Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The House of Representatives Stupidly Weighs In on the Stupid Immigration Debate

I caught a few seconds of Fox News covering the House’s rival plan to the currently on hiatus Senate immigration plan.

I then Googled the House plan and skimmed a couple of articles. As near as I can tell, the House wants to pass a law that requires the Government to enforce the laws we already have. I’m giving it a broad stroke here; but, I think I’m close enough, other than the sponsors’ great need for some airtime while pontificating on the issue.

I think this is a great concept. Let’s pass a law that says, “Damn it, you better well do what we told you had to do the time before and the time before that. And, if you don’t do it this time, and it’s still a popular enough issue down the road, we’ll be up here on the dais again yelling at you to Enforce The Law!”

“Oh, wait, that’s us, the Government, that isn’t enforcing the law. Well, that’s that other part of the Government that we told to do it, but didn’t give any money to so as to actually do it.”

The face-time guys railed about the Senate plan’s flaws. Only building about half of the idiotic “whole” fence along the boarder? Outrageous! They demanded 23,000 border guards instead of something in the high teens. They said employers who hire the nasty illegals should be prosecuted.
If you’ve read me for a while now, you know I have some strong opinions on this idiocy. But, I’m going to reverse my course here and give the idiot talkers in our nation’s and the states’ legislatures the chance to put their money where their mouths are. How ‘bout this:

Take your twenty-some thousand border cops. Hell, you don’t need a thousand. Do some swoops on the bad, bad wetbacks and, be careful now, the people that give them the money that gave them the incentive to come here, to stay here, to come back here if on occasion they get kicked out.

I can give the idiots some free tips on effective and cost-efficient bad guy busting:

My office complex, near the corner of I-85 and Chamblee Tucker Road in Atlanta, a couple of mornings a week, has eight or nine of the bad guys buzzing around trimming and cutting vegetation. My bet is one or more of these hard working guys doesn’t have the right papers. While here, they can get the address of the company that hired them from the nice logo on the truck “xxxxxxxxxx Landscaping. 770-555-5555.” Then they can go to the Mr. American Business Owner and handcuff him and throw him in the back of the van with his workers.


While the idiots are in the neighborhood, they can go across the highway to the townhouse condo development that is in the midst of framing work. Sure to pick up a few bad guys and they can maybe get lucky and nab Mr. American Business Owner number two as he supervises. If not that lucky, the signs on the development have lots of business names and numbers. Easy to track down those employers so as to put them in hand cuffs. Hell, I can set up busts that’ll take a month, all within ten miles of where I live and work. After a month of arrests, what will we have? Twenty or thirty thousand bad, bad guys and four or five hundred Mr. American Business Owners cooling their heels in jail. OK, the Americans will be out on bail.

Then the idiots can move on over to the next metro area and start again.


Do this for the rest of the year, and for better or worse, you won’t have an immigration problem.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would love to put Bo Pilgrim behind bars.

The Curmudgeon said...

Sure. Hiring illegals is... illegal. Already illegal. And has been for some time. That's why Big Business is in bed with the Lefties who want open borders.

Make a couple Fortune 500 CEO's do the perp walk for hiring illegals and you'll see a decline in illegal immigration. José y Maria aren't risking their lives to cross the desert sands on spec. They take the risk because they've got a line on a job that cousin Jaime has found for them at the meat packing plant... or in construction... or cleaning office buildings....

Life Hiker said...

Right. The right-wing law-and-order wacko's want to enforce the law. Get real! They are most in bed with those who hire the people formerly known as "wetbacks."

As you say, this is a joke on the American people. Saying one thing, meaning exactly the opposite, but pandering to their stupid constituency. The status quo is just fine with them.

I say, these guys and their hard-working families got in on the watch of the right wing congress, let them stay and get legal.

The only thing that bothers me is the family preference for foreigners with citizen relatives in the U.S. If we naturalize 11 million Mexicans, another 40 million are on the way. Better learn Spanish!

Dave said...

Damn, comments from three smart, thinking people in a row, all of whom have things in common.

I had to Google "Bo Pilgrim" to find out who Thomas was talking about. He runs Pilgrims Pride. He's a chicken mogul. Without further research, I assume he's at the CEO level.

Curmudgeon blames left and right, big business and "Lefties," I love that word. Life Hiker leaves it at the feet of the right wing.

I want to add my neighbors. We are all to blame. More so than us just regular people, the people we elected to be smart. They have no intention of doing anything meaningful. Bet on it. I'm willing to give odds.