Although I disagree with most of what they write in opinion pieces, I had the impression that Immigration Daily (ILW) was a publication for professional pro-open borders lawyers and such for straight news and information about their issues. But, whew, when I saw this editorial just now I realize they are just one more leftist rag inflaming racial tensions, and it seems inflaming racial tensions is the only arrow in their quiver. Look at this plea for signatures on a petition for America’s Voice.
Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, says that he believes in the Rule of the Law, and that that is his reason for hounding the undocumented, whose presence in the US offends the law, in his view. He believes that the 287(g) agreement that his law enforcement agency currently has with ICE permits him to use any excuse to stop anyone and demand that they prove that their presence here is authorized under our laws.
Of course, all this is pure poppycock. Mr. Arpaio’s real problem is no doubt the fact that those whom his deputies stop have brown skin. We do not believe that Mr. Arpaio’s people believe in harassing the undocumented from Europe. As many pro-immigrant bodies have long claimed, Mr. Arpaio does not believe in the Rule of the Law, rather he believes in the Rule of the Law only when it is convenient to him.
Besides the fact that very few European illegal immigrants would enter the US from Mexico, how the hell do you know if Arpaio’s deputies wouldn’t stop them as well? What! You truly believe that Arpaio’s guys ask someone who is breaking the law if they are perhaps illegal Albanians, and then say,”Oh go on your way, you are a white guy! ” You people are nuts! Where are your facts?
Here is what Dan Stein, writing at the Federation for American Immigration Reform website, had to say about America’s Voice last month.
America’s Voice Struggles to Find a Voice
By Dan Stein, President of FAIR
America’s Voice, one of Washington’s newest “instant” organizations created by a handful of big foundations virtually overnight, is helmed by the legendary Frank Sharry – widely regarded as one of the most unsuccessful legislative prognosticators in the nation’s Capitol. Judging from its website traffic report, America’s Voice must be pretty soft. No one is listening.
Sharry created America’s Voice after he again miscalculated in a failed strategy to pass the mass amnesty bill in 2007. Now, Sharry and his allies have decided it is time to jettison their corporate allies who’d proven impossible to work with because of on-going disagreements over guest worker programs.
Under Sharry’s leadership, America’s Voice is basically a well-funded far-left smear blog designed to look like a clever “hit machine.” Working closely with the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, Sharry’s group has been trying to smear America’s true immigration reformers on a daily basis.
Problem is, no one seems to be listening. Internet traffic surveys suggest America’s Voice isn’t generating much interest from the general public. It struggles to attract less than 10,000 unique users a month, and most of those are probably professional people on the same big foundation dole that Sharry rides. Just proves that all the money in the world won’t help if your ideas are bankrupt.
I guess that petition Immigration Daily is promoting is an attempt to drum up some traffic for a sluggish America’s Voice!