The Immigration Debate Misses the Point
DiploMad 2.0
I have been trying to follow the immigration debate in Congress and the media, but with little real success. It is almost impossible to figure out what exactly is being proposed, opposed, and modified. The one thing that does come through, however, is the burning desire to reward people who have broken our laws and heavily strained our public assistance budgets. This idiocy must stop. Under the Reagan Administration we went through an almost identical debate which produced the "one-time-only-never-again" amnesty that would solve the illegal alien problem for all time. It failed, otherwise why are we having this debate again?
Amnesty is not the answer. Sappy, historically and economically ignorant speeches by our extraordinarily ignorant President are not what we need. A better border defense is part of the answer but not the whole enchilada of reform that we need. I am very sorry to see Senator Rubio, for whom I have a great deal of respect, getting himself tricked and trapped by the Democrats and politically hurt by his apparently well-intentioned but naive effort at immigration reform.
I do not hear discussion about whether we need none, little, some, or a lot of immigration, and if we do, what type of immigration we should seek. Do we need millions more of semi and unskilled people from Mexico and other poor countries? Absent widespread elimination or reduction in minimum wage, taxation, public assistance, and zoning laws, how will these people contribute to the economic growth of our country? This is not nineteenth century America with small factories and workshops on every street corner, and belching smokestack industries eager for cheap workers. This is the America of EPA regulations, OSHA bureaucrats, job killing minimum wage and health insurance laws, outsourcing, and of a growing ethos that sees single parents living on the public dole as an honorable existence. It is also the America of multiculturalism whereby immigrants are encouraged never to become Americans.
The rubbish being put out by Obama and others on the taxes that these new immigrants will pay is just that - rubbish. They will draw public assistance and not pay taxes. What impact will this continuing flood of poor migrants have on the job and advancement prospects of struggling poor and middle class black, white and brown Americans? I haven't heard much said about that, but I predict it won't be good.
Is our immigration law going to continue based on the idea of family reunification? Will adults be able to petititon for their adult sublings and those siblings families? Will we continue to ignore promises that the new immigrants will not become a public assistance burden? If so, we are in for an endless cascade of new immigrants petitioning for their relatives and on and on and on. Yes, sure, technically we will have solved the "illegal alien" problem by making them all legal. Is that what is best for our country, I stress for our country not for the Democratic party?
I know, I know. Anybody who says this stuff is instantly accused of being a racist. Rubbish. Immigrants built whole industries, e.g., Hollywood, and made invaluable contributions to American arts, sciences, letters, etc. But is that the sort of immigrants we will be getting today? Is America's culture and society not worth defending from the immigrants of the sort who planted the bombs in Boston, who run the violent gangs in Los Angeles, who provide the Democratic party its foot soldiers for its campaigns of electoral fraud?
The country deserves better than what we are getting from our politicians and "leaders."
I propose thousands of buses and a one way ticket south.
ReplyDeleteUnless the bill authorizes the Border Patrol to shoot on sight (after one warning in Spanish), it is useless.
DeleteUnless the bill prohibits the State Department from issuing visas to anyone in the Middle East, it is useless.
Unless the bill corrects the problem of American companies firing Americans by the millions, then crying that they can't find any 'qualified' employees after they've destroyed the job market in certain fields, and then bribing Congress to authorize untold numbers of H1-B visas, it is useless.
Unless the bill addresses the problem of Anchor Babies (we don't want any, and citizenship is not to be bestowed just because you were born on US soil, without a citizen parent), it is useless.
Unless the bill requires that everyone in the Obama Administration be given a 72-hour, high-pressure steam enema, it is useless.
Truth is, you have one side (democrats) who need to import a new welfare caste, and the GOP is operating under the false belief that Hispanics are "natural" conservatives who will help them win the culture wars. Both political parties sitting down to hash this thing out when both have vested interests in a compromise that maintains the status quo ante is tantamount to letting your local mob boss prosecute all the murders that he's personally committed.
And by the way, the GOP should stop trotting out every Hispanic who spends five minutes in Congress as a "potential GOP Presidential Contender". It smells of desperation. Marco Rubio (and btw, the Cuban 'Exiles' are sort of like the Western Hemisphere's version of the Palestinian Arabs), if he's successful on this thing, will wear it around his neck like a lead albatross for years to come.