Tag: illegal immigration

Friday night videos – episode 34

This oughta be an interesting one, kids. Let’s see what trouble I can dredge up this weekend as we ease into summer.

I’ll begin with an issue which is sure to be contentious this summer – the lack of fiscal responsibility in Washington, D.C. The group is called “Bankrupting America” and the process of doing so is what Congress seems to be ignoring in favor of these pressing issues detailed. Call it fiddling while Rome burns.

But Newt Gingrich has some solutions to what ails us, does he not? Or is he just pimping his new book? You decide.

Yet there are others profiting on the other side. We had no idea public service could be so, well, self-serving. Check this out from Americans for Limited Government.

Then again, there are many in Maryland who would be happy just to have a job. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to have a very business-friendly government as Americans for Prosperity points out.

Yeah, we lost that fight. But another is brewing over illegal immigration. As one example, check out the Center for Individual Freedom’s take on the Arizona immigration law, SB1070.Yet illegal immigration is a battleground for Maryland voters as well, as a 17 year old videographer suggests by her coverage of a rally of those who want the borders secured.

This time I’m going to wrap up, not with a song, but with a video Bob McCarty (a veteran himself) did about the preparations for Memorial Day at a cemetery not far from his Missouri home.

As for me, I’ll probably be at the Wicomico County observance Monday morning. Hopefully neither our aging veterans (nor the JROTC regulars who tend the flags) won’t wilt in the predicted heat.

With that, I’ll be back with more videos in a week or so.

McDonough: Middleton resolution ‘clueless’

The colorful Pat McDonough, who considered a run for Governor but instead will bid to retain his seat in the House of Delegates, is using his bully pulpit to blast a resolution to be introduced by Baltimore City Councilwoman Sharon Green Middleton.

McDonough’s staunch opposition to illegal immigration extends to a pledge to introduce a bill similar to Arizona’s SB1070 if re-elected to the General Assembly next year. In contrast, Middleton’s proposal codifies the City of Baltimore’s opposition to the law.

(continued on my Examiner.com page…)

HSM head pleased with immigration progress

In calling this year’s General Assembly session, “so far, so good,” Brad Botwin, director of the advocacy group Help Save Maryland, explained that, among other things, his group “was not getting beat up at the hearings” by those who favor expanded immigration and amnesty for illegals already here. Instead, he noticed an uptick in support, especially in the African-American community, and that more people on his side were taking the time to come to Annapolis and testify. By comparison, opponents had become “tame…rather mild” in their criticism.

His group has gained prominence in recent years as a bulwark against Maryland’s perceived status as a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants, and their supporters will be busy testifying in Annapolis today on behalf of a number of House bills – these bills include proposals to better enforce federal immigration law and allow the state to check the immigration status of prisoners and parolees.

(More on my Examiner.com page…)