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Illegal Alien Headhunters: The Last Kick Of The Dying Breed


Edwin A. Sumcad
June 4, 2006
There are two breeds of reformers in our current immigration divide: Those who understand the problem of illegal immigration as multidimensional, and those who think they do.

The first breed is actually a “uniter” of a divided nation; it understands the legal as well as human sides of the problem and acts with a heart in offering a solution.

For example, this group gives “hiding” illegals an opportunity to come out to the open, go straight with our immigration laws and take the advantage of walking the government’s tightened rope towards citizenship, and at the end, unite with and become part of our mainstream society. This is represented by President George W. Bush’s humane temporary guest worker program [GWP] for all the more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.

The second breed is actually a group of “dividers” who don’t care if the nation is torn apart; it wants only to enforce our immigration laws, seal the border, hunt down illegal aliens, haul them to jail and shoot them if they resist, in order to save the country the cost of litigation if given their day in court. They are illegal alien headhunters who want to catch undocumented immigrants and punish them as criminals.

This group of American “dividers” has neither heart that can forgive nor compassion to absolve, has no understanding what justice with mercy means, and therefore has no human understanding of the problem -- just hate-propelled retaliators striking back at more than 11 million illegal aliens in the country including children, with neither a showing of sympathy and forgiveness nor pity.

According to Time polls, more than 72% of Americans look down at them disapprovingly, support Bush’s humane temporary worker guest program, and reject mean-spiritedness in the treatment of illegal aliens. Some Americans call those illegal alien headhunters “maniacs”: xenophobes who in order to stop immigration would kill immigrants and had in fact killed immigrants. Asian immigrants Joseph Ileto was shot to death in Chatsworth, California, and Vincent Chin bludgeoned to death in Detroit. [1]

The kindest term the disquieted American public ascribes to this heartless breed of immigration reformers is “Enforcers”.

I have written no less than five articles for American Chronicle on immigration reform pertaining to our illegal immigration problem not only as a border law infraction, but above all, and beyond this, a breathing and breath-taking human problem with political as well as socio-economic implications. It is not just a simple problem but actually one of the worst multidimensional problems [2] we ever have had impaling us in the horn of one of the most challenging immigration dilemmas.

It is worse than the 1986 immigration reform scenario because today the nation is disquietedly divided. It is a bad dilemma: If we fall into laissez-faireism in the midst of turmoil, we suffer painfully with only us to blame. This is not an option for a smart thinking nation that we claim to be.

On the other hand, if we get out from our attitudinal indifference to the problem and act wrongly, we bust with discord and civil strife that would punish us severely; history teaches us that the problem of a deeply divided nation could graduate to civil war. The Douglas-Lincoln debate that veiled the inception of a national division on the issue of slavery that in time worsened with animosity, discord and civil strife waves the red flag of the 1861-1865 Civil War. [3]

But let us look at the bright side. Assuming that all is well that ends well, the critical part of this immigration problem is that the political power that will lead this nation in the next decade will be determined by how Americans will view the solution that President Bush and the U.S. Congress can offer.

On May 25, 2006, the Senate “passed with a vote of 62-36 landmark but contentious immigration legislation that would tighten security on United States borders while allowing guest workers to enter the country and giving millions of illegal immigrants a path toward gaining U.S. citizenship.” [4]

It was a contentious landmark because the Senate still has to reconcile their approved bill with the mean-spirited version of the House. Only then would Congress finally submit a comprehensive immigration reform law to Bush for the signature of the President. House Republicans rejected the Senate approved guest worker program and want to punish illegal immigrants and employers who hire them, among others.

There is a need to look at where those House Republicans stand, and determine whether or not their arguments deserve our attention, and whether or not the justification of the way they think and act is a public nuisance.

We must narrow down the many imagined reasons why in their mind illegal aliens should be hunted down like criminals. We can do this through the process of elimination.

