Free In Idaho!

If you’re waiting for Senator Larry Craig to take the right position on immigration, I fear you’re going to wait a long time.  He continues to disappoint the everyday Idahoan  by voting in favor of the Kennedy-Bush Amnesty Bill of 2007.  Senator Mike Crapo gets it… but Sen. Craig doesn’t.

I’d love a guy who can stand up and say the things that need to be said right now.  Things like this

I don’t support this immigration bill. I’ll explain why.

The first responsibility we have is to provide real border security so we don’t have massive illegal immigration coming across our borders.

This bill’s solution is to simply give the 12 million people who came here illegally — up through December 31 of last year — legal status and a work card.

Our laws need to be enforced — both at the border and at the workplace. Just as someone sneaking across the border illegally should be punished, so too should employers who break the law and hire illegal immigrants for low wages.

Once we’ve secured the border, and taken away the market for illegal labor, then will be the time to consider the best way to address the status of illegal immigrants in our country.

Yeah!  Now you’re talking.  Guess what?  Somebody DID stand up and say that.  Senator Byron Dorgan, North Dakota, said that in a great piece posted over on National Review Online.  Go read the whole thing.  He gets it.  Oh yeah… he’s a Democrat.  Don’t ever try to tell me I never give a Democrat credit once in awhile.

Update: Michelle has video of Dorgan speaking on the floor, over at Hot Air…

Update: Credit where it’s due, both of our Senators voted NAY on cloture.  Thank you!  And John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has an insider view of how it failed.  He made an interesting comment too

He says these Republicans were heavily influenced by business groups that want cheap labor no matter what the cost is for the rest of the country.

We all saw the potato farmers’ ads on TV the last couple days. Modern day slavery… reminds me of the arguments I heard in the movie “Amazing Grace”.

Little Green Footballs alerted me to this little tidbit of information from Britain ( The Times):

Muhammad is now second only to Jack as the most popular name for baby boys in Britain and is likely to rise to No 1 by next year, a study by The Times has found. The name, if all 14 different spellings are included, was shared by 5,991 newborn boys last year, beating Thomas into third place, followed by Joshua and Oliver.

Hmmm… so do a little Google on “homegrown terrorists” and you get an alarming number of articles.  Alarming for many reasons.  Canada recognizes the problem.  From an article at Canada’s NATIONAL POST:

The exact targets of these young terrorists were not revealed, but it is their profile that is most shocking: young Canadian Muslims who have somehow become radicalized while growing up in Canada.

They are “homegrown.” In other words, they have emerged from within Canada, rather than infiltrating it from abroad.

and this

The suicide bombings in London last July 7 that killed 52, for example, were the work of three British-born Muslims and a Jamaican-born immigrant who had converted to Islam. “The attacks showed very clearly that terrorism is a ‘homegrown’ problem,” said a British parliamentary committee’s report on the bombings.

I’m guessing that as long as the top three American baby boy names are Jacob, Michael, and Joshua most Americans will remain unaware… or more worried about right wing wackos… sigh.