http://nation.foxnews.com/amnesty/2013/04/26/holder-calls-amnesty-civil-right
"Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential. The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented – by creating a mechanism for them to earn citizenship and move out of the shadows – transcends the issue of immigration status. This is a matter of civil and human rights. It is about who we are as a nation. And it goes to the core of our treasured American principle of equal opportunity."
As I have said before, it is highly presumptuous to assume that all of the 11 million people here in this country even desire to change their citizenship. Of course, the Democrats are eager to make as many of them citizens as possible because the overwhelming majority would register as Democrats.
There can and should be a humane way of dealing with the non-criminals who are here-after we secure the border, which the Democrats have no intention of doing. If the 11 million grow to 25 million in the next decade or so, that's great for them. They will be clamoring for amnesty for the next wave. We have already seen this play out (1986).
As for civil and human rights, that is absurd. When you enter another country illegally or remain past your visa, you have no right to remain. You have a right to be treated in a humane and lawful manner by police, but the only other right you have is to return to your home country.
So if I enter another country, say Germany, or overstay my visa or allowed time illegally, I have a civil and human right to be able to come out of the shadows and obtain German citizenship?
What about the rights of the United States of America, Mr Attorney General, to remain sovereign and control who comes into our country? That is a right you should be enforcing.
That horse left the barn Gary. Maybe we should have found a way to have never let them in. Maybe nothing we could have done would have stopped them. But that's all history now. They're here. They're deeply embedded in American life, communities, and our economy. There is no feasible way to kick them all out again. So, do we want them here as citizens, or as an easily exploited underclass?
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should send all the Irish back to Ireland too.
Our immigration policy continues to be a shambles and an embarrassment. How often do we have to go through this?? We never seem to learn. Similar to what usually happens in the criminal justice, we really teach a lesson those who engage in illegal activities.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson for illegal immigrants is that all they have to do is come here and stay under the radar for a sufficient time to allow them to receive amnesty and a fast track to citizenship without going through all of the rigamarole that the law-abiding have to endure. What a shame!!!
There are most certainly feasible ways to kick them all, or at least many/most of them, out, if only we were prepared to devote the time, money, and resources necessary to do so. And if we started doing so very aggressively (which we won't) many more of them would self-deport than are already doing so. Pay your money and take your choice. I would rather my taxes pay to incarcerate the ones it is necessary to incarcerate than to have them free-loading on our social welfare/health care programs and being a drag on our society. If we had to build more prisons to hold them, think of the jobs and the boost to the economy.
ReplyDeleteNot that it is necessarily identically comparable, but to be perfectly blunt and brutal, the Nazis managed to kill a whole lot of Jews and others in a fairly short period of time. Happened in Russia, and China, and Laos, and elsewhere. Deportation would, of course, be more involved, but not impossibly so.
The IRS pretty well manages to keep track of about 150 million or so taxpayers, which is a lot more than the usual quote of 11-12 million illegals (oh, excuse me, I meant out-of-statuses). Or maybe it is 20 million?? In any event, even if we could not completely eliminate the problem, we are quite able to at least appreciably thin the ranks and reduce it to something much more manageable, if only we would.