This week's news so far has been chock full of shining examples of the failures inherent in ignoring reality...
The French may have decided that it's time to try the free market example of employment. However, starting that reform with the youngest employees might have been a mistake, no? If you coddle your citizens by allowing them to hold jobs regardless of their performance and the need for their services has always been, at best, an experiment in Socialism. Even though de Villepin is much less than respected by many Americans, he had the brass balls to attempt to correct the socialistic employment practices that have been a huge drag on the French economy for far too long. Good for him! I hope he sticks with it despite the riots and strikes in France. It's time for a wake up call for all Socialists -- your country cannot support you forever; you must be giving something back to the economy to remain employed. Get off the streets and back to the jobs you say you want to keep!
Americans themselves are watching a shining example of what happens when we ignore reality and pretend it's okay for people to break the law as long as they're willing to work hard. The demonstrations and walk-outs in protest of stronger consequences for breaking immigration laws in this country are laughable at best. Think about it... while law enforcement officials watched, the streets of Los Angeles were full of illegal aliens who COULD have been deported that very day if our immigration laws had any teeth. Police could have rounded up those crowds, checked identification, and put all of the illegals they found on chartered buses out of LA and back to Mexico. The very people we need to send home cost L.A. plenty of tax money in the form of police officers and other public officials who had to stand by and protect citizens. The very people who are breaking our immigration laws were out protesting the fact that Americans want to strengthen the consequences for doing so. How ironic!
Is it really okay for non-citizens to find protection under OUR First Amendment laws? to flaunt their illegal status on our streets? No, it is not. It reminds me of the lawsuits that are reported occasionally where a thief injures himself while stealing from a home owner and then sues the home owner for compensation. This is really no different. Has this country lost its collective marbles? Do we not see the nonsense that has been going on for far too many years in our country?
Illegal aliens cannot be "law abiding" as stated by a few mush-brains in Congress. The very fact that they are ILLEGALLY in our country means they are breaking the law, Senator Feinstein. You dope. We Americans like to think we have answers and can help others; we can. However, we need people smarter than Feinstein to figure out how to close our borders and help others within the framework of our Constitution and our laws, not by pretending that law breakers are innocent victims!
The term "Illegal Alien" was not used in a single news report as far as I could tell. Proponents kept referring to the issue as "Immigration Reform" and to the protestors as "Immigrants." Maybe SOME of them were legal immigrants, granted; however, many more were simply Mexicans who know that Americans haven't done a darned thing to keep them out. We deserve what we're getting right now. I just hope that the politicians who represent us in D.C. will maintain their backbones and some principle in putting some teeth into our immigration laws.
This American believes it is a very bad idea to make illegal immigration and the assistance to illegals a felony. Our court systems are tied up beyond belief in most major cities as it is. The only effective answer is to put more INS officers on the streets, give them the power to determine citizenship status based on papers and identification, and then allow them to IMMEDIATELY deport any illegals they find. File a report later. Get a forwarding address; if the officer was mistaken we can always invite them back with a humble apology. ;-)
The French may have decided that it's time to try the free market example of employment. However, starting that reform with the youngest employees might have been a mistake, no? If you coddle your citizens by allowing them to hold jobs regardless of their performance and the need for their services has always been, at best, an experiment in Socialism. Even though de Villepin is much less than respected by many Americans, he had the brass balls to attempt to correct the socialistic employment practices that have been a huge drag on the French economy for far too long. Good for him! I hope he sticks with it despite the riots and strikes in France. It's time for a wake up call for all Socialists -- your country cannot support you forever; you must be giving something back to the economy to remain employed. Get off the streets and back to the jobs you say you want to keep!
Americans themselves are watching a shining example of what happens when we ignore reality and pretend it's okay for people to break the law as long as they're willing to work hard. The demonstrations and walk-outs in protest of stronger consequences for breaking immigration laws in this country are laughable at best. Think about it... while law enforcement officials watched, the streets of Los Angeles were full of illegal aliens who COULD have been deported that very day if our immigration laws had any teeth. Police could have rounded up those crowds, checked identification, and put all of the illegals they found on chartered buses out of LA and back to Mexico. The very people we need to send home cost L.A. plenty of tax money in the form of police officers and other public officials who had to stand by and protect citizens. The very people who are breaking our immigration laws were out protesting the fact that Americans want to strengthen the consequences for doing so. How ironic!
Is it really okay for non-citizens to find protection under OUR First Amendment laws? to flaunt their illegal status on our streets? No, it is not. It reminds me of the lawsuits that are reported occasionally where a thief injures himself while stealing from a home owner and then sues the home owner for compensation. This is really no different. Has this country lost its collective marbles? Do we not see the nonsense that has been going on for far too many years in our country?
Illegal aliens cannot be "law abiding" as stated by a few mush-brains in Congress. The very fact that they are ILLEGALLY in our country means they are breaking the law, Senator Feinstein. You dope. We Americans like to think we have answers and can help others; we can. However, we need people smarter than Feinstein to figure out how to close our borders and help others within the framework of our Constitution and our laws, not by pretending that law breakers are innocent victims!
The term "Illegal Alien" was not used in a single news report as far as I could tell. Proponents kept referring to the issue as "Immigration Reform" and to the protestors as "Immigrants." Maybe SOME of them were legal immigrants, granted; however, many more were simply Mexicans who know that Americans haven't done a darned thing to keep them out. We deserve what we're getting right now. I just hope that the politicians who represent us in D.C. will maintain their backbones and some principle in putting some teeth into our immigration laws.
This American believes it is a very bad idea to make illegal immigration and the assistance to illegals a felony. Our court systems are tied up beyond belief in most major cities as it is. The only effective answer is to put more INS officers on the streets, give them the power to determine citizenship status based on papers and identification, and then allow them to IMMEDIATELY deport any illegals they find. File a report later. Get a forwarding address; if the officer was mistaken we can always invite them back with a humble apology. ;-)
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