The jackpot question for illegal immigration


Why isn't the President or Congress asking this question?
Peggy Noonan at OpinionJournal.com asks the one question that everyone has been avoiding.

"What does it mean that your first act on entering a country is breaking its laws?"

Obviously she goes into details.

Here is what is true of my immigrants and of the immigrants of America's past:

They fought for citizenship. They earned it. They waited in line. They passed the tests. They had to get permission to come. They got money that was hard-earned and bought a ticket. They had to get through Ellis Island or the port of Boston or Philadelphia, get questioned and eyeballed by a bureaucrat with a badge, and get the nod to take their first step on American soil. Then they had to find the A&S.

They knew citizenship was not something cheaply held but something bestowed by a great nation.

Did the fact that they had to earn it make joining America even more precious?

Yes. Of course.

We all know it is so often so different now. Perhaps a million illegal immigrants come into the United States each year, joining the 10 million or 20 million already here--nobody seems to know the number. Our borders are less borders than lines you cross if you want to. When you watch videotape of some of the illegal border crossings on a show like Lou Dobbs's--who is not a senator or congressman but a media star and probably the premier anti-illegal-immigration voice in the country--what you absorb is a sense of anarchy, an utter collapse of authority.

It's not good. It does not bode well.

Illegal immigration is a huge problem in the Southwestern states. It exploded in Arizona and New Mexico after the Border Patrol tightened controls in Texas and California. It is not fair to say that every Mexican illegal is a violent criminal, but there is no disputing that Mexican criminal gangs have taken over much of the illegal immigrant traffic.

And remember, the Mexican government not only encourages illegal immigration but gives instructions on how to do it, not to mention legal aid for those who are captured.

It has to stop somewhere. I just want to see it stopped before killing zones are set up on the border.

Here is the question that I have asked before.

Why is the US bound to respect the rule of law when others do not? And why do we get the blame as a bully when we try to enforce the rules?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - December 8, 2005 at 04:36 AM  Tag


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