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Immigration Non-Reform
It never ceases to amaze me how politicians from the left and the right,
manage to make laws without knowing anything of substantive relevance to
the issue. Take immigration reform for instance. We have everyone agreeing
that the system needs fixing. So far, so good. But that is where the
problems start.
We have Senators coming up with a solution that if enacted into law would
provide an “earned legalization” status to about 12 million out of status
immigrants in this country. At the same time, we have House legislators,
mostly Republican, becoming all of a sudden enraged about illegal
immigration.
House Republicans dramatically announce that they want to stop the flow of
undocumented migrants. They want to deport “illegals”. They want to erect
a wall along the southern border ala Berlin style (mind you they don’t
mention anything about the northern border – and they all claim, with a
straight face, that their proposal is not racist!) In short, they want to
do everything possible to appease an ignorant and by now a scared populace
before the midterm elections this November.
And then you have a president with such low popularity that will do
anything to improve his lot. With a Latino demographic ready to take over
many districts as the majority population, the President’s advisors tell
him that it might not be a bad idea to support an immigration reform bill.
Of course, neither the President nor the Legislators really care about
immigration reform. And the proof for that is we don’t have a bill as of
yet. The Senate bill went into a conference committee to be reconciled
with the House bill. But wait; just in a nick of time, the House members
announce that they need to have hearings first before reconciling the
bills. Didn’t they have hearings prior to enacting their own version of
the bill? Or is it that they found it politically advantageous to stall
the process until after the November elections?
Just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse, well, it did. The
president, sensing opposition to reform from within his own party, makes a
speech that he is now more understanding of the House view and perhaps we
should start with enforcement. That is a major shift in policy from the
President indicating that he really never believed in reforming anything.
Before I could exhale after hearing the President’s flip-flop, this
morning on my way to work, I heard an interview on NPR with a Republican
House member from Indiana. Indiana, you know, that lovely beautify state
that every migrant to this country dreams of eventually settling down in?
Well, he was talking about the discussions that are going out in the
House. One idea that they have is that we should have an Ellis Island type
of a place, outside of the United States, where “illegals” could travel to
and obtain a work visa within 5 days and return. Wait, it gets better. The
visa would be good for 6 years. And since it’s a long time, these guest
workers are bound to have kids in this country. Since we can’t have the
kids have citizenship by birthright, we need to come up with an official
status for them, short of full citizenship!
Aside from the fact that what he is proposing is unconstitutional, it
would create a glorified slave class that will forever be an underclass
and ready to serve whomever! If you think I am being too melodramatic
about the slave thing, just read about West Germany at the end of WWII.
They too brought in guest workers from Turkey to rebuild their country
after the War. The guest workers did not have any rights to obtain German
citizenship. Well, 60 years on, there is a huge Turkish minority in
Germany who has been born in Germany, are all but on paper, Germans, don’t
even speak Turkish, but don’t have full protection of the State. Majority
has stayed on though in Germany. As a result, they don’t and cannot
properly assimilate with the larger German society. This has created
problems that Germans, to this date, have not been able to solve.
Folks, this November, be mad, be very mad, because your politicians are
not serving your interests. This goes for both the Republicans and the
Democrats. |