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?
Mr. Truthkeeper, my name Ooglak Terpin and I represent the Council on American-Caveman Relations. My organization demands an apology for your xenophobic, racist, anti-caveman comments. We have fire and wheel and we know how to use them!
I know quite a bit about it in the construction trades.
First of all you have to know that the largest number of civil rights complaints that are made currently are not due to racial discrimination in the black/white sense but are made for "documantation" problems.
If small speciality trade contractors get the internet hook-ups at the jobsite to go to the Social Security website the first thing they saw in 2006 was a warning that a SSN and name that didn't prove up was not a reason to not hire or to discharge a new employee becuase they would be subjecting themselves to large liability where government attorneys would be taxpayer paid to prosecute them for civil rights complaints.
The DHS set up newer sites but they still aren't very simple and problem free to utilize.
I have seen hispanic workers that were worth over the union prevailing wage that had valid state drivers liscenses and what appeared to be valid SS cards, but who admitted to me that they didn't have a valid work status under ICE.
The employer needs to have some system or document to rely upon.It is events pushing to have the dreaded National ID card, unfortunantly.
I have heard non-hispanic immigrants that have managed to get valid SSNs while here illegally.
If you call ICE to try and check out two guys, you are going to get your whole workforce raided and checked and loose a ton of money and perhaps get sued. Construction is transiant, mobile and stop-start.
Exactly. It’s amazing how few people get it. End socialism, and you won’t have to deport anybody, because they’ll all go home on their own. No more handouts and no massive economic edge against citizens and legal immigrant, and things will look fine in Mexico. SOCIALISM is the huge magnet that’s sucking millions of illegal aliens into the country, but NOBODY is talking about shutting off that magnet. Keep the magnet running at its current strength, and we can start throwing illegals back over the border day and night, busloads at a time, and they’ll just keep coming back faster.
Thanks potlatch!
Next post of that has 2 great links on it too!
Yes, I replied to it but forgot to comment on the links.
What’s “B1?”
Lighten up Francis, I didn’t advocate anything you wrote.
When an employer has numerous workers with the same s.s. number and numerous workers who can’t speak English, the employer should suspect something.
As an employer, I wouldn’t hire anyone who couldn’t speak English. In your liberal book I guess that makes me a bigot.
Great article!! All of that needed to be said, and I hope it’s repeated!
I sent an Email to Lamar Alexander but I havent heard back...
I voted for him..Its my fault he’s in DC...
:(
At least you and the other citizens of Tennessee had the good sense to not help Al Gore go there in 2000.
“At least you and the other citizens of Tennessee had the good sense to not help Al Gore go there in 2000.”
Hmmmmmmmmm there is that...
Blvd.
BTW: Is the Valley still "divided" at Ventura?
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?
I believe 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?
But just so you'll know next time...
..truthkeeper is a lady :)
Note: Would make a good bumper sticker.. But alas they still HAVE NOT given up on slavery.. Socialism is indeed Slavery by Government.. exactly and completely..
Brilliant. Thank you Ann.
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