Common Folk Using Common Sense

The “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006″, S.2611, should be noted in that it includes:

1. Citizenship rights for invaders already here two years or longer.
2. Amnesty for employers who have hired illegals.
3. Allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security.
4. Allow 2 million new “immigrants” into the country every year.
5. 370 miles of fencing. The border is much longer – another 1700 miles longer.

Not only is this “amnesty“, but it is “amnesty with rewards”. This isn’t an immigration bill, this is a bill to legitimize an invasion.

Oh, and have you heard this one: the bill extends the Davis-Bacon Act‘s requirement for the payment of ”prevailing wage” to all temporary guest workers. That puts them ahead of Americans, who have this protection only on federal job sites. Foreign guest farm workers, admitted under the bill, cannot be ”terminated from employment by any employer … except for just cause.” In contrast, American agricultural workers can be fired for any reason. And this is coming from the people that you elected to office back in 2000 and 2004. Gee, thanks guys.

In 1986, Congress actually granted amnesty to about 3 million illegal immigrants on the promise that it was a one-time deal. The border would be secured, the rules enforced, and we’d put this thorny issue behind us. The 1986 act did not solve our illegal immigration problem. From the start, there was widespread document fraud by applicants. Unsurprisingly, the number of people applying for amnesty far exceeded projections. And there proved to be a failure of political will in enforcing new laws against employers.

So here we are, 20 years later, having much the same debate and being offered much the same deal in exchange for promises largely dependent on the will of future Congresses and presidents. Since then, millions more illegal immigrants have poured into the country. And now they are such a sufficiently powerful constituency, emboldened by our identity-politics culture, that they demand “justice” and further concessions in public protests across the country. Many illegal immigrants are now part of the economy and the society. But the anger over the continued failure to secure the border puts Americans in an unforgiving mood because the rhetoric of “comprehensive reform” comes across as “forgiveness now, security someday.”

But the Democrats are frothing at the mouth at the prospect of 20 million new “disenfranchised” voters, and the Republicans are beholden to the big-money donations coming from those businesses that enjoy employing people without having to abide by employment laws and regulations.

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