Posted on 05/21/2010 8:28:42 AM PDT by SpareChange
[NOTE: This essay is a sequel to "Borderline Insanity: My Two Cents on the Illegal Immigration Debate", posted on Free Republic 19 May.]
Borderline Insanity (Part Dos): Another Two Cents On Illegal Immigration
By David J. Aland / 21 May 2010
When crazy tin-pot dictators stand up in the United Nations and denounce the US, folks mostly yawn – that kind of primal scream therapy is pretty much what the UN has become. But it’s something else entirely when foreign heads of state are allowed to denounce the US from the White House or the floor of Congress, but that’s what Mexico’s President Calderon did this week.
In the very least, it’s a breach of good manners to lecture your host, especially after being feted to a fancy State Dinner and a chance to address the US Congress. But such bad manners are compounded when members of Congress stand up and applaud the denunciation, or the President himself gives his approval. It’s one thing to bow to foreign potentates; it’s something else to encourage their disrespect. Under the Obama/Reid/Pelosi regime, that’s apparently called “Foreign Policy”. To the rest of the world, it’s called being weak.
Our neighbors to the south receive more than a billion and a half American dollars every year in aid, with Mexico getting a third of that. It may be chump-change compared to the cost of comprehensive health care reform, but consider what it bodes for “comprehensive immigration reform.” It’s guaranteed that any reform enacted under the current Administration will result in a massive increase of dollars flowing south.
Not that a lot of dollars don’t flow that way already – the $30 billion that go South as remittances to the folks back home from their illegally resident relatives dwarfs the $550 million in aid to Mexico and props up the southern economies in a way aid could never aspire. Additionally, American taxpayers foot the bill for at least another $45 billion to educate, medicate, and incarcerate “undocumented” guests.
The illegal immigration problem is not a problem with immigration in general, and it is not a problem with most other countries – it is a specific issue to a specific border and specific demographics. The solution, therefore, should be specifically addressed to those conditions.
President Calderon has made it clear that he considers Mexicans illegally residing in the US to be Mexican citizens. So do many of the illegal residents, it appears. The spastic response to past citizenship pathways suggests that many of the illegal immigrants are not immigrants at all – they do not desire American citizenship, just American generosity. But such generosity comes at a price, and the price has grown unacceptably high, and it’s time for both Presidents to put their money where their mouths are.
To stop the illegal flow of people across our southern borders, there must be both incentives and disincentives, instituted as part of a strong foreign policy, not a weak one. Here are a few:
- Secure the border from both sides.
- Streamline the pathway to citizenship as well as deportation. Illegal residents who cannot or will not qualify for the former should be quickly sent home via the latter.
- Increase aid dollars to our southern neighbors, but specifically targeted to law enforcement, border security, and smuggling abatement on their side of the border.
- All illegally resident felons should be immediately returned to their country of origin for incarceration there rather than the US after conviction. Failure by the country of origin to honor the US conviction will result in reduction of other categories of US Aid (such as defense) to that country. Perhaps even bonuses can be paid for sentences fully served.
- The cost of education, medical care, legal support, and eventual deportation should be decremented from the other forms of US Aid provided to the country from which the deported illegal immigrant came.
- States should be allowed to regulate and tax so-called “wire shops” which send dollars out of the country and prey on illegal residents with usurious fees, loan interest, and practices. Sending dollars out of the country should not be prohibited, but forced to be legitimate.
- The members of the Organization of American States should be required to clean up the environmental disasters made along the illegal routes in the American border states, or have that cost decremented from their US Aid.
Heads of state whose own immigration laws are far more draconian should think twice before criticizing ours. In Mexico, non-citizens are prohibited from partaking in political protest – perhaps our guests, invited and otherwise, should return the favor.
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David J. Aland is a retired Naval Officer with a graduate degree in National Security Affairs from the U. S. Naval War College.
Perhaps we should show them the door.
Take a look at this FBI Wanted for Murder List to see how wonderful diversity is !!!
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/vc/murders/vc_murders.htm
About 90% Hispanic, for those who don’t wish to count (or see all their ugly mugs)
You should see the birth announcement page in our local paper. Seems like 99% hispanic, and rarely with same-name parents.
This bears repeating. It's why "comprehensive immigration reform" won't work. The libs are assuming these folks want something they really don't.
By law, all illegals should be deported. They don't qualify for citizenship or the right to stay here.
BS. They serve their sentences here if they committed a major felony at a minimum. Using the specious rationale of deportation prior to serving out their sentences, would that apply to the underwear bomber or an illegal committing terrorism? Sending them back to Yemen would just mean they would be released. Look at what happened to the Lockerbie bomber who was returned to Syria.
Stating the obvious:
Mexico would remove rights and/or deport their native sons & daughters once they legally become American citizens.
Mexico would also forfeit all the revenue ($20 billion a year) that illegals send back to their families.
Returned to Libya.
They would also forfeit much of the drug money if we could secure our borders.
The Lockerbie bomber was returned to Libya.
Please note that my suggestions are specific to our southern border: “it is a specific issue to a specific border and specific demographics.” Extrapolating the general from the specific is counter-intuitive. Specific problems require specific solutions, not ineffective blanket solutions.
The Lockerbie bomber was returned to Libya.
Please note that my suggestions are specific to our southern border: “it is a specific issue to a specific border and specific demographics.” Extrapolating the general from the specific is counter-intuitive. Specific problems require specific solutions, not ineffective blanket solutions.
Please note that my suggestions are specific to our southern border: “it is a specific issue to a specific border and specific demographics.” Extrapolating the general from the specific is counter-intuitive. Specific problems require specific solutions, not ineffective blanket solutions.
LOL. That is not the way the law works. And we have all kinds of people coming through the border other than Mexicans. 30 to 40% of all illegal aliens came here legally and overstayed their visas.
Ping!
It sickens me to have them listed as "white". At least, now, they are putting (Hispanic) to the side. I think they should be listed as Mesoamerican/Latino.
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