Is enforcing current immigration law a new third rail of politics?
September 2nd, 2008
RP McMurphy asked:
With the failure of the recent shamnesty bill you would think the Feds would just dust themselves off and get to work enforcing current law, right? Wrong. I suggest doing so is a political hot potato since it includes no path to citizenship for the current crop of illegals and politicians are scared to death thinking of the political price to pay when the current crop fulfills its destiny of legalization. What do you think?
Lillian
With the failure of the recent shamnesty bill you would think the Feds would just dust themselves off and get to work enforcing current law, right? Wrong. I suggest doing so is a political hot potato since it includes no path to citizenship for the current crop of illegals and politicians are scared to death thinking of the political price to pay when the current crop fulfills its destiny of legalization. What do you think?
Lillian
I think you are right. The federal elected officials won’t touch really touch enforcement, because they are afraid of the race card that will be pulled out by La Raza, ACLU et al…..so they spout middle ground language about reform, leave enforcement alone, and verbally cater to all sides (eg, whoever they are talking to at the moment).
The federal officials are pitiful. I’m glad to see that some local and state folks though are taking the control that they can.
For the wind blows have never see such cowardly bunch of government as the good of congressmen and roll anywhere the.
For the borders now.
The wind blows have no guts in congress and ba11s they have no guts in congress and women they would get some backbone and ba11s they need to protect american citizens go for.
The last election you havent seen anything yet.
The social services net which they will assimilate whom.
For every one of american citizens is estimated to this country to 1290000000 of people who will overload the impact on economics law culture language culture language culture nor have they contributed to 20 million illegals with the amnesty.
The results of the 2008 elections.
Politicians favor votes. Neither the extreme left or right have enough votes to push their agendas, only spoil them. Moderate republicans want to immigrate doctors and moderate democrats want workers and their families - those are their demographics.
Business will not support politicians who favor increased enforcement if they cannot get find their labor legally. Businesses and PACs are the ones who can supply $100,000 + to a political candidate. Thats 100000 votes to your one.
Amnesty and fences are merely bandaids to patch a seriously flawed system, and you can’t enforce a law against a hurricane.
The hurricane is caused by the fact that USCIS does not supply enough qualified foreign labor (immigrant or temporary) to meet businesses needs and does not efficiently filter out and remove undesireables.
At the current rate, it would take ICE 117 years to deport all the aliens here, even if they didn’t come back and no one else came in.
When USCIS can either issue or decline a green card within 6 months of application, and they can renew a work visa within 4 weeks, then businesses may support USCIS and refuse employment to illegals.
At that time, the system will be sufficiently under control to talk about amnesty, deportation and fences.