Immigration Reform Almost Here
It looks like that happy day is coming when Lou Dobbs is going to have to close down the illegal immigration show. And what is O'Reilly going to do, if he can't highlight the illegal immigrant horrid crime of the day?Even though the Visigoths continue to storm the Republic, the politicians seem to have come up with a reasonable solution. Although it will not satisfy those who wish to ship all the illegals back in railroad boxcars, after they serve ten years hard time in the Sheriff of Maricopa County's tent city jail, it looks workable.
It is not often I see something halfway rational coming out of Washington. So like with all miracles, we should pause for a moment in wonder.
And even though everything George Bush has ever endorsed has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster, on this one I am willing to go along.
The plan calls for erecting some more fences along the border. This is an attempt to appease Dobbs and the vestiges of the Know-Nothing Party, which never has totally disappeared. This will also help prevent Saudi terrorists from swimming across the Rio Grande.
All illegal immigrants currently in the country will be issued Z cards--and put them on the road to citizenship. They will have to pay a $5000 fine over an eight year period. I know it would be better to make them wear some pink underwear for a few months in Joe Arpaio’s jail, but there have to be compromises. So I guess it is amnesty in that sense.
A program would be instituted to permit work permits for Mexican Nationals, and I presume other countries.
They are going to change the process for determining who will be able to legally immigrate from this day forward. More emphasis will be put on education and training, rather than family ties in determining eligibility.
I don't know if that particular provision of the new law is really workable, or even desirable.
Skilled immigrants always could score a Visa. It is the poor and unskilled who are slinking across the border. This is because none of them could ever immigrate legally.
And this is the reason I have sometimes gotten a tad bit irritated with folks who say, "I wouldn't care if they came in legally like my grandpa did." Of course, this sounds logical, and it would be, if we were not dealing with politicians and the vagaries of governmental machinery.
At one time, when there was a big need for immigrants to fuel the industrial revolution and build the railroads and canals, anyone could legally immigrate. As that need dried up immigration policy changed (pushed by those who feared what new cultures would do to America--people like the Know-Nothing Party).
It is currently impossible for poor, unskilled persons from Mexico and other Latin American countries to immigrate to this country.
Those who say "they don't care if they came in legally" should realize what they are really saying is they don't want those types in the Republic.
But, this will pass, and being the half-wit I am, I think all cultures make the mix stronger. Besides, we all know that mixed race people are much more attractive.
Anyway, if we keep the "skill, education” criteria for legal immigration, I'm afraid this issue will have to be revisited again in the near future.
But for once, I have to give the politicians credit, for working out a problem that has been the source of a lot of posturing, much of which has played on our basest instincts, and not a little bit of hate.
Labels: Bill O'Reilly, congress, George Bush, illegal immigration, illegals, immigration, immigration reform, Lou Dobbs, Mexicans
posted by Becky C. at
12:08 AM
13 Comments:
Thank the Lord! May neither party claim the high ground and not hit an empass with details. Crossing my fingers.
It depends on what skills and education we're willing to admit we need, too. There doesn't appear to be any shortage of work for most illegal immigrants. And they're not taking our jobs, because it's largely jobs we don't want. We shouldn't be afraid to take that into consideration when revising immigration laws.
I emailed Dobbs a month ago, challenging him to do a show on the Bracero program, and challenging him to go himself down to Juarez and other areas to report from the locations of the maquiladoras, with video showing the workers locked in to the factories, and their relatives passing food and water through the chain link fences.
I think that the city fathers of places like Hazelton PA are going to have to rethink their positions.
Tony
The city fathers of Hazelton have it right.
The "compromise" has it wrong.
Until Mexico changes their way of doing business and the US makes it more difficult for illegals to get in, there will be no change to the current situation. They will continue to come. The "compromise" will only make it easier for illegals to stay. That needs to change.
to anon 10:24,
please explain exactly how "Mexico
does business." thank you
To anon 5:35, it is well-known that Mexico does little for its citizenry. Crime and corruption is rampant. The environment is dirty, with pollution everywhere. And Mexico does little, if anything, to stem the tide of its own people leaving that country by way of sneaking into the US of A.
As I stated, Mexico needs to change their way of doing business.
Disgrace to you Maxico and your citizens!! Most disgracer race on this planet ( Africa is like earth and sky when compared to Maxico). I wish if America bought not only the barren California but also Maxico so that Maxicans can live as decent people on earth rather than being battered as illiterate parasites!!!!
If leaders in Maxico has any feeling for its people, I wish they should bring them all back to Maxico. Do the leaders in Maxico have any education in first place!! What a disgraceful race second to none!!!
It is a disgrace to all law abiding nations across the world if America is going to reward those who broke its soverign laws with the path to legalization. What a mockery will AMerica make itself in the world stage. Bush did a disaster with Iraq millions are dying in the country all in shambles and how Bush is massacring the illegal immigration issue. Shame on you the senate if this historic wrong doing is done to the people of America. Being a resident of America legally is reduced to nil (zero and minus) if this most insulting piece of bill gains approval by the morons in the senate- Shame on you Edward Kennedy!! You say : for humanity" I say you go back to prison and pay for the killings you did being drunken before you reward the illegals!!
Can the senators stand for the nobel prize for looniness?? Mccain should qualify for that, I am sure. May be in that contest the senate will beat the illegals!!!
Immigration reform!! Bollox , no reform as such just Amnesty!! This is a calclulated hoodwink launched by George Bush!!!
Middle class in AMerica is gone to Maxico and service sentor is outsourced to India. What is left to Americans ....worthless citizenship!!!!!even illegals now can get!!!Not few hundreds but 20 million , that is a whole country by any standard!!These polticians should all be massacred!!!!
What is the beacon this country is going to set with the support of some retarded senators for poltical advantage !Come and break our laws and then we will reward you with a path to citizenship!! What a joke , yet George Bush is still alive!!!
Millions of dollars were made by people smugglers across the world by bringing people to USA. Now the smugllers are saluted for thier smuggling efforts by the US Senate. Coe on USA,, yo need some better leaders!!! This is the day that all who smuggled people into America and made the big buck waited for, thanks to the US Senate and no they wll be rewarded for their wrong doing!! What is the kind of democracy we have and the rule of law in USA????
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