The big news today is the President's speech last night on immigration and his proposal to send National guard troops to help shore up our Southern border. I've watched all this Immigration debate going on for the past couple of months and wondered, why has this become such a hot issue all of a sudden. The problems been there for generations but all of a sudden the whole political system has ground to a halt while dealing with the Illegal Immigration issue. What's changed?
I'll leave aside that question for now, I have yet to come across anybody that can answer that one, and move on to a couple of thoughts on last nights proposals. Truthfully, I wasn't even aware Bush was speaking last night so I never saw it, I am just going on the news reports.
With the military and National Guard spread so thin the way it is, where do we have the strength to deploy additional troops to the border? Is the President going to pull some troops out of Iraq to do this or further stretch our resources at home for this deployment? I think we all know that the President will just stretch the troops further than look for a solution to the problems the military is having with continual long deployments.
I don't know what the answer to the problem with our Southern border is, but stretching our troops even further is not going to help the US in the long run. If we didn't have so many troops deployed in other places around the world, or a bigger military force, the problem wouldn't be so acute. I vividly remember when I was in the Navy and my Sub spent over 300 days a year at sea how devastating that was on moral and how many sailors that normally would have stayed in got out at the end of their enlistment because of the long, continual deployments. The Armed Forces are having the same problem now and deploying more to our Southern border won't help.
As for the other proposals, guest worker program and so forth, I will wait and see how things play out. We all want a strong economy in the country, but with that there is a demand for workers that brings the Illegal immigrants in to fill jobs. That's a fact of life, look at the unemployment rate across the country and you can see why the Illegal immigrants come in. There are jobs to be had here. How to have a strong economy that provides jobs and keep illegal immigrants out of the country is a problem that is going to be really tough to find a solutions for.
There's great discontent about immigration, even among legislators. It took a lot of lying and manipulation for the immigration enthusiasts to defeat Smith-Simpson bill, quite a reasonable reduction proposal, in 1996. Peter Brimelow
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The problem of illegal immigration is highly sensitive because the people concerned are mostly hispanic. This is the proverbial pink elephant. It's just like social security reform: it's messy and hard to fix.
For those that don't think illegal immigration is a problem, I beg to differ. I don't think people will disbute that illegal immigration (and their children) has boomed over the past 10 years. Illegal immigrants tend to be poor and not well educated and only work low-income jobs. It is almost impossible to support a family while earning minimum wage so they turn to the government for economic assistance. This ever increasing burden on the welfare system coincides with en mass retirement of baby boomers in a few years. How do you think this will affect our welfare system? This isn't even taking into account the effect of illegal immigration lowering wages and its effect on blue-collar America.
I would have no problem with the illegal immigrants if they are denied all social services. They claim they're like the earlier immigrants that built America. Well, I don't remember immigrants of yester-years receiving Section 8 housing or food stamps or get a check from the government for every child give birth to.