OC Blog News Roundup -- December 29, 2005

Today's top stories from behind the Orange Curtain:

Agran Machine Blows A Gasket -- OC Weekly
Death of the man they called “The Knife” raises questions about Larry Agran’s political future.

Home Improvements -- OCR
Q & A format story about the Governor's proposed infrastructure program.

Museum Move Likely -- DP
Newport Harbor Nautical Museum To Buy Balboa Fun Zone.

Comments

[Miriam Bertram]

RE: Agran in Irvine... Allan Bartlett is predicting a defeat of Agran's machine.

see http://powderbluereport.blogspot.com/

If you want to help make it happen, contact me at irvinegop@cox.net or 800 290 8284. I am on the board of the Irvine Republican Coalition.

Miriam

[Hanna]

Interesting WSJ editorial about illegal immigration

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113581630711933441.html

"We have a supply and a demand problem. The supply problem is coming across the border. We are in this bill doing something very specific about that with the inclusion of the amendment, with the passage of the amendment, to build some barrier along at least 700 miles of our southern border. I hope we continue with that, by the way, along the entire border, to the extent it is feasible, and the northern border we could start next."

-- Rep. Tom Tancredo (R., Colo.)

So there you have it. Tom Tancredo has done everyone a favor by stating plainly the immigration rejectionists' end-game -- turn the United States into the world's largest gated community. The House took a step in that direction this month by passing another immigration "reform" bill heavy with border control and business harassment and light on anything that will work in the real world.

(snip)

Sponsors of the legislation, led by House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner and Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, don't stop at targeting good Samaritans. They're also forcing the business community to simultaneously create jobs and kill jobs. The bill would make it incumbent on employers to establish the immigration status of all hires and empower local police to enforce federal immigration laws. This means small-business owners soon could find themselves not only inconvenienced by a mandated hiring database system but also threatened with the prospect of bankruptcy due to repeated raids and high fines. Some will throw in the towel on the GOP.