I fear the only practicable (that is, both realistically possible to enforce, and one that will ever get done among the short list of ’politically feasible to propose seriously’) long-term solution is a wall - a large one - with guarded checkpoints for border crossings.
Rather, two walls, one along the entire border with Mexico, one along the entire border with Canada.
I expect any serious proposal of such a wall, especially by someone in the Federal Government, would have the loudest voices among libertarians, ’small government uber alles’ conservatives, and the objectively anti-law enforcement and anti-military parts of the left, all screaming.
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Well, we need not be willing to die to stop them, to stop them.
But we might need to be willing to kill to do so, and I don’t think we are (and that reticence may well be a good thing, morally).
Dave: Also every industry that employs illegals will have a screaming fit, as will the Chicano/Hispanic/Mexican/Whatever lobbies. In fact, I think pretty much all the left would be screaming about it.
Which almost makes me think it’s a good idea.
(Though, is there actually a serious problem with illegal crossings of the Canadian border? If so, I can’t imagine it being anything like the scale of the Mexican border’s problems. People in Canada already have a welfare state supporting them, after all; much less incentive to go to the States for a job to send money back to Toronto, than if you’re in rural Mexico.) |
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It’s not the Canadians per se that are the problem on the Canadian border, it’s the Islamists and such that can easily get into Canada, then waltz across the Canadian border. It doesn’t get much attention, but I’ve seen bits and pieces about it happening. |
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I dunno as I put quite as severe a read on this as you. I doubt this is a reaction to conservative bitching, at all.
Chertoff would have been aiming in that direction in any event; it’s in his nature, which is exactly why I was so cheered by his appointment. |
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I may be wrong, but I thought I heard Chertoff on the radio saying that strict enforcement of the laws was only part of the program to solve the illegal immigration problem. Another necessary part of the solution was a guest worker program. Color me cynical(being an experienced republican can do that to you), but my guess is the guest worker program will have priority, and nothing else will get done until we have one. |
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They will have to show me a lot of action before I believe they are serious.
BTW, when wiil we see RICOH indictments against the politicians who run "safehaven" cities? It should be easy to prove they have been in a conspiracy to obstuct federal law. |
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i’ll believe it when i see it.
AND, i think he was talking about non-mexicans only when he was making all these bold statements. |
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The entire purpose of the IN-9 form was to place the burden on employers. Hire an illegal, get laid into with a heavy fine.
If they put an emphasis on the workplace and legal employment verification, that would kill a lot of the incentive (over time) for the illegals to come North.
It’s not the sole solution, but it would go quite a ways. |
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This talk of supposed tough enforcement is just a smokescreen for their Temporary Worker Program, which Chertoff pimped as one of his "three pillars" of immigration "reform".
Of course, those "temporary" workers will be here for six years, and they’ll have anchor babies meaning:
a) it will be nearly impossible to send them home, and
b) even if they get sent home the anchor babies can sponsor the whole family when they reach 18.
It’s all a big scam which, because of misleading news reports, many people seem to have been fooled by. |
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