On Tuesday, it’s Us vs. the Mexicans

I see amazingly (to me, anyway)stupid people, shouting simplistic and misleading slogans on both sides of this debate. We are a dumb nation.

McCain is such a national figure at this point that it’s easy to be distracted from the fact that this ad is really designed for and targeted to an Arizonan audience. And only a portion of Arizonans at that. And I think the “you’re one of us” line at the end — while absolutely freighted with racial and nationalistic meaning — is primarily delivered as “you are an Arizonan like us and not one of these outsiders who condemn strong anti-immigration measures without really understanding the realities on the ground.” It’s almost more of an Us vs. Other Americans Who Don’t Get It sort of pitch. I guess we’ll find out soon how many Arizona voters feel that way.

It’s interesting that McCain — having dealt in the latter stages of his presidential campaign with actually trying to calm down the whackadoodle kooks he and Palin were courting — seems content here to keep hammering away at the same formula. I mean, he’s shown himself willing to take the low road in the most debasing ways and yet he seems unwilling or incapable of acknowledging whatever lessons losing might hold. Maybe that’s tenacity or genuine conviction or lack of imagination or just a total absence of humility. Or all of those things. Who knows. Maybe his slogan should be “I’m John McCain and I never, ever change!”

Also, McCain’s personality and political future aside, it is striking how stark and explicit the ad is. But the problems all along the border are so extreme that its tone alone will probably resonate within the current pro-hardliner atmosphere there.

There are 12 million illegal immigrants in the USA.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0731888120080208

People are complaining about how they take jobs, don’t pay taxes, break the law, and burden social services, but almost no one is doing anything about the problem. Some of the solutions that have been proposed so far are unconstitutional and illegal. Arizona has a law that allows the police to racial profile and stop people simply because they look like immigrants. This law is discriminatory and violates the Fourth Amendment prohibition against illegal search and seizure without probable cause. What does an illegal immigrant look like anyway? Another solution to stop illegal immigration is to deny the children of illegal immigrants citizenship and clearly violates the 14th Amendment that states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. What would make someone more American than being born here? Other solutions against illegal immigration that have been enacted by towns forbid illegals from renting homes, but violate the Fair Housing Act prohibition against discrimination.

Since many of the suggestions to deal with illegal immigrants so far are illegal, I propose
the following better solutions:

1. Add immigration agents to patrol the border.

2. Require all employers to use E-verify to verify that all employees are legal.

3. Increase fines on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

4. Do not allow illegal immigrants to have drivers’ licenses. Do not make the lives of
illegals easier or reward them for breaking the law.

5. Call the police if you see someone playing loud music, stealing, vandalizing property,
drinking or urinating in public, doing drugs, littering, loitering, or illegally keeping chickens in the city. Regardless of whether the lawbreaker is or isn’t an illegal immigrant, the broken windows theory of crime says that small crimes lead to bigger crimes and less respect for the law. Why have a law if it is not enforced? Someone who violates the law by living in a country illegally is probably not going to care about obeying other laws. If illegal immigrants are hassled enough maybe they will leave or at least try to fit in a little more. I grew up in a small Midwestern town and I have seen the bad effects of illegal immigration myself.

http://www.gctelegram.com/News/Blotter-5-21-08

6. Build more illegal immigration detention centers and deport the illegal immigrants that are here. Maybe deporting millions of illegal immigrants is not practical, but we can deport more. If the USA can put on a man on the moon, why can’t we defend our borders?

Of course reducing illegal immigration costs money so I suggest increasing sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco, reducing the wages of government workers, cutting welfare spending, and eliminating less important programs like Amtrack, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts. We should stop extending
unemployment benefits, deport the illegal immigrants, reduce legal worker visa quotas, and require unemployed Americans to take jobs in farming, meatpacking plants, construction, landscaping, and hotels. If 15 million Americans are out of work, 12 million illegal immigrants shouldn’t
be taking up the jobs.

The United States is a nation of immigrants, but these are modern times with rules and regulations. Immigrants need to respect these rules. The USA does not have room for all the people in the world. Do you want America to have a population of 1 billion like China?

We don’t need new laws, we just need to enforce the existing laws.

Write your representatives, contact the media, and
talk with your friends and family. Tell them that we have had enough of illegal immigrants. Nothing will change if nothing is done and the government won’t care if you don’t care.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml