Posted on 04/25/2006 5:59:02 AM PDT by Millicent_Hornswaggle
President Bush is now on record as saying that a massive deportation of illegal aliens in this country just wouldn't work. OK, so he didn't call them "illegal aliens." He used the "immigrant" word. That doesn't work for me. Immigration is a legal procedure. Rushing across the border without permission is not immigration. It's trespassing at best, an invasion at worse. But .. we digress. Bush has now told Republicans that "massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic. It's just not going to work."
He may be right. I've said it before right here. If we started loading these criminals onto busses and airplanes and tried sending them back to Mexico, the Mexican government would simply deny permission for those busses to cross the border and for those airplanes to fly into Mexican airspace. The United Nations would then immediately start screaming about massive human rights abuses on the part of the U.S. Forced repatriation with Mexico for the invaders is simply not going to work.
Before we get to a plan that would work, let's review the problem.
Since 1990 an estimated 25 million Latinos have crossed the Mexican - American border .... northbound. The reason you keep hearing the 11 million figure is because the other 13 to 14 million were given amnesty during the mid-1990s.
Mexicans have come to view crossing the border into the United States in order to work and send money back home as a way of life. According to AP article by Mark Stevenson (4/23/06) "Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue -- and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow."
Stevenson also reports that Mexicans -- the ones actually living in Mexico -- are giving their babies American names like Johnny and Leslie so that they will fit in better once they've moved to the United States.
Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, considers the illegal aliens to be "heroes." Why? Because they send those tens of million s of dollars back to their families, thus, at least to some extent, relieving Fox of the necessity of tackling corruption in the Mexican government and reforming the Mexican economy so that these people can earn that money there instead of invading the United States to get work.
And please don't forget our friend, Professor Charles Truxillo of the University of New Mexico. Professor Truxillo says that there will be a new, sovereign Hispanic nation formed within the United States and northern Mexico in the not-too-distant future. The good professor says that this new nation, called "Republica del Norte" will take in all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, as well as several northern Mexican states. How will this all happen? Truxillo says it will come as a result of electoral pressure of the "future majority Hispanic population in the region."
You think it can't happen? Well, could you please tell me, then, why Mexican magazines are publishing articles praising the exploits of the "reconquistadors" while politely informing American citizens "with all due respect, Los Angeles is ours?"
Now, back to the president's remarks. As it happens, I agree. We aren't prepared to handle the reaction from Latin America and the howls of protest from the United Nations if we actually try to gather up these invaders and send them back from whence they came. There is, however, another way. Let me lay it out for you step-by-step.
1. Close the borders. Not next month. Now. Send the National Guard. Send American troops. What are they for if not to defend the borders of this country? Start stringing the barbed wire. Patrol with dogs. Do whatever needs to be done, but shut the border down. Let the rest of the world scream, but we have every right to defend our borders against invaders.
2. Immediately pass legislation providing for harsh legislation for any and all businesses and individuals who hire illegal aliens. No half-measures. Make it hurt. Last week immigration officials arrested over 1000 illegal aliens working for one company that makes pallets and shipping crates. The officers of that company should be headed to jail, and the company should be seized by the government and sold at auction with the proceeds being used to pay for securing our border. Put employers in jail --- take their stuff. Let them know that this is serious and that hiring illegal aliens is tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The hell with their campaign contributions. Fine them and jail them. Make 'em scream. As for getting these jobs done? Pay a wage that will attract Americans. It won't hurt. The majority of people working in agriculture and construction in this country are citizens. They'll do the work. Spreading pine straw may be a problem.
3. Heavily tax all wire and other transfers of money from illegal aliens to their homelands. If Mexico is getting $20 billion a year from illegal aliens in the U.S., seize about 30% of it. Call it a fine. That $7 billion could also be spent on border and immigration control.
4. Change the law so that any child born to a person in this country illegally does not automatically become an American citizen. That child will adopt the citizenship of its mother.
5. Put an end to providing all but emergency social services to illegal aliens. No food stamps, no welfare benefits, no access to taxpayer-funded government schools ... no taxpayer-funded government services except for life saving medical care.
Enact those proposals, and what would we have? Those who have already illegally crossed the border will have one helluva time finding work in this country. No trabajo, no dinero. If they do find work they'll have another problem sending the money they earned back home. So .. they're here with no job, no prospect of finding a job, and no way to send their money back to Mexico without a heavy fine if they do happen to find work. Plus, they can't tap into the great American welfare state. What is there left to do? Go home! That's about it! And please notice that this is all accomplished without passing any laws making the illegals felons or threatening to deport them or put them in jail.
I heard of one other possible solution recently ... one that is apparently being given some consideration in Washington. Simply pass a law about illegal immigration that matches, word-for-word, the law in Mexico. Being in Mexico illegally is a crime, yet Mexico screams when we try to criminalize illegal aliens in this country. If our law read exactly the same as does theirs, what are they going to say?
I agree totally with the 3 proposals.
I agree.
I do too. How many legislators have the "cojones" to put it through, do you think?
Bush should have the fences around the White House removed so his buddies, the "immigrants" can migrate from the south lawn to the north lawn.
Ahh my guess>? Zero ;)
It has a LOT of merit. If we did all those things, they would leave on their own.
And truth be told, we really don't have the cajones to do anything about it. 90% of these guys and gals will be voted right back into office by We the People.
No doubt you could take a count using one hand
But just for the heck of it why not e-mail/fax/write it to you Congressmen or women?
Oh I forgot, he does it for cheap pandering, nevermind.
IMO, this addresses the root cause. That being the removal of the economic advantage to the illegal and the employer for using illegal labor.
Puer and simple, illegal immigration is about TAX EVASION. Hard to believe the fed hasn't gotten in on that action yet.
For trying to be a law abiding citizen and filing a tax return, you are more likely to get in a bind with the IRS than an illegal.
Heck, so many illegals deal strictly in cash, why not rent out the Lincoln bedroom to the illegals to help fund border security? It wouldn't matter if they haven't been incoulated, are wanted criminals and feel free to take what isn't theirs, does it? The WH has a chef and a kitchen to feed them free meals and a staff doctor to treat them for illnesses. They can use the WH limos to run them over to the Home Depot parking lots for day work and let them use the WH resources to wire their monies back home?
Exactly!
bttt
As much as I would love to see them all go back to where they came from and as good as all of these ideas sound, I don't see how to convince anyone who to go back to a place where they will be forced to steal just to put food on the table when they can stay here and steal while putting more than just food on the table. It wouldn't be the first time a black market has flourished in our country because of laws and policies.
...but Mexico is Vicente Fox's problem, and he should be ashamed of himself for not trying to fix it!
...and not only are we getting average folks, but criminals and thugs and they can cross our border as easily as anyone.....
..and hey, how about terrorists!
But, of course, that doesn't fit your agenda so will be ignored.
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