Political Posturing
There's a lot of political nattering about immigration. Build a wall, arrest them all, don't let them live in our towns. Our politicians, I use the word advisedly, are full of it. Many of them are rhetorically yammering about "amnesty." Bad word. Bad thing. Maybe.
The current popular number for illegals in the U.S. is 12 million. OK. Here's a small fact reported by the Washington Post online today that highlights the stupidity of the current debate among politicians about illegals in the country:
"Finally, ICE has boosted the number of fugitive teams from 18 in 2005 to a projected 75 this year, each with a goal of 1,000 arrests a year."
These agents aren't going after run of the mill illegals. They are targeting the over 600,000 aliens that have been ordered deported. The goal of our government is to deport 75,000 of the really bad people, leaving something over 550,000 of, I hate to use this phrase, "the worst of the worst" hanging out here with the other, what, 11,000,000 plus of the other illegals still here.
Just what do our representatives think we are? Stupid I guess. Whichever side of the issue you are on, the Feds have no intention, and no ability to do anything about the issues posed by illegal immigration. "Send 'em all back where they came from." We can't even send back the people that were ordered to be deported.
It's about time someone in govenment decided to be honest about immigration for a start, and then put out an intellectually honest proposal for dealing with the issues illegal immigration poses.
4 comments:
Business wants cheap labor, and since 1980 business has owned the government.
You can bet that the answer to this problem (or any other problem for that matter) will maintain an entrenched poverty class to do all the work.
I don't know whether business "owns" the government -- but I agree that the business community has buddied up with some pretty unusual allies in supporting immigration "reform."
I think that entry level, low skill jobs are often unavailable to Americans -- because they cost too much compared with plentiful illegals. It's hard to blame the illegals for trying to make a new life in this country; our ancestors had the same dream.
There are laws on the books right now that could be used to penalize employers who knowingly hire illegals: Let's enforce those for awhile. Let's strengthen these if we need to. If an employer has to consider the prospect of jail time, he may find it better to pay the couple extra dollars per hour in wages and benefits for a legal worker.
Thomas and Curmudgeon,
I've written a bunch of posts about immigration. The issue bugs me.
What bug me more is our government(s), federal, state and local and the media posturing. Yes we have laws on the books. No one has any intention of enforcing them. Were there an intention to enforce them, it would not send all of the illegal aliens back where them came from. Thomas is right that business wants cheap labor. Though I don't see it as "solving" the immigration problem, if there is one, I'd be happy to see laws enforced. It might force politicians, corporate America and media to put up or shut up. Then maybe we'd address the real issues.
Honesty from politicians? NOW who's being funny? :)
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