Ants.

Self | January 14, 2003 | Luis Gonzalez

[Luis Gonzalez]

Ants...

That's my answer.

My wife hates ants, she freaks out when she sees those little tiny ones (pissants we called them as kids) running across the kitchen floor. She buys gallons of insecticide, she drowns them in the stuff, and we pay a guy to fumigate every month.

But the ants always come back.

One day I decided to find out what was going on, I had always thought that ants are just a fact of life, and that you better get used to interacting with insects, living in the tropics and all (the Florida State bird should be the mosquito), so I tracked one.

It came in through a tiny hole under the sliding-glass door leading out to the patio. It ran across the floor, along the wall, up the side of the cabinet, and into a little crevice that led it to the storage area below my kitchen sink. I opened the door just in time to see the little guy climb up the wall of the kitchen trashcan, and into a veritable pissant smorgasbord!

My kid's leftover banana peels from breakfast, the last two bites of a Pop Tart, some coffee grounds, and the crumbs from the bottom of a box of Frosted Flakes.

No lid.

That's our problem, we leave sugar out for the ants, and then we act surprised, and outraged, when they show up to do what ants do.

What needs to be done about illegal immigration, in order to truly bring an end the problem, may be more than what we as a nation may be willing to go through. We need to stop giving the house away, and quit electing politicians who do it. We need to convince others that they need to do the same.

The quick (and deadly) solution of militarizing the borders, is scary, and has no possible end in sight, the moment we think we have things under control and stand down, the ants will come again. It's like taking an over-the-counter cold remedy, you're still sick; you're just too medicated to notice; and as soon as you stop taking it, you feel like crap again.

We need to seriously curtail the welfare entitlement programs, for everyone too, not just illegal immigrants. We need to limit State assistance to anyone believed to be here illegally to:

· Emergency medical services

· Emergency temporary shelter

· Transportation to the border.

We need to challenge the current interpretation of the XIV Amendment in Court, a well-organized, well-financed challenge seeking to eliminate "anchor babies". We need to severely fine and/or prosecute employers found guilty of knowingly using illegal alien help. We need hard time for smuggling, and manufacturing and/or distribution of falsified legal identification documents...hard time, not Fed time.

We need to increase the technological abilities of the INS and the Border Patrol, and improve their efficiency.

I think we should offer incentives to American manufacturing firms looking to set up shop overseas, to build in Mexico, and not China. Mexico needs to co-operate with some internal reforms, and by relaxing some laws. If we are about to help a nation grow economically, I want it to be the one right next door to me, not the one who has nukes trained on me.

We should also bring back the Bracero program, it's a win-win.

Any individual caught in the U.S. illegally should be deported, and not allowed to return to this country, for any reason, for life. But I also think that if we find someone who has been here illegally for fifteen years, working, not breaking laws, setting roots, and otherwise being a model member of the community, we need to give them special consideration, and try thinking out of the box for a kinder solution.

I want to solve the problem, not medicate the symptoms.

I think a long-term goal of US foreign policy towards Mexico should be one of mutually beneficial trade terms, and wealth creation.

And I think that we need to clean up our spilt sugar. The ants will not sneak in under the sliding-glass door, because they know there's nothing in here for them.

[CounterCounterCulture]

That's our problem, we leave sugar out for the ants, and then we act surprised, and outraged, when they show up to do what ants do.

What needs to be done about illegal immigration, in order to truly bring an end the problem, may be more than what we as a nation may be willing to go through. We need to stop giving the house away, and quit electing politicians who do it. We need to convince others that they need to do the same.

Absolutely. That's something conservatives and libertarians can find common ground on and is the ultimate long-term goal.

Now how do we achieve that goal? Leftists have learned a long time ago by giving away the farm is a way to gain and keep power. San Francisco didn't become 90% Democrat overnight. Extended unemployment benefits, generous welfare, free health care, free child care, "tolerance" of the homeless, free sex-changes for city employees, etc. have been the path the power. Republicans need not apply.

Other big city leftists are always trying to increase benefits to lock onto power and any direction to the right is met with strong resistance. Any Republican trying to compete against those benefits is fighting an uphill battle and any Republican who latches onto those leftists’ ideals becomes part of the problem instead of part of the solution.

