Posted on 05/21/2007 9:14:13 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
“Apparently not, because that’s what they are doing and the Feds are too scared of public reaction to go busting into churches.”
I think its more of a policy decision by an administration wedded to this philosophy. If the government is selectively afraid to enforce existing laws, why should people obey any of them?
“Come on, ZULU, illegals have been coming here for decades. It might be trendy to blame Bush for everything that’s wrong with the country, but this instance is a bit of a stretch, dontcha think? In fact, it was Reagan who handed out the first amnesty. “
Yes, they have. But one President gave an order to shoot them if they crossed the border - I can’t remember which one. But NEVER before to my knowledge has any administration so pandered to the Mexican government and corporate interests so as to allow an army of these people into America. 10% of Mexico lives here already and Bush is pushing for MORE!!
As to Reagan, that was supposed to be a one time amnesty, the bill contained legal teeth to go after employers who hired illegals as well as other restrictions and those were totall ignored - a warning about the alleged teeth in the new amensty bill.
“Good luck. People immigrate from poor parts of the world so your arrivals are pretty much limited to third world countries, and all the backwards cultural baggage they bring. You don’t see too many Europeans or Japanese knocking at our doors.”
I don’t think people who are poor are garbage and I have no problem letting them in here if they come in legally and we have jobs for them AND THEY WANT TO STAY HERE AND BECOME AMERICANIZED AND LEARN ENGLISH AND OUR CULTURE. And we do get a lot of technical people coming here. A lot of medical people are coming in from the Phillippines and Asia where they still teach science and history instead of politically correct pablum and basket-weaving in their colleges, and where work-ethics are still practised in schools as well as on the job.
“Ah, yes, all my fault and those almighty corporate interests, eh? It’s always the big guy who’s at fault, never the average voter. You might want to consider your fellow citizens, unaffiliated with corporate interests or the administration, who’s happy enjoying cheap restaurant service, cheap landscaping and cheap housekeeping and who doesn’t give a squat who’s doing the work as long as it’s at the right price.”
They are all in it together. But the corporate interests and Chambers of Commerce are the grease lubricating the wheels in Washington, not some landscaper with a handfull of Mexicans. But you are right on this and I don’t disagree with you. I avoid eating at restaurants as I worked in the food industry, and also because I know these people have standards of hygiene not at a paar with our own and also can carry diseases I can’t spell let alone pronounce. I do my own landscaping and clean my own house and I DO CARE about whose doing my work. More Americans should. We have become too lazy and affluent for our own good.
Because it is their fault...Its their responsibility and they should be held accountable for their failure...
And my saying so is not what you like to classify as a leftist fallback...And I resent you implying that!
They are not doing their job, and they are farting around, at our expense, once again with this reform deal in the senate...
As much as I would love to be able to personally implement a “local/state” initiative to enforce our border and immigrations laws we already have...That very same federal government who’s charter it is to do this, condemn local and state entities from doing so...
The federal judge down here struck down the ordinance voted on by the “people” of Farmers Branch, Texas from enforcing their own ordinances which would have made their area un-hospitable to ILLEGAL aliens in that area, proves the point...They weren’t rounding them up and bussing them off to some “holding area” for the government to get off their duffs and take care of it from there...All they did was make it difficult for illegals to stay...
I don’t see anything wrong with that...
But if your blinders only see the issue being controlled by “American Employers”...I suggest a little more study on this issue to see that it is has a bit wider scope than that...Sure they do their part, either supporting illegality, or actively fighting and policing it themselves within their industry...
But I suppose you might fall into the camp that says:
“Well, there is just too many of them to deport...We need to find a way to excuse their presense, and treat them humainly by giving them a path to citizenship...”
Sounds to me if the effort were to be made to police up the illegals (ALL OF THEM) and send them home...That looks like job security for anyone up to the task...No matter how long it takes...And the cost could be covered by narrowing any debt we owe those countries...
Seems fairly easy to me...But then again Government has an effinity for making things difficult, when they don’t really want to do something...Kinda like a child does from time to time...
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