Posted on 04/29/2007 12:27:44 PM PDT by philman_36
I don't know about everybody else, but I'm sick and tired of being constantly told by our politicians (especially by our politicians), by the MSM, by immigration activists and a whole host of other folks how our immigration system is "broken". Anyone can verify this by a search on Yahoo under the keywords " immigration system broken", which returns over 3 million hits, and on Google, which gives over a million. You don't have to look too hard to see or hear the truth of that. We are then bombarded on the Internet, by the MSM in print, on the television and on the airwaves with stern pronouncements that "something must be done to fix this problem".
And yet for years I had somehow been under the impression that our immigration system worked pretty well and almost everyone I know goes by the addage of "If it ain't broke don't fix it". People applied for admission into the US, government functionaries with bad combovers checked out the person wanting to come here (to work, political asylum, fear of persecution, etc) and the process moved along. The problem, as I understood it, was illegal immigration so I had never considered the immigration system to be broken in the first place. Yet when you keep hearing the same thing repeated time after time at some point you have to start wondering just how it got broken to begin with.
So I began to think, surely our representatives in Congress would know what the problems were because they're the people who implemented the system and even the changes over the years to the laws that started the immigration system. Some of these legislators have been around a long time and must surely know what was wrong with the laws that implemented the system. And yet, these people are some of the very people who complain the loudest that the system is broken and needs to be fixed! From where I sit, all I can see is that it's broken because it was delivered broken from the start, and intentionally at that!
Apparently we've been delivered something that was broken before it was even delivered else why would it need to be fixed now. Even though we have been told that repairs have been made and the system is supposed to be "good to go" it now seems that the defect is inherent in the design. If what has already been delivered to the American public was broken to begin with what makes anyone in their right mind think that the next thing to be delivered to us won't be as broken as what was delivered the first time?
Just thinking out loud, as it were.
It’s not broken, it’s not being used. It’s like complaining that your grass is too tall while your lawnmower sits in the garage, unused.
i guess the defenition of “the system is broken” is a total disregard for the laws that are on the books and in force in this country at the present time.
If you think it’s *broken* now, wait until they try and *fix* it.
It’s called Anarchy.
If what has already been delivered to the American public was broken to begin with what makes anyone in their right mind think that the next thing to be delivered to us won't be as broken as what was delivered the first time?
If the fricking DOJ would do their job and strictly enforce all the immigration laws already on the books, this “crisis” would disappear within a year.
Remember last year when the Reps were having town hall meetings to get our input about what should be done about this "crisis?"
Joe Wilson, my Rep, held a meeting and I attended. My question to him was, "When and who made the decision to suspend our Rule of Law when it comes to illegal immigrants?"
As you might expect, he could not answer the question. Well, to be fair, he said a bunch of words, but he DID NOT answer the question.
Enforce the laws on the books!!!
Not oligarchy? Because that’s what we’re importing: a lot of folks who’re used to it.
Remember last year when the Reps were having town hall meetings to get our input about what should be done about this "crisis?"
Yep, and they obviously didn't like the suggestions! Directness doesn't seem to be to their liking. {:^)
What is broken is our system of enforcing immigration laws. What is nonexistent is our government’s commitment to enforcing our immigration laws.
And your follow-up question should have been: How many of millions more do you think this country can absorb before being destroyed? None of them EVER want to talk about numbers, because it destroys their own arguments. They haven’t thought it out.
What is nonexistent is our government’s commitment to enforcing our immigration laws.
It seems to me that the commitment is, like the enforcement, selective.
This is their purest form of art during a republican administration. System broken, too many [insert here] unemployed/uninsured/homeless/undereducated, due to the heartless, mean spirited Bush administration.
Oh, and Lou Dobbs is an idiot. Mrs. Cheney’s smackdown performance on this topic w/ Blitz was a classic!! Why aren’t we drafting her? If nothing else she stirs debate.
Ann Archy, sounds like some woman on the San Fran City Council to me......LOL...
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