Jim Crow Goes Fishing  Speaking in Cleveland, President Bush
called on Congress to end â€œcatch and releaseâ€ practices on
the border with Mexico. He wasnâ€™t referring to recreational
fishing enthusiasts who catch large mouth bass, snap a picture
and then release them back into the water. He was talking about
INS (now Homeland Security) agents who round up undocumented
workers trying to cross the border, harass and threaten them,
and then issue them summons to appear in American court.
President Bush and Congress are preparing legislation that makes
it clear that they have as much (or little) respect for
immigrant workers as they have for freshwater fish.   Now that
the Congressional brutes have staked out the Fascist Right,
President Bush and Republican Senate â€œmoderateâ€ Alan Specter
are sanding off a few of the rough edges and presenting their
ideas as â€œmainstream.â€ Not to be outdone, the â€œme tooâ€
Senate Democrats are putting their own lipstick on the
Sensenbrenner pig and asking immigrants ri