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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (239632)	3/18/2002 10:43:09 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush isn't worried about alienating loyalist voters newsandopinion.com \| In the same week that the House passed a bill 275 to 137 to allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country while they apply for legal residency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service had to cop to the ugly fact that six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it sent out a letter authorizing student visas for two of the dead hijackers. President Bush was "plenty hot" about the student visas, while he praised the House for passing the immigration bill. After all, members were aiding his effort to reach out to Latino voters. Apparently -- and wrongly -- Bush isn't worried about alienating those voters who don't believe that immigration laws were made to be broken. To be fair, the House bill is not the outrageous blanket amnesty that some critics make it out to be. The measure would allow people illegally in the United States to remain here while they apply for legal residency, not citizenship. They'd need a job or family relationship to qualify for legal residency and they would have to pay the INS a $1,000 fee. Hey, people may come here illegally, then marry or settle down and want to become legitimate. Why not make it easier? Two reasons. One: INS inefficiency. Or as Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform asked, "Do we really want the same agency that issued a visa to (a dead) Mohamed Atta to be doing investigations and background checks on 500,000 or so people, about whom the only thing we know for certain is that they violated our immigration laws?" Two: Since the House bill would allow immigrants to forgo an investigation in their home countries, it could make it easier for those with criminal records to win resident visas. Already, according to a General Accounting Office report released in January, immigration fraud is "pervasive and significant and will increase." Worse: Even the "INS does not know the extent of the immigration benefit fraud problem." (Benefit here means naturalization or an adjustment in status, as in the posthumous Atta student visa notice.) The other reason: "This sends out a signal that if you come to the United States illegally, you eventually will be rewarded," noted Mehlman. The White House argues that Bush is working on reforming the INS. During the 2000 campaign, Bush proposed separating the INS into two entities, one to welcome immigrants, the other to enforce laws. INS Commissioner James W. Ziglar is working on it. Spokesman Ken Lisaius noted that the administration has ordered that an investigation into the dead Atta letter be concluded within 30 days. That's not enough. Bush should not be pushing for looser immigration rules when the INS is sending out visa letters for dead terrorists. It's that simple. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., believes that if the House knew about the INS visas for the dead terrorists, the vote on the immigration bill may have been different. Aide Lara Kennedy noted, "This measure is going to be held up in the Senate." Good. Meanwhile, the White House has to recognize how immigration policies benefited the 19 hijackers. "There has been a firm resistance on the part of the administration to learn any immigration lessons from 9/11," said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. "It's not a good sign. In this war, the home front is not a figure of speech." In 1996, the Clinton White House put Veep Al Gore in charge of Citizenship USA, a drive to speed up naturalization for what savvy operatives saw as a great way to create instant Democratic voters among more than a million new citizens. Haste meant mistakes. Some 180,000 people became citizens before the FBI could do background checks; it turned out that 11,000 of them had felony records. Critics on the right were outraged that the Dems would jeopardize public safety to win votes. If Bush thinks that those same people won't be angry if he turns a blind eye to immigration abuses in his quest to woo more Latino votes, he is in for a rude awakening. newsandopinion.com

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (239632)	3/18/2002 10:54:26 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Respond to of 769670

Mein Kampf for sale, in Arabic By Sean O'Neill and John Steele (Filed: 19/03/2002) AN Arabic translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf which has become a bestseller in the Palestinian territories is now on sale in Britain. The book, Hitler's account of his life and anti-Semitic ideology written while he was in prison in the 1920s, is normally found in Britain in academic or political bookshops. But The Telegraph found it on sale in three newsagents on Edgware Road, central London, an area with a large Arab population. The book, originally translated in the 1960s and revived by Bisan, a Lebanese publisher in the 1990s, has a picture of Hitler and a swastika on the cover and is selling for £10. Although the Bavarian state government, which claims copyright in the text, has tried to stop its publication around the world, Mein Kampf became the sixth best selling book in the Palestinian Authority area. Copies of the translation are understood to have been distributed to London shops towards the end of last year and have been selling well. In the preface, Luis al-Haj, the translator, states: "National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds multiplied under each star." The book was on sale alongside newspapers, magazines, cigarettes and sweets at a newsagent's kiosk. "People are interested in it," said the shop assistant. "It is legal to sell it. London is a free city and, anyway, he has been dead a very long time." Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon, said the distribution of an Arabic version of Mein Kampf was "a very worrying trend" and he would be tabling questions to the Home Secretary. portal.telegraph.co.uk

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (239632)	3/19/2002 10:38:28 AM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Respond to of 769670

Sudan's militant Muslim regime is slaughtering Christians who refuse to convert to Islam, according to the head of an aid group who recently returned from the African nation. You cannot condemn an entire religion because a few thousand kill murder and rape hundreds of thousands of Christians. At least that is what we are told, ad infinitum, by the press and our leaders and, of course, the Islamic community which claims to abhor violence. By the way, what is Jesse Jackson doing while all these black Christians are being savaged. No money or executive positions in it, I guess, and I guess the NAACP is too busy picketing over the Confederate Flag to bother with their brethern in the Sudan being raped and pillaged. Ken