The immigration bill is currently about to make a return to the stage as the supporters of it make one last gasp effort to pass the legislation before the elections get them all closer to Jesus and voter accountability. The concept of voters actually remembering how you voted on anything is something Congressmen and women don't normally have to deal with. So the closer to the elections, the smaller is the chance that those who have an interest in seeing an amnesty comes to pass will get their way. For Republicans who support the bill it's a free 'get out of Congress' card and the wrath of their voters will send them off to the arms of their lobbyist friends. Congress has a voter approval rating of less than 20 percent and the voters are angry. Candidate McCain, the war hero, the former prisoner of war, is about to be run out of the Republican nomination process because of his support for this bill. It's bad news all around and it's an answer in search of a problem. The main worry of people in the country is border security and there are laws and fences that have been authorized that are not being enforced and fences that are not being built. It's simple, when somebody breaks into your house, you don't start discussing whether or not the burgler has had a harder life than you have had, you don't ask if he is a minority who has been kept down by the man, you get him the hell out of your house. You make sure your doors are locked and your windows are secure. To think that the flood of illegal immigrants is any different is woefully ignorant and genuinely anti-American. It's that simple.
But the thing that I find the most interesting is the charge of racism I've encountered whenever I make my opinions known. I'm some kind of Nazi, hillbilly, trailerpark living white trash because I think that the laws should be enforced and the borders secured. Funny thing about that, my mother was Hispanic and my father Welch/English. In law school I was the President of the Hispanic Law Students Association and I kept organization viable when there weren't many Hispanic students at the school. I think I did a number of things that were good while I was there and one thing I kept in mind was that the Hispanics were a part of the greater community and we worked in concert with the Asian Law Student Association and every other organization for that matter. The point is that we tried to build bridges and while celebrating our differences we were still all Americans with the same ideals. That is not the case in this whole illegal immigration debate and reality. In this debate I am a racist and ignorant because I don't support the enormous breakdown of law and illegal behavior done in the name of social justice and with the excuse of entrenched 'white racism'. No, that's not acceptable.
We have laws designed to bring in immigrants in a way that enhances and makes America better. Laws passed and in fact there is a history of legal ways to come to America. For skilled workers there is an issue of how many and how that impacts American workers. With lower wage workers there are quotas and work permits have limits and numbers and targets. In all cases people have issues with the numbers. Some farmers say they need more, and of course the way to deal with that is to petition Congress for a change. If you perceive a problem the way to address it is not to encourage law breaking and to break the law itself by employing people you know aren't legal. It's simple yet tragically, the rule of law and the belief in the law continues to break down in the face of this illegal invasion.