When we start hearing about prison for those who ignored immigration enforcement both in federal government and those businesses who employed illegals all these many years, then I will entertain these ridiculous radical measures being piously thrown around against Mexicans and their families.
The problem I have with the bloody rigidity of round up, kick butt, kick out at all costs, language is how oblivious is to thinking or any interest in the whole story.
It’s always the rowdy language of those content to put the entire fault of immigration on the backs of the illegals.
The cause of the mass invasion of Mexicans has been by sheer and open, even begging invitation of your own neighbors, the Feds and American business.
Cash, comfort and eventually even benefits were showered on these people for damn decades, that is if they could survive the trip itself, and now the abuses of physical and sexual assault, robbery and murder, if they would only come and pick that lettuce, and trim those hedges for me, clean that fridge, and at such low pay too! (Chuckle, chuckle, snort.)
The entire cause from the beginning to the end was/is/remains the fault of your trusty government, your neighbor, and Minute Maid, Dole’s Fruit, etc., etc. To lend a monicum of consideration for the facts of the OPEN INVITATION gets you a curse, a poke in the chest, or worse if you’re not on the round up, kick butt, kick out train gang.
For someone to ignore the OPEN INVITATION and cuss the grandmothers for this condition after 30 years of living and working here, whose family was born here, and whose children have kids by now who have likely never even seen Mexico is a circumstance worthy of little consideration. One size fits all won’t even work for a bath robe, and certainly is beneath the concept of applying to a human being.
The feds have scoffed at enforcement for decades, filed it in number thirteen, and thrown away the key to the rules book.
Cry me a river. The perpetrators need to be dealt with before we get foxy on the Mexican, the illegal.
Yes, a LOT are complicit in this 21st century indentured servitude and outright slavery for the most vulnerable.
If I were Queen I would spend spend spend for a year or two — on FENCING (whether manned, fenced, electronic surveilled, etc) and CLOSING that border, and on ENFORCING THE HIRING LAWS. I’d put if I had to the National Guard on it. I’d take enough personnel to go around to every factory, home, restaurant, and start fining the employers $1000 a day per employee who did not pass a reasonable background check like E-verify or some such. They will all lose their jobs, and I hate to agree with Romney on this, but YES, they DO self-deport when they can’t find a good life here.
NO MEDICAL OR SCHOOL OR WELFARE PERIOD unless death is imminent, patch em up and send em out. Let police ask suspicius people about their immigration status and REPORT THEM and IMPOUND their cars.
After a couple of years of enforcement, there would be such a small amount of illegals that it would no longer affect our lives as much.
I far prefer to pay more for our teens or just our poor, young, and strong to pick the strawberries than to pay exponentially more for all the kids of illegals in my schools and alleys and hospitals.
And slavery is unspeakable, even if it is the piddle poor care and compensation the factory worker or farm help gets, or the outright slavery of the teen girls tricked into coming here, kept locked up, and taken around to the farm workers to be raped repeatedly.
Political correctness, in its urge to “do right” by minorities, has done the opposite. It has given our poorest “residents” SHANTYTOWNS with no police, little sanitation, and none of America’s promise. Don’t flame me but I have done a lot of research on the early AMerican slavery of Africans — they lived better in many cases than some of these flies-on-dungheaps Mexican shantytowns just outside farm areas in California.
The whole pity the grandma thing is the attitude that has HURT the very people they patronize.
First of all, there has been no “open invitation”. There has been a lack of political courage and to some extent resources to control illegal immigration, but the fact that these illegals make dangerous crossings, through deserts, often having to pay a coyote a large sum of money to smuggle them in shows that there is no invitation.
Of course there are a certain public officials, businesses and percentage of Americans who have aided and abetted this illegal invasion, but that in no way excuses the illegal activities of illegal aliens, that cause such great harm to the people of our nation.
If a bank teller or security guard takes some cash to assist in a bank robbery, does that mean the bank robbers shouldn’t be punished?
Your grandmother and kids who have never seen Mexico story, is very touching (/sarc) but it is not my problem or my fault, nor the problem or fault of the American taxpayers who are having their wealth and quality of life and children’s futures destroyed by these invaders.
Because these illegals have profitted from their crimes for years, we are some how required to allow them to continue to do so?
Your answer to weak enforcement of immigration laws seems to be “even weaker enforcement”.
I’m all for prosecuting and taking other legal action against the businesses on others that have encouraged and enabled illegal immigration, but the illegals themselves must deported.