Doris Day's
last film in 1968 was "With Six You Get Eggroll". It was a romantic
comedy about the difficulty of blending families when widowers (or divorced)
couples re-marry. When the children and relatives line up against a step-mother
and step-father there is no pleasing either side and compromise short of
calling off the romance is impossible.
At the end
of the movie, all ultimately learn to not just accept the union but to soften
their hearts and support the marriage. The disharmony that has been brewing
over immigration is far less likely to have a fair and harmonious outcome. In
fact the wedding is off! Americans are as hot as tamales and the Washington
reform talk leaves a bitter sour cream
taste in their mouths.
There are
six basic voices in the immigration debacle facing our nation and its future. These are the Democrats,
the Republicans, the Corporations, the farmers and small businesses, the
minority liberal voters and the majority voters. Their positions on the immigration
issues is as follows;
1)The
progressive Democrats are seeking wholesale amnesty for illegal aliens
expecting to sign up loyal voters for the future.
2)Meanwhile
some members of the Republican Party worry that if they are not included in the
citizenship give-away, they will lose all future elections. They have proposed
a slow walk to amnesty for illegal aliens.
3)Corporations
and high tech firms are not interested in amnesty but rather changing the H1B
immigration laws. The claim is that American universities are not graduating
high tech students with math and science degrees in sufficient numbers to fill
the vacancies in their industries. Therefore they must import workers from
countries such as India and China in order to fill their worker shortage.
4)Small
businesses and farmers on the other hand are looking for cheap unskilled labor
and are lobbying for guest worker programs. They want the law prohibiting them
from hiring illegal aliens softened or removed.
5)Liberal
voters don't like borders and are pushing for a dismantling of most all of our
immigrations laws.
6)The
majority of voters want our immigration laws enforced, the borders secured and
illegal aliens deported. Americans want lawful immigrants that assimilate and
swear allegiance to our country.
In order to
resolve any problem, one must first correctly identify the source and cause of
the problem. In the case of our immigration and border problem, there are two
indisputable causes; lack of security and lack of deportation.
The reason
lack of security and deportation are separate, is that, even if we were to
build a wall around America rivaling the wall of China, not all illegal aliens
enter the country via crossing the border. Many illegal aliens have been
granted visas, and then they fail to leave once their legal right to remain in
the country has elapsed.
Some states
(California) give illegal aliens sanctuary while other states (Arizona) have
been sued for trying to assist the federal government immigration duty to
enforce the law.
The bottom
line; border patrol and capture, deportation enforcement and criminal
prosecution of those hiring or abetting illegal aliens has been undermined by
federal and state authorities.
The next
question to be rightly asked therefore is, how does changing the law or
granting amnesty fix our broken immigration system? Americans know that they
answer is simple; it doesn't. Laws not enforced are meaningless. And we have
granted amnesty before and it only worsens the problem.
There are
three main false assertions being used as arguments for the need to grant
amnesty and change immigration laws.
The first
argument being expressed is that there are too many to deport. The contention being if you estimate that
there are upwards of 11 million illegal aliens then it is logistically
impossible to deport them all. Also, in deporting that many illegal aliens
because of the misuse of the "Anchor Baby" determination of citizen
by being born in America, then you would be breaking up families.
The second
argument being used is that business and industry cannot fill both high end and
low end tech jobs by hiring American citizens.
The third
argument is that America's immigration laws are archaic and discriminatory.
Well let's
take the last argument first about discrimination that is argued by
multicultural liberal groups that want to make America an open border turn
style for every human in the world regardless of their pedigree and loyalty.
One needs to
ask these open border advocates if they leave the door wide open in their own
apartment or house. Do they allow anyone off the street to waltz in and raid
their refrigerator, sleep on their sheets and then claim squatters rights to
half the property? Or wipe out their
families health by a contagious illness? We know the answer, and we know the
radical idiocy of their open border ideas. Fail!
