Here's a great article on the next upcoming push for illegal alien
amnesty. I don't think an amnesty is inevitable, but Congress needs to
hear from the American public vocally if it's to be headed off. You can
go to NumbersUSA ( http://www.NumbersUSA.com ) which has an automated
system to send free faxes to your Congressmen via their website. FAIR (
http://www.FAIRus.org ) also has a contact system via its website
>From http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=3Dyes&id=3D18736
Why Illegal Immigration Is About to Get Worse
by Mac Johnson
Posted Jan 02, 2007
A voter trying to affect the course of government is a little like a
pilot trying to affect the course of hand-to-hand combat with a
500-pound bomb. Just as there is simply no place in the battle that the
pilot can strike without inflicting casualties on his own side, there
is no candidate in a two-party election that any given voter can
support without voting against some of his own beliefs at the same
time.
For example, when given a choice between, on the one hand, a
pro-abortion, protectionist, pro-civil liberties, race-baiting
surrender monkey in favor of subsidized gay marriage for illegal alien
pedophiles, and on the other hand, an anti-abortion, pro-free trade,
tough-on-terror, donor-kissing corporate sycophant in favor of
outsourcing all children to more competitive child rearing farms in
Pakodeshindia ... for whom does the gun-owning Irish Catholic union
member from New York vote to advance his overall values in Washington?
Or for that matter, for whom does anyone vote?
Like the pilot in our strained comparison, the voter can abort all
action (stay home) or look down at the battlefield, pick out an area
that seems more filled with the enemy than the friendlies and yell
'bombs away!' (Vote for the lesser of two weasels.)
Whichever of the two weasels is judged to be least, he will immediately
arrive in Washington with his weasels-in-arms and, because he won by 3
percentage points, claim a mandate for some issue that was ranked fifth
in importance in exit polls.
This is what is happening right now on the issue of illegal
immigration. When asked directly about the issue by pollsters, voters
of all major ideologies consistently oppose its continued tolerance by
government. Republicans, Independents and Democrats alike want it
stopped. This result is much too clear and direct for many politicians
and pundits to find useful, so instead an assemblage as diverse as
George W. Bush, Robert Novak, Teddy Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi are
claiming that voters in the last election demanded amnesty for illegal
aliens.
A good deal of propaganda has been spun over the last two months in
support of that notion, as Democrats prepare to move forward on
legalizing 15 million to 30 million future clients of the welfare
state; while the Bush wing of the GOP, by contrast, prepares to move
forward on legalizing 15 million to 30 million current workers of the
corporate state.
Any honest analysis of the election (
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/11/killing_the_gop_brand.html ),
however, shows that voters did not turn out Republicans in sympathy
with La Raza and Tyson Foods. The election was a widespread expression
of dissatisfaction with the GOP, triggered by Iraq, corruption, and
spending. To the extent that illegal alien coddling was an issue, it
was a secondary issue that hurt the GOP with a significant part of its
natural base.
Such obvious political realities cannot be allowed to interfere,
however, with the massing movement in Washington to 'do something'
on the issue of illegal immigration. Unfortunately, the 'something'
being contemplated -- amnesty by any other name -- will just make the
problem worse. This means that the social problems and voter
dissatisfaction surrounding the issue will continue to grow.
With the Democrats now in charge of Congress, the only actions being
discussed are defunding border security measures (such as the 700 miles
of fencing that were approved by the GOP-led Congress last year) and
giving immigration criminals already in the country a 'path to
citizenship.' The theory behind this move is that if Congress just
declares illegal aliens to be legal, people will think they have solved
the problem.
In other words, the bipartisan open-borders lobby would have voters
believe that the root cause of crime is law. After all, if there were
no laws or limits, no one could violate them. Crime would be zero. So
they propose to solve the illegal alien problem by simply attacking the
fact that they are illegal. In this way, terrible anarchy will be
replaced by a healthy lawlessness on the border. This will reduce
future illegal crossings about as well as giving car thieves a 'path
to ownership' would reduce future car theft.
The historical proof of this is overwhelming. Giving immigration
criminals a 'path to citizenship' (a six syllable amnesty) will
repeat the mistake that is the root cause of today's problem -- the
1986 amnesty (path to citizenship).
In 1986, a bipartisan consensus in Congress issued an amnesty (they
were at least honest in naming it) for the 3 million illegal aliens
then in America. Doing so was supposed to solve the problem by allowing
immigration enforcement officials to forget about the huge backlog of
international trespassers requiring deportation under the law, and
focus instead on preventing new trespassers from entering. We would cut
our losses and move on. Increased border security never came though and
the illegal immigration floodgates then opened in earnest --
ironically, because of the amnesty that was billed as a solution to the
problem.
The problem worsened because the amnesty sent out a clear message to
the world's poor: just get to America and they will let you stay. You
can sneak in, lie your way in, bribe your way in, force your way in, or
beg your way in and its as good as getting a green card up front.
America will let you stay, forgive your illegal entry, identity theft,
tax evasion, Medicaid costs, lack of driver's licenses and your
off-the-books cash only jobs -- and then make you a citizen and thank
you for caring enough to lie and cheat your way into a better life here
in the land of the free lunch.
The world heard the message of amnesty clearly; and it was only after
we rang this dinner bell that illegal immigration grew into the chronic
crisis it is today. A second amnesty will simply rebroadcast this same
message and establish that our lunacy knows no limits.
Such a mistake will be a shame, since border crossings are down
significantly for 2006 -- just as a result of the feeble efforts
enacted during the last election year. After years of increases,
apprehensions (an estimate of total crossings) are down 8.4% for the
entire year, with the biggest decrease (41%) occurring for
'other-than-Mexican' aliens (OTMs). These decreases began in
mid-year immediately after the President, in an effort to assuage his
critics, announced to the world that the policy of 'catch and
release' for OTMs would be ended and that 6,000 National Guardsmen
would be sent to the border. The deployment of the Guardsmen received
massive attention from the media in Central America.
The fact that these meager and half-hearted efforts -- theater, really
-- were able to cause such a substantial decrease in illegal crossings
shows that our real problem was not one of resources or 'boots on the
ground,' but one of telegraphing our intention to do nothing. The
problem is solely one of public relations. The world's underclass has
perceived -- correctly -- that the U.S. government, at the behest of
corrupt businesses and ethnic grievance pimps, wants them to come here
illegally and will reward their efforts with citizenship. Who
wouldn't come? Statistics indicate that one-seventh of Mexico's
working-age population has already arrived.
Yell 'free money' in a crowd and you can have every expectation of
many happy takers. The same money can, however, be walked safely
through the same crowd by an old man armed with nothing more than a
security guard's uniform -- because the uniform communicates an
intention to enforce law. That's all the difference. Most of law
enforcement is simply creating the belief that there will be
enforcement.
The second coming of amnesty in the next Congress will, once again, do
just the opposite. It will confirm in people's minds that in the end,
there will be no immigration law enforcement. Only a dedicated and
well-publicized effort to restore law enforcement and punishment will
correct the problem. And far from solving the problem, Congress and the
President are about to make it worse.
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