Bush's latest - just another amnesty plan
By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, December 2, 2005
I have to admit it. The president and the media almost had me going just before he gave his "Immigration Reform" speech Monday. Almost.
The hype was that the president had heard the angry cries of abandonment from the American people and was going to announce a new "strict immigration and border enforcement" policy. While switching on the TV to watch, I tried to stop asking myself why we are not enforcing our immigration laws now.
With some excitement, I tuned into C-SPAN and watched as he said, "I have a solemn duty, and so do the members of the United States Congress, to protect our nation, our Constitution, and our laws." Great, I thought, he does remember his oath of office.
Having been president for five years - and allowing several million people a year to illegally enter our nation each of those years - it seemed rather late for him to realize that he should do anything and everything to secure America -more so considering the events of 9/11. But let's give him a listen, I decided.
I really got my hopes up when he said, "We want to make it clear that when people violate immigration laws, they're going to be sent home, and they need to stay at home."
"Viva repatriation!" I was thinking to myself while glued to the TV screen, now we have something! We are going to demonstrate to the world that anyone who challenges our rule of law or compromises our homeland security is going to suffer the full weight of the government of the most powerful nation in the world!
Those who would rather pay illegal wages to illegal aliens than employ those pesky Americans are going to get theirs... finally. I smiled with hopeful visions of criminal employers as inmates and loaded immigration enforcement buses headed south.
Alas - no. It turned out, as most of us had feared, that what he was really trying to sell was the same old amnesty con - now he is calling it a "Temporary Worker plan" - potentially not much different than the 1986 amnesty that magically made nearly three million illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico, legal.
For me, if nothing else, the "one-time" amnesty of nearly 20 years ago proved that rewarding illegal immigration does not stop that crime. Look around and see if you agree. Por favor.
The president didn't beat around the bush (sorry) about what he has in mind. "But people in this debate must recognize that we will not be able to effectively enforce our immigration laws until we create a temporary worker program," he lectured. Translation? The taxpayer subsidized black-market labor that American business demands is really the issue here. End of debate.
The costs to Americans, financial, cultural - and in lives - are simply the price of doing business.
Lean back, drink your Kool-Aid and accept the new reality. National sovereignty is not profitable anymore.
This time around, we will allow those who are here illegally to stay for another six years - then they must start obeying the law and leave. Sure they will. So will the millions who come between now and then. Right?
There are more holes in the president's re-hashed plan than our borders, but here is one to remember. The illegal alien lobby is even now, in 2005, screaming that it is "hateful," "anti-immigrant/Latino" (pick one - or both), "racist" and "cruel" to "tear families apart" by deporting anyone here illegally who has taken advantage of the present convoluted interpretation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and had a child in America.
We grant citizenship, and all the welfare benefits that come with it, to anyone who is born on American soil, regardless of their parent's immigration status. That fact is not exactly a secret in Mexico.
This policy is national suicide unless we completely secure our borders.
Try getting 20 million or more people to leave six years from now after they have anchored themselves here by using our free medical services to give birth to several children who automatically became U.S. citizens. If they won't leave now, why would they leave then?
The president is wrong. Shamelessly wrong. He must be told as much.
D.A. King of east Cobb is president of The Dustin Inman Society, a coalition of citizens with the goal of educating the Georgia public on the consequences of illegal immigration.
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