Immigration Law Weekly, which supported the Dream Act, has a unique way of looking at yesterday's vote to block the bill from coming to the Senate floor.
"A count of states with unanimous votes by both senators from each state reveals that the vote fell along the old Union/Confederacy line. 9 out of 14 states that unanimously voted no represent the original Confederate states, and 12 out of 17 states that unanimously voted yes represent the original Union states. This is the 21st century, yet sadly, we appear to have regressed back to the days of the Civil War," ILW said in its daily update e-mail.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (4)
I know that illegal immigrant advocacy groups have been trying for a long time to equate brazen law breaking with civil rights but this takes brass ones! Maybe another way of looking at these votes is that certain parts of the country have less tolerance for law-breakers than others. Slavery was a grave societal wrong. Slaves were taken and brought to the United States against their will. Illegal immigrants flaunt our laws and arrive as uninvited squatters. Providing support to individuals who are ill-suited and unwilling to assimilate is recipe for disaster and an injustice to all law abiding citizens as well. These votes prove that the vast majority of Americans want our laws obeyed and the invasion stopped!
Posted by Thurston Howell IV | October 26, 2007 3:27 PM
The original Confederate States? Why, I do believe those also happen to be the SOUTHERNMOST states closest to the Mexican border, and not surprisingly the states most heavily saturated with illegal invaders and the chaos they bring with them.
I am sick, sick, SICK of these vampires pulling the race card!
Posted by Andrea Robertson | October 27, 2007 12:10 AM
Immigration Law Weekly is misusing statistics to incite civil unrest and hate. Really 9 out 14 - 12 out of 17, how earth shaking is that?
Looks like it is 64% and 70% respectively. Hardly sounds like we are going back to civil war era, especially considering we are only comparing the states that voted unanimously.
Posted by wm booth | October 27, 2007 7:08 PM
The article is erroneous - both of Florida's Senators voted for the Dream Act - Martinez and Nelson. Thus both Senators thumbed their noses at those they were elected to represent and chose to vote against the vast majority of Floridians who are opposed to ANY type of amnesty for lawbreakers. This is a pattern for these Senators - and one reason there is a recall effort against Martinez.
http://www.recallmartinez.org/
Nelson, recently reelected, must figure that he is safe - he isn't and voters are upset that he blatantly ignores them. Interesting that on the day before and of the Dream Act vote -these Senator's office phones were either: busy, no one answered or hooked up to a "full" answering machine.
THEY WONDER WHY CONGRESS'S APPROVAL RATING IS THE LOWEST IN HISTORY???
Posted by M. L. | October 28, 2007 8:53 AM