Just got done watching our elected officials in the Senate fall all over themselves to announce the "Landmark Compromise" for handling illegal aliens living in our country.
The bottom line, if you got in here illegally and avoided the law to now, YOU WIN!!!
During this whole debate, I have had the following issues remain un-answered:
Why is this framed as an immigration issue? An immigrant is someone who comes to this country in order to become a citizen. While leaving out the word citizenship, Merriam-Webster defines immigration as "coming to a foreign country and taking up permanent residence". Based on our existing laws, you have to become a citizen in order to stay here permanently.
These people are coming here to work, many of them send their earnings back to their native country and many intend to go back some day. The people marching held up more Mexican flags than US flags and many of the speeches and even the interviews were in spanish, not english. Doesn't seem like people looking to become permanent US citizens to me.
So if they are not immigrants, what are they? By definition, they are invading our country and taking up occupation, not unlike what the left says we're doing in Iraq since 100,000 plus service men and women are certainly a minority there.
If we cannot keep track of these people for the purpose of rounding them up and deporting them, then how do we know that there are 11 million of them? Where did that number come from? Why not 2 million or 50 million? How do they know if they're helpless to do anything about them.
How is any guest worker program enforceable? Why would anybody come forward and admit that they're here illegally if there is no upside for doing so? If you deny Drivers licenses as they tried in Wisconsin without proper documents and then deny benefits to anyone who doesn't have a valid drivers license or state issues ID. Then you make it tougher to move through our society. But I see nothing being done to force compliance.
What does "strengthening the border" mean? Unless there is some kind of impassable physical barrier be it a wall of people or concrete, nothing is going to stop this 11 million number from doubling or tripling in a few short years. Besides keeping us right where we are today, the bigger issue I see is the idea that Islamic terrorists see entry through our southern border as an open door to get at us, and with such "Heroes" as Arlen Spector trying to kill any terrorist survellience program we have, it will only be a matter of time before innocent American citizens are once again killed because of the folly of the very people they put in office.
I say that it is time to become anti-incumbent. Conservatives must become activists in the primaries and defeat any incumbant that supports this nonsense, then work like mad in the national election to get that candidate elected.
Democrats won't do this for fear of angering Moveon.org., so an anti-incumbent sentiment with real conservative challengers can really send a message for change back to Washington.
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