Consultation with Fox - Guts U.S. Sovereignty
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Detroit News Article
Immigration consulting rule would gut U.S. sovereignty
Detroit News : June 9 , 2006 -- by Thomas Sowell
"'Border control' is just political cover for legalizing illegal aliens..."
Many stores held sales over the Memorial Day holidays. In Washington, the Senate immigration bill has been selling our birthright for a message of political pottage.
Far from "controlling the borders" as advertised, this bill reduces our existing control of the borders. Under a provision inserted at the 11th hour by Sen. Arlen Specter, the Senate bill forbids the federal government from building a fence without first consulting with the Mexican government.
In fact, state and local governments are also forbidden by this bill to take any border control actions without first consulting with their Mexican counterparts.
This legislation was never about border control. The laws already on the books at this very moment allow us to control the borders, to build any fence we choose, without consulting the government of Mexico.
The laws already on the books allow any illegal alien to be arrested and expelled. Those laws are simply not being enforced. If a Los Angeles policeman arrests an illegal alien and reports him to the federal authorities, it is the Los Angeles cop who will be in big trouble.
Border Patrol agents can knock themselves out capturing people trying to enter the country illegally but nothing happens to most of those people, even the ones organizing the smuggling of people and drugs into this country.
An Associated Press dispatch reports: "The vast majority of people caught smuggling immigrants across the border near San Diego are never prosecuted for the offense, demoralizing the Border Patrol agents, according to an internal document obtained by the Associated Press."
In other words, we have make-believe border control and the current Senate legislation will weaken even that, all the while talking about "tough" enforcement. That "tough" enforcement is a promise but legalizing illegal aliens is immediate and irrevocable and its consequences irreversible and lasting far into the future.
"Border control" is just political cover for legalizing illegal aliens.
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, who has over the years done some of the most incisive analysis of census and other statistical data, projects the actual consequences of legalizing the existing illegal alien population in the United States.
Over the following 20 years, Rector projects that the real increase in this population living in the United States to be 103 million, not the 12 million that everyone is talking about.
This is one of the most reckless gambles with the future of this nation ever taken by supposedly responsible members of Congress. The idea that we must consult with Mexico before controlling our own borders is staggering -- and revealing.
The Mexican government has already shown its utter contempt for our laws by publishing booklets advising its citizens how to enter the United States illegally and how to take advantage of American welfare state provisions.
Consulting with his government is truly putting Vicente Fox in charge of the hen house.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
