What would have happed to Jesus if Egypt had a bill similar to Arizona’s? Where would the Christian religion be now? This argument is over the top but no less then the ranting going on by the supporter of the Arizona bill. (I refer to it as the bill because the Heath Care Law is still referred to as a bill.)
The argument for the bill begins with the story of the rancher on the Arizona New Mexico boarder killed by a reported drug dealer from Mexico. The solution to this problem is to collect all men, women, and children in Arizona without permission and remove them from the United States. This solution to the problem of “narco-terrorist” “human trafficking” murderers is simplistic.
The poppies growing in Afghanistan, the cocoa growing in the Southern Americas, the Marijuana or Meth produced inside the United States, and the demand for sex workers and cheap labor will likely continue regardless of how many hard working families are removed from the United States.
What will ultimately result from this policy is a reduction in the public participations of the largest growing part of the population. A fear will settle over immigrant communities aware that any contact with law enforcement is lawful contact making them subject to citizenship verification.
People with information related to drug trafficking, murders, robberies, or other crimes will be reluctant to engage law enforcement officers with this fear hanging over their head. The trouble with proving citizenship is a burden few will want to endure. Recent stories of people reluctant to offer help to a person lying on a side walk displays the apathy towards getting involved even when proof of citizenship is not in question.
The related decrease in crime related to the increased deportation will have to be measured but like most statistics they will eventually confess if you torture them long enough. An easier statistic to measure is the percentage of citizen participating in these criminal activities. Medicinal marijuana users and the economic activities they create will bring drug decriminalization into the argument of immigration reform.
The argument continues towards the need to secure the boarders of the United States and a call for an increased presence on the boarder. Traffic will decline with some activity continuing as along as the right payments are made. The cries of graft and a military bought and paid for with drug money will soon replace the cries of support or troops. Nothing will be done to secure ports and harbors where most international traffic occurs.
Jobs are the hot button argument as the Great Recession hangs over job creation, pitting the unemployed against immigrants taking away their opportunity to fill the jobs of farm worker, service worker, or day laborer. I heard one black comedian say they’d had their fill of picking. Citizens are looking for more from this nation’s economy. The friction between immigrant communities is one of resources and access to political power more then a fight over the crumb on the floor.
The traditional arguments of a drain on social services and of welfare queen in Cadillac’s are being told once again to fill the time of talk radio. These arguments, like the audience, have limited appeal.
The economic boom and bust in the U.S. housing market effect the entire population. Immigrants benefited from the construction jobs and increased purchasing power. Those gains were reflected in increased tax base benefiting both state and local governments. Countless stories were told of housing tracts filled with immigrant laborers. Most of those robbed of wages in the post Katrina building boom were immigrants.
The fall of the housing boom and the Great Recession has seen an exodus of worker out of the country but an increase in drug crime. Decrease in crime attributed to immigration should have occurred. Schools are closing and firing teachers because of declining revenue not decreased enrollment from immigrants leaving the country. School district with negligible immigrant students are not immune and more likely affected by home foreclosures and job losses not reduced immigration.
The increasing drain on governments budgets for social services are due more too increased demand from citizen recently fired. The food panties are seeing increased demand from people employed and trying to hold onto a declining living standard. Reduction in the immigrant population should have seen a decline in welfare request, declining economic activity was the true result.
The path to citizenship will become the real battle ground in this argument. Objection to amnesty is more repudiation of the Reagan administration policies. A present day Reagan amnesty solution, like a present day Reagan GOP election, will be hard to accomplish. The argument against a Reagan amnesty plan involves penalizing those that followed the rules and didn’t cut ahead in line. The argument embraces a cry to follow the rule of law.
To all my fellow LOST fans, the man in black is looking for a loop hole.
I listen to President Kennedy’s commencement speech at Vanderbilt University during times like this to remind me that it the responsibilities of the educated citizen to uphold the rule of law. President Kennedy prefaced his speech by referencing the issue of civil rights and framing the question of civil rights as a continuing discussion of how one group of citizen will be treated. Immigration reform is now an issue of how a group of people in this country will be treated. How U.S. citizen with non citizen parents will be treated.
These citizens have a right to have their parents with them. They have the right to benefit from the hard work and sacrifices their parents made to make their futures better. They have the right to be supported by their parents and not the state. These small independent business owners have only their labor to sale and time and again create wealth from the work citizens find beneath them.
They have organized communities and business groups, transformed the big box retailer model into the small box on wheels, taught their children to work together raising money to bury their friends, and chosen life and religion.
Attempts to deprive these parents of citizen their property and livelihood harkens back to World War II…Japanese Internment.
