The Inmates Are Taking Over the Asylum

The sustained drum beat from Liberals and deceived Conservatives to legitimize illegal aliens in the US has an even more outrageous note now. Last year, and this year again, we have the spectacle of people who are here illegally, prominently participating in the demonstrations to legalize their law breaking. Such audacity. People who have no legitimate standing in this country are now demanding that we change our laws for their benefit.

Certainly, the demonstrations are being arranged by self-appointed "advocates" and ethnic politicians, always looking for more "constituents" to enhance their power base. Liberals are big on the sanctity of the law and the well-ordered society but have become seduced by their vision of America as the multi-culturalist paradise and a warped sense of "justice" for the "downtrodden" to abandon any sense of the sanctity of the law. The propaganda is relentless.

The NY Times ran two articles in the last week about deportation of illegal aliens, both, of course, featuring injustice and pain to the "children", the hook to excite the sentiments of well meaning (and generally uninformed) people , especially "family-values" conservatives. In both cases, American-born children of illegals have supposedly been left parent-less by deportation of parents. There seems to be a general acceptance of the principle that all families can only be united in the USA; if these parents are so concerned, they should not have put themselves and their children in such a situation by flouting our laws. The solution is quite simple, really: take the children with you. The abuse of our constitutional provision on citizenship at birth requires new thinking, including the amendment of the Constitution, if deemed necessary. A child born to people here illegally must not be granted automatic citizenship.

What would our system of laws be if it can be construed that laws are inoperative if an illegal act harms the "children"? Defense lawyers and advocates would have a field day making one outrageous claim after another. Americans need to be a little more selective when indulging in this kind of facile righteousness.

The other facile argument that is made is that you can't deport 12 million people (resources; impact on the economy; etc.) . By this logic, any crime must be forgiven if committed often enough or if every individual criminal cannot be apprehended and brought to justice; if enough unsolved murders are committed (gang wars, anyone?) then we can't prosecute any murders. What idiotic logic. The important thing is that the crime is not forgiven and that criminals are brought to account as the forces of the law can manage it. Illegal immigration needs to be criminalized and all levels of government must be obligated to enforce the law and to turn the miscreants to the proper government agency when he/she is identified. In such a blatant act as the mass flouting of the immigration laws, all methods must be utilized, including profiling and roundups. Suggestion for the first place to start roundups: taxi garages in the large cities to get rid of at least some of the Muslims here illegally from the Middle East and South Asia; people may have conveniently forgotten the participation of Arab taxi drivers in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. America must re-establish control of its borders, even if the methods to be used against the downtrodden are not politically correct.