Oh, I know! In exchange for promises to follow their Constitutional mandate to protect the country’s borders, the government will allow 12 million people to get away with breaking laws meant to protect the country’s borders!
Reagan made this mistake. Thing is, he — and most of us — learned from it.
Princess Lindsay, Jeb Bush, John McCain, et al? Not so much.
Look: I understand that we can’t deport the more than 12 million illegals already in this country; but we shouldn’t reward them with a “path to citizenship” either. Secure the border. Then let the illegals decide what they want to do once we make it clear that we will not be granting any amnesty to lawbreakers. Period.
If these people are living scared in the shadows, there’s a reason for that: they are here illegally. And with real unemployment and underemployment already at close to 20% in this country, the last thing we need to do is flood the labor market with millions of legal, unskilled laborers.
You want to talk to me about increasing guest worker programs? Fine. But in the meantime, we need to be cracking down on employers who take advantage of illegal labor — in conjunction with releasing these same employers from growth-choking taxation and the kinds of ridiculous and redundant regulatory burdens that drive up the cost of doing business to begin with.
And yes, we need to pressure the insane “textualist” interpretation of the 14th Amendment that pretends the US Constitution requires us to incentivize border-jumping and squatter’s rights citizenship.
Enough.
Any Republican who supports amnesty, or who wants to do anything else before getting the borders under control, will not get my vote — I don’t care who he puts on the ticket with him.
It’s simple: you look at who is trying to get into the U.S. legally — who applies for visas, and who applies for citizenship — and you look at which countries they come from. Then you say, “I support immigration reform, and my first reform is to make sure that everyone in the world who wants to come to our shares has a fair chance. If that means sending home ten million Mexicans to make room for the rest, then that’s what we’ll have to do.”
When the usual idiots advocate for citizenship for ten million “undocumented workers,” you say that’s just fine, so long as the ten million spots are allocated according to the proportions of people going through legal channels. No reward for lawbreakers, no geographic favoritism, no special treatment for one group over the others.
Hit the bastards upside the head with some of the “fairness” bullshit they’re always peddling, and watch their eyes bug out. While they regroup, you might find twenty seconds in which to start a real conversation on sensible immigration policies.
I’m tired of the canard “can’t deport 12 million, 20 million, 30 million..whatever the number is” illegal aliens.
Does that mean government shouldn’t even try?
An interesting little fact about illegals, illegals tend to self deport once they cannot find work or government handouts.
Providing, of course, government gets serious about enforcing the law.
Government has their excuse and, along with their shills in media, are trying to grind down public opinion to the point citizens stop caring.
When one asserts that we can’t deport 12 million people, I usually ask “How many can we, then? Let’s start with that.”
Honestly, it’s like the Highway Patrol saying, “We can’t catch every speeder every time, so let’s just get rid of speed limits.”
When one asserts that we can’t deport 12 million people, I usually ask “How many can we, then? Let’s start with that.”
We can. We can’t physically arrest and bus them all across the border. But if we start smacking companies with $10,000.00 fines for every instance of illegal employment and bar them from recieving welfare, we might not even need a fence, and they will deport themselves.
Honestly, it’s like the Highway Patrol saying, “We can’t catch every speeder every time, so let’s just get rid of speed limits.”
Well that I am in favor of. Unenforcable laws violates the principle of equality under the law. It’s not so much an issue of not being able to catch every speeder every time, but that everyone but everyone speeds constantly, and the highway patrol only nab you when they feel like making $150.00, fill the quota and fund a couple sporty new interceptors.
Even the cops themselves don’t do the speed limit when they’re tooling around, for the most part.
Racist.
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We don’t have to deport all 12 million today. It’s like saying there’s no use drilling in Anwar because it would be ten years before that oil would make a difference. That was fifteen years ago.
As illegals come to law enforcement attention, or social services attention, or employment attention, ship them out.
I see the Mexican government as a hostile entity in the problem, and I don’t see why we can’t pressure them to take more responsibility on their side of the border. Everyone knows they encourage it, hell, a big chunk of Mexican revenue comes from illegals shipping money home. We need to force them to address the problem too, otherwise we’re just building a revolving door.
No amnesty, and no bs about inability to deport them all.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
Here’s something!
We currently have the mechanisms in place to deal with illegal immigration.
What we DONT have in place is the WILL to do so.