Saturday, May 29, 2010

Raising Arizona -- Raising the Truth


"It's no fun being an illegal alien."
-Genesis, 1983
What more can be said of the left’s attempt to stir up chaos over Arizona’s difficult attempt to get a handle on the difficulties caused by a constant stream of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States across the southern Arizona border?

When figures like Attorney General, Eric Holder and Homeland Security Apologist, Janet Napolitano hit the talk show circuit condemning the law as racist subjecting legal residents to unlawful detention without ever having read the law itself, they reveal their true agenda and lack of moral principle. The law obviously doesn’t matter. Cynically attempting to create a racial and cultural divide between mainstream citizens and ones of recent Hispanic heritage has crass political motives attempting to create a true victim class of Hispanics who would hopefully form a steadfast political identity that would vote solidly democrat as they manipulated African Americans through arbitrary and false accusations of racism and demonizing those who have strayed from the orthodoxy of their agenda.

One has to think how would those who have done the right thing, followed the law, and entered the country legally? Who is appealing to them and applauding them for their efforts to follow the law. Sadly, they’re being pumped full of fear that they could be subject to detention making legitimate law enforcement look like some kind of racist goon squad.

How quick folks are being pushed to jump to conclusions regarding Arizona’s plight. To get a good fix on its reality, one should talk to anyone who lives in or spends much time in the state. One Arizona resided confided that the boundary has effectively been pushed 150 miles north because the level of activity of illegal aliens flooding in and overwhelming the resources of that part of the state have gotten so out of control. Many peoples’ private property has been destroyed and vandalized because of the massive incursion across their land.

Seeing the population uniting behind the Arizona people and their law, the Obama administration has reluctantly committed some National Guard troops with very little empowerment to play a major roll in securing the border. Some help is better than nothing, but nothing short of a total commitment to secure the border completely is satisfactory.

Businesses that recruit and employ illegal aliens must be prosecuted severely. A clear procedure on how to enter the United States legally where the terms and conditions are clearly defined and enforced must be enacted and become the law of the land.

An equitable system must be established to deal with the illegal aliens currently residing in the United States. It is impossible and absurd to think about returning all of them to their country of origin. How can they be assimilated without rewarding them for breaking the law? Benchmarks need to be determined where if citizenship were the ultimate goal, specific criteria must be met including fluency in English and a clear record of living crime free. Those who cannot meet these criteria can be issued guest worker permits. Criminals and others who are not contributing to the United States of America who have entered illegally must be returned to their home countries.

All these measures must be done in an honest, open manner. Politics which exploit racial and ethnic division will not be tolerated. Those who cooperate and show their sincere desire to become part of our culture fulfilling their obligations should be treated with tremendous respect and welcomed to the United States as part of the great population of different cultures and influences whose rich blend make us the greatest country on earth.

The only thing difficult about this