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Two things jump out as being wrong here. First illegal alien working on a base and then most of them not being held for deportation after being caught. Dave Gibson The Examiner On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained 25 illegal aliens who attempted to enter Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, SC. All of the [...] Rick Oltman The momentum has shifted dramatically in the immigration enforcement saga. Anti-amnesty sentiment has never been higher in the country than it is today and the president’s lawsuit against the newest Arizona law is purely defensive as he and his administration struggle to preserve, protect and defend the de facto amnesty we have lived with for years. Forget an official amnesty, it ain’t gonna happen, at least for now. Official amnesty would be the death knell of politicians who passed it and they know it. What they are doing now with all the usual whiny racial rhetoric, name calling and court challenges is trying to preserve the unofficial de facto amnesty that has existed in our country for almost two decades. Continue reading Preserve, Protect and Defend the…De Facto Amnesty I admire Joseph E. Stiglitz, because he has a social conscience and a sense of justice, the absence of which turns economists into monsters. Despite his virtues and Nobel Prize, Stiglitz sometimes falls down as an economist. Readers of my new book, How The Economy Was Lost, will be aware that I take him to task for the Solow-Stiglitz production function, which seriously misleads economics about the scarcity of nature’s capital. Another of Stiglitz’s shortcomings, one that he shares with most economists, is his habit of reifying the market economy. The market is a social organization. The results of market activity reflect the behavior of the human participants in the market. When economists reify the market, they attribute the behavior, ethics, and morality—or lack thereof—of humans to the market itself. Thus, Stiglitz describes human failures as “market failures,” and he asks in his new book, Freefall, “why didn’t the market exercise discipline on bad corporate governance and bad incentive structures?” Social institutions are inanimate. They do not possess life and cannot impose good outcomes on human action. Libertarians also reify markets, but instead of blaming markets for human failures, they imbue the market with human virtues and even with the super-human virtue of producing results that human intelligence cannot improve upon. Economists’ “risk models” for which Nobel Prizes have been awarded and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan attributed the social institution with economic wisdom beyond man’s. It is likely that the practice of reifying the market economy developed as a form of shorthand. It was convenient to say that the market did this and that rather than to have to describe the human interactions that produced the results. The market was transformed from an abstraction into a life form and became the actor instead of the humans operating within the institution. If the outcomes are good, libertarians attribute the good results to the market’s virtues; if bad, libertarians blame human interference—government regulation. Economists of Stiglitz’s persuasion see it in the opposite way. Good results are produced by regulation; bad results are the result of allowing the market to make decisions on its own. Continue reading Economics in Freefall Shern-Min Chow Houston — A new website that went live this month, boasts that it is ‘the first public anonymous publishing service for reporting on illegal alien activity in the United States.’ IllegalAlienReport.com is the brainchild of 26-year-old George O’Brien, who has been following the illegal immigration debate with interest. ‘I realized I wouldn’t recognize an illegal [...] Hopefully Reid will be history! Scott Wong Immigration reform critics are seizing on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comments this week that seemed to downplay the number of illegal immigrants working construction jobs in Nevada, even though a recent study found that his home state had the largest percentage of undocumented workers in the country. When a reporter from KLAS-TV in Las Vegas told Reid a 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report found 17 percent of the nation’s construction workers were undocumented, the Nevada Democrat replied: ‘That may be some place, but it’s not here in Nevada.’ Political opponents have tried to twist Reid’s words, saying he believes there are no illegal workers in Nevada. But Reid spokesman Jim Manley on Wednesday clarified his boss’ comments, saying the majority leader was simply disputing the reporter’s statistic and did not say the state has zero illegal workers. Continue reading Critics slam Reid immigration remark AP Dallas Morning News DALLAS — Maria Elvia Ross was a Dallas County jail guard assigned to the sheriff department’s respected quality assurance team, considered an elite unit within the jails. She also, allegedly, is an illegal immigrant. Now Ross, who resigned Tuesday, faces deportation and Dallas County officials say they [...] This is what happens when pro illegal immigration politicians write laws. The provide no enforcement or penalties. Thus the law has no teeth. It is as if the law doesn’t exist. Thomas Burr Washington, DC — Thousands of Utah companies may be breaking state law by hiring employees without using a federal work status verification [...] Pat Buchanan WND For those who can yet recall the backyard blast furnaces of Mao’s China in the 1950s and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to re-instill peasant values in the 1970s, the news was jarring. In 2011, said the Financial Times, China will surpass the United States as first manufacturing power, a title America has [...] Kyle Daly - Workers at an El Mirage business that was being raided may have been tipped off by a phone call minutes before Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies arrived, authorities said Friday. Seven people were arrested during the raid at Parks and Sons Inc., a trash-collecting business near Grand [...] Kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin was sentenced to 27 years in a federal prison for his conviction on federal financial fraud charges. U.S. District Judge Linda Reade filed the sentencing memorandum Monday and will present the sentence in federal court Tuesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rubashkin was convicted last November on 86 counts of fraud in connection with the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa. The prison term will be followed by five years of parole, according to Reade’s ruling. Rubashkin also will be required to make restitution of nearly $27 million to several financial institutions. Prosecutors had requested a 25-year sentence, according to the Des Moines Register. Continue reading Rubashkin sentenced to 27 years |
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