Monday, May 21, 2007

New Developments on Immigration!

Last week I posted a blog piece calling Teddy Kennedy's Immigration Plan an Amnesty deal. As it turns out, I was both right and wrong! The bill's a lot worse than I thought. (And BTW... Senator (hic!) Kennedy isn't letting anyone read the bill for some reason.)

As Sundays New York Times stated...."Its architects (Kennedy, McCain etc. - my insert) seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise." Later on in the same Op-Ed , "It is the plan to give most of the estimated 12 million immigrants (more like 12-20 million - my insert) here illegally the chance to live and work without fear...."

Yup, we've been through this before back in the early 80's.

Defenders of the plan say that this satisfies all sides of the issues! In fact, Presidential hopeful John McCain was heard screaming at a fellow republican that there's no need for reviewing this plan in Congress, the implication being that "tough love" between heavyweights Kennedy & McCain putting the bill together have assured its
bi-partisanship!! (Uh-oh...there's a BOHICA moment if I ever saw one!)

Within the Kennedy/McCain "Max-Mex" once-in-a-generation deal.....
  • however many illegal aliens there currently are in los Estados Unidos, these would immediately be free to live and work here without fear. Basically this means that they'd all be legal to stay here. They'd be able to participate (for example) in Medi-CAL in California, and other social benefit plans paid for by American tax payers, (that's you and me folks!)
  • plan defenders are saying well, no....they'd have to pay a penalty, go back to their home country as part of the "touchback pilgrimage" and then they could come back........
  • WRONG!!!!! The "touchback pilgrimage" is only for those illegal aliens who want to become citizens of the United States. Same for the $5000 fine. IT AIN'T MANDATORY THEY BECOME CITIZENS YOU KNOW! You can't force them!
  • Illegal aliens who do not intend becoming U.S. citizens are still free to live and work here, and can save their $5 grand. If they're caught at some point, they can say they just arrived. There's no mandatory registration with this program. The plan simply says when the law is passed everybody here is free to stay!
So, like the NYTimes intimated, just like what happened in '84 or '86, with a swipe of a pen - today everyone here gets to stay here - abra cadabra & poof - instant AMNESTY!

What scares me the most is the once-in-a-generation aspect of the legislation. Once again Americans are passing off to our children the problems we should be fixing! During the 80's Amnesty deal, there was a lot of congressional "acting" that transpired in the run-up to the bill signing. Senators and Congressmen tore at their hair and rent their garments and promised to come up with a better solution than amnesty. Shear Hollywood!!

But no-one today is even making a show about actually fixing the illegal alien problem that still remains or the porous border problem that has existed since the last amnesty deal went through! So here we go again, "Feel-good Americans" pushing for the warm fuzzy quick fix, are once again shuffling the problem back behind the kitchen door...where hopefully no-one will realize it's there until another 20 years have gone by and it's the next generation's problem to solve!

What a way to run a country...if you ran your house or your company like this, you'd be homeless or bankrupt!

(However, our approach to illegal aliens is actually very much like the approach we take with third world nations having bad debt. They charge up some horrendous amount of bad debt buying yachts and summer palaces for their presidents, and when the amount gets astronomically bad enough and people begin starving in their home countries, they implore Bono to support them & run to the U.N. or to the World Bank, and the debts are forgiven!)

Aqui, en los Norte Estados Mexicanos, the same thing is happening all over again....illegal aliens break the law invading another country....nobody says anything. Years go by and American children who were toddlers when the invasion began, have now graduated college and are raising their own families. In the 23 years that have past, the trickle of illegal aliens has grown to 15 million or 20 million - again! Now, fearing that they are reaching another tipping point, illegal aliens form activist groups and seek out immigration lobbyists who cry for protection from Hollywood starlets & Congress. Liberal politicians seeing millions of votes for their candidates hurriedly rush another amnesty bill through Congress - and "Arriba!" you have 15 million new Americans.

This is ludicrous! This is what we are leaving to our children! Problems we weren't smart enough to solve!

We don't solve anything - Americans just want to push problems out of sight quickly so we don't have to deal with them! We want to get back to feeling good about ourselves.
What I hear on the street....................
"For God Sake, let them stay, we'll figure it out later! They're not bothering you!"
"There're too many of them to send them all back. You can't break up families!!"
"We have so much, just let them stay! They come here because they have nothing - we need to help them - not hurt them! "
"LET THEM ALL STAY!!! We can afford it! We have everything! They come here with nothing!
"We're the biggest country in the world! Think of the children!!! LET THEM STAY!!!!!

I am thinking about the children ..... is it wrong to think about American children?


Dom Spiro Spero!

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