I am placing my bets on “Immigration Reform.” Which of course is just double-speak for what it really is. I think it’s too much of a coincidence that the media is starting to focus on stories about our problems at the border. Don’t get me wrong, we do have problems. We have had problems for a very long time. I wish they had been addressed long ago, in a proper fashion. But now I fear it will be just a Trojan horse.
For example, look at the stories coming out about Phoenix being the kidnapping capital of the U.S. Check out all the stories about all the drug cartel murders in Mexico. These problems and others are going to be reported now with increasing frequency, this done to help push through “immigration reform” which will ultimately be mostly a tool to grant amnesty to the all the illegal aliens in this country. However, those who champion this “reform” will shift focus to other pieces of it that have nothing to do with amnesty. The jabber about those trivial pieces will be much, much more than whatever trick is in there for granting amnesty. The whole mess is going to be essentially the same smoke and mirrors process they used for health care – where the the trick was to avoid talking about dumping 30+ million more patients (at the tax-payers expense) into our already over-burdened health care system. And of course, all the while the real, monumental problems with health care were addressed lightly if at all.
I am a descendant of an immigrant. Our melting pot is one of the things that makes America great. I love that people believe in this country so much that they are willing to die and do die in trying to get here. That is an unbelievable fact, my friends. America is that great, even now. Our poorest people here would be considered very well off if they lived the same style but in a lot of other places. Every U.S. citizen deserves the right to go for the best they can achieve. But it’s only fair that we should require them to earn their citizenship to this greatest of the lands of opportunity.
April 8, 2010
