Thread: More amnesty fraud

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell072606.asp

Jewish World Review July 26, 2006 / 1 Menachem-Av, 5766
Thomas Sowell


More amnesty fraud
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Just when it looked like the Senate Republicans had finally gotten the message that the American people in general, and their own supporters in particular, are outraged over amnesty for illegal aliens, some Republican Senators have come up with yet another disguise for amnesty — and gotten bipartisan support, including Ted Kennedy and John McCain.

Under this new plan, its advocates claim, illegal immigrants would "have to leave the country" and re-apply to come back in legally and get on a path toward citizenship. It sounds good but on closer examination it turns out to be a fraud.

How long would the illegal immigrants have to leave the country? According to the Senate bill they "may exit the United States and immediately re-enter." In other words, do a U-turn and come right back. How is that for "tough" border control?

Nobody else gets into the United States that easily. You can say "tough" all you want and still be a wimp. Or a politician.

How long do the Senate Republicans think they can keep insulting the public's intelligence, with an election just a few months away?

Every gesture that the Senate has made toward controlling the border is one that they have backed into under pressure from an outraged public. The Senators' whole focus has been on what they could do for the illegal aliens, in order to win Hispanic votes — and how they could camouflage it in order not to lose other votes.

Businesses that want cheap labor are also in favor of amnesty, under whatever name. So are citizen-of-the-world intellectuals, for whom national borders are just unfortunate relics of the past and illegal aliens are just like everyone else except for not having legal documents.

Nobody is just like everyone else, individually or collectively. Second-generation immigrants are not even just like their parents. Their crime rates are far higher than those of their parents who came here to work and who can appreciate the difference between what they had in Mexico and what they have here.

The second generation does not compare their lives here with how people live in Mexico. They compare their lives with the lives of other Americans — and there are all sorts of people around to tell them that the difference is due to injustices that they suffer.

Some of the more doctrinaire free trade advocates see the free movement of people across national borders as being just like the free movement of goods. But, when you buy a Toyota, it doesn't issue demands that our automobile laws be in Japanese and it doesn't have little Toyotas that add to the crime rate or to the burdens of our school system.

Moreover, when a Toyota needs repair, it doesn't go to an emergency room and expect the taxpayers to pay for parts and labor.

Whoever buys a Toyota is expected to pay the full price of the car and its upkeep.

But employers of illegal immigrants get the benefit of cheap labor and leave it to the taxpayers to cover the costs of their health care, imprisonment and everything else.

Our schools pay the price not only in money but also in lower educational quality when children with a limited knowledge of English and a limited commitment to learning impede the education of other children.

People who argue about immigration in the abstract ignore the fact that there is no such thing as an immigrant in the abstract. Immigrants from some countries have twice the education of immigrants from other countries and the differences between how many commit crimes can be some multiple between one group and another.

The most fundamental question is: What is to decide how many immigrants from what countries are to be admitted to the United States? The laws of this country or the fait accomplis of illegal aliens?

Are the citizens of this country to be people committed to this country or people who go back and forth, who expect American culture to adjust to them instead of vice versa, and who are kept separate and disaffected by their leaders and by the multicultural cult? We already have too many Americans with no real commitment to this country and no willingness to defend it.

Some of the more doctrinaire free trade advocates see the free movement of people across national borders as being just like the free movement of goods. But, when you buy a Toyota, it doesn't issue demands that our automobile laws be in Japanese and it doesn't have little Toyotas that add to the crime rate or to the burdens of our school system.

Moreover, when a Toyota needs repair, it doesn't go to an emergency room and expect the taxpayers to pay for parts and labor.

Whoever buys a Toyota is expected to pay the full price of the car and its upkeep.
But employers of illegal immigrants get the benefit of cheap labor and leave it to the taxpayers to cover the costs of their health care, imprisonment and everything else.

This is an interesting comparison on many levels. First of all it calls a spade a spade with regard to how "economic units" coming across the border are viewed by employers. It shifts the conceptual focus away from the human factor to the factors considered in business negotiations.

If your gonna do the negotiation you have to speak the language of those you negotiate with. So lets put our mindsets outside the human element as the businesses do. Let's play "fair trade" for a minute. Fair Trade in the past required tarrifs to level the playing field.

IF the employer wants to purchase the economic unit he must provide FULL medical benefits for the unit and all its sub units.

IF the employer wants to purchase the economic unit he must provide FULL legal benefits including incarceration expense in the unhappy event this maintenance will be required for his unit and its sub units.

If the employer wants to purchase the economic unit he must provide proof of liablity insurance for the actions of his unit and its sub units. In the event the employer fails to provide proof of insurance his unit and sub units will be empounded (deported).

IF the employer wants to purchase the economic unit he is assessed an environmental usage tax per unit and all associated sub units.

IF the employer wants to purchase the economic unit he must bring his unit and sub units into compliance with codes and provide at his expense all education by sub units so that they may be in compliance with all codes INCLUDING the language code.

The Toyota had to be adapted to meet invironmental restrictions before it could be sold in this country. The economic unit must be adapted to meet language requirements.

EVERYTHING has a price that includes Amnesty. These robber barons have had their cake and eaten it far too long! When the price is too high perhaps they won't be so interested in purchasing their economic unit.

Slavery was outlawed a long time ago in this country. What is really happening is business wants to import slaves that will be cared for by the government and ultimately the tax payers of this nation. Time to pay the price. Cold calculating concept isn't it? Well when the fully predictable argument spews forth from the wanna be "economic unit" owners... the response will be in language they understand. 'IT'S THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS."

Every gesture that the Senate has made toward controlling the border is one that they have backed into under pressure from an outraged public. The Senators' whole focus has been on what they could do for the illegal aliens, in order to win Hispanic votes — and how they could camouflage it in order not to lose other votes.

That statement is the absolute truth.

A couple of great analogies, folks. As a matter of fact, this represents one of the best arguments I've seen.

I agree with Crocket, Thomas Sowell has hit the nail in the head. This column appeared in my paper this morning.