Illegal immigration
Dec 31, 2007

The attempt by the political elite to pass "comprehensive immigration reform," including amnesty for illegal aliens, was soundly defeated in Congress this past fall due to a grassroots uprising by the citizenry. During that debate, the apologists for illegal immigration -- including propagandists paid by the government of Mexico -- said a path to citizenship for the 12 million to 20 millions illegals already here was all but necessary because "we can't deport them all." Their argument essentially was that America had to acquiesce to millions of illegals because reversing the problem was not practical.

But think back. From the 1970s to the mid 1990s, welfare was considered an intractable condition, too. Then, when a Democratic president and a Republican Congress got together and passed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, the welfare rolls immediately began a precipitous decline. Now, the nationwide welfare caseload is down by over 60 percent and, in addition, overall child poverty, black child poverty and child hunger all have decreased.

There are many other examples of problems that appear to be insolvable but lend themselves to solutions once a little political will is applied to them. These include: crime in cities like New York and the campaigns against smoking and drunk driving. Illegal immigration is the same. It can be stopped. It can be reversed.

And already there are signs of this. Reuters news agency is reporting that illegal immigrants are "self-deporting" themselves as a crackdown on undocumented workers widens and the U.S. economy slows. Now to be sure, whatever crackdown there is on illegal aliens is mild and far from what needs to be done. But it does show that when even a little enforcement is applied, illegals say "vamos" all on their own.

The trick now is to turn this self-deportation movement into a torrent. Keep the pressure on our elected representatives to secure the borders, penalize employers who hire undocumented workers and cut federal funding to sanctuary cities. Also, a pro-active and systematic deportation policy must be the norm, especially when dealing with the huge criminal element among the illegals.

Peter Skurkiss

Stow

(One comment so far)

Posted by Bettybb 13 minutes ago
The author hit the nail on the head.

President Eisenhower, in 4 months, with only 700 men, rounded up and deported 1.5 million Mexicans. But then, he had gone through far far worse in defending America and come out a winner.

Our present politicians are like the parents of spoiled kids. They don't dare crack down because they are afraid of the resulting tantrum. The result, as with spoiled kids, is a situation that gets progressively more out of control until the spoiled kids rule the roost and destroy life for everyone else.

At least Mitt, Hunter and Paul are adults who will do what is right and necessary to protect our nation and our people. All the rest are amnesty pushers.

But we have to be careful when we vote. Politicians now are all making tough enforcement noises, but are hiding their amnesty agenda. Huckabee sends out flyers and on his web site talks about having the illegals leave in 120 days (100,000 per day?). He omits the second part of his plan, that they come right back into the USA as legals!

In a local congressional race, the same sort of tacit is going on; all three GOP candidates profess to be tough enforcers, but it you look at their qualifying working closely, two out of the three are actually pro amnesty.

So we have to keep their feet to the fire. We have to keep checking their positions. We have to demand details. They will resist, because they know amnesty is not the American way, and will dodge all the can.

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