Comments on: Look Before You Leap

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:24:00 +0000

I don’t think that politicians will ever feel accountable to their constituents, and I do think they will continue to maintain the line of thinking that “Hispanics are outpopulating everyone else; therefore, we have to allow them to do whatever they want and ignore whatever laws they please.” (Of course, there is no natural reason why Hispanics are a fast-growing group; this is not some inexplicable phenomenon for politicians to take account of but a situation they themselves directly engineer by not enforcing immigration law against illegals from Central America. It’s also a situation that politicians who, no matter their ideology, are by definition more powerful when there are more people dependent on the state and thus stand to benefit from.)

Oddly, there is no issue on which Americans agree more than enforcement of immigration law — stricter enforcement consistently garners 80% approval across the population. And yet politicians remain as deaf to the people’s desire as they are to their duty to ensure enforcement of the law.

The point being, I suppose, that it’s up to the private sector to come up with some mechanism or incentive structure to ensure that illegal immigration is finally addressed. Since the public unfortunately lacks the ability to deport people here illegally, that would presumably mean that employers stop hiring them. Employers obviously will only do that when forced to — either by the law (unlikely), voter boycotts, or cheaper sources of production, including legal workers (unlikely as long as unemployment benefits keep morphing into a permanent welfare program and Americans have no incentive to trade down in the labor market) or robots (a potential solution in agriculture, cleaning, dishwashing and perhaps landscaping).

We citizens will have to see what can be done, assuming that we want to continue living in a socially functional, prosperous country. Fingers crossed, but I sadly have no faith any longer in politicians of either stripe to act in the national interest … it’s really quite a shame that so many millions of Americans have seen their faith in our public institutions eroded by the destruction of the rule of law in the name of political correctness and cheap(er than legal) labor.

By: Moon-howler

Moon-howler — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:46:59 +0000

Too bad that Chairman Stewart is now trying to get elected to something else via the Immigration Bandwagon.

Arizona SB 1070 is actually quite different from the current Prince William County resolution which Miller points out. Removing ‘probable cause’ did much to restore the reputation of the county.

By: realist

realist — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:57:44 +0000

Corey Stewart, apparently, was on Fox and Friends lying about the Prince William County law being identical to Arizona. Clearly, from your article here, that is not the case. The PWC law was ameneded and amended to look nothing like its original form. Even the chairmans republican state reps have dissed his recent actions to get a “petition” going to do be tougher on illegal immigration. I simply can’t take him seriously.

By: Richard Wyhardt

Richard Wyhardt — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:25:54 +0000

Sara has obviously conducted some in depth study on her own to determine that “most locals feel Stewart used this as a means to get himself elected”. If it was truly one of his proposals, then it was one that did, in fact, help to get him elected. That’s why citizens vote, Sara. You pull the lever for the candidate that is “promising” to tackle an issue that citizens are concerned with. In this case, Stewart was true to his word. He and Gov Christy, NJ, should be applauded. Like any sane individual, you generally want to stop a situation that you can see escalating into something undesired before it is out of hand. Thank you C. Stewart for having the good sense to see past your nose.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:32:14 +0000

If you read some of the community blogs around PWC, you’ll see that there has essentially been no real change. The houses that foreclosed when frightened Latinos left the area were bought up by speculators who in turn decided to rent them to groups of men. Most locals think that Chairman Stewart used this a means to get himself elected, and he continues to use the measure to divide the community for his own benefit.

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By: Sean Walsh

Sean Walsh — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:54:27 +0000

I live in Prince William County and am very familiar with the 7-11 you mentioned. I pass this every Sunday morning on my way home from Mass. My comment is that I haven’t seen a great change in the number of people hanging around the parking lot.