Why won't the government enforce the laws already on the books?

Question

Many pro-amnesty supporters offer the canard that there are 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants in our country. We cannot keep every illegal immigrant out or expel the ones living here. That might be true, but it is also true that we can't prevent every rape and murder. Does that mean we shouldn't attempt to enforce the laws against rape and murder and try to prosecute the perpetrators?
In addition to greater efforts to secure our borders, there are several non-rocket-science steps we can take. People who are here illegally should be denied access to any social service such as Medicaid, public education and food assistance programs. An exception might be made for temporary emergency medical treatment. In some cities, such as Los Angeles, police are prohibited from asking people they stop about their immigration status. While state and local police shouldn't be turned into federal agents, they shouldn't knowingly conceal criminal acts.
The United States is a nation of immigrants from all over the world. The resulting ethnic mosaic goes a long way toward explaining our greatness as a nation. Immigration has always been a blessing for us, and it still is. But yesteryear's immigration and today's differ in several important respects. For the most part, yesteryear's immigrants came here legally. Because there was no welfare state, we were guaranteed that they'd work as opposed to living off the rest of us. Furthermore, they sought to assimilate and adopt our culture and become Americans. That's not so true today, where Hispanic activists seek to impose their language and culture on the rest of us. At some public schools, they've raised the Mexico flag atop the U.S. flag. They've announced that they seek to take back parts of the U.S. that were formerly Mexico.

Since when does the government have the right to choose which laws it enforces and which it doesn't. Maybe we should choose to to disregard some laws too. like the IRS.

Answer 1

It is the lack of enforcement that created this problem. The amnesty of 1986 was supposed to "fix" the problem. Big business is profiting from the illegals. Taxpayers are suffering for it. Liberals "claim" they support taxpayers, but in actuality they offer more support for illegal aliens.
They claim that deportation and tightening our laws would make us "look bad" to other nations. Many European nations have tougher laws and are toughening their laws and enforcement. Our southern neighbor has very strict and enforced laws. They deport more annually than we do. Their southern border has armed guards.
I want the same for our southern border, and frankly, I don't care how UN-PC some consider my opinion. I'd rather speak out for Americans and the USA, than cringe in fear of offending illegal aliens. Our government needs to develop a spine and enforce the law.

Answer 2

The state, local, and federal govts don’t want to enforce the US immigration laws for various reasons, but I think the most important is that the illegals are such a valuable part of our economy. Since the economy is strong and unemployment is low, politicians look the other way at the invasion of our nation. However, if the economy goes into recession, the govt will suddenly start deporting many more illegals.

Big business wants the cheap labor that the illegals provide, and they like the fact that the illegals keep wages down in certain industries, such as, construction, roofing, and other blue collar jobs.

Answer 3

I also do not understand why a country would make laws and then not enforce them. In my opinion it is because many profit from the cheap labor of the illegal immigrant, as well as avoiding many of the employment taxes and workers compensation premiums. Many are willing to look the other way while big business breaks immigration laws.

Illegal immigrants can be easily exploited for profit with very little fear of legal action. Employers are not concerned with the fact that the average citizen must pay for all the services used by illegal immigrants such as education, Medicaid and food assistance programs. We must keep contacting our legislators until we are impossible to ignore, use our votes and send a message that we already have immigration laws and its high time we enforced them.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

nice speech. the fact is the laws are not enforced because noone wants to be called a racist.. Its sad to me when Illegals can protest in the middle of LA and noone starts rolling up some buses to deport them.. Ironically I visit california, get cited for having out of state license plates in california and have to come back to the state 4 or 5 times to prove I don't live there.. weird state.. they should have just DEPORTED me to my home state and saved me the trouble / expense of coming back..and Im a US citizen. but can't ask the illegals now..might offend someone

edit: shane b.. what does the "secular" movement have anything to do with this..stop watching too much TV and half listening. do you even know what secular means?

Secularity (adjective form secular) is the state of being separate from religion.. I.e not living under islamic law where your stoned for adultery...

nothing whatsoever to do with this subject.. learn before you post

Answer 6

Even though I agree with you on the illegal immigrants, I must ask you if you really know just how many laws are on the books and how hard it would be to enforce them all, all the time?

Answer 7

One reason and one reason only. Our country is being ran by the Secular Movement. There are articles out on the internet that will make your skin crawl. When the people of this country wake up and take a good look at whats going on, then changes will be made. I just don't think that will ever happen though. We are the "Roman Empire" in today's standards. We will soon fall as well. Sorry for the negative answer!

Answer 8

I agree with Steve.... Liberals. I also agree with the notion of enforcing our current laws. We need to elect officials that will do just that and stop catering to the illegals its totally ridiculous.

Answer 9

Politicians are lawyers who create the laws that no human can understand. That's the plan. You must present lawyers with large sums of money to even get heard in court. After that, the real fleecing begins.

A new client had just come in to see a famous lawyer.
"Can you tell me how much you charge?", said the client.
"Of course", the lawyer replied, "I charge $200 to answer three questions!"
"Well that's a bit steep, isn't it?"
"Yes it is", said the lawyer, "And what's your third question?"

Answer 10

25 years from now, if humans haven't blown themselves into oblivion, we will still have this same debate. It will never end. Politicians do not have the people in mind. It is a sad state of affairs.