Gillibrand tough on illegal immigration—up to now

With New York’s new senator-designate, Kirsten Gillibrand, you have an ideologically mixed case. After the announcement of her appointment, she phoned a New York homosexual leader and told him that she now supports homosexual “marriage.” She had previously opposed it. The speculation was that as the representative of a Republican upstate district she needed to be more conservative. But if she wants to be elected statewide in 2010, she will have to move left.

On illegal immigration (a.k.a. “immigration”), she is good, and liberals are upset about it. However, maybe she will change her position on that as well.

UPDATE

Indeed she did. A few days after her switch on homosexual “marriage,” she switched her position on illegal immigration. This comes from diggersrealm.com:

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Goes Pro-Illegal Alien In One Week [Video]

By / February 5, 2009 02:02 PM

There was buzz throughout the immigration enforcement movement that Hillary Clinton replacement as New York Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, was in favor of immigration enforcement. There was almost a certain glee that she would be a champion for Americans who are impacted by illegal immigration. I held my voice until I could find out more. Now Gillibrand comes out as the spineless politician you should expect from either party and she does so on Spanish language TV. Within a week of taking the office of Senator—and only a few meetings with racist pro-Hispanic only groups—she has totally changed her tune and come out wholly in favor of illegal aliens.

She blames her previous tough stances on illegal immigration as just being an upstate New York hick who didn’t know any better and now that she has been shown “the light” by city dwelling liberals and Hispanic groups, she fully supports the end to deportations and an end to enforcement of immigration laws.

Simply amazing, but that should not surprise anyone who has kept an eye on our sell-out Senate over the past decade. While the House is little better, the House of Representatives at least pretends to listen to the people. The Senate however has always taken the elitist view that they know better and damn what the American people want and demand.

It comes as no shock to me that Gillibrand would instantly toe the Democrat party line and get in step with them to further her career, even if that means selling out all of her personal beliefs and principals. After all, that is what has made our government so great recently isn’t it? Personal ambition over what is right for the United States.

If you’d like to tell Senator Gillibrand what you think about her you can contact her below.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 24, 2009 11:24 AM | Send