Posted on 05/22/2007 8:01:40 AM PDT by Valin
Interesting news about the immigration debate, eh? I understand they’ve crafted some sort of bill. Having read the whole thing, I feel compelled to offer some of the highlights:
6 (1) (D) Undocumented Xenonationals who have been in the country since noon March 16, 2004 (this language reflects a compromise between the hardline “AM” faction and moderates who wanted to extend the deadline to 4:57 PM) will have to report to a government office to announce they are departing. This is the HIMBG Provision, or the “Hello, I Must Be Going” provision. Immigrants will have to return to the Mexican border, put their left foot in, put their left foot out, put their left foot in and shake it all about. (Language requiring that the applicant then “do the hokey pokey was removed over an inability to define the exact nature of said action.) The immigrant is then required to return to the place where he announced he was leaving, present a notarized photograph of himself sticking a portion of his body into Mexican airspace; at that point, he will be eligible to receive a “Q” visa, which enables him to start the process towards a "Z" visa, which estabishes a legal framework towards a “path towards citizenship,” although applicants who have paid 67% of their adjusted tax burden over the last 14 years, minus inflation, will be put on a “jogging path” towards citizenship.
The entire process will take no less than seven years, during which the applicant may not work, but must stand absolutely still in a small room while reciting the Constitution. (Spanish is permitted for the boring Amendments.)
I. (7) (3.14) There shall be a fence stretching 356 miles. The fence shall be three feet high. Paper mache crocodiles shall reside on the other side, arrayed in a threatening manner ($400,000 shall be appropriated to determine the optimum angle of the opened jaw; the final crocodile shall represent a consensus among herpetologists, and reflect a crocodile who is defending his position but showing his teeth to warn off, and not necessarily threaten violence.) Every nine miles, there shall be a sign that reproduces the FBI warning that precedes all DVDs and videotapes and warns of criminal liability for breaking the copyright law. (It has worked so well thus far the language might as well be used intact.) The fence shall be raised to four feet in the event the population of any state becomes 51% undocumented Xenonationals. The fence shall be raised to five feet in the event GOP presence in the Senate drops below 4 seats. The fence shall be raised to ten feet after a nuclear device is smuggled in from Mexico, providing the yield of the bomb is at least 4 (four) kilotons. A bomb with a yield between 3 and 3.99 kilotons will be a sufficient trigger to raise the fence only if the attendant radiation is carried by prevailing winds a distance greater than 20 miles.
T. (t) (t) $779,000 shall be allotted to create Inez, a mascot who provide a welcoming and comic presence to the INS offices.; $3.2 million for an ad campaign that raises awareness of Inez; $2.9 million to be put in escrow from the inevitable sexual harassment suit after Woodsy Owl learns about here; that bird can’t keep his wings to himself; $1.2 million to buy out Woodsy’s contract
7 (b) (f) (f) The government shall, at its discretion, ignore the hell out of any of this
II. 5.6 All legal immigrants will be required to go through the entire process again, just to rub their noses it in. Mark Steyn shall sit in his car on a bridge between Canada and the United States until he learns his place.
R. R. (x) Any illegal immigrant from a state known to sponsor terrorism will be required to renounce terrorism by an oath of utmost solemnity. This act shall also supply funds for translators to determine the equivalent of “pinky swear” in other tongues. The translator will work through the world’s languages in reverse alphabetical order.
XX (vi) Employers found guilty of employing illegal aliens must perform the crying aria from Pagliacci.
F. (U) This bill shall be passed before anyone can read it.
Minneapolis Red Star be darned.
Lileks Bump
This is a MUST Read. What a hoot!
LOL! Leave it to Lileks to make us laugh about this mess..
LOL
First laugh I’ve had since last Thursday. Thanks, Lileks.
Reminds me of the line “...march in backwards and announce that they are leaving...”
More good news “The Reagan Diaries” goes on sale today!
7 (b) (f) (f) The government shall, at its discretion, ignore the hell out of any of this.....
May Woodsie peck you for that....;-)
I especially like the last one:
FU, this bill shall be passed before anyone can read it.
The second (f) should have been (d), making the reference:
7 (b) (f) (d)
;-)
7-b-f-d
I’m slow.
Please explain this to me.
Thanks.
Nevermind. I figured it out.
Yahoo Answers — had it.
I guess I’m out of the loop — on this kind of terminaology.
ha ha
Big Freaking Deal.
How wonderful! Thanks to the humor gods that Lileks is still out there for us, and thank to you for the ping and the smile.
Loved, loved, LOVED the Mark Steyn line!
This about sums it up.
7 (b) (f) (f) The government shall, at its discretion, ignore the hell out of all of this
7 (b) (f) (d) The government shall, at its discretion, ignore the hell out of all of this
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