WITH SIX YOU GET BURRITOS

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.