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READ MY LIPS: NO NEW AMNESTY by Ann Coulter

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On the bright side, if President Bush's amnesty proposal for illegal
immigrants ends up hurting Republicans and we lose Congress this November,
maybe the Democrats will impeach him and we'll get Cheney as president.

At least Bush has dropped his infernal references to slacker Americans when
talking about illegal immigrants. In his speech Monday night, instead of 47
mentions of "jobs Americans won't do," Bush referred only once to "jobs
Americans are not doing" - which I take it means other than border
enforcement and intelligence-gathering at the CIA. For the record, I'll
volunteer right now to clean other people's apartments if I don't have to
pay taxes on what I earn.

Also, someone must have finally told Bush that the point about America being
a "nation of immigrants" is moronic. All nations are "nations of
immigrants" - as Peter Brimelow pointed out brilliantly in his 1992 article
in National Review on immigration, which left nothing for anyone else to say
(Time to Rethink Immigration? ).

Of the "nation of immigrants" locution, Brimelow says:

"No discussion of U.S. immigration policy gets far without someone making
this helpful remark. As an immigrant myself, I always pause respectfully.
You never know. Maybe this is what they're taught to chant in schools
nowadays, a sort of multicultural Pledge of Allegiance. ... Do they really
think other nations sprouted up out of the ground?"

Brimelow then ran through the Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman-French, Welsh and
Celtic immigrant influences in Britain alone.

Instead of a moratorium on new immigration, I'd settle for a moratorium on
the use of the expression "We're a nation of immigrants." Throw in a ban on
"Diversity is our strength" and you've got my vote for life.

Bush has also apparently learned that the word "amnesty" does not poll well.
On Monday night, he angrily denounced the idea of amnesty just before
proposing his own amnesty program. The difference between Bush's amnesty
program and "amnesty" is: He'd give amnesty only to people who have been
breaking our laws for many years - not just a few months. (It's the same
program that allows Ted Kennedy to stay in the Senate.)

Bush calls this the "rational middle ground" because it recognizes the
difference between "an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently and
someone who has worked here for many years." Yes, the difference is: One of
them has been breaking the law longer. If our criminal justice system used
that logic, a single murder would get you the death penalty, while serial
killers would get probation.

Bush claimed the only other alternative - I assume this is the "irrational
extreme" - is "a program of mass deportation." Really? Is the only
alternative to legalizing tax cheats "a program of mass arrest of tax
cheats"?

This is the logic of the pro-abortion zealots (aka "the Democratic Party"):
Either lift every single restriction on abortion or ... every woman in
America will be impregnated by her father and die in a back-alley abortion!

Those are your only two answers? Do you need another minute?

How about the proposal made on Brimelow's Web site, Vdare.com, that illegal
immigrants be told they have two months to leave the country voluntarily and
not have their breaking of our immigration laws held against them when they
apply for citizenship from their home countries - or not leave and be banned
from U.S. citizenship forever?

Or how about just not giving illegal aliens green cards - as Bush is
proposing - and deport them when we catch them?

Instead of choosing immigrants based on the longevity of their lawbreaking,
another idea is to choose the immigrants we want, for example, those who
speak English or have special skills. (And by "special skills" I don't mean
giving birth to an anchor baby in a border-town emergency room.)

Why not use immigration the way sports teams use the draft - to upgrade our
roster? We could take our pick of the world's engineers, doctors,
scientists, uh ... smoking-hot Latin guys who stand around not wearing
shirts between workouts. Or, you know, whatever ...

As Peter Brimelow says in his book Alien Nation: Common Sense About
America's Immigration Disaster, why not choose immigrants who are better
than us?

Bush thinks it's not fair to favor people with special skills - a policy
evidenced by his Harriet Miers pick.

How about this: It's not fair to want to go out with someone just because
that person is attractive and has a good personality because it
discriminates against people who are ugly with bad social skills! That's our
immigration policy.

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