Yes, I was disappointed by the same thing as well. TAPPED is usually quite good, but today just pissed me off. It's simply illogical scapegoating, and the claims of "pandering" to a Hispanic vote is blatantly racist.

TAPPED is way off base. They need to seriously rethink this issue.

--Kynn

Truly appalling. Any theories on who wrote it?

I sent a somewhat intemperate letter to TAPPED ang got this polite but (to me) unconvincing reply:

You are not quite right on the 9/11 hijackers. Many entered the country legally
and then violated their visas in various ways. The INS missed a number of
chances to nab Attah on such grounds; if liberatarian business groups and
immigration lawyers hadn't sabotaged visa tracking back in the mid-1990s, we
might still have the Twin Towers. Violating your visa isn't exactly the same as
coming in illegally from the get go, but it's still part of the problem. We
should be shrinking the gray areas within our immigration regime, not
broadening them. We shouldn't be letting *any* foreign government, including
Mexico, set documents standards for the U.S; Mexico just happens to be an
especially good example. Did you even bother to read the article? Do you also
think the Mexicans who wish their government were less corrupt are simply
racists?

Fixing some of the various loopholes -- getting a national ID, for instance,
plus instituting an automatic visa check-in/check out system, etc. -- is
critical for our homeland security efforts. It has the added benefit of
helping to prevent illegal entry. Whether this position violates some
progressive party line or another is not of much concern to Tapped; it's the
right thing to do. Moreover, as the Jordan commission pointed back in the day,
the single greatest threat to public support for legal immigration is high
levels of illegal immigration: It pisses citizens off to see people break the
rules and get away with it, and that makes them want to cut off legal
immigration, too, which would be deeply unfortunate.

Well, it was TAPPED that said the anti-war movement should just shut up and focus on rebuilding Iraq -- at the precise moment that the anti-war movement had mobilized millions of people and had majority sentiment in the country. Ain't exactly a leftist cafe over there. They have lots of problems.