Posted by
jarhead on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:49:03 PM
Unfortuneatly for our President and his cronies in the Senate you are ultimately measured by what you DO not what you say. There has been little or no effort to enforce existing laws and legislation much of which is simply rehashed in the new bill. If there is no will to enforce existing law what reasonable person would possibly believe there will be the will to enforce new laws? Moreover consider that the infrastructure to enforce has either atrophied or was never in place because the activity was not being undertaken. The folks that are in charge of visas for instance cannot even keep track of the limited number of folks here on expired visas from countries of interest, some of whom have been involved in every plot since 9/11-how pray tell will this inept group take on the tracking of 12 million more??
I just heard the argument made that this bill is different because with this law our enforcement folks don't have to track anyone down; the illegals will present themselves bright eyed and bushy tailed to take part in this new system. There are two major flaws with that piece of logic:
1. A great many of these folks don't care about legality. They just want to collect the bucks and send them home. If they have to come out in the open and their jobs are suddenly elevated in cost to employers to what they should have been to begin with, they may not even keep those jobs; qualified American workers will take them. And if you think 'work papers' is some sort of panecea remember that making employers check those papers IS enforcement and enforcement that could be taking place currently but is not. Why will we suddenly have the will to enforce when we did not have the will before? And who will do it???
2. This 'logic' does nothing to address the need to ENFORCE the border. This gaping hole in our national security must be closed, we have ample legislation and law on the books to get it done BUT it has not been done to date. If the will has not existed to date how will a new law make any difference? It won't.
This bill has two parts to it. The part that rewards law breakers at the expense of those patiently and lawfully waiting in line by awarding amnesty and the part that says we will finally get tough on law breakers. The part about getting tough calls on our federal government to do things it has had no will to do in the past and demonstrably no capacity to do. In the end this is the Reagan amnesty redux. All amnesty and no enforcement. No matter how much perfume or how many bows you put on this pig its still a pig. Damn the amendments-stop this pig in its tracks.