Told Ya So

We've been saying all along that the first party to figure out that enacting significant immigration reforms will win at the polls. We were right. 

Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum on the turbulent national issue of illegal immigration.

Residents replaced the incumbents with challengers who immediately called for significant changes at the center. Some want to bar public funds from being spent on the facility or restrict it to workers living in the country legally. Others want it moved to an industrial site away from the residential neighborhood where it is located.

These "day-labor" centers are nothing more than a meat market for illegal immigrants, and everyone really knows that. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors, but with unemployment as low as it is and with the amount of money states spend on legal employment agencies there really is no conceivable need for these operations other than to give illegal immigrants work. Voters are sick of it.

Be warned, Washington. Republicans or Democrats - if you do not enact meaningful reform (read not amnesty) you're in serious trouble in November.

Former mayor Richard C. Thoesen, a backer of the center, said he attributed the results to voter frustration over the town's burgeoning immigrant population, which has led to serious residential crowding. He added that Monday's nationwide demonstrations organized by immigrants' rights groups constituted "bad timing" that may have added to the backlash.

The supporters and enablers of illegal immigrants still do not get it, even after being turned out of office. That backlash is going to grow even stronger.

categories Immigration Reform | Gaius Wednesday, 3 May , 2006

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