President George W. Bush, after some urging from the American people, and against the big money interests that lobby groups inside the beltway desire, announced on Monday his Comprehensive Immigration Reform in five steps.
As pundits predicted, he would throw a bone to the conservative base who insist on more secure borders and no amnesty. To my way of thinking, the people who most resist 'amnesty' are those working class legal immigrants who paid the price to be here, and who are disgusted that those who come here illegally speak up now for 'sanctuary'. Yet the Democrats think that it is their base. Legal immigrants think the mujados should be made to pay the high price that it is to come to this country, the price they had to pay. It is no price in comparison to what can be achieved once they're here, just don't shortcut the system.
Well, a proposal from The Senate for 370 miles of fence seems hopelessly inadequate. I know that urban areas will get the fences, but fences can be walked around. Plus increasing the current workforce of 6k border patrol to 12k and then to 18k in several years sounds good. Until you listen to Chris Simcox of The Minutemen Project who estimates 35k troops on both borders are needed. We're not just talking the southern border people, nor are we forgetting our ports.
Putting the Guard on the border is a good move, but they should be ready for live fire patrols and increase troop strength dramatically.
Handling Mexico with kid gloves has got to stop too. Speaking of human rights violations, more Americans are kidnapped in Nuevo Laredo by drug mafia than are taken in Baghdad. Mexico's government can only be seen as an entirely corrupt organization badly in need of house cleaning. Our government should be all over them, but will not due to trade issues, I'll guess. Political correctness and our "world image" also play into this foreign policy. I can't see our young men and women in-training being shot at due to a weak policy on the border. Unfortunately for the Guardsmen and women, they may only have labor tasks to look forward to, another colossal waste by politicians, that and administrative duties.
Unbelievably, the pundits were also right that he would have both sides angry, pleasing neither.
Finally, estimates of greater numbers of immigration applicants' approvals is mind boggling.
We should keep the current rates of immigration application approvals and not increase by gross amounts.
Let this economy recover...oh, I mean my economy, not the one in the papers and in the politicians minds.
And while we're solving the worlds problems, why not end entitlement programs?
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