Why Enforce The Law When You Can Just Grant Amnesty?
March 7th, 2006 by 
Kevin
Ok at first glance I thought the new immigration plan being proposed was a disaster ranking up there with the Miers nomination and the Dubai ports deal. Having had more time to sit down and look at it, my opinion hasn\’t changed. If anything it\’s gotten worse.
Basically this is a pathetic attempt to please everyone. And if someone can give me an example of a time that has ever worked, you get a cookie. And like most such attempts it\’s not gonna please anyone. On one side you have a bunch of illegal immigrations and business owners looking for cheap labor. On the other side you have the vast majority of the American public. In between you have Al-Qaeda, drug runners, smugglers, etc laughing their asses off because we still can\’t get our act together.
The plan boils down to two major portions, the \”gold card\” and the guest worker program. Both of which appear to be a complete disaster, and suffering from a severe case of reality deficiency.
The gold card, basically lets anyone that gets one remain in the country in definitely. The government does a background check on you, and you\’re free to stay for two years periods which can be renewed indefinitely. They cannot upgrade their status to citizenship while under this program.
In other words, this is a giant amnesty program. They don\’t have to pay fines, or leave the country. We don\’t care that you\’ve broken our laws, drained our social programs, and done God knows what else. You\’re welcome to stay, provide cheap unskilled labor and to send everything you earn back to your families in Latin America. Instead, we\’re gonna set up a giant bureaucracy to process your application every two years.
The guest worker program gets even worse. We let in foreign workers for six years, then they have to go back home for at least a year before they can come back for another six years. Repeat.
Now as I understand it, the argument of the pro-illegal immigration people (which unfortunately includes President Bush) is that it would cost too much to round them all up. Nevermind the hidden cost of their drain on our social programs and law enforcement systems. Nevermind, that this plan only makes it worse by adding a grey area to the whole deal. Now it\’s not as simple as illegal immigrantion…now it\’s how long have they been here as such? Although, to be fair, this program would essentially legalize illegal immigration.
Oh and nevermind that we wouldn\’t have to round everyone up. It\’s just a simply matter of enforcing our laws already on the books. Such as the ones making it illegal to hire illegal immigrants. Or the ones protecting our borders. Alot of people have demanded that Chertoff resign over the Dubai Ports deal. Well I agree in part…I agree that Chertoff should resign, but I say he should for not doing his job, which involves protecting our borders.
No, instead the illegal immigration population is now over 12 million And rather than fix the problem of these illegal acts, the man in charge of protecting our borders wants to just make the whole problem legal instead. It\’s easier than doing his job you see. Instead of actually catching criminals, it\’s easier to just wash your hands of it by granting amnesty over the whole deal.
Great, good to know our borders are being taken seriously. Some pundits fret over the possibility that Democrats may take the national security issue away from the GOP. Anyone want to take a guess why that might be?
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March 8th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
I’m always amused by this anti-immigration standpoint.
And yes, I do mean anti-immigration, not just anti-illegal immigration. I’ll even tell you why.
The conservatives, for the most part, have spent years making it harder and harder to get into this country legally. They’ve been quite anti-American in their agenda to weed out “undesireables” from coming to the country – by a process that ensures that any immigrant coming into the country from Mexico knows more than 90% of the native-born people about this country. Certainly a hypocritical double-standard on their part.
To slowly make it impossible to get into this country without unreasonable waiting times and absurd requirements regarding knowledge of US history (knowledge, I reiterate, that your average US citizen does not know, but somehow makes the Mexican national “not good enough” to enter the country) and then complain when the poor of Mexico come across anyway, xenophobic provisions be damned, is absurd.
They are, for the most part, otherwise law-abiding citizens who come here to live and work – some temporarily, some permanently. US law has made it nigh-impossible for them to come here legally. That they are willing to brave danger, even death in many cases, to flee here speaks great things about America – and that they are forced to risk their lives by an unjust and immoral immigration policy speaks great ill about our leadership.
American is a nation of immigrants. The face of America has changed throughout the generations, slowly, through the influx of immigrants. No one has anything to fear from Mexican immigration, any more than we had anything to fear from Irish or German immigration – and the attitude of the people who wish to bar Mexicans from coming in mirrors the ignorant, elitist view of those past bigots.
Don’t tell me that its wrong that Mexican workers work cheaper than you will – either offer a better service or match their price. Being born in America doesn’t guarantee you a job at a certain wage.
Don’t tell me that they “leech” off of the socialized healthcare systems on the border states. Socialized medicine is one big leech system, with the rich supporting the poor, who pay next to nothing compared to what they take out of it. I, who make only 21,000 dollars a year, will be stealing barely less than someone who has not paid a cent if I go to the hospital under medicare.
All of these complaints are, in the end, entirely besides the point. They are complaints that lie with one of two problems – the abject laziness and fear of a fresh, hard work ethic brought in by Mexican nationals, or sulking over the fact that illegal immigrants have shown you, in terms that no one can evade, that the socialist practices prevailent in the United States are theivery, plain and simple.
Regardless, there is one last concern that actually has some legitimacy, on the face of it. What of our border security?
I have a simple solution. At the border, instigate an open border policy – with one exception. A legitimate ID of some kind must be provided and a quick background check from INTERPOL databases or similar (along with, of course, crime databases) should be done. If the person has any connections with terrorist organizations or terrorists, then no go – and if they don’t, welcome to the USA, have fun.
This way, anyone who wishes to come here for legitimate purposes has a free and easy way to do so. And anyone who comes here with nefarious purposes in mind – murderers, terrorists, and the like – will have to cross the border at some other point. With the drastic decrease in the number of people trying to jump the fence, the border patrol not only can have an easier time catching those who are then crossing the border, but they can know for certain that such a person is not at all innocent – and can treat them accordingly.