Under The Wire

The congress, in an effort to insure that Republicans are not blamed for the Dems refusal to pass the original bill, has voted to fund the DHS for 1 week while the bickering goes on.

The original bill included language that specifically prohibited the DHS from handing out free work permits to anyone caught here illegally. The permits have been printed up and are ready for distribution so this amendment was a just-in-time item. The Dems have been filibustering the bill with this amendment for the last 3 weeks or so, and the press is gleefully announcing that the DHS would be effectively abolished as a result of Republican partisanship.

The interim bill as passed, gives the administration 1 week to hand out as many work permits as they possibly can which I'm guessing would be a lot. I am visualizing air drops similar to the efforts in Viet-Nam to encourage the VC to surrender by dropping Chieu-Hoi leaflets which guaranteed safe passage to anyone holding one. Word on the ground was that these were used to give tired fighters a 2-week R&R in town after which they would slip back out into the country and resume fighting.

In this case the work permit would be used to avoid deportation, and make getting a drivers license and SS card easier. Voter registration goes along with that thanks to Motor Voter laws. This is the English model which is working so well in Jolly Olde England where Labor imports large numbers of Muslims from north Africa who go on welfare and vote Labor reliably.

Making a point to the public that these low-skilled illegals are taking the jobs that would otherwise go to low-skilled Americans, while it probably would help the Republicans, would be denounced as racist by the media and so won't happen.