What about removing your eligibility for ANY public aid, or the capacity to hold residence, unLESS you're lawfully within our borders? I see NO problem with actively enlisting the aid of the mexican government on this one, and if they fail to render such aid, at that point we stop holding open trade. We can grow our own food, we've done it for decades, and we sure as hell don't need foreign labor to do it.
As a nation, we've been played. We've been played into a dependent state wherein we're told that if we don't have all this global trade, we'll collapse. We're told that if we don't hire illegals, the economy will fold up. We're told that we have to use foreign imported energy, or again the economy will collapse. The economy, the economy, the economy, this badly bruised and battered bit of rhetoric ignores the fact that the US got on for quite a while all by itself, thank you, with NO imports.
I want to see enforcement first, on immigration, and many want to see enforcement ONLY, and I can't say as that I blame them.
I think there's a humanitarian angle to all of this, but I think it's been over-played, frankly it's time for americans to pull their socks up and stop being so touchy-feely about all this stuff.
The border issue is simple. It's a line on a map, that demarcates the physical division between a relatively rich country, the US, and a relatively poor country, Mexico. Mexico's GDP is one trillion dollars. America's GDP is 12 trillion dollars. In other words, compared to the rest of the world, Mexico's doing all right.
The whole bleeding-heart spiel with the illegal immigrants is just a play to embed themselves further and deeper and more permanently into our economy and social infrastructure, hopefully for all perpetuity. We're gettin' played like a fish, on this one, and at the end of the day the answer is simple, most of Mexico needs to move home, and they need to do it NOW, anchor babies and drug dealers and ID theft and mass poverty and the whole flippin' show.
The way americans can help see to it that this happens is a) don't hire illegals yourself, if you find someone in your employ that speaks little or no english and is obviously from mexico, start asking questions and making phone calls, b) start lobbying your city council to do likewise with local employers, and c) don't be afraid to write your representatives on the issue, or your local papers etc.
As a society, we've been kind, polite, and tolerant, told that 'diversity brings us strength' and other election-slogan pabulum. As a society, we're being led down the garden path by the scruples-impaired who've gained high office and apparently answer to someone else besides american voters.
As a society, we're being taxed, fee'ed, and bled on purpose, all for the 'economy' etc. None of this happened by accident, none of it is going to change or go away by accident. People need to turn out in FORCE at the polls in November, and express their opinions on the matter by choosing representation that truly understands the level and degree of frustration that voters, US citizens, taxpayers, are feeling on this issue.
I feel that a play is being made for our integrity as a nation. While the 'weapon' of choice may be squawling babies on TV instead of threats of bombs etc., nonetheless it's politicial aggression from Mexico, and should be answered with some clear, effective, and well thought-out policy.
There's 6.5 billion people that live in this world. What kind of country we end up living with as the world booms to 8-10 billion is up to our leaders,leaders who ultimately end up having to live in our country, too. They can do a better job of what they do if they hear from the people, not the lobbyists, not the big corporations, but again the actual rank-and-file citizens, and hear their experiences and grievances on the issue. We don't have to tolerate watching our cities and communities take a downhill slide and become re-populated with foreign citizens. But, in order to prevent it, we're going to have to present a united front, appropriate to the United States, I think. Either we all hang together, or we all learn to habla espanol separately...
2006-07-15 12:56:05
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