Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King has been one of those staunch border enforcement lawmakers in the mold of Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. He was one of those lawmakers that reminded us on May 1 of some of the things illegals bring with them that they and their sympathizers would rather not mention. He's been on the border in Arizona for the past couple days to draw attention to the need to stop the flood of illegals coming over our borders.

A columnist in my local paper, Daniel Finney has a problem with King and decided to use his column last week to rant about it. If you read the column, you'll see that this guy is about as ignorant on the issue as the day is long and should have done his homework a little better.

Finney is entitled to his opinion of course, but when your opinion comes from such an obvious position of ignorance, all you do is make as ass out of yourself in front of the thousands of people who might read it. I decided to balance some of his ignorance with fact and logic and the following column is the result. The editor of the Altoona Herald, sister paper of the Des Moines Register, tells me it should run in this week's edition:

When I read the “barstool scholar” Daniel Finney’s column last Wednesday, the only thing I could figure is that he got drunk, fell off the barstool and dictated the column in a alcohol-induced fog from his spot as a quivering pile of drunken flesh on the floor – and I’m not just talking about the misspelling of Steve King’s hometown in the third paragraph of this incoherent rant in which he stuck up for the “immigrant rights” folks while labeling Congressman King a stupid racist Nazi.

Finney’s first predictable talking point, the “favoring tight borders and opposing illegal immigration = racism” canard – is the oldest trick in the open border wackos playbook and a clear indication that the rest of Finney’s argument is going to be pathetic. Finney doesn’t disappoint as he attempts to equate legal Irish immigration with illegal Latino immigration.

With the last name Finney, I’ll go out on a limb and assume that his ancestry is Irish and probably came to this country 100+ years ago. First of all, Irish folk came here LEGALLY past the green lady Finney mentions at the close of his column – not a one of them sneaked across the border under cover of night, in a semi-trailer or concealed in the trunk of a car. I’m thinking the Irish 100 years ago didn’t bring a whole lot of that good Irish weed with them from the homeland either.

Time was when LEGAL immigrants were welcomed with open arms, and busted their butts to make it in the world of opportunity. In case Finney hasn’t noticed, and it’s obvious he hasn’t, in 2006, we have millions of illegals “invading” our country – just by coincidence through the largest corrupt, third world nation we share a border with. They arrive with a fresh set of demands on our culture and economy that anyone who’s been paying attention can tell you they feel they deserve simply by virtue of the fact that they were able to sneak across our border undetected.

As far as Finney’s standard open border leftist talking point that immigrants “do jobs Americans won’t do” goes, each one of us pays for that cheap head of lettuce through the taxes it takes for the public assistance the lettuce picker and his family avail themselves of. It would behoove us to pay a tad bit more for that head of lettuce and less for welfare for illegals.

Along these lines, I’m not telling the folks who run the hospitals in Los Angeles County, California anything: In 2004 they had $353 million in unpaid emergency room bills to write off, largely due to illegal immigrants. The federal government spent $68 billion on assistance to illegal aliens in 2004. Whether Finney likes it or not, it’s a fact: Illegals take two dollars out of the economy for every one they put into it.

Finney shows his ignorance once again when he pooh-poohs the crime and drug problems illegals bring with them. He should try these statistics on for size: Sixty percent of gang members in Los Angles are in this country illegally and 95 percent of the arrest warrants for homicide in LA County in the first half of 2004 were for illegal aliens. The beauty of being an uninformed ignoramus like Finney is that it’s a great way of avoiding the inconvenient facts that get in the way of his opinion on this issue. In his ignorance, Finney apparently doesn’t even know who is behind these monumental “immigrant rights” protests as this flip comment seems to indicate:

“The horror! Imagine the audacity of an ethnic group flying a foreign flag with pride by people living in this country. What kinds of people do such a thing?

You know, besides the Irish who do it on St. Patrick’s Day every year. But that’s okay, they’ve got pink skin and speak English, at least until that second pint of Guinness hits their guts.”

As luck would have it, I have the answer to Finney’s rhetorical “what kinds of people do such a thing” question: The answer is radical open border communists/socialists – Latino statists who would like nothing better than to transform this country into one huge Latino socialist state from Canada to the Southern tip of Mexico.

Apparently Finney has never heard of groups like MEChA, who believe that the U.S. Southwest was stolen from Mexico and advocate violent revolution to retake it. These folks are supported by radical socialist groups and are counting on the support of useful, ignorant idiots such as Finney to be stooges for their cause. If he thinks this is far-fetched, perhaps he could Google MEChA or Aztlan sometime. He could try The Socialism and Liberation web site of Socialism and Liberation magazine or the Workers World Party web site as well. Check out the photos and you’ll see all kinds of socialist sloganeering in support of the “immigrant rights” cause.

It’s clear we’re not just talking about Juan Valdez and a couple hundred thousand of his closest friends going for a stroll in the park while waving the Mexican flag. We’re talking about violent, radical Latino separatist groups and their comrades in the socialist worker movements marching through the streets on May Day, the holiday Communists everywhere revel in, preaching Latino power and the annexation of our Southwestern states by the weight of the sheer numbers of their invasion. Many of them advocate the extermination of White America in their quest to annex the U.S. in the name of Mexico.

Speaking of the extermination of White folks, Finney mentions another group whose goal was to exterminate White folks – specifically Jews – Hitler and the Nazi Party of Germany. There was another leader who came around after we defeated Hitler in World War II – a leader admired by many of the groups behind the “Day without Immigrants” – the nationwide demonstration Finney, in his ignorance saw as merely a display of Latino civic pride. Judging from the pictures of the nationwide rallies – pictures Finney could look at if he cares to – a lot of the participants admired this leader as well. The leaders name? Ernesto Che Guevera. Here’s what old Che thought about the greatest country on the face of earth:

“Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America. Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, that another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and that other men be ready to intone our funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine guns and new battle cries of war and victory.”

And so I ask you Daniel Finney: Who sounds more like Adolph Hitler; our great congressman, Steve King, the guy who wants to enforce current immigration laws and tighten them or Che Guevera, the guy the leaders of the “immigrant rights” movement worship?