[1] Those who present anti-illegal-alien arguments to the American public on the premise that illegal aliens are “criminals” should be ignored and their other arguments based on this premise should be classified as trash that goes directly to the trashcan.

Illegal aliens are not criminals. Criminals are defined under our Penal Code. An alien crossing the border illegally is not one of them.

Calling illegal aliens “criminals” is a bubble of hate and ignorance that burst on the face of xenophobes. The fact that Congress has yet to pass a law in order to call illegal aliens “felons”, burst this bubble of hate on the face of immigrant-bashers.

[2] Those arguing that illegal aliens violating our border law are no different from robbers robbing banks and serial killers murdering innocent victims compulsively and therefore should be punished like hold-uppers and murderers, should be dismissed immediately as delusional. It would be symptomatic of psychiatric disorder if we compare illegal aliens to Bonnie and Clyde or Jack the Ripper, unless we are clowning the trauma of our immigration problem as a form of cure or therapy.

[3] Those opposed to the Senate version of a humane solution, and those who attacked Bush’s recommended guest worker program supported by more than 72% of Americans, on the ground that it would burden the already heavily taxed American people because it would cost some x-billions of dollars to implement, should likewise be disregarded.

Whiners whining on fiscal ground are public nuisance. Do they expect to solve this national immigration problem without spending a cent of tax money? And yet, they desperately want to solve this problem themselves.

The assumption is that it is all right to spend x-billions of dollars of the people’s tax money so long as it is for their own version of solution -- mainly policing, alien tracking and spying, border fencing and law enforcement -- which the American public generally disapproves as narrow-minded and myopic. Since their opposition on fiscal ground is inconsistent, we hear the sound of this dull monotone as a public nuisance because when they argue on budgetary consideration, they fire their guns and shoot themselves on the foot.

[4] We must also eliminate this obsession to run down illegal aliens, arrest them, and jail them as a recommended solution to our illegal immigration problem. There are some 11 million accounted illegal aliens not to mention the reported 20-30 millions unaccounted illegals all over the country. We never heard any recommendation from the mean-spirited what we will do after we round up those millions of illegal aliens and put them all under government custody pending the long-winded process of litigation for deportation – even if we assume the impossibility of arrest en masse as something possible under the sun.

The public is therefore forced to assume that they will be all herded to a concentration camp because their will be no jail in the country that would hold them all. That being the case, we cannot help but be reminded of the infamous holocaust: Hitler arrested Jews en masse. and herded them to concentration camps prior to their systematic execution.

[5] Demonizing the guest worker program that millions of Americans prefer over the House’s criminalization of illegal alien, as an “amnesty”, should be also dismissed outright. That it is an “amnesty” is an argument of desperation on the part of this about to be extinct breed of illegal alien headhunters in Congress. Amnesty is an automatic pardon of legal infraction. The guest worker program is not. This shouldn’t fool the public.

GWP is a three-tiered system for dealing with the nation's 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants which Brubaker had summarized as follows:

“Those who have lived in the United States five years or longer would be allowed to stay and apply for citizenship, provided they pay back taxes, learn English and have no serious criminal records.


“Those here two to five years - about 2.8 million people - would eventually have to return to a point of entry in Mexico or Canada and apply for a green card, which could allow their immediate return.

“The roughly 2 million immigrants who have been in the United States illegally for less than two years would be ordered to return to their countries.”

As you can see, this is not a “reward” for infraction of our border laws, as the mean-spirited claim it is.

The true legal definition of “amnesty” is “ a pardon that is extended to a group of persons and that excuses them for criminal offenses. [Barron’s Legal Guides, 3rd edition, p. 22.] Illegal aliens are not criminals to begin with. Those who see them as such must be having a dysfunctional mind sight.

Even granted arguendo that GWP is a form of amnesty, this nation has never considered draft evaders of the Vietnam War – which I am sure to this day includes some of our national leaders – as proud “awardees” of President Ford’s amnesty or forgiveness. To look at it as a “reward” for violating our draft law, is a view of the cross-eyed, similar to how the mean-spirited looked at GWP as a form of reward for violating our immigration laws.

