Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Breitbart.com:

At least 14,000 mostly Hispanic students stormed out of school classes across Los Angeles in a snowballing protest against Washington’s plans for a draconian crackdown on illegal immigration.

Huh? Draconian? Cruel and severe?

The bill being considered, already passed by the US House of Representatives, would crack down on employers hiring illegal workers and people smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.

The bill would also require employers to verify social security numbers with the Department of Homeland Security, beef up penalties for immigrant smuggling and stiffen penalties for undocumented immigrants who reenter the United States after having been removed.

The bill in the House, HR 4437, would require employers to run Social Security numbers through the government before hiring anyone and would increase penalties for people who come back after being deported. And this is what people are protesting about?

How many of those students, by Thursday estimated to be closer to 40,000, do you suppose have read the immigration bill that has them so upset? Not many, I would guess. After all the bill was written in English, and so many teachers don’t bother teaching that subject much any more.

Some were waving flags from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. That’s nice. Perhaps if they like those countries so much, they’ll do us all a favor and move back to them.

Fears over what they see as a racist assault on their community, the US Hispanic community – spurred in confidence by the sheer numbers of their growing ranks across the United States – has hit the streets with a peaceful force rarely seen since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, experts have said. The sheer scale of the protests has caught President Bush, and many legislators off guard, leaving him to scramble to placate both sides of an ideological battle. Watch for pandering to ensue in this election year.

• Can someone tell me what is so terribly bad about employers not hiring illegal workers?
• Can someone tell me what is so terribly bad about stopping people from smuggling illegal immigrants into the country?
• Can someone tell me what is so terribly bad about penalizing illegals that re-enter the country?

I am sititng here watching complete insanity. If this were illegal drug activity, or illegal slave trade, or illegal gun running, then those 14,000 mindless students would be supporting the government. But when it involved Mexicans illegally streaming into the US then the government suddenly becomes “draconian.”

What is with this “love fest” for allowing any Mexican that is able to breathe to come into the US without any background check, without any registering, without any encumberance?

At least 11 million illegal immigrants, most of them from neighbouring Mexico, live in the United States and are responsible for keeping the human machinery of US cities humming.

Like President Bush said in his radio address, “America is a nation of immigrants, and we’re also a nation of laws.” The US has always had a generous immigration policy, but these freaks are demanding completely open borders with Mexico. Why?

Huh? The illegals keep the US humming? Oh give me a break. Polls indicate about 60% of Americans oppose guest-worker programs that would offer illegal immigrants an avenue to lawful work status, and three-quarters of the country believe the government is doing too little to secure the nation’s borders – including your humble blog host.

One marcher even said they deserved to not be treated like criminals. Fine – then don’t be a criminal. If you’re here legally, then you won’t be treated like a criminal under the proposed legislation. If you’re here illegally, then you might be treated like a criminal. Strange concept, huh?

“The American people are thinking, ‘Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me,’ ” Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said. “The only way we can get the confidence of the American people is to convince them we are absolutely serious about border security and law enforcement.”

Serious about border security and law enforcement is exactly what weak-kneed legislators are not.

You can dress them up in fancy clothes, smear them with cologne and tie them in a nice pretty ribbon. Do what you will. Play all the word games you want. But guest worker programs are amnesty for those that broke the law. Simple as that. These people aren’t “guests”, they’re gate crashers.

The key thought, one that so many people keep stepping aside, is that these people’s first action in the US was to willfully break her laws. They came into this country illegally and began demanding the right to vote, the right to drive a car, the right to taxpayer-funded Social Security benefits, the right to a certain wage, the right to taxpayer-funded healthcare. It’s like a thief breaking into your home and demanding that you cook them a good meal.

What if bank robbers who were caught were simply told to give the money back and not do it again? What if murderers who were caught were turned loose and warned not to kill again? What’s the difference with illegal immigration?

“Working people are tired of having to be afraid, of being ill-treated and are now worried that the law will turn them into criminals,” Andres Jiminez, director of the University of California’s California Policy Research Center, told AFP.

Huh? They are criminals. They entered this country illegally. What is the difficulty in understanding here? The protestors act like we’re going to round up all 11 or 12 million illegals in this country already and ship them back to Mexico in handcuffs and leg chains. They act like INS agents are going to go door-to-door with guns drawn asking to see Green Cards.

Come to think of it, that would be a good start.

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