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The campaign to promote amnesty for millions of illegal aliens by the media and some prominent politicians is getting a lot of attention, and the weak-kneed are falling in line. Amnesty advocates shrink from using the word amnesty and use a lot of code words (comprehensive, reform, earned legal status, path to citizenship) to distract public attention from the deception and the enormous costs of what they are demanding. The truth is, as Ann Coulter says, amnesty is "suicidal for Republicans. It's also suicidal for America because it promotes dependency on government instead of limited government and opportunity for all. Promises to secure the border after the illegals are granted residency, or even simultaneously, cannot be believed. In the famous words of Yogi Berra, an oral agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. The American people want the U.S. Government to obey and enforce existing laws. That starts with building a 12-foot-high double border fence with a road in between (like is so successful in San Diego). We want enforcement of the entry-exit system, whereby people admitted on visas are tracked to make sure they leave the U.S. when their temporary visit expires. We want a law to require employers to use E-Verify for new and current employees. Since we all must give our employers a valid Social Security number, illegal aliens should not be exempt from this rule. We must eliminate all schemes for the admittance of guest workers, both the uneducated who take entry-level jobs away from our own high-school dropouts, and the H-1B and other special-purpose visas (a system rife with fraud) who take jobs away from our own college graduates. Those jobs should be made available to U.S. citizens. We must demand cooperation between federal and state immigration authorities, so when a state picks up an illegal he can be turned over to the feds. We should reinstate the rule that was in effect for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came through Ellis Island. If they had a major disease or failed to provide proof that they would not become a public charge, they were sent back to their home country. We should develop a plan to assimilate the legal immigrants who have come to our country over the last 25 years. This includes using the major way earlier immigrants were assimilated: having their children in public schools taught only in English so they can go home and teach English to their parents. We should abolish the unpopular, expensive hiring of teachers of dozens of foreign languages to supervise immigrant kids speaking their native language year after year, never learning English. We should tell public officials to stop lying to Republicans, falsely telling them that amnesty is the key to increasing their Hispanic vote. There isn't a shred of evidence to support that notion, and there is plenty of evidence that amnesty delivers votes to Obama Democrats. The Washington Post-Kaiser survey reported that 67% of Hispanics favor a "larger federal government with many services" - and that's not the Republican message. We should not be deceived by the false notion that amnesty is the "Christian" thing to do. Amnesty will betray Hispanics because it will open our borders to a flood of new illegals, increase the millions below the poverty line, and make it impossible for legal or assimilated immigrants to achieve the American dream. |
