SENATORS ARE CRAZY WITH SELF INTEREST

Senators indicate that it would be hugely expensive to “remove” 12 million illegal aliens. I just don’t understand why any Senator believes that the average, decent citizen wants to spend the time or money to find and remove all illegal immigrants. This seems to be a huge leap in reasoning, and is most probably a tactic used to say, “As we can’t remove the illegal aliens, we should enact legislation that grants most of them amnesty, and a right to citizenship.”

Such legislation would be very unfair to the poorest residents and would greatly benefit those that have and continue to break our immigration laws. To me this seems to send the wrong message for all the reasons I have discussed in my prior posts.

From my discussions with others, what the average person really wants is the following:

1. Secure the border to prevent drugs, illegals, and terrorists from entering the country to the extent “reasonably” possible. No one expects the security to be perfect, but this does not mean zero effort should be made. The huge amount of drugs alone coming across the Mexican border should be enough incentive to want to put more resources on the border. The drug issue is rarely discussed, and I don't understand why.

2. Enforce existing immigration laws and impose significant penalties on the businesses that continue to break our immigration, accounting, and tax laws.

3. Enforce the existing immigration laws and impose reasonable penalties against those illegal immigrants that are “processed,” and ensure that such individuals are not given more or equal benefits of those that are in this country legally. This does not mean rounding up 12 million illegals, but it does mean actually applying the existing laws using the existing resources.

Most people that I have talked to think the benefits that would flow to illegals from gaining “residency” status under the proposed legislation improperly rewards those that break the law and ignores our residents that are very poor and in need of further help. There are hundreds of thousand of children now in our country legally that need better health care, schools, and tax refunds.

The fact that most illegals would be entitled to an earned income tax credit (or refund) under the proposed legislation that will actually exceed or equal all other taxes that such illegals would be paying (including Social Security, Medicare, etc.) seems hugely unfair to those legal residents that are struggling right now. Further, it seems to be the result of big business (and lobbyists) that have unhealthy relationships with our Republic Party members.

A few things I don’t understand about the proposed legislation:

1. Why is an illegal allowed to stay on the path to citizenship until he or she has “3” misdemeanors (or one of the proscribed felonies)? I would think any crime after entering a temporary work program should be enough to cause deportation. Essentially, one should be on probation for illegally entering the country and any future convictions should be considered a violation of such probation.

2. Why do politicians say that the money spent on border security has been doubled over the last few years, but we still have a problem; and therefore, spending more money on border security is not the answer? This does not make sense? Does anyone think that we should spend zero, or less money on securing the border? If we still have a problem it is either because not enough money is being spent or it is being managed by idiots. After all, we are talking about our government. The same government that put a pedophile in our office of Home Land Security. Way to go! Honestly, I can tell who is dumber, that guy (who said in an email that he was a member of HLS) or Bush. It is a close one.

3. Why can't a temporary work program be established that does not give illegal aliens an earned income tax credit and does not give them a path to citizenship unless they get in line and wait their turn? Under this route, the taxes collected should make this beneficial to all that need consideration.

4. Why don’t we cut off existing work visas being given to Mexico until it can ensure us that the illegal immigrants entering our country from Mexico are less in number than its allotted annual visas of around 200 thousand. How about getting them involved? Under the proposed legislation, the number of visas actually increases to around 1 million! What is going on in D.C.? More proof that no one in D.C. really wants to pass legislation? That there are too many dollars on the table?