Posted on 07/17/2009 9:03:52 PM PDT by Steelfish
Immigration's Sideshow
Lee Hockstader July 19, 2009
The Obama administration, moving gingerly toward what the president has said will be a far-reaching overhaul of the nation's broken immigration system, is trying to show at the outset that it is serious about enforcing existing laws.
A glimpse of the president's strategy came earlier this month, when Department of Homeland Security officials said they would scrap a Bush administration initiative, tied up in the courts, that would have used Social Security information to force employers nationwide to fire millions of unauthorized workers. Instead, DHS said it would require federal contractors to use a separate government database to verify that their employees are authorized to work here.
At about the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the government would put new limits on local police who have been deputized by the feds to help deport undocumented immigrants.
Immigration advocacy groups scowl at such efforts to front-load enforcement before an overarching reform effort is undertaken, one that would grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants and expand the supply of visas for future immigrant workers.
Many Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, want much tougher enforcement measures, while opposing any strategy that smacks of what they consider amnesty for illegal immigrants. They are all gearing up for a new battle as early as this fall.
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If amnesty is passed in the fall this country as we know it is done and I would’nt give you a plug nickle for the hide of any politician.
I don’t do drugs so I’m having a lot of problems trying to understand this “immigration” thing. We already have all the poverty and uninsured that we need. Unemployment is skyrocketing. Why would we want more unemployed, uninsured, poor people here? It doesn’t make any sense.
Makes perfect sense if you’re a fascist Democrat looking for masses of voters who will be dependent upon the state and thus beholden to it.
We have MS-13 problem everywhere, not just Loa Angeles. They are bad export from El Salvador, but Juarez Mexico and south LA are scary. 12 million people are washing clothes, cooking meals, mowing lawns, doing roofs. Statistics from census and bank loan default rates do show 1st generation (not 3rd) are best workers, lowest default, most successful small business persons. You want tax money and to sell 6 million houses and cars right away and soak demand, everyone with new SSN can get mortgage. I know not a popular idea, but maybe a good economic one, happened after Reagan amnesty also. Just a thought.
And why do you expect any of it to make sense?
Remember, the business is put together by criminals who manage to get elected, under the delusion that they are empowered to tax without limit, and to also spend without limit to maintain their voter support base. The old adage that if you promise to tax Peter to support Paul, you will always have Paul's vote.
Once the Pauls outnumber the Peters, the system collapses, but the perps will all be in the Virgin Islands.
The delusion doesn't stop there. The criminal politicians also believe that once they have "earned" their perks, and their lush retirements kick in, they are set for life. It never occured to them that there is a limit.
Whining that the intentions are noble, or that the productive have a moral obligation (under threat of violence for failure to cooperate) will not make the money fairy suddenly appear to make it all possible.
We live in interesting times.
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