End hand-wringing, enforce immigration laws

The Washington Times ^ | 8-30-05 | Tom Knott

[JZelle]

The issue of illegal aliens is reaching the parody stage, if only because politicians, communities and activists are stuck between elementary laws and their sense of humanity. The Herndon Town Council has decided to set up a facility in response to the day laborers who have overtaken a 7-Eleven near the Dulles Toll Road. The day laborers, some illegal, are being rewarded with taxpayer money because of their bad behavior. If you are of a certain age in America, you probably are puzzled. For if you attended Catholic school back in the day, bad behavior often resulted in a ruler to the knuckles from one of the discipline-minded nuns. Now, of course, educators are not permitted to say even a harsh word to a misbehaving student. If so, lawyers, grief counselors, shrinks and parents descend on the school to soothe the traumatized student and have the educator fired. It figures that this mushy thinking is infiltrating the rest of our culture. Everyone agrees that the day laborer who loiters around a 7-Eleven all day is a problem, and even more of a problem if he is drunk, obnoxious to women and has a bladder that is out of control. Yet we should not ask the day laborer to abide by the norms of our culture and the laws of our land. That is just impolite, even rude, and we do not want to be impolite or rude. So why not come up with funds that allow the day laborers to congregate at a specific site? No, it does not work that way in the countries that encourage their have-nots to flee to the United States.

[gubamyster]

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[DumpsterDiver]

And if you [an American citizen] took to loitering around a business establishment, you probably would not be more than 30 minutes into your new career as a professional loiterer before someone would come up to you and say: "Can I help you?" Not that the person really would be interested in helping you.

All this hand-wringing [over illegals] would be unnecessary if we merely embraced the antiquated notion of enforcing the law.

[skeeter]

Time for this society to grow a pair back.

[truthkeeper]

Amen! We have gone totally soft, especially in the head.

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!

[janetgreen]

Remember when "immigrants" (we knew plenty of them) were legal immigrants and not illegal border hoppers? Remember when these immigrants actually learned English and became Americans? Remember when immigrants didn't suck up our schools and hospitals and our social services, and weren't on welfare? Remember when the laws of our country were respected and actually enforced?

George W. Bush and his buddies are creating a new slave class to accommodate corporate interests. Slavery was outlawed, but it's back in George W. Bush's America, at the expense of American workers and taxpayers.

[swampfox98]

After what has happened in the South with hurricane Katrina, American citizens will be asked to pay billions to help clean up and rebuild.

As citizens, we finally can understand the contempt our Congress and President Bush has for us. Our entire Congress and Bush, with a few exceptions must hate America with a passion, as well as hate our citizens.

Because after all this devastation, the pigs still won't close the borders, will they?

No, I can just hear Bush saying, "We need more illegals to help us rebuild. Come one come all." I can see 40 million Mexicans coming in over the week end. Even the Catholic Church will be in a tizzy not knowing which cities to palm them off on.

[JZelle]

Good point. I was wondering about illegals being shipped in to rebuild N.O. too. I can hear them trying to sell that to us now, not that they need too.