Four US Senators toured the US-Mexico border at Nogales and observed a woman climbing over the fence.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/27/woman-tries-to-hop-border-fence-with-four-senators-watching/?test=latestnews
I'll bet it was the first time Chuckie Schumer ever saw the border. Too bad they didn't take a little stroll over into Nogales, Sonora.
Now that they have seen it with their own eyes, how is Congress going to certify that the border is secure as a first step to comprehensive immigration reform? We already see signs that the Obama administration and Janet Napolitano are tap dancing on that one. What I predict is that the "certification" will come at the same time, and once again the Dems will pull a fast one on the Republicans and we will have another amnesty just like in 1986 under Reagan when the promised border security never came. Result? From 3 million illegals, we are now at 11-12 million. How many do you think there will be 20 years from now?
When will John McCain tell us the border is secure?
We insist on handling immigration much like we handle the rest of our criminal justice system (if you want to call it that), which is fairly ignorantly. I have often said there is no real system and frequently no real justice, which leaves only the criminal.
ReplyDeleteIn both instances, we teach crooks and foreign nationals what they have to do to circumvent the law.
First offenders frequently, if not usually, get probation, often for fairly serious offenses. Plea-bargaining results in them not paying the appropriate price for their conduct.
When they re-offend, which probably 80-plus, even 90, percent of them do, we really show them by continuing to give many of them additional probation until their behavior gets so bad that even libs/Dems are required to incarcerate them.
And so it is with immigration. We teach foreigners that if they can manage to sneak into the country illegally and keep their heads down for a sufficient period of time, they will be able to come out of the bushes and get legal status, benefits, often a fast-track to citizenship, etc., etc.
As with dope and guns and a lot of other stuff, all we really need to do is effectively enforce existing law. No need to re-invent the wheel.