Immigration bait and switch
- From: "Jim Higgins" <gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:13:02 -0400
Immigration bait and switch
http://blogs.washingtontimes.com/insiderpolitics/?p=461
Secure America's borders, and then deal with the millions of illegal aliens
already in the country. What is so hard to understand about that?
Yet the Senate of the United States this week has turned this simple but
obvious equation into a debate on how quickly and easily we can give
millions and millions of illegal aliens a free pass to U.S. citizenship. Is
being an American citizen really that worthless? Is America really just
another word for cheap labor?
It's been said many times before that a nation that fails to control its
borders has no control over its destiny. And the United States definitely
has no control over its borders.
The end results are increased national security worries, growing crime, a
largely unwanted seismic cultural shift and depressed wages. While the
latter may be great for the business community, it's a death sentence for
many working Americans. Sure, the illegals are taking jobs Americans won't
do, but what we are really talking about here are jobs that Americans won't
do for those salaries. If the endless flow of illegals was stemmed, then
these businesses would be forced to pay a decent wage.
Did I miss the part of the Constitution that says Americans have a right to
cheap goods? Is the American dream all about letting in an unchecked sea of
cheap laborers?
As columnist Robert Samuelson wrote recently in The Washington Post (yes,
The Washington Post), President Bush's guest-worker program is "a conscious
policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in
Mexico." How about letting Mexico solve some of its own problems? Or has Mr.
Bush added importing other countries' poverty to America's new duty to
export democracy?
The polls show again and again that Americans overwhelmingly want our
borders brought under control. Yet time and again our elected officials
ignore what we want. What gives? Who is running this country anyway?
- Fran Coombs, Managing Editor
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