The liberal position is irrational. This nation has laws on immigration that are being violated rampantly, and it seems like the liberal party line is that we, as a nation, should ignore the violation of those laws.
The conservative leadership is even more vacuous than the left. While talking about the importance of securing the borders, they do as little as possible to tharwt the onrushing tide of illegals.
I am not debating the current immigration system at all. I think it is broken, and broken badly. No, what I am talking about illegal immigration. If our laws are wrong, we should change them not ignore them.
Ignoring the law devalues the rule of law and creates a subclass of people to whom the law is not a protector but a persecutor. These people are open to abuse and oppression because they fear going to the law for protection because they are in violation of it.
I hear sorrowful voices on the left crying out about the "destruction of families" caused by deportation of an illegal arrested for a "minor infractions." These voices conveniently ignore that those arrested are already lawbreakers by being here illegally.
Neither major political party gives anymore than lip-service to the problem. Both have a vested interest in keeping the status-quo.
The Democrats like illegal immigrants because it builds their political base. Typically, illegals congregate in lower-class neighborhoods, increasing the population of these areas. When determining representation in the U.S. House, the census counts all population, not just legal residents. Oh, and remember that the children of these illegals people are citizens, and can vote. When they vote, they usually vote Democratic.
Republicans like illegal immigrants because they represent business owners and business owners like low-cost labor. Illegals come from lands where the daily wages are a fraction of what a documented worker can demand, and are happy to be abused. They can even be paid less than minimum wage, because who are they going to complain to, the wage and labor board?
We need to take sensible steps to fix this problem.
- Immediatly seal the borders. We need to finish building the fence across our southern border. We need to apply enough resources to be able to intercept and repel all border crossings.
- We need to seriously address our immigration policy, and reform it such that immigrants who wish to migrate legally can do so (within reason, of course.)
- We should hold the current employers accountably for breaking labor law, and employee illegals. If the penalty is sever enough and enforce consistent enough, all current illegals will leave on their own when their work drys up. Once they get home, they can apply for a visa like everyone else.