Reward for hard work and personal sacrifice are values supporters of the bill hold dear, and will be used to defeat this bill elevating the Democratic Party as the party of small business and family values.
The argument for the bill begins with the story of the rancher on the Arizona New Mexico boarder killed by a reported drug dealer from Mexico. The solution to this problem is to collect all men, women, and children in Arizona without permission and remove them from the United States. This solution to the problem of “narco-terrorist” “human trafficking” murderers is simplistic.
The poppies growing in Afghanistan, the cocoa growing in the Southern Americas, the Marijuana or Meth produced inside the United States, and the demand for sex workers and cheap labor will likely continue regardless of how many hard working families are removed from the United States.
What will ultimately result from this policy is a reduction in the public participations of the largest growing part of the population. A fear will settle over immigrant communities aware that any contact with law enforcement is lawful contact making them subject to citizenship verification.
People with information related to drug trafficking, murders, robberies, or other crimes will be reluctant to engage law enforcement officers with this fear hanging over their head. The trouble with proving citizenship is a burden few will want to endure. Recent stories of people reluctant to offer help to a person lying on a side walk displays the apathy towards getting involved even when proof of citizenship is not in question.
The related decrease in crime related to the increased deportation will have to be measured but like most statistics they will eventually confess if you torture them long enough. An easier statistic to measure is the percentage of citizen participating in these criminal activities. Medicinal marijuana users and the economic activities they create will bring drug decriminalization into the argument of immigration reform.
The argument continues towards the need to secure the boarders of the United States and a call for an increased presence on the boarder. Traffic will decline with some activity continuing as along as the right payments are made. The cries of graft and a military bought and paid for with drug money will soon replace the cries of support or troops. Nothing will be done to secure ports and harbors where most international traffic occurs.
Jobs are the hot button argument as the Great Recession hangs over job creation, pitting the unemployed against immigrants taking away their opportunity to fill the jobs of farm worker, service worker, or day laborer. I heard one black comedian say they’d had their fill of picking. Citizens are looking for more from this nation’s economy. The friction between immigrant communities is one of resources and access to political power more then a fight over the crumb on the floor.
The traditional arguments of a drain on social services and of welfare queen in Cadillac’s are being told once again to fill the time of talk radio. These arguments, like the audience, have limited appeal.
The economic boom and bust in the U.S. housing market effect the entire population. Immigrants benefited from the construction jobs and increased purchasing power. Those gains were reflected in increased tax base benefiting both state and local governments. Countless stories were told of housing tracts filled with immigrant laborers. Most of those robbed of wages in the post Katrina building boom were immigrants.
The fall of the housing boom and the Great Recession has seen an exodus of worker out of the country but an increase in drug crime. Decrease in crime attributed to immigration should have occurred. Schools are closing and firing teachers because of declining revenue not decreased enrollment from immigrants leaving the country. School district with negligible immigrant students are not immune and more likely affected by home foreclosures and job losses not reduced immigration.
The increasing drain on governments budgets for social services are due more too increased demand from citizen recently fired. The food panties are seeing increased demand from people employed and trying to hold onto a declining living standard. Reduction in the immigrant population should have seen a decline in welfare request, declining economic activity was the true result.
The path to citizenship will become the real battle ground in this argument. Objection to amnesty is more repudiation of the Reagan administration policies. A present day Reagan amnesty solution, like a present day Reagan GOP election, will be hard to accomplish. The argument against a Reagan amnesty plan involves penalizing those that followed the rules and didn’t cut ahead in line. The argument embraces a cry to follow the rule of law.
To all my fellow LOST fans, the man in black is looking for a loop hole.
I listen to President Kennedy’s commencement speech at Vanderbilt University during times like this to remind me that it the responsibilities of the educated citizen to uphold the rule of law. President Kennedy prefaced his speech by referencing the issue of civil rights and framing the question of civil rights as a continuing discussion of how one group of citizen will be treated. Immigration reform is now an issue of how a group of people in this country will be treated. How U.S. citizen with non citizen parents will be treated.
These citizens have a right to have their parents with them. They have the right to benefit from the hard work and sacrifices their parents made to make their futures better. They have the right to be supported by their parents and not the state. These small independent business owners have only their labor to sale and time and again create wealth from the work citizens find beneath them.
They have organized communities and business groups, transformed the big box retailer model into the small box on wheels, taught their children to work together raising money to bury their friends, and chosen life and religion.
Attempts to deprive these parents of citizen their property and livelihood harkens back to World War II…Japanese Internment.
Reward for hard work and personal sacrifice are values supporters of the bill hold dear, and will be used to defeat this bill elevating the Democratic Party as the party of small business and family values.