Enforce The Law
What do we do right now? And you can't simply say, 'Enforce the law.'
On the surface, it is exactly that simple.
First, the tacit "look the other way" policy established by the Bush Administration has to be stopped. It does no good to round up the illegals and ship them back if the Border Patrol is going to look the other way when they sneak back across. Bush said, "I will enforce the law." That is a lie. I have had numerous conversations with members of the Minutemen and they unanimously say that the Border Patrol agents have told them they have been ordered to stand down.
Second, as to the question of rounding them up and sending them back, let me use an analogous example. Suppose you owned ten acres of land and you had a house on it. Suppose dozens of people began coming onto your property every day and setting up tents and shacks. Now suppose some of these people started mowing your lawn, weeding your garden, and cleaning your house. Along about now, the government steps in and says you have to provide food and clothing for these people and give their kids rides to school. Meanwhile, more of these people are arriving on your property every day. Imagine, now, that somehow you get the government to finally stop these people from moving onto your property, you still have dozens or maybe even hundreds of people who are now camped out on your property, still demanding food and clothing, still mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, and weeding the garden. What are you going to do?
You are going to find a way to gather these folks together and help them move off your land. You might hire a few of them, but you are probably going to ask them to live somewhere else or you are going to make a legal arrangement with them to buy or rent some land from you. Yes, it will be unfortunate for some of your squatters, but you are not and cannot be held responsible for them.
As for the employers who suddenly find themselves without employees, two words: tough bananas. They should have thought about that possibility when they were hiring the illegals. And I don't buy this silly "immigration paperwork is too hard" argument. If a small businessman can either find their way or hire someone to find their way through the maze that is the IRS, they can manage a way to figure out the INS.
On the surface, it is exactly that simple.
First, the tacit "look the other way" policy established by the Bush Administration has to be stopped. It does no good to round up the illegals and ship them back if the Border Patrol is going to look the other way when they sneak back across. Bush said, "I will enforce the law." That is a lie. I have had numerous conversations with members of the Minutemen and they unanimously say that the Border Patrol agents have told them they have been ordered to stand down.
Second, as to the question of rounding them up and sending them back, let me use an analogous example. Suppose you owned ten acres of land and you had a house on it. Suppose dozens of people began coming onto your property every day and setting up tents and shacks. Now suppose some of these people started mowing your lawn, weeding your garden, and cleaning your house. Along about now, the government steps in and says you have to provide food and clothing for these people and give their kids rides to school. Meanwhile, more of these people are arriving on your property every day. Imagine, now, that somehow you get the government to finally stop these people from moving onto your property, you still have dozens or maybe even hundreds of people who are now camped out on your property, still demanding food and clothing, still mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, and weeding the garden. What are you going to do?
You are going to find a way to gather these folks together and help them move off your land. You might hire a few of them, but you are probably going to ask them to live somewhere else or you are going to make a legal arrangement with them to buy or rent some land from you. Yes, it will be unfortunate for some of your squatters, but you are not and cannot be held responsible for them.
As for the employers who suddenly find themselves without employees, two words: tough bananas. They should have thought about that possibility when they were hiring the illegals. And I don't buy this silly "immigration paperwork is too hard" argument. If a small businessman can either find their way or hire someone to find their way through the maze that is the IRS, they can manage a way to figure out the INS.
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