Jump on my bandwagon
A little self-congratulatory puffery is in order here. It seems that Dick Morris and others are just now beginning to advocate a simple immigration compromise I had proposed on this very blog in the past - a strong immigration enforcement/border wall policy in tandem with a fair and effective documentated worker program. These guys make it sound like some sort of political epiphany, but all it really highlights is the political class' inability to listen to regular voters on issues of national import. Any of us could have spoon fed them this politically do-able solution years ago.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/050306.html
posted by The Iconoclast @ 11:31 AM
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I'm usually not a fan of Rush Limbaugh, but someone forwarded me a link to this, and it's very funny...
From rushlimbaugh.com
Everybody's making immigration proposals these days. Let me add mine to the mix. Call it The Limbaugh Laws:
First: If you immigrate to our country, you have to speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor; no unskilled workers allowed. Also, there will be no special bilingual programs in the schools with the Limbaugh Laws. No special ballots for elections. No government business will be conducted in your language. Foreigners will not have the right to vote — or hold political office.
If you’re in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled to welfare, food stamps, or other government goodies. You can come if you invest here: an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If not, stay home. But if you want to buy land, it'll be restricted. No waterfront, for instance. As a foreigner, you must relinquish individual rights to the property.
And another thing. You don’t have the right to protest. You're allowed no demonstrations, no foreign flag waving, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our President or his policies. You’re a foreigner: shut your mouth or get out! And if you come here illegally, you're going to jail.
You think the Limbaugh Laws are harsh? Well, every one of the laws I just mentioned are actual laws of Mexico today! That’s how the Mexican government handles immigrants to their country. Yet Mexicans come here illegally and protest in our streets!
How do you say “double standard” in Spanish? How about: “No mas!"
Centerline is finally back to bring some middle-of-the-road thinking to this immigration debate.
What a joke we have become!! The rest of the world is justifiably laughing at our immigration conundrum and we seem to be unable to come to grips with the fact that our government is by and large incompetent to perform the most fundamental of tasks – protecting our borders.
First, advised by Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan outright pardoned approximately 2.5 million people who had broken the law and entered the country illegally. Then, after completely abdicating his responsibility to stop undocumented people at the border, to add insult to injury, Reagan burdened employers with performing his job. Employers of all sizes, without regard to costs, were immediately required to become experts in determining the authenticity of work documents. Which only provided smugglers with another revenue segments, as they now sold both safe passage AND appropriate documents.
Who could have foreseen at the time that pardoning 2.5 million illegal aliens would result in an influx of 11 million in 20 years? Well, certainly not our politicians. I recall thinking at the time: ‘Estos Americanos pendejos tienen la cabeza metida en el culo,’ since I wasn’t that fluent in English back then.
Fast forward 20 years. Now we’re thinking of pardoning 11 million, and then possibly building the measures to stop the influx.
It’s not that we lack the means. If you draw a straight line West from Washington D.C., along the 38th parallel, where this debacle originated, and cross the Pacific ocean, you enter a border that has been protected with a high degree of effectiveness by American troops since July 27, 1953. The people to the North of this arbitrary line are arguably the poorest in the world. And, to the South, we have one of the most vibrant economies in the world. Any immigrant that makes it through the border immediately blends – and speaks the same language. And yet, through American ingenuity, only a handful of people have illegally crossed this border since 1953 (a lot fewer than the number that cross the U.S.-Mexico border in one high traffic hour).
Of course, beatings take place every single day of the year at the Mexican border. Women and children get raped and killed almost on a daily basis, and their bodies are thrown away to rot in an attempt to protect the border; but enough about Mexico’s Southern border with Guatemala. Let’s concentrate on our problem.
I think a reasonable approach to this would be to (1) require the federal government to stop illegal immigration at the border; (2) have an independent entity verify a reasonable degree of success (say under 10,000 immigrants per year); and then address the issue of undocumented people in the U.S.
I'm also not a fan of Rush. But here's a word that is the same in both languages: Amen.
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