Posted on 07/26/2006 3:50:17 AM PDT by RWR8189
Just when it looked like the Senate Republicans had finally gotten the message that the American people in general, and their own supporters in particular, are outraged over amnesty for illegal aliens, some Republican Senators have come up with yet another disguise for amnesty -- and gotten bipartisan support, including Ted Kennedy and John McCain.
Under this new plan, its advocates claim, illegal immigrants would "have to leave the country" and re-apply to come back in legally and get on a path toward citizenship. It sounds good but on closer examination it turns out to be a fraud.
How long would the illegal immigrants have to leave the country? According to the Senate bill they "may exit the United States and immediately re-enter." In other words, do a U-turn and come right back. How is that for "tough" border control?
Nobody else gets into the United States that easily. You can say "tough" all you want and still be a wimp. Or a politician.
How long do the Senate Republicans think they can keep insulting the public's intelligence, with an election just a few months away?
Every gesture that the Senate has made toward controlling the border is one that they have backed into under pressure from an outraged public. The Senators' whole focus has been on what they could do for the illegal aliens, in order to win Hispanic votes -- and how they could camouflage it in order not to lose other votes.
Businesses that want cheap labor are also in favor of amnesty, under whatever name. So are citizen-of-the-world intellectuals, for whom national borders are just unfortunate relics of the past and illegal aliens are just like everyone else except for not having legal documents.
Nobody is just like everyone else, individually or collectively. Second-generation immigrants are not even just like their parents. Their crime rates are far higher than those of their parents who came here to work and who can appreciate the difference between what they had in Mexico and what they have here.
The second generation does not compare their lives here with how people live in Mexico. They compare their lives with the lives of other Americans -- and there are all sorts of people around to tell them that the difference is due to injustices that they suffer.
Some of the more doctrinaire free trade advocates see the free movement of people across national borders as being just like the free movement of goods. But, when you buy a Toyota, it doesn't issue demands that our automobile laws be in Japanese and it doesn't have little Toyotas that add to the crime rate or to the burdens of our school system.
Moreover, when a Toyota needs repair, it doesn't go to an emergency room and expect the taxpayers to pay for parts and labor.
Whoever buys a Toyota is expected to pay the full price of the car and its upkeep.
But employers of illegal immigrants get the benefit of cheap labor and leave it to the taxpayers to cover the costs of their health care, imprisonment and everything else.
Our schools pay the price not only in money but also in lower educational quality when children with a limited knowledge of English and a limited commitment to learning impede the education of other children.
People who argue about immigration in the abstract ignore the fact that there is no such thing as an immigrant in the abstract. Immigrants from some countries have twice the education of immigrants from other countries and the differences between how many commit crimes can be some multiple between one group and another.
The most fundamental question is: What is to decide how many immigrants from what countries are to be admitted to the United States? The laws of this country or the fait accomplis of illegal aliens?
Are the citizens of this country to be people committed to this country or people who go back and forth, who expect American culture to adjust to them instead of vice versa, and who are kept separate and disaffected by their leaders and by the multicultural cult? We already have too many Americans with no real commitment to this country and no willingness to defend it.
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There's no doubt in my mind that "leave the country" means reporting to the nearest Mexican Embassy, and going back out the door to return to the U.S.
Someone posted a while back that we could pay a $1000 bounty on each illegal turned in, and STILL come out money ahead by paying the cost of transportation for them back to the border, compared to the cost to taxpayers now of providing free medical, free education, and free services intended for citizens only...
Go get 'em, Dr. Sowell!
Isn't it time to Impeach the Whole Senate and start fresh
or eradicate the Senate entirely and have citizen Senators serve for One term and Go Home.
Thomas Sowell speaks truthfully and on target.
The autocracy has taken over completely!
No, no, McPain is not a snake. A pig maybe; a rat for sure.
I dubbed John F'n Kerry "The Snake" in 04 and although these two are A*s kissing buds, I would be crushed to have the Traitor's moniker assigned to someone else--even someone, who if we were to close our eyes, is indistinguishable from the other. In which case, on second thought, I may demur and consider it wholly appropirate to refer to both as snakes.
Carry on. lol
Term limits for senators! Take away their incentive. Good fences make good neighbors and good limits make good senators.
Thomas Sowell vs the Pence Plan.
And the winner is.....
Thomas Sowell!
Does the Senate bill address the future voting rights of illegals? Don't remember anyone saying one way or the other.
I've read over a dozen of Dr. Sowell's books and hundreds of his columns and have yet to find one that isn't "excellent".
While there may be some smart cookies in the Senate, their intellects combined still would not equal Sowell's.
Beautiful.
Re: McCain
McCain is no "maverick" either, as the newsmedia are apt to call him. He is merely another jackass pretending to be a cow.
If Lou Dobbs and others are to be believed illegals are already excercising voting rights through Motor Voter and fake ID's. The way things seem to be set up now massive vote can and will be taking place and how will we ever know?
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"The way things seem to be set up now massive vote can and will be taking place and how will we ever know?"
If other state laws are like California the illegals can all vote and no one would know the difference.
They casn register and vote and never make contact with another person.
As Busby said: You don't have to be legal to vote!
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