Some thoughts on illegal immigration
As we await a cloture vote in the Senate on the current immigration reform bill, I have some general thoughts on the subject.
1. I am sick of hearing news outlets such as those on PBS continually refer to illegal immigrants as “undocumented immigrants” or “undocumented workers.” They don’t like to use the word “illegal” because it weakens the argument that we should put a halt to this. They want you to think that if you are against putting a stop to illegal immigration that you somehow are un-American since America was built on immigration.
Unfortunately, that argument is completely wrong. Those of us who want to federal government to do their job and protect our borders see it correctly. If you come into this country by just walking across the border, you are breaking our laws of immigration. Is that illegal? Yes. According to Wikipedia, the definition of “illegal” is as follows:
<blockquote>Illegal, or unlawful, is used to describe something that is prohibited or not authorized by law or, more generally, by rules specific to a particular situation</blockquote>
So if something is against the law, then it is, in fact, illegal. Then what are the current immigration laws in the US? Well, I’m not going to discuss all points in detail, but if you want to do your own homework, you can read the IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT in its entirety here.
2. Is there a plight these people are trying to escape? Absolutely. Persons immigrating illegally from Mexico are certainly trying to escape a government that is unwilling to do what is necessary to turn around a failing economy. They (or most of them) are fleeing poverty to (hopefully) make a better life for themselves. I don’t dispute that. And I sympathize. At the same time, I also sympathize with the plight of my own family living under a government that doesn’t seem to want to fulfill its Constitutional duty to protect the homeland from those that would do us harm. You don’t think everyone that waltzes across our borders (south or north) is coming here to build a better life, do you?
So, point number two really is directed at people like Sen. John Kerry who like to play on your heart strings by holding up someone like Yaderlin Jaminez, wife of Army Spec. Alex Jimenez who has been missing in Iraq since May 12. Yaderlin entered this country illegally and is now possibly the widow of a war hero. Kerry tells you she is in danger of being deported because of our immigration laws and that he will protect her from the big bad feds who would throw her out on her ear. Who is he kidding? We all know that would not happen even without his “help.”
And as a supporter of illegal immigration, who exactly are the Senators from Massachusetts representing anyway? Certainly not the people that vote, since they are actually citizens of this country.
3. Question #9 on the current Immigration and Naturalization Worksheet is “I am a person of good moral character. True or False?” [ source: Immigration and Naturalization Worksheet ] Typical of government. What idiot is going to answer “False, I am a terrorist (or murderer, or drunkard, etc., etc., ad nauseum)?
4. Why do we have to try to fix this problem in a backwards fashion? The politicians in Washington want to figure out what to do with the illegals that are already here before they do anything about our sieve of a border. They need to fix the problem - the leaky border - first; then they can figure out how to solve the result of that problem - the illegals already here.
Think about it this way - if a pipe bursts in your house, do you worry about what to do with the water that is all over your floor before you try to shut off the water gushing out of the pipe?
Remember point #2? People are generally sympathetic to the plight of illegals already here. But they want their borders protected. So fix the problem at its source first. Then you can take the time to debate how to handle the result in a manner that is agreeable to the citizens (including those particular voters that immigrated through legal channels).
5. Mexico is the biggest hypocrite in this whole mess. Here in the States you are either someone who wants to use the term “undocumented worker” or you think that illegal immigration is a threat to national security. We know where people stand by their actions or words. But Mexico wants to have its cake and eat it too. They strictly patrol their border for illegal border crossings of their southern border with Guatemala. But they condemn the US for wanting to actually strengthen its own borders.
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