Posted on 05/28/2002 8:23:09 AM PDT by Registered
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:37:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
He might as well fire all the law enforcement officers in the INS. If it's impractical to enforce the law, why do we need the LEO's.
What I'm getting at is; Ziglar should not go public and state that it is impractical to enforce the law. It may be time consuming, but not impractical. And yes, rounding up all the illegals is possible. It would be time consuming, but it is possible.
I agree that mass round ups will not solve the problem an should not be at the top of the list of priorities, but letting 10 million illegals simmer under the radar won't solve anything either.
The INS could easily round up 2 to 3 million illegals in one year with very little increase in manpower and expense. We know were a lot of the illegals are, but the INS is too PC to go and get them. We are restricted in how we can enforce the law. I work in the Phoenix Airport, and when I go upstairs and get a drink or stretch my legs after a flight, I have illegals come ask me questions because they know I can not arrest them. I see hundreds in the airport everyday, but I can do a thing. NO. Because the INS is to PC. I'm an Inspector and can only arrest those aliens that are entering the country on a flight that I am working. I have 30 to 40 illegals on the street corner just down from my house everyday waiting for someone to give them a job. Can I go arrest them. No I can't.
That's like telling a cop he can't arrest the bank robber if he is off duty or not on his assigned street corner.
4 things need to be done to fix the problem:
Cease all welfare for illegals.
Strictly enforce the laws on employing illegals.
Send aid to Mexico instead the Middle East and the host of other shit hole countries we send my tax dollars too.
And round up the illegals in the US.
If Mexico is turned into and economic power house like the US and Canada, and no one will hire illegals and there was no free handouts, then the flow of illegals will stop. End of story.
Now tell me, what would be Mexico's and the Worlds reaction if we sent troops into Mexico and shot at their law enforcement personnel while running drugs?
Excellent point that many people don't seem to understand. Consumers don't benefit from the employment of illegal aliens. Only the companies that the illegal aliens work for benefit from the employment of illegal aliens.
Well I certainly wouldn't equate anything you've said with "being hysterical or irrational" about immigration.
You make some good points.
Unfortunately there are far to many posts on this topic that are not nearly as rational as yours.
Actually, it's time to this war to get real.
Note also the illustration. The sign, next to the Courthouse door, proclaiming "EVERYBODY COME!" and especially "NO QUESTIONS ASKED". The American citizen in the picture asks: "What weight can my vote have against this ignorance, stupidity and fraud?"
I agree - there has always been some animosity towards immigrants. The quote at the bottom of the picture does not try to conceal that. The picture also tells me that by 1860, people knew that politicians were supportive of immigrants who "cut corners".
Just a question, would America be better if these people had been kicked out. Would you be here today?
If the people who skirted the naturalization process were - and had continued to be - booted out, we might have a more cohesive nation today, with little of the cultural fragmentation that we have seen in recent years. I am not for turning away immigrants, I am just for requiring all of them to use the established *legal* methods of ingress. Otherwise, why have immigration laws at all?
In answer to the second part of your question - both sides of my family can be traced back to the 1820s in this country. My cousin is into that geneology stuff big time.
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