Trouble in the ranks at the California GOP convention:
But immigration was the issue of passion Saturday, and Kaloogian was the candidate capturing it at his rally with Tancredo in a crowded white tent outside the convention hotel near San Francisco Airport. Next to the stage, two boys wearing Kaloogian T-shirts carried posters reading, “No Terrorist Driver’s License.” The signs showed a driver’s license bearing a photo of Osama bin Laden. Tancredo, who flew in from Colorado for the rally, said that America had taken “rabid, overstated multiculturalism” too far.
“People are still coming across our borders with the intent to do terrible things to us,” he told the cheering crowd. He called Bush’s proposal “lousy, lousy policy.”
Gloria Irwin, the Glenn County Republican Party chairwoman, said she agreed that Bush’s plan was “terrible.”
There are valid reasons for people to oppose immigration. But this “terrorist driver’s license” bit is basically a scare tactic. No U.S. terrorist has snuck into the country through the Mexican border. They haven’t needed to; there’s easier ways to get in.
Anyway, it doesn’t look like the Bush immigrant work plan is going over so well among the faithful.
Greetings,
Those that held the “no terrorist drivers licenses” signs seem to have forgotten that one of the most deadly terrorist attacks on American soil was perpetrated by Tim McVeigh, an American with a valid driver’s license.
It seems that the possession of a driver’s license is irrelevant to the real discussion, how to protect our borders while being fair to those who seek real political or economic refuge in the greatest country ever conceived by human intelligentsia.
–jeff-perado