The public deserves to know – not bamboozled nor blinded by the bad arguments of the vanishing breed of headhunters in Congress – that the granting of amnesty is politically motivated. Under our tripartite form of government, the Chief Executive exercises the power of amnesty “as part of his clemency power.” [Rubin, Law of Criminal Correctiion 667 [2nd ed. 1973].

President Bush’s GWP is an exercise of such power when he addressed the violation of our immigration laws with a corresponding solution, in a most humane fashion as opposed to the raw wishes of those juggernauts of ill-will among us who are shouting for blood in the treatment of illegal aliens.

Anti-GWPs whose protesting rhetoric endangers the security of a divided nation cannot see with a myopic vision that the favorable endorsement of GWP by 7 out of every 10 Americans is a centrist move of the government to unify instead of divide the nation.

Incorrigible Republicans facing extinction in the November elections are the likes of Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina who think that GWP – the path to citizenship – is a “reward” of illegal behavior in violating our border law. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania “the No. 3 Republican in the Senate”, peeping through a tiny hole of a larger prejudice saw GWP as the “cart before the horse” – securing the border is the horse, and GWP is the cart. It looks like this guy needs help to correct a bad vision.

Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, thinks that in approving GWP, the Senate was “not listening to what the American people are telling us…” [5] What Sen. Cornyn was saying was that GWP is an amnesty and that the American people opposed amnesty.

He must be reading the wrong polls or cannot read the right polls correctly. Generally, Americans opposed amnesty, but they are lopsided in heavily favoring and approving GWP [more than 72% Time Polls].

These guys represented by Sen. Cornyn, felt the wrong pulse of the American public. In feeling the pulse of the public, they put their fingers on the ankle. What the got was a kick of angry xenophobes who wanted to run down illegal immigrants, haul them to jail or chase them out of the country. They should have put their feeling fingers at the chest to feel the beating of the heart of Americans who wanted Congress to approach the illegal immigration problem in a most humane manner possible

It is impossible for Bush to defend and save his own hopeless Republican colleagues in Congress. Come this 2006 and 2008 November elections, 7 out of every 10 Americans will stone them down and lead them to their political demise. It may sound rude to say but it is necessary to say it with all honesty, that it is a miracle to save nincompoops who are digging their own political grave in this immigration debacle.

It might help others in the Republican Party a little bit but not that much -- especially those who are seeking a public office or re-election to public office in the national or local level -- for Bush to list down the names of those losers and announced to the voting public that they do not represent the interest of the beleaguered Republican Party in this coming November elections. This might save some of the innocent Republicans who are running for public office.

Since Bush is unable to save those mean compatriots in Congress, these guys will go down and bring with them the Republican Party in an ignominious November defeat. Democrats do not need to debate in public the failing of their opponents to put themselves in power for the next decade. Those failings are the Republicans’ inability to stop [and instead its failure exacerbates] the soaring cost of prescription drugs and healthcare, cuddling the interest and comfort of Big Money evidenced by tax cuts, the tinkering of social security law, and other similar disastrous failures that would usher in the resounding defeat of the GOP in the November polls.

The days of immigrant shooters in public offices are numbered. They are the dying breed of immigrant haters from both the Democrat [liberal] and Republican [conservative] ranks of political doctrinaires who misread the American people most often than not.

We can hear the sound of their fury when they argue their anti-illegal alien outburst in public. Even though they sound threatening, rest assured that it is the last kick of a dying breed of immigration reformers in Congress. #

Wow, what a steaming pile.....and where is this poll to verify those numbers? Was it taken May 1 during the rally's?

Wow! Where's the head spinning icon?

There are so many mixed metaphors that my brain couldn't take in what he was saying....too many mental images interferring.

And there's that stupid poll mentioned again! Total garbage.