The second
argument touted by business pushing the need to import our high skilled work
force is equally illegitimate. The argument by corporations that our education
system doesn't produce enough high tech workers does need to be solved. So why
would they not actively recruit the freshman on college campuses to get their
degrees in those disciplines rather than abandoning American youth for foreign
nationals? Why do they support progressive policies and unions that have
destroyed America's education? Fail!
The second
argument made by small businesses that Americans will not apply and work at
unskilled labor jobs is equally illegitimate. Supply and demand exists not just
in consumerism but also in the labor market. The better the compensation and
benefits the more attractive the jobs. If your business operating plan relies on
cheap labor, low wages and no benefits and you are finding it hard to hire workers
then you should either fold as a business or raise those wages to attract
workers. Expecting the government to grant you slave laborers is an affront to
free markets. Fail!
Finally the
logistical impossibility of deportation argument that pretends a manhunt
brigade is needed to do the job along with the compassionate argument against breaking
up families needs debunking.
If one makes this specious argument then the logical question becomes;
why do we have any laws at all. In fact, since we can't stop criminal activity
on our streets so why not argue for the abolishment of all criminal laws,
release all prisoners and disband our police force?
When does
our criminal justice department decide not to prosecute criminal conduct
because the perpetrator is a single mother or single father with children to
raise and support? Sending a single parent to prison for life certainly breaks
up the family and leaves children in some cases, wards of the state. We don't
as a society suggest that as long as you are a breadwinning single parent you
have amnesty from prosecution, do we? Fail again!
Along with
E-Verify we should be requiring hospitals, social services police officers,
landlords, employers and any other individuals to report illegal aliens or face
stiff fines and possible criminal charges in the quest for deportation
tracking. We could create a self-deportation campaign (2-3 years) where a
public service message tells people to report themselves to authorities and
have their deportment transportation costs paid. The benefit being that before
that 3 year period expires they would not be placed on a permanent list banning
them from future entry. Once the grace period is over then people would be
warned that they would be deported with prejudice, meaning they would lose the
opportunity to ever come back to America's front door.
The truth is
that America has the right to sovereignty just as individuals have the right to
deny trespass on their properties. We have the right and the obligation to keep
citizens safe from seditious cultures, pandemic illnesses, criminal importation
and proportioned absorption per our economic situation.
No other
country in the world is the haven for the world, and no other country in the
world can offer the exceptional opportunities that American citizenship grants
to those lawfully seeking to become a loyal assimilated new American immigrant.
The talk of
amnesty by the left, the Democrat Party and the sell-outs in the Republican
party are not just wrong, they are cynically immoral for choosing illegal
aliens over law abiding legal immigrants.
The big and
small business lobbyists are wrong because they are seeking to solve America's
high and low skilled labor market shortage by quick government fix rather than
to invest in our American workforce.
The only
group that holds the moral high ground is in fact the majority of Americans.
The majority that wants our borders made secure. The majority that wants the
government to do its job and deport illegal trespassers. The majority that is
against amnesty. The majority that wants the rule of law to not be politicized
by Washington bureaucrats. The majority that wants legal immigrants to be
honored and respected and not feeling foolish that it would have been cheaper
and easier to ignore our immigration laws.
Americans
heard Obama say that the 2014 election was about his policies. Americans voted
and spoke to those policies. The results were not fuzzy and or hard to discern.
From his foreign policy, domestic regulations and amnesty open border dreams,
Americans said NO, NO, NO and enough, enough and enough.
The American
people know the difference between an eggroll, a burrito and Gruber-ville crap
sandwich when it come to comprehensive immigration reform.
It is time
for the newly elected Congress of 2014
to represent the majority voice when they take office in 2015. It is
time for our representatives to represent citizens not special interests. It is
time they adhere to their constitutional oaths and stop acting as though the
immigration issue is complicated, it isn't. The only reason it has become
convoluted is because of political expediency, by both political parties.
