Posted on 05/23/2007 2:12:36 PM PDT by kellynla
Apparently, my position on immigration is that we must deport all 12 million illegal aliens immediately, inasmuch as this is billed as the only alternative to immediate amnesty. The jejune fact that we "can't deport them all" is supposed to lead ineluctably to the conclusion that we must grant amnesty to illegal aliens — and fast!
I'm astounded that debate has sunk so low that I need to type the following words, but: No law is ever enforced 100 percent.
We can't catch all rapists, so why not grant amnesty to rapists? Surely no one wants thousands of rapists living in the shadows! How about discrimination laws? Insider trading laws? Do you expect Bush to round up everyone who goes over the speed limit? Of course we can't do that. We can't even catch all murderers. What we need is "comprehensive murder reform." It's not "amnesty" — we'll ask them to pay a small fine.
If it's "impossible" to deport illegal aliens, how did we come to have so much specific information about them? I keep hearing they are Catholic, pro-life, hardworking, just dying to become American citizens, and will take jobs other Americans won't. Someone must have talked to them to gather all this information. Let's find that guy — he must know where they are!
How do we even know there are 12 million of them? Why not 3 million, or 40 million? Maybe we should put the guy who counted them in charge of deporting them.
If the 12-million figure is an extrapolation based on the number of illegal immigrants in public schools or emergency rooms and well-manicured lawns in Brentwood, then shouldn't we be looking for them at schools and hospitals and well-manicured lawns in Brentwood?
Of course I would like them to do what duties they assume properly, but I have more faith in institutions and individuals.
That is why we need to indemnify the institutions from extraneous claims and risks and allow them to not hire or discharge by a simple process.
In a facist economy, the government owns all labor and you simply say, "Papers please." and the process is complete. We have to find something looser than that level of control, but we can't simply say the government failed so now we will make it all small business's problem and penalize them for every mis-step AND also make them liable for all sorts of civil rights claims and other issues that spin off the solution.
But you never seem to run out of sarcasm and applying motivations to me that I never said or implied.
I want all illegals out of this country, not just the "spics" (Your term, not mine).
We could start on that bleeding sore that is our southern border.
So do I, but if the price of doing so is a fresh wave of regulatory gestapo chasing down businesses who DON'T EVEN HAVE CLEAR GUIDELINES TO DETERMINE WHO IS LEGAL AND WHO IS NOT (this was YOUR suggestion, not mine), then I think I will pass. This is simply fascism. Sorry if you don't like me calling it what it is.
The essential point is correct, but let's not kid ourselves here. The honest truth is that there are a lot of big, fat, greedy, country club Republican pigs that want the slave labor class on hand just as much as the lefties do.
How about we just post the rest of the article since her site doesn’t need to be excerpted?
I believe that the shortage of unskilled, non-English-speaking Mexicans we experienced in the ‘60s has been remedied by now.
Since Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 Immigration Act, more than half of all legal immigrants have been unskilled, non-English-speaking Mexicans. America takes in roughly 1 million legal immigrants each year. Only about 30,000 of them have Ph.D.s. Why on earth would any rational immigration policy discriminate against immigrants with Ph.D.s in favor of unskilled, non-English-speaking immigrants?
Say, don’t Ph.D.s and other skilled workers have more influence on government policy than unskilled workers? Aren’t they more likely to bend a president’s ear? Yes, I believe they are! Noticeably, the biggest proponents of the government’s policy of importing a huge underclass of unskilled workers are not themselves unskilled workers.
The great bounty of cheap labor by unskilled immigrants isn’t going to hardworking Americans who hang drywall or clean hotel rooms — and who are having trouble getting jobs, now that they’re forced to compete with the vast influx of unskilled workers who don’t pay taxes.
The people who make arguments about “jobs Americans won’t do” are never in a line of work where unskilled immigrants can compete with them. Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people’s lives.
Something tells me the immigration debate would be different if we were importing millions of politicians or Hollywood agents. You lose your job, while I keep my job at the Endeavor agency, my Senate seat, my professorship, my editorial position or my presidency. (And I get a maid!)
The only beneficiaries of these famed hardworking immigrants — unlike you lazy Americans — are the wealthy, who want the cheap labor while making the rest of us chip in for the immigrants’ schooling, food and health care.
These great lovers of the downtrodden — the downtrodden trimming their hedges — pretend to believe that their gardeners’ children will be graduating from Harvard and curing cancer someday, but (1) they don’t believe that; and (2) if it happened, they’d lose their gardeners.
Not to worry, Marie Antoinettes! According to “Alien Nation” author Peter Brimelow, “There is recent evidence that, even after four generations, fewer than 10 percent of Mexicans have post-high school degrees, as opposed to nearly half of non-Mexican-Americans.” So you’ll always have the maid. As New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said, our golf fairways would suffer without illegal immigrants: “You and I both play golf; who takes care of the greens and the fairways on your golf course?”
We fought a civil war to force Democrats to give up on slavery 150 years ago. They’ve become so desperate for servants that now they’re importing an underclass to wash their clothes and pick their vegetables. This vast class of unskilled immigrants is the left’s new form of slavery.
What do they care if their servants are made citizens eligible to vote and collect government benefits? Aren’t the fabulously rich happy in Venezuela? Oops, wrong example. Brazil? No, no, let me try again. Mexico! ... Well, no matter. What could go wrong?
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Yes she is...she may be the Queen Mum of Sarcasm.
I wish it was possible to shove this in the face of President Bush, Secretary of Homeland Security Chertoff and the Senate traitors pushing for the new comprehensive immigration reform bill!!!
Good post!
now that was funny
LOL. I needed that.
Next day BUMP for the FULL text! :-)
If I posted that kind of crap some single digit IQ heavy breather would be whining to the mods about it. As it is, I will just say that I am happily married and those pickup lines just won't work with me.
You got something substantive to say, say it. If not, spare us your histrionics (sorry about all those syllables, hope you can think it thru, but don't hurt yourself trying).
Well if they can deport 6 million, they can double their efforts and deport 12 million.
Deportation does no good. They just keep coming back. There must be actual punishment sufficiently draconian as to eliminate recidivism and scare first offenders out of crossing the border.
President Bush and others have stated that we can’t deport all XX million illegal immigrants tomorrow. As Ann rightly points out, that is a straw-man argument. To say ‘deport them all, or support the current weak immigration/amnesty bill’ advances a false dichotomy. Their is a third way. There may be hundreds of ways to proceed that are not immediate deportation or amnesty.
Ann has an interesting point that the new Democrats are pursuing a permanent underclass to maintain their lawns, make their beds, and care for their children. Yes, it does have an uncanny resemblance to slavery. We fought so hard to eliminate slavery. Now a kinder, gentler (?) form is reemerging with vast extremes in wealth. Ann says in her final sentences (full article) that this has not turned out well for countries that have gone done this path. The subtle hint is that it will not turn out well for us either.
I'm glad Ann fingered Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act. Let's remember that Kennedy started this mess. Don't let anyone put the blame on Reagan - it was Kennedy! And Kennedy wants to perpetuate and extend this mess with the current proposed legislation.
On this Memorial day weekend, we remember that we fought and continue to fight for freedom abroad. We fought for freedom at home. Unfortunately, I think we must fight this bill to retain freedom at home. Freedom to determine our own national character, and freedom from an emerging underclass.
So what are we going to do about it? I’ve written my letter and will try to send it to all 100 Senators. To get e-mail addresses, I go to;
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Does anyone know of a better, free way to proceed?
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