Posted: 5/12/2011 8:14:27 AM EDT
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Two days after Obamanation held a rally in El-Paso dealing with immigration reform (read: lining up hispanic votes for his 2nd term reelection), I felt it was necessary to review the stats again.
1. We are the USA. We let our politicians shame us into thinking that we are stingy, mean, and cruel with our current immigration process, when we allow more legal visitors and immigrants into this country each year than all the other countries of the world put together. Before Secretary Hillary Clinton had all the immigration/visitor stat's online parsed and hashed to the point that one cannot find the total numbers for about anything listed on the Dept. of State website, the numbers showed the US was allowing about 2,000,000 foreigners legally in a year. But, apparently, according to some US Pols this is not enough. I suppose we can afford to admit more now because we are only $41 trillion in debt. 2. We are the USA. We let our politicians convince us that increased border security and enforced immigration laws currently on the books are just a pipe dream. The only way we can fix the problem is just to open the border more, and give citizenship to illegal aliens already residing here. It's like making coke / meth / heroin legal. Hey, it is already here so just give up trying to keep it out. So we open the borders and grant amesty? And then....? And then...? Then what? [crickets]. 3. Touting immigration reform and pathways to citizenship for aliens already here, without enhanced border security, is like trying to control an airplane in flight with no wings. "“A nation that cannot control it's borders is not a nation. ..." - Ronald Reagan. I know that there are some subscribers here that think that is just fine if the US ceases as a nation. But, I think most patriots here, do not agree to that. 4. "Oh, but we are a nation of immigrants. Immigration has been and is good for us". [before you go off on that, see #1 above]. 5. Some things in life are best done sequentially, not in parallel. That is the case with immigration reform and control. Firs,t one has to define controllable system for immigration. That means boundaries and border security (not a hermetically sealed border, but one that only allows, say 12,000 illegal aliens or less crossing per year.). This is step 1. Second, one has to develop the controls (more robust immigration courts and streamlined laws and processes like E-Verify). This is step 2. Finally, one may then respond to US Chamber and other multi-national globalist traders and shakers with their immigration requirements for whatever Visa de jour. That is step 3. 1,2,3...done sequentially. How do we know that? What is wrong with doing all this in parallel? Answer: It was done that way in 1986, with the results that we have to deal with now. No one really knows how many illegal aliens are here now. |