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Weekend Immigration News Round-Up

Posted September 6, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.
Categories: Federal Immigration Policy

Sunday’s New York Times featured an editorial on the lies and nonsense that underlie the current immigration hysteria. The editors point out that anti-immigrant fear mongering is at caliente just as undocumented immigration is hitting modern lows. And that many of the claims used to fan the fires of fear are baseless:

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the country’s harshest anti-immigrant bill and went to the White House to lecture the president about border control. She raised the emotional pitch with lurid stories of beheadings in the desert. Her fellow Arizona politicians said the next step was to rewrite state laws and the Constitution to keep pregnant aliens from coming over to spawn terrorist babies on our soil. Senator John McCain won a tough primary by creating yet another new, tougher version of himself, who promised to complete the danged fence.

These Arizonans are selling a vision of border chaos and violence disconnected from reality. If it is about drug wars, someone tell the mayors and the sheriffs of border cities, where violent crime is down. Some of America’s safest cities are in border states. Desert decapitators are a myth, unless Governor Brewer, who ducked questions about them last week, has evidence she is not sharing.

Jan Brewer has finally walked back her claim that headless bodies are being found in the Arizona desert. She told the AP that she “misspoke.” The Christian Science Monitor points out that a lot of Arizona pols have had speaking problems when it comes to immigration. Remember John McCain telling Bill O’Reilly about the “drivers of cars with illegals in it … are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway?”

And New York Magazine’s blog had an interesting rejoinder to anti-immigrant rabble-rouser Tom Tancredo’s claim that the allegedly Muslim Obamas have scrubbed the White House of anything to do with Christianity: