Sadly, they were disappearing people before, but now it's legal. Freaking federal courts had better strike this thing down, otherwise they can just hand in their robes to the White House and go home.
I am also sadly not convinced that the dems will do anything about this travesty of a law (or any of the other "security" laws). Oh, they may poke at Bush on the wiretapping thing, but actually passing legislation that reverses these "tools" for the war on terror? I don't think they have the guts to stand up to the way the Republicans will attack them--not with a presidential election coming up (and besides, the majority of the American public doesn't even seem to care about the civil liberties issues--they voted out the Republicans because of Iraq not because Bush has been systematically eviscerating the Constitution). But I would be delighted to be proven wrong.
Yeah, I saw that article. The immigration laws are really a mess, and have been long before the war on terror thing, which just stepped up the idiocy level. In my family, who came to the US over the last 40 years or so, everyone of the holdouts were scared into getting US citizenship during the Gingrich years. I remember my parents having arguments about it--my mom had been resisting changing her citizenship since she married my dad, but she finally gave in at that point.
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Date: 2006-11-14 10:31 pm (UTC)I am also sadly not convinced that the dems will do anything about this travesty of a law (or any of the other "security" laws). Oh, they may poke at Bush on the wiretapping thing, but actually passing legislation that reverses these "tools" for the war on terror? I don't think they have the guts to stand up to the way the Republicans will attack them--not with a presidential election coming up (and besides, the majority of the American public doesn't even seem to care about the civil liberties issues--they voted out the Republicans because of Iraq not because Bush has been systematically eviscerating the Constitution). But I would be delighted to be proven wrong.
Yeah, I saw that article. The immigration laws are really a mess, and have been long before the war on terror thing, which just stepped up the idiocy level. In my family, who came to the US over the last 40 years or so, everyone of the holdouts were scared into getting US citizenship during the Gingrich years. I remember my parents having arguments about it--my mom had been resisting changing her citizenship since she married my dad, but she finally gave in at that point.