The quick (and deadly) solution of militarizing the borders, is scary, and has no possible end in sight, the moment we think we have things under control and stand down, the ants will come again. It's like taking an over-the-counter cold remedy, you're still sick; you're just too medicated to notice; and as soon as you stop taking it, you feel like crap again.

Militarizing our borders is an easy short-term solution and potentially a long-term powder keg. I'm not sure what we can do in the short-term while we attempt to dismantle our generous benefits. But your ideas do intrigue me, especially the "Made In Mexico" vs. "Made In China" option.

[hchutch]

And that, Mr. Terrell, is where problems start.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/802153/posts

Not every illegal immigrant is a freeloading gang member in the employ of al-Qaeda or some other terrorist group. Some, quite frankly, ought not to be deported, even though they didn't jump through the bureaucratic hoops.

[William Terrell]

Not every illegal immigrant is a freeloading gang member in the employ of al-Qaeda or some other terrorist group. Some, quite frankly, ought not to be deported, even though they didn't jump through the bureaucratic hoops.

So you say that people fleeing from some despotic policies in their own countries ought to able to stay? If those policies are so despotic, why don't they stay there and change them?

They don't stay there because they lack the courage to work through the dangerous process of imposing their will on a corrupt government and changing it, like we did here 2+ centuries ago and will likely again.

If they lack the will and the courage there, they will lack the will and the courage here, and tolerate corruption in our system. We have enough of that now; I sure as hell see no point in importing more of it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"They don't stay there because they lack the courage to work through the dangerous process of imposing their will on a corrupt government and changing it, like we did here 2+ centuries ago and will likely again."

Nice bit of interpretative history, but the fact is that first, we all fled despots in Europe, then we took a stand on this hemispere. Far from the crowns, and their armies.

[PRND21]

Bump

[Luis Gonzalez]

Made in China:

Made in Mexico:

[Luis Gonzalez]

Troublemaker...

:-)

[PRND21]

Shakira is Columbian. However, your point is still valid. Got any Sofia Vergara?

[PRND21]

Troublemaker...

With the amount of spittle spat on this site about immigrants you would think those same people would comment.
Perhaps this problem is needed by some to attempt to advance other agendas.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Shakira is Colombian?

Dios mio, what a woman!

[Luis Gonzalez]

I'm making trouble all over the forum lately.

Look here.

[Six Bells]

Very nicely done.

"Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be deportees."

[Luis Gonzalez]

Sofia Vergara?

[Happy2BMe]

"I want to solve the problem, not medicate the symptoms."

One of the best examples of solving our immigration problems I have seen.

It's so simple, it would confound the wisdom of the professional polititians protecting our borders in D.C.

Clean up the sugar and the piss ants stop coming - simple as that.

Big labor keeps hiring illegal immigrants (at the winking of the INS, both the U.S. and Mexican governments, and with graft, bribery and kickbacks woven throughout the entire sickening fabric).

Sleep Good Tonite Your Borders Are Belong To Us A Public Service Announcement of The INS

[Joe Hadenuf]

Hey! Good post.......

[Happy2BMe]

"Illegal aliens immigrants are not entitled to welfare or anything. This you imply by saying that we should limit and curtail welfare assistance. The only thing the aliens are entitled to is to get back to where they came from, and stay out of my country."

About the "crap" part - I totally agree - it's CRAP!

The "crap" is doled out annually to the tunes of Billion$ of dollars in direct and indirect public support expenses.

Entitled or not - they ca$h in by the Billion$.

Be it welfare, public health care, public education - whatever, the sugar bowl done spilt over and nohbuddy dare pick it up.

[MHGinTN]

I don't believe it is possible to completely seal the borders to our North and South, and our entire sea coast. However, our troops, with their formidable training, could go a long way to making them much less porous ... and that plays toward the 'drug war' to some extent. I don't think we're approaching the war on drugs from the correct direction when we spend so little on educating our youth regarding the corrosive effect of drugs. I do think the efforts of LEO's should be toward the adult population feeding this plague however. But until we have young people who shun the disease, we will have more adults using to keep the drug business flourishing. LIEberalism, it's a disease we must destroy to save our nation.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Excellent!