The Eleven Percent Set Speaks

Congress has an appoval rating of 11% – it’s no wonder. Speaking for me, I’m disgusted that they are endorsing a de facto resurgence of Operation Wetback. Even though legislators that are supposedly on the side of human rights are in control of the Hill, they’ve done nothing to enact policies that will allow people and families ensnared in the current/broken immigration system to come out of the shadows.

Instead, the suits and pearls are acting in a bipartisan fashion to urge things like this

Already, half of the 6,000 National Guard troops sent to help secure the border with Mexico are gone with the rest leaving next summer, as planned.

“Americans could rightly question why the administration has dedicated 160,000 National Guardsmen to maintain order and security in Iraq, while eliminating the less than 6,000 Guardsmen performing an important task on our own southern border, which most agree is in a state of crisis,” Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., wrote in July to President Bush. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Pete Domenici, R-N.M., also signed the letter.

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More militarization with no talk of addressing economic/trade policies that have created the magnet of migration is worthless blather. Get moving, Senators!

 

The Best and the Brightest?

This is rich

A federal employee who took bribes to boost test scores for Arizona National Guard applicants is believed to have helped dozens of soldiers enlist under fraudulent circumstances.

Christine P. Thomas, formerly of Sierra Vista, is set to be sentenced in federal court in Tucson later this month under a plea deal she struck with prosecutors.

Thomas took bribes to boost test scores for Army Guard applicants between 2000 and 2002, court records show. About 70 test scores for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery were rigged in a conspiracy that involved local Guard recruiters and Thomas. The test scores help determine what job a recruit may be assigned.

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And for your daily dose of irony.

The National Guard applicants involved in cheating will not face any consequences.