A quick report on last week's BCRC meeting

I had the pleasure of seeing Chief Art Acevedo of the California Highway Patrol give a brief talk at last week's meeting. He's acting, in his private capacity, as an advisor of some sort on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign, and came to fly cover for the Gov's immigration policy. His main arguments were that local law enforcement simply doesn't have the resources to handle the Federal Responsibilies in the area of rounding up illegal immigrants and shipping them home.

He also expressed quite rightly the fact that the Democrat-Liberal-Media complex is using the immigration issue to cast Republicans as racist. This is, as I have noted before, a key part of their strategy to drive the Latino vote deeper into the Liberal Plantation.

Needless to say, the guy caught a lot of flak. Many of the members of the BCRC are quite deeply in the nativist camp. They aren't seeing the big picture. As I pointed out to several members after the meeting, while it's important to protect and enforce our borders, and illegals are costing us money and breaking our laws and violating our sovereignty, the only thing that really matters to me is not having my city go up in a nuclear fireball. In order to accomplish this, I strongly believe that we need to elect Republicans. Regardless of how they wish to attack this issue, we need to win the GWOT. None of them had an answer for this.

I'll be backing Arnold, even if he isn't as pure on the immigration issue as I might like him to be.

End of story.