Put Up Or Shut Up

It didn't take long for the recent round of the illegal immigration debate to shift to its next phase. This phase, which I heard most recently from WXNT 1430's Adbul, is defined by opponents or just devils' advocates (can't say which Abdul is half the time) of those who oppose illegal immigration being put to the task of exactly how to resolve the issue. If we don't want amnesty, what then? Do you deport 11 million people? How? Where's the manpower for that? Where's the money? How's about a real solution? And so on and so forth.

I pondered on that, as I like to think I can be fairly reasonable if put to such a test. I was able to come up with a series of workable compromises that I think would be fair, most centered around illegals we had to keep because we hadn't the manpower or will to deport them paying a hefty fine or back taxes (this includes businesses who hired them paying back payroll taxes). My other thought was, they can't vote, not until their full citizens, and they'd have to wait as long as the current LEGAL applicant is waiting right now. So, if it takes five years for the last legal applicant of 2006 to become a full citizen, that's the earliest any of the illegals could. That'd keep them off the voting rolls as a penalty to the Democrats, who really only support them with that in mind. It would force the Republicans to knuckle under on the businesses more too. Then another revelation hit me.

I wouldn't even accept any of the above, not a line not an exception, until the border was better secured. I sometimes think back to Crazy Joe. Remember the principle in the movie "Lean on Me" played by Morgan Freeman? It was based on a real principal trying to save a dying, formerly great public school from the decay of local society. The scenes where he chained the doors, saying to the press "I have got thieves and hoodlums and drug dealers trying to get in" or something to that effect, stay with me. And I think of it everytime I look at our porous southern border. In a time of war, we need to lock down the border. It's a basic necessity and no one in government seems to be willing to commit to it.

Certainly our Senators don't give a damn what happens there, as long as they get their photo op with the fawning press and can feel good that they did something wonderful for their D.C. constituents. Remember, Senators only have constituents in D.C., not in their former home states. That's from an earlier discussion.

Until such a time, it's useless talking about anything else. Illegals given amnesty will simply be replaced by even more illegals. We have the '86 amnesty as historical proof. Regardless of whether or not these fools in Congress want to learn from history, the lessons are there nonetheless. When the borders are secure, then we can discuss what to do with the millions of illegal Latinos, Chinese, Vietnamese, Irish, and Botswanans. Until then, the politicos in my eyes haven't earned a red cent of what we keep shoveling them out in salary.

For an interesting poll on what Americans are thinking about all the illegal immigrants and theirs supporters demonstrating recently, go here. Just thought I'd add it.