The Immigration Reform Act Of 2007. Belch.
This hideous piece of legislation has nothing to do with immigration reform. It is amnesty, vote buying, and pandering, and nothing more.
This is all about the rule of law. Do our elected officials enforce our laws or don’t they? Every single one of these people who crossed the border into this country illegally is a criminal. When you catch a criminal you generally have two choices: you enforce the law, or you don’t. Today the US Senate will elect to not enforce the law … and instead to change the law to absolve these criminals of any guilt for their crimes. This is amnesty, and nothing less.
Despite denials that the White House-Ted Kennedy “compromise” legislation isn’t amnesty, by any common-sense definition, it most certainly is amnesty. The “fine” is insultingly low. The reward is chain migration and permanent residency. The “punishment” is keeping the stolen US job.
Says Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich:
I am so much in opposition to this bill that I want to make it very clear: If I were president, I would veto this bill. I think it’s that bad. And I would challenge everybody currently running for president to indicate whether they would sign or veto this bill - nothing in between.
This is a terrible sellout of American security.
Somebody who has worked, legally, their whole life, who owes back taxes, and is a law abiding citizen, must still pay. Yet, the people who snuck across the border, broke the law, worked illegally, and took advantage of our social services, don’t have to pay backtaxes?
Huh?
I wonder if Bush simply doesn’t care anymore. Or are the Republicans simply pandering to the companies wanting cheap labor that the rest of us subsidize. This one piece of legislation may very well succeed in crippling the Republican party in 2008.
Says Mark Steyn:
The reluctance of Washington to be seen to enforce its own borders is very perplexing. From the “Washington sniper” to 9/11, there has been for a generation a clear national-security component to the illegal immigration issue. To present it only as a matter of “the jobs Americans won’t do” is lazily reductive. The economists may see the vast human tide as an army of much-needed hotel maids and farm workers and nurses and plumbers, but to assume that everyone on the planet sees themselves as primarily an economic entity is complacent and (post-Sept. 11) obtusely deluded. The political class’ urge to capitulate on the integrity of the national border sends as important a message to the world about American will as their urge to capitulate on Iraq.
Americans who care about the future of this nation should watch Washington closely these next few weeks. The White House and Senate are intent on giving away the store on immigration. These politicians are about to make a bad problem much, much worse.
Immigration Reform Act, immigration, amnesty, vote buying, pandering
