Posted on 08/20/2015 1:38:30 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
One of the most lame excuses for doing nothing is that we can't do everything. Such excuses have been repeated endlessly, even by some conservatives, when it comes to illegal immigration.
We can't deport millions of illegal immigrants already living in the country, some say, so the wise thing is to just learn to live with them, according to the supposedly sophisticated crowd.
This completely sidesteps the plain, obvious and galling fact that we are not deporting those illegal immigrants who are arrested by the police for violating other laws -- and are then turned loose back into American society. In so-called "sanctuary cities" across the country, local police are under orders not to report illegal immigrants to the federal authorities.
Nobody has a right to obstruct justice when it comes to federal laws -- not even the President of the United States, as Richard Nixon discovered .....
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One of the most widely known abuses of the immigration laws is the creation of "anchor babies" to get automatic citizenship when a pregnant woman simply crosses the U.S. border to have her child born on American soil. This is not limited to people who cross the Mexican border. Some are flown in from Asia to waiting posh facilities.
Not only do their children get automatic American citizenship without having to meet any requirements, this also increases the opportunities for other family members to gain admission later on, in the name of "family reunification."
This is such an obvious racket, and so widely known, for so long, that you might think our "responsible" leaders would agree that it should be stopped. But, here again, there are excuses rather than action. One distinguished conservative commentator even said recently that this is such a small problem that it is not worth bothering with.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Sowell ping
Remember Ike and “project wetback”?
HE got rid of them by the millions—no jet planes, no interstate highways either.
I had to search ‘operation wetback’. Thanks, I didn’t know it at all.
How many troops did we manage to send overseas during WW2? Seems like it would be a piece of cake to get illegals to our southern border.
If there's re-incarnation I want to be born over again and be as smart as Thomas Sowell.
I was unable to get past the first sentence...it was that good...(I'll go back and read the rest now...)
Sowell nailes it.
Does he ever nail it, this is one of his best in my view.
Yep
You could accelerate the process by granting amnesty, a free one way plane ticket and a $1000 payment to be claimed at their nearest U.S. Consulate at least 90 days after arriving home to the first million takers.
Said amnesty to consist of a clean record should they wist to apply for legal immigration in the future.
Then gradually phase down the program. Second million get amnesty, the plane ticket and a $500 payment . . . sixth million get amnesty, a bus ride and no payment . . . tenth million get just the bus ride . . . after that, six months of hard labor building the wall to earn the bus ride and a permanent bar on re-entry.
My guess is that you wouldn't even have to get to the 10th million.
61.2% (11,535,000) were draftees
Average duration of service: 33 months
Overseas service: 73% served overseas, with an average of 16 months abroad
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Looks like we sent about 13,000,000. On troop ships to Europe and the Pacific.
It'd be alot easier today, we could just set up catapults on the southern border. After a day or two of heaving wetbacks south, the rest would start self-deporting.
We'd be rid of all of them in a week or so.
If there were any stragglers, well, the catapults are still there.
h/t NorthMountain
Nice picture. The large engines are counterweight trebuchets. The smaller engines are torsion onagers.
I love it. LOL!
I imagine many of the catapult operators would even work for nothing.
Is it French, as in tray-boo-shay?
Yes, although most English speakers seem to come up with something more like treh-boo-shay.
Hell, I know I’d fling ‘em for nothing! If we could throw in dems, rinos, and desert monkeys, I’d even throw in a box lunch for each “passenger”.
;^)
I’ll help ya with the flingin’ and the lunches. ;-)
Not only do their children get automatic American citizenship without having to meet any requirements, this also increases the opportunities for other family members to gain admission later on, in the name of "family reunification."
Thomas Sowell used the term 'anchor babies'... the girls at the New York Times will need their smelling salts...
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