Daniel Spisak on Technology

I think the biggest problem with immigration can be summed up with this one story I saw on CNN on Tuesday:

“Mexico threatens lawsuits over Guard”
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/16/mexico.immigration.ap/index.html

So lets try and understand this correctly. Bush says he’s going to send down a gaggle of National Guard troops to “watch” the border and “advise”, but not enforce the sovereignty of this nation directly. And Vicente Fox wants to threaten our country with legal action over this? What madness is this? Mind you, if one reads the National Guard’s mission statement as taken from their website:

“During national emergencies, however, the President reserves the right to mobilize the National Guard, putting them in federal duty status. While federalized, the units answer to the Combatant Commander of the theatre in which they are operating and,   ultimately, to the President.

Even when not federalized, the Army National Guard has a federal obligation (or mission.) That mission is to maintain properly trained and equipped units, available for prompt mobilization for war, national emergency, or as otherwise needed.”

So when Bush mobilized the National Guard to help with the border was he making a tacit admission that our border policy and enforcement is in such shambles that it constitutes as a national emergency? Or is this falling under the nebulous “other” reason? Or is it because the country of Mexico itself is its own poorly contained national emergency that the politicians of this country have willingly lent support to in the guise of the lack of action pertaining to the protection of this country’s borders?

I’ve had the great displeasure of watching Senator Kennedy talk about his thoughts on the immigration reform bill and how he believes it should work. I keep hearing how illegal immigrants only take the jobs American’s dont want to do. Perhaps that was true at first a long time ago. Today however, I find that argument becoming weaker as more and more illegal immigrants stream into the country. If you combine this with the loss of various kinds of jobs to places outside of this country where they can be done cheaper either because of looser environmental laws or due to the differences in international currencies I find this country becoming more service oriented.

So America is supposed to just absorb 100 million plus illegals over the course of 20 years? Thats 5 million additional new jobs that would need to be created every year for twenty years in addition to regular job market growth just to try and support this huge incoming flux. This in a country where for the last 5 years job growth has been lukewarm at best. For more about that you should read the article here:

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/021306Roberts.shtml

Then again, rounding up 12 million illegals and deporting them would be a major undertaking. Is it possible? Sure, but only if lawyers dont get into the act. I can’t imagine the kind of legal field day that would ensue due to the likes of the ACLU and other entities. It would be worse then trying to get a nuclear plant built in the middle of the desert I’d wager.

With the President’s approval rating at such an all time low, you’d think that doing something decisive that 68% of this country agrees with would be a complete no-brainer. Send in the National Guard and authorize them to deport illegals crossing into this country while authorizing a crash construction plan for a wall to seal off the border with Mexico. In the meantime, light a fire under the INS ass and start enforcing the laws that already exist on the book with emphasis on cracking down on the businesses using/exploiting illegals for labor. This is something that should be rather easy to start doing just in the state of California, go out to the fields or to the local Home Depot corner.

As for the border with Canada, a similar plan could probably be enacted, but somehow I get the feeling this country isn’t straining under the load of millions of illegal Canadians crossing into this country.

So the problem now as I see it is trying to identify which politicians in power actually have their ability to reason logically still intact and try to influence them with some damn reason. If this country doesn’t do the right something about its border policy soon it’s just going to fall even deeper into the rabbit hole thats already been created.