Posted on 01/14/2003 2:26:38 PM PST by 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 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.
One of the best examples of solving our immigration problems I have seen.
All Luis is doing here is disingenuously slapping his name on one of the many ideas that those of us who are serious about immigration reform have been advocating for a long time. If you think for one second that Luis is really for employer sanctions on businesses that hire illegal aliens or for eliminating welfare for illegals I'd like to talk to you about some swamp land I've been trying to unload.
This is just Luis’s Clintoness way of trying to gain credibility on an issue where he has proven time and again (like PRND21) to have none. The day our government ever enforced its immigration laws and started deporting illegal aliens in earnest you will hear a primal scream out of this two-bit vagabond. You can take that to the bank.
This is just Luis’s Clintoness way of trying to gain credibility on an issue where he has proven time and again (like PRND21) to have none. The day our government ever enforced its immigration laws and started deporting illegal aliens in earnest you will hear a primal scream out of this two-bit vagabond. You can take that to the bank."
Well, excuuuussseeee me!!
Guess now I know.
No matter, the piss-ant / sugar analogy is right-on and dead center (regardless of who or where it came from).
No, you don't.
This reminds me of riding in the back seat in the station wagon as a kid.
I always won.
That should have read "when the ideas overwhelm your intellect".
Pilgrims came to a wilderness and developed it with their blood, sweat and tears. Illegal immigrants come to a land developed by the blood, sweat and tears of others to partake of the goodies without the cost, to which they have no entitlement.
America was built for the builder's posterity, and those that came here by law and willing to become part of its body politic to help build it. Illegal immigrants are and do neither, nor do the vast majority of them assimilate and become American. 
All the same, the BR's plan is infinitely preferable to whats being done about the problem now - nothing.
You're absolutely right. Parts of southern California are being changed into Mexican colonias, illegal aliens and their relatives are voting for any Mexican-American politician who runs, always liberal, corrupt or not, and conservatives are becoming outnumbered. I call it invasion, but we don't have a chance as long as the President and Congress turn their backs on us in favor of big business who want slave labor profits.
Despite the fact that California's budget deficit is in the billions, the stupid Governor did not say one word about the billions of dollars Californians pay for the care of illegal aliens, not a word. Illegal aliens do pay some taxes, but not enough to make up for the free services that they all receive at our expense. Now we're being forced to bail out overflowing medical facilities, and to build new schools. Insane.
Of course not. Davis was, and plans in the future to be, elected by those illegal aliens.
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