My dad sent me a funny video in which Newt (CHECK NAME) makes some amusing analogies between countries that work, and countries that don’t work.
In his examples a country that works is one in which we can track millions of packages, in real-time, from shipping companies such as FedEx and UPS. A country that doesn’t work is one in which we can’t track down illegal aliens.
While I found this amusing, as it was supposed to be, I also found it to be inaccurate with respect to the root of the problem. Perhaps the rest of the video covers this, but what was available did not.
The problem is not finding illegal aliens. If you live in Texas, New Mexico, or California they are not hard to find unless you are deaf and blind.
In my opinion there are multiple problems, the least of which is finding them. I think the biggest problems is primarily due to not enforcing our existing immigration laws or levying heavy penalties against those that aid-and-abet felons (illegal aliens). This would be those people that knowingly hire them or provide them with housing, food, clothing, etc.
The other large problem I see is all the state and local laws that are set up to protect illegal aliens. This kind of goes back to the first problem, but look at it from this perspective. There are several places that have simply chosen to not only ignore federal law, but have taken it upon themselves to enact laws that make it illegal to inquire about ones status in the U.S. That basically means that you can’t ask someone if they are here legally, nor can you do anything to them if you find out that they are here illegally.
Our constitution is setup in a way that makes it illegal for police officers to “ask you for papers.” We don’t want to be a police state. But there has to be some middle ground. It is not illegal, for example, for an officer to ask you for identification. However, not having identification is not against the law. Yet, it’s clearly obvious that there are millions of illegal aliens in the U.S.
But to me, the root of the problem is not protecting our borders and controlling the influx of people into the country in the first place. Do that, and it makes it much easier to enforce the existing laws.
Recently the amnesty bill was resurrected and defeated TWICE in a very short time span. For once, all the PACs, lawyers, Mexican mafia, etc. didn’t get their way. For once, the system worked, but it was close. I wouldn’t say that I have renewed faith in the system, but at least it is a ray of sunshine.
My friend works for a guy that hires illegal aliens. He “skirts” the law, and is now under investigation, because they provide him with papers. While I don’t disagree that you shouldn’t prosecute someone that was provided papers it is clearly obvious that these are illegal aliens. This guy, however, wants them here because it costs him less money to hire illegal aliens than American citizens. I disagree with this as a free-market society can exist and work with legal immigrants and could still help bring labor rates down. In my opinion, this guy deserves to go to jail and lose everything he’s got. This same person complains about taxes being raised and his struggle to get ahead in life. Yet, he can’t see he is part of the very problem he is complaining about.
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