Hugh On American Jihad

AMEN, Hugh Hewitt!!

AMEN, Hugh Hewitt!!

Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:26 PM

An OUTSTANDING assessment! And short and sweet as well…

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Two Domestic Jihadist Plots In Two Months Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 2:05 PM

It must be time to issue probationary 601(h) visas to millions of illegals in the country regardless of their country of origin or their ideology.

The New York Times notices the deep split in the GOP ranks (and also reports that the Wall Street Journal’s Paul Gigot has rejected the National Review’s invitation to debate the immigration bill.)

The big split within the GOP is over the security provisions of the bill which are simply not serious, and the arguments in their defense which aren’t persuasive.

The Fort Dix Six and the Kennedy Airport Four (plus one TB patient) are illustrating in serial fashion that the U.S. has a huge security problem that begins with its porous borders. Legitimizing hundreds of thousands of hostiles in our midst –even though the vast majority of 601(h)ers are here just to work and raise families– is a non-starter to every realist about the terrorist threat facing the country.

MUST add this article here. I placed it in the comments but decided to place it here also.

Debra Saunders

Bush and McCain both make the dishonest argument that the only alternative is to deport every illegal immigrant. Wrong. Any rube can tell you that the most likely alternative is the status quo.

What is more, Bush and McCain do a disservice to imply that racism is the key reason why critics oppose the Kennedy-Kyl bill.

Message to Washington: If you want Americans to approve of an immigration compromise, show some respect. We, too, care about America’s soul — we value the important legacy of immigrants to America, but nonetheless fear what rewarding illegal immigration might do to this country.

I understand how folks who think as I do will be described in the future, but I do believe we deserve better treatment from George W. Bush today.