True Stuff about Illegal Immigration

I believe there’s just a little bit of disingenuousness in the way various political groups are behaving towards illegal immigration.  First you have the Republicans.  There are two groups of Republicans.  One group wants to pretend that the issue of illegal immigration will lose its luster with the American people and businesses can go right on hiring cheap labor.  The second group is listening to the voters and wants to deport the lot of them as soon as possible and then let some of them back in the country so businesses can hire them as cheap labor. 

 Then you have the Democrats.  There are two groups of Democrats.  One group wants to pretend that we have no borders or no laws so the illegal immigrants can come here unfettered and be given the vote.  The other group wants to pay lip service to the immigration laws without really enforcing them so that the illegal aliens already here can stay and when others come they can stay too so that they can be given the vote in the hopes that they will vote for Democrats. 

 The last groups are the Hispanics.  There are two groups of Hispanics.  One group wants no borders or laws and wants as many other Hispanics to come here so they can eventually vote to replace the Democrats and Republicans with Hispanics.  The current politicians actually think the Hispanics will vote for them.  The other group is illegal aliens and they want to stay here, earn a decent living, bring their families here, and eventually become citizens.  Both groups deep down want to take over a portion of the United States and make everyone speak Spanish and get as many government perks as possible.  The outcome of this thinking is that they will eventually overwhelm and bankrupt the very system they have come here to enjoy.  It is an irrational goal.

 Currently there is no one looking out for the best interest of the country or listening to the demands of United States’ citizens.

 Here is what is true.

 The idea that we can’t deport the illegal aliens because there are 12 million of them is a non-sequitur.  We should enforce the law by beginning the deportation process as we encounter illegal aliens.  We don’t have to round up and deport all 12 million or nothing.  Those aren’t the choices.  We can deport 5% or 10% or 50% or 2 guys caught in Laredo.  It is a journey, not an event.

 The assertion by the Democrats that we need the Hispanics to do the jobs Americans won’t do is a myth.  By the second generation, the Hispanics will all be American enough to not want to pick fruit and roof houses as well and we will need to continue to import new sources of cheap labor to do those jobs.  The only real solution to maintain cheap labor without creating a permanent underclass of newly arrived immigrants is to deport the illegal aliens, control the border and issue work visas on a temporary basis. 

 The assertion by the Republicans that the illegal laborers are net contributors to the economy simply cannot be true.  They are counting on the public school system to keep everyone too stupid to do simple math…so far so good.  Since 50% of Americans pay 97% of the taxes and we are running deficits each year, that means some number of American workers are net consumers of government largess and not contributing as much as they are taking.  Odds are that the lowest paid are the least likely to be a net contributor to positive revenue flow.  So if you are making $5.25 and hour, paying no income tax, using the emergency room as your medical insurance and sending your kids to public schools, you are not a net contributor to the economy.  In other words, you consume more tax money than you contribute with your sales taxes and productivity.  If the lowest paid labor was adding to the revenue instead of consuming it, this country wouldn’t even have a debt, let alone a yearly deficit.

 What we really need in this debate is more honesty and less political hot air.  When I see people waving Mexican flags and calling for the re-conquest of the southwestern United States, I take them at their word.  Now that the protestors have a PR firm and know to carry American Flags and tone down the invasion rhetoric, I view them in the same light as I do the politicians on this side of the border…with distrust.