My guest column today on the Southern Political Report, an Insider Advantage publication. Mr. Tom Baxter editor.<\/p>\n
My column below, in response to Mr. Baxter’s column of January 27, 2008: “Nashville vote indicates immigration issues have cooled”<\/strong> HERE<\/a><\/p>\n We thank Mr. Baxter for the space. My original column on Southern Poitical Report HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Nashville vote indicates immigration issues have cooled? \u201cAbsurdo\u201d says Georgia immigration activist <\/strong><\/p>\n January 29, 2009 <\/p>\n D.A. King<\/p>\n \u201cIf Washington still wants to “do something” about immigration, we propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders.\u201d <\/em>The Wall Street Journal, July 3, 1984<\/p>\n The premise that the recent win for the well-funded open borders crowd in defeating the Nashville charter amendment making English the official language of government there somehow means that \u201cthe immigration issue has cooled\u201d is, well\u2026 absurdo<\/em>.<\/p>\n While in temporarily diminished numbers, illegal aliens are still flowing across our southern border. U.S. Border Patrol Agents are still risking their lives<\/a> to protect us. Criminal employers are still rewarding the wage thieves and our tax dollars are still going to subsidize these victims of geography.<\/p>\n And we are doing it in two languages.<\/p>\n The huge majority of the American people are still outraged over it \u2013 even while being told that taxes, soaring unemployment, the American health care crisis, the declining quality of our educational system and the growing disrespect for the rule of law are totally unrelated to the fact that there are about twenty million mostly low-skilled aliens depressing the American Dream in unpunished violation of American law.<\/p>\n What has changed is the fact that — ever-hopeful we will forget about it — the mainstream media has put the issue on the back burner.<\/p>\n While it is certainly true that the two presidential candidates were in agreement on repeating the failed amnesty of 1986, the assumption that they didn\u2019t talk about it is equally incorrect.<\/p>\n Just not so much in Ingl\u00e9s.<\/em><\/p>\n During the campaign, they both talked about it mucho \u2013 but mostly in the Spanish language media. <\/p>\n In the native language of the majority of the illegal aliens, Obama repeatedly made the promise to attempt a do-over of the ’86 amnesty in his first year in office. McCain raised the ante on Univision, a Spanish language television network. He said he would present it to Congress \u201con my first day.\u201d<\/p>\n Which is why many conservatives went fishing on Election Day, including this one. <\/p>\n Two candidates for president each making two sets of promises in two different languages. The common and desperate message from each: \u201cvoto para m\u00ed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n