On August 29, syndicated columnist Patrick J. Buchanan made a courageous call for President Bush’s impeachment.

Buchanan wrote:

“Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion. Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging George W. Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against ‘invasion.’” [“A National Emergency,” by Patrick J. Buchanan, August 29, 2005, Creators Syndicate Inc.]

WorldNetDaily later reported that immigration reform leader Congressman Tom Tancredo would not be taking Buchanan up on his impeachment challenge anytime soon.

Tancredo was quoted as saying he would not pursue impeachment because that “his immigration reform bill [H.R. 3333] will do what is necessary to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the U.S.” ["Tancredo won't initiate Bush impeachment," By Ron Strom, September 2, 2005]

But Tancredo’s H.R. 3333 does absolutely nothing to break the litigation log-jam of the federal immigration bureaucracy and deport aliens through summary removal.

In fact, H.R. 3333 goes in exactly the opposite direction—by hiring more government attorneys to appear in EOIR Immigration Court hearings. [Section 207]

The problem is that there are too many lawyers involved in alien deportation already—not too few.

. . . and impeachment or no, America still waits for a courageous Congressman to drop a summary removal bill into the hopper.

Get the full story in my latest column on VDARE.com: Impeach Bush — And/Or Abolish The EOIR?

Also in the Juan Mann archive:

· 08/29/05 - Guard The Border But Don't Forget Deportation Enforcement!

· 08/22/05 - Coming from California: An Immigration Reform Tsunami?