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Almost exactly a year ago I theorized that perhaps something like Linus’s Law could be applicable to solving our immigration problem, and that perhaps given enough laws, all immigrants are shallow.  Or in plain language…

It occurs to me that this same theory applies to our illegal immigration problem. For years now, the federal government has proven either unable, or more likely unwilling, to solve the illegal immigration issue our entire nation faces. As a result, individuals cities and states have taken to passing their own immigration laws. From what I have learned about these laws, while most of them share the intent of removing or reducing the impact of illegal immigrants, they use different methods. In much the same way, that with enough people looking at the software, for at least one person the bug (and the solution) will be obvious, can the same be said for immigration laws?

With enough cities and states passing varying laws regarding illegal immigration, will one eventually find the “silver bullet” law? And will it be recognized for what it is and propagated nationwide? What is the critical mass needed for this concept to work? And how long will it take people to recognize they have found that “silver bullet”?? Months? Years? Decades?

In fact I dubbed this theory “La Bush’s Law”.  And it appears that is exactly what we are getting in our country today.

For weeks our Senators claimed that if this amnesty bill didn’t pass today that it would mean the fall of western society or at least that’s what the fever-pitched rhetoric from the pro-amnesty crowd (Bush, Kennedy, McCain, Reid etc) seemed to suggest.  But when their precious amnesty bill didn’t pass they promptly forgot the issue and moved onto addressing the critical issue of pool safety.  Apparently if a little girl is maimed by a pool it’s worthy of immediate legislation.  If little girls are being raped only hours after their attacker is arrested and released for being here illegally, then well….just look the other way, nothing to see here.

But I digress.

As a result of the federal governments inept and irresponsible performance, state and local governments have decided to enact their own laws to deal with the immigration problem.  The discussion of whether Minnesota should start passing such laws has already started as well.

Ok I understand the sentiment behind these laws.  Believe me, I understand the frustration here.  But despite my theorizing if La Bush’s Law is valid, and while I’m a big fan of federalism, this is not a state or local issue.  This is a federal issue.  It’s not the state borders that are the issue here, it’s the federal borders and it our federal government’s constitutional obligation to defend and enforce those borders.  Or as the eloquent wordsmith Kim du Toi puts it “the first step is: close the fucking border“.  Poetic…

Regardless of the federal government’s abysmal, dealing with it at a local or even state level isn’t likely to result in success.  For one even if, say Arizona, managed to find the silver bullet law, the problem just moved to Nevada, or Texas, or California.  The problem won’t go away until all the states share an equally unfriendly environment for illegal aliens.  And trying to accomplish that state by state, only forces each state to experience the problems and suffer the consequences.

No this is the federal government’s responsibility.  Rather than playing the role of the enabler, let us not allow them to shrug off their duties.  Make sure your federal legislators understand that you expect this issue to be addressed and addressed properly.  In case they still aren’t feeling motivated, perhaps you might with to remind them of The Tale of Two Candidates by John Hawkins.