{"id":11637,"date":"2010-05-01T18:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/01\/heather-mac-donald-on-the-nyts-scurrilous-attack-on-az-sb-1070\/"},"modified":"2010-05-01T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:54:01","slug":"heather-mac-donald-on-the-nyts-scurrilous-attack-on-az-sb-1070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/01\/heather-mac-donald-on-the-nyts-scurrilous-attack-on-az-sb-1070\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Mac Donald on The NYT’s Scurrilous Attack on AZ SB 1070"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/font><\/a>.  Excerpt:<\/font><\/p>\n

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The so-called 287(g) program acts as a \u201cforce multiplier,\u201d as the Times<\/em> points out, adding local resources to immigration law enforcement\u2014just as Arizona\u2019s SB 1070 does. At heart, this force-multiplier effect is what the hysteria over Arizona\u2019s law is all about: SB 1070 ups the chances that an illegal alien will actually be detected and\u2014horror of horrors\u2014deported. The illegal-alien lobby, of which the New York Times<\/em> is a charter member, does not believe that U.S. immigration laws should be enforced. (The Times<\/em>\u2019s other contribution today to the prevailing de facto amnesty for illegal aliens was to fail to disclose, in an <\/font>article<\/font><\/a> about a brutal 2007 schoolyard execution in Newark, that the suspected leader was an illegal <\/font>alien<\/font><\/a> and member of the predominantly illegal-alien gang Mara Salvatrucha.) Usually unwilling for political reasons to say so explicitly, the lobby comes up with smoke screens\u2014such as the Times<\/em>\u2019s demagogic charges about SB 1070 as an act of \u201cracial separation\u201d\u2014to divert attention from the underlying issue. Playing the race card is the tactic of those unwilling to make arguments on the merits.<\/font><\/p>\n

The Arizona law is not about race; it\u2019s not an attack on Latinos or legal immigrants. It\u2019s about one thing and one thing only: making immigration enforcement a reality. It is time for a national debate: Do we or don\u2019t we want to enforce the country\u2019s immigration laws? If the answer is yes, the Arizona law is a necessary and lawful tool for doing so. If the answer is no, we should end the charade of inadequate, half-hearted enforcement, enact an amnesty now, and remove future penalties for immigration violations.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly right.  Race is not the issue.  Either enforce the nation's immigration laws or get rid of them and open the borders.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here.  Excerpt: The so-called 287(g) program acts as a \u201cforce multiplier,\u201d as the Times points out, adding local resources to immigration law enforcement\u2014just as Arizona\u2019s SB 1070 does. At heart, this force-multiplier effect is what the hysteria over Arizona\u2019s law is all about: SB 1070 ups the chances that an illegal alien will actually be … Continue reading “Heather Mac Donald on The NYT’s Scurrilous Attack on AZ SB 1070”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}