The Idiot

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The Immigration Non-issue

Gordon

on May 25, 2006

It's just plain silly.

There is no illegal alien crisis. Blaming the economic probles on something that has been around in this country for decades seems at least a little bit like race-baiting.

George's plan seems somewhat reasonable on the surface, but I really don't think he has any intention of doing anything.

Consider this:

NATIONAL SECURITY:
1. The 9-11 terrorists entered our country legally and then just didn't leave when their VISAs expired. What has been done to prevent this? Nearly nothing.

2. A few months ago, FBI agents successfully smuggled radioactive material into the United States - thus proving that little has been done to prevent a "suitcase bomb" attack.

CONCLUSION: Illegal aliens don't pose a national security problem any more than anything else that isn't being addressed. In fact, it's far more likely that a terrorist will enter the country legally (because that would make his mission more reliable).

ECONOMY:

1. Illegal aliens pay taxes - with purchases and sometimes even with their paychecks - and receive none of the benefits. It is estimated that $36 billion is received from illegal aliens into social security, a service many of them will never receive.

2. Why is it none of the plans seek to enforce penalties on the employers? If employers faced real jail time when hiring illegals, you'd see things slow down a bit.

NATIONAL CONSISTENCY

This is the racist bit. The moves to protect our language, or those getting upset about our anthem being sung in different languages are nothing but xenophobia.

92% of second generation immigrants speak English. The possiblity of English being overwhelmed in this country by any other language is unlikely.

But if the majority of Americans do want to adopt a different language, who's to say they can't? I thought we were a democracy.

Anyway, this is a long strip and a long rant to try to explain that when everything is said and done nothing will change. But that's what I think.