The Immigration Saga continues
Shortly after we started Common Sense Politics we posted an article on January 2, 2007, entitled ‘What should be done to fix our Immigration issues?’ We reviewed the status of Immigration reform going back more than twenty years when IRCA (Immigration Reform and Control Act) was signed into law by then President Ronald Reagan and its consequences and subsequent actions and lack thereof. Please take a few minutes and read that article as we presented within it a seven point plan to achieve the goal of comprehensive Immigration reform.
Now then, today, more than forty (40) months later, NOTHING HAS CHANGED ! This is the sad summary of this apparently permanent problem we are having in this country and it begs the question: Why is that? Because Immigration reform is a political football that every elected official wants to use for personal re-election reasons. The only radical solution is in our humble opinion: Do NOT RE-ELECT anybody to Congress come November 2, 2010, period! No incumbent member of the House of Representatives nor the 36 Senatorial seats should be filled with current office holders. They have all been sitting in the same boat and done nothing, absolutely nothing. They all should be shamed out of office and we should do the same in 2012 and 2014 so that we can throw out all current Senators as well as the President of the United States.
We want to be clear about this. We would recommend the same if former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were still in the White House for failure to do their assigned duties. One of the highest jobs for any President is the security and safety of this country’s citizens and part of that is securing the borders. To let a large number of foreigners, be it 12 or up to 15 million illegally enter the United States is, if not outright criminal at least a dereliction of duty and should result in removal from office.
Securing the border is not rocket science in our opinion, it can be fairly easily be solved. Considering the fact that the United States of America has had nearly forty thousand soldiers along the North Korean border for nearly sixty years for the purpose of securing the divide between the north and the south of that peninsula, we have to ask, why can we not do the same on our Southern border with Mexico? Why is it in our country’s interest to protect the South Koreans from invasion by their North Korean cousins and yet we cannot do the same at our borders. Is it because we are still fighting Communist regimes (in this case North Korea) and since Mexico is not a communist country we cannot utilize our military to protect us along the Mexican border?
All other arguments are mute and should be unacceptable to the American people. Let us close off the border completely and therewith stop the flow of people illegally entering our country. That would have to be priority number One but let us not do it by building more fences, real or virtual, that will take time and we do not have that luxury any longer. We have to do it now! Then we can deal with the people who are living in this country illegally by applying common sense solutions, similar to the ones we outlined back in January 2007.
And one more thing: America, stop dumping on Arizona! The residents in that State through their elected representatives passed a new law that will deal to some extent with the ’undocumented people’ living there. This was an act of desperation on their part since all pleas for help to Washington D.C. to secure the border with Mexico fell on deaf ears in our nations capitol. To now hear the voices from both political party’s and other special interest groups speaking out against what Arizona did, calling it unlawful, criminal and racist, is sickening to say the least. As we have stated above, there is one rational solution: Do not re-elect anybody to office in Washington D.C. for the next three elections and only vote for those who are willing to effectively deal with this problem called Immigration. Unless this happens, the Saga will continue unresolved.
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