How in the world did you get that from what I wrote?
The impact, in descending order of primacy, is apparent:
1. The breach of our national perimeter is a breach of our sovereignty as a nation and as a people.
2. The breach of our national perimeter, and the rewarding of those who do so, is a breach of the mainstay of our society, ie, the rule of law.
3. The breach of our national perimeter is a potentially disastrous breach of our national security and an actual breach in the personal security of our people.
4. The breach of our national perimeter is a breach of our national social fabric at a certain point; a point that many of us believe has been passed.
5. The breach of our national perimeter is a breach of our economic life. The costs of the current invasion are huge, affecting wage levels, housing costs, transportation costs, taxes, and the survival of our schools and hospitals, among others.
So you don't like Mexicans coming here legally, and you'd prefer not to have low wage worker Mexicans coming here legally either?
What Sowell seemed to be saying was that it would be some kind of "insult" to say we couldn't "enforce the law," i.e., deport all the illegals if we really wanted to. I'm sure that America could do this, if it had the collective will to pay the cost of doing so. But because we do not have the collective will to do this (just as we lacked the will to enforce Prohibition), it does not seem like "an insult," to me at least, to consider some other ways of dealing with the problem.
I support border security, but not any sort of massive security fence. And I also think that I'm not as worried about the impact of Mexican immigration on our national security and social fabric as you and others seem to be.
Thank you for that. I read what he posted as well and was scratching my head wondering how on earth he got what he did from your post.
susie
Excellent points all. When we talk about compromising the rule of law, we're talking about the premier clause in our social contract. Without the rule of law, we we have no basis for union. I'm getting increasing cynical of those who wish to trash it "for a good cause."