Could Bush Amnesty Proposal Make Him An Early Lame Duck President?
By Donald A. Collins In what Dan Stein, the Federation for American Immigration Reforms president called “another big victory”, the opponents of Proposition 200 lost a key appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco which would have allowed benefits to be given to illegal aliens. In reporting on the story on January 15, the open-borders Arizona Republic still insisted on calling illegal aliens “undocumented immigrants”, [Prop. 200 injunction rejected by court, Yvonne Wingett, Arizona Republic, Jan. 15, 2005]. But the law now goes into effect and means that welfare benefits dont get paid to illegal aliens. Gee, that seems absolutely fair. And it is! The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed the injunction to keep the law from being in effect. Now MALDEF is in the position of having to argue the case on its merits. Proposition 200 may escape the shabby treatment accorded Californias Prop 187, which was tied up in the courts from which it
