all public officials of both parties), Big
Business (the Chamber of Commerce), Big Labor (the Service
Employees International Union), and Big Church (the Catholic
Bishops).
Even 47 percent of Arizona Hispanics voted in
favor of Prop 200. The immigrants who had stood in long lines to
come here legally see no reason to allow their tax dollars to go
to the 4,000 aliens who illegally come across Arizona's border
every night.
Judge Bury was appointed by President George W.
Bush. That prompts the question: Has a Bush judge already turned
into a supremacist judge who ignores the will of the people in
favor of his own, or Bush's, policy preferences?
Bush's plan to give illegal aliens "guest-worker"
status, which forgoes punishment for their law violations and
therefore meets the definition of amnesty, was shot down by
Congress earlier this year. Then, just a couple of weeks after
November 2nd, Bush went down to Santiago, Chile and insulted those
who voted for him by announcing that he would expend the
"political capital" earned in his reelection to grant guest-worker
status to millions of illegal aliens.
Two dozen congressmen wrote a letter to the
President opposing his plan, primarily for national security
reasons, but Bush brushed them off with elitist disdain. "I get
letters all the time from people who are trying to steer me one
way or the other," he said; "I'm going to move forward."
Bush made his commitment during a half-hour
meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox. Bush said, "I made it
very clear my position that we need to make sure that where
there's a willing worker and a willing employer, that that job
ought to be filled legally in cases where Americans will not fill
that job."
With Bush's mantra, repeated ad nauseam, it's no
wonder that Bernard Kerik didn't think it important to reveal to
the White House vetting process that he was a "willing employer"
who employed a housekeeper/nanny who was an alien "willing worker"
illegally living in the underground economy. Of course, he wasn't
paying Social Security taxes for her.
Maybe he expected President Bush's attitude to be:
"No problem, Kerik. Since the nanny has a job, I'll just give her
a guest-worker permit, and in three years she can get it renewed
and then have permanent residency."
When Bush speaks of a "willing employer" and a
"willing worker," he never talks about the wage the employer is
willing to pay or the wage the worker is willing to accept. There
are billions of non-Americans who are willing to work for Third
World wages and, as the Bernard Kerik case proves, there are U.S.
multimillionaires who would rather enjoy the cheap labor provided
by aliens than pay the wages Americans expect.
The way President Bush steamrollered the
Intelligence bill through Congress this December, demanding that
the House abandon its sensible provisions for border security,
indicates that he may be willing to split the Republican Party in
order to carry out his promise to Vicente Fox. Rep. James
Sensenbrenner (R-WI) emerged a hero in the legislative battle
because he fought all the way to include strong border security
and a prohibition against granting driver's licenses to illegal
aliens, finally saying that the failure to include this "will keep
Americans unnecessarily at risk."
It was dishonest of the media and the
pro-open-borders Senators to try to pit Sensenbrenner against the
9/11 Commission's recommendations. In fact, the final report of
the 9/11 Commission came out strongly for the necessity of
clamping down on border security and driver's licenses to illegal
aliens.
The 9/11 Commission report stated: "It is
elemental to border security to know who is coming into the
country.... At many entry points to vulnerable facilities,
including gates for boarding aircraft, sources of identification
are the last opportunity to ensure that people are who they say
they are and to check whether they are terrorists."
Even though the 9/11 hijackers' driver's licenses
enabled them to freely travel throughout our country like American
citizens with easy access to vehicles and buildings, all the time
concealing their terrorist designs, the Senators and the White
House irrationally maintained that driver's licenses should not be
denied to illegal aliens. Since Rep. Sensenbrenner's courageous
stand forced these issues onto the national news, we hope Congress
will deal with the problem of illegal aliens in January.
Further
Reading:
Judges,
Immigration
Read this article online: http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2004/dec04/04-12-22.html
Read our previous article on this issue:
Presidente Busho
appointed judge demonstrates judicial activism
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readers, supporters and opponents a Merry Christmas. Let us all
remember the Reason for The Season. This will be our last update on
this issue until after Christmas.
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