Nutty Senate Compromise

Fire of Liberty

While the MSM keeps on touting a big breakthrough in the US Senate with regards to the current illegal immigration bill, they fail to report that this breakthrough is nothing more than a fancified amnesty bill that turns a blind eye to some eleven million illegals. To me it would be a whole lot easier to just enforce our current laws, beef up the border patrol, push for greater fines against companies and businesses that hire illegals. All of these combined will slow down the flow of illegals into this country rather than create some silly new guidelines like the following:

- Illegal immigrants who have been in the country for at least five years could receive legal status after meeting several conditions, including payment of a $2,000 fines and any back taxes, clearing a background check and learning English. After six more years, they could apply for citizenship without having to leave the United States.

- Illegal immigrants in the country for between two and five years could obtain a temporary work visa after reporting to a border point of entry. Aides referred to this as "touch base and return," since people covered would know in advance they would be readmitted to the United States.

- Officials said it could take as long as 13 to 14 years for some illegal immigrants to gain citizenship. It part, that stems from an annual limit of 450,000 on green cards, which confer legal permanent residency and are a precursor to citizenship status.

- Illegal immigrants in the United States for less than two years would be required to leave the country and apply for re-entry alongside anyone else seeking to emigrate.

So basically the Senate is going to nullify and excuse illegal activity by offering them a quicker path to citizenship and a $2,000 fine because they were lucky enough to move here five or more years ago while telling the others that have been less than five but more than two years to report to the authorities or and apply for a temporary work visa.

Personally, I don't really think that such a policy will dissuade millions of other illegals from crossing over the border because they'll wager that in twenty years or more they'll be given a similar deal much like their predecessors received in 1965 and 1986. In reality, the folks in the Senate(Democrats and Republicans) are willing to allow illegals to remain in our workforce thus keeping their friends in agri-businesses, garden & lawn, construction industries happy with low paid but industrious workforce. Basically you can stay here but by G-d you're going to work in "Jobs Americans Won't Do." So this mean that when Juan, Jose and Vicente become citizens of this nation(If they've been here five years or more)then they'll refuse to do such work thus requiring another crop of illegal immigrants who willingly to come across the border. What's even more absurd is that these turkeys in the Senate(There's some fellows like Sens Cornyn(R-TX) and Kyl(R-AZ) working on legislation that honestly deals with illegal aliens) really think that they're tackling the problem of illegal immigration by giving millions of illegals a "get out of jail free" card but they're just making life more difficult for future generations of legal Americans.

Here's hoping that the legislation coming out of the Senate fails to get 60 votes and is filibustered to its death or is killed in the Senate and House conference. Let's secure the border and the heck with securing the pockets of the folks who take advantage of illegal aliens by paying them paltry sums of money under the table.

For more on this see here, here, and here.