Tom Tancredo is the only Republican in Congress who takes a consistent and unequivocal hard line against illegal immigration.
I gladly would have voted for this pro-immigration enforcement, pro-life opponent of homosexual “marriage” for president, but he’s too conservative for the Republican party. I have a better chance of marrying Denzel Washington than Tancredo has of becoming president of the United States. Ever.
At the Republican presidential debate last year, Tancredo debunked the “rounding up millions” myth. “We can’t round up millions of illegal aliens,” detractors say. We don’t have to, says Tancredo. Merely enforcing immigration laws would reduce illegal immigration.
That assertion has been proven correct over and over, as state and local governments take up the federal government’s slack and pass laws and ordinances that reduce economic incentives for illegal aliens and deter businesses from hiring them. These laws also give local law enforcement authority to question immigration status.
It happened in Northern Virginia and other localities. Local businesses are “suffering” because of the shortage of cheap labor, and there’s a noticeable decrease in hispanic students in schools. Illegal aliens, fearful of being asked immigration status, are packing up and going back to their home countries or moving to sanctuary cities and states.
Arizona has some of the toughest sanctions in the country against businesses that hire illegal aliens, signed by Democratic governor Janet Napolitano. Unethical business owners and so-called civil rights groups challenged the law penalizing businesses for knowingly hire illegal aliens.
Yesterday, the left-leaning 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law. (Source)
The ground is shifting in the “immigration enforcement is a federal matter” debate. Unscrupulous groups and cheapskate business owners will challenge the ruling, of course. If you can hire a group of below-the-radar, malleable people for whom a low hourly wage is a fortune compared to where they come from, why give it up? I’d like to see the case reach the right-leaning-for-now Supreme Court. America’s lax immigration enforcement is a national security issue, and I don’t understand how some people fail to see the connection.
Any desire to protect Americans from threats foreign and domestic and maintain a certain cultural and economic standard of living receded long ago, and our country is worse off for it. We’ll never know the extent to which we’ve allowed terrorist infiltration because of porous borders until another terrorist attack occurs. But who cares, right? All we want is to be entertained now. We’ll worry about terrorism later.
For more info, download the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s 14-page report in PDF, Immigration and National Security: A Checklist of Unfinished Reforms.
What has your town/city/state done to curb illegal “immigration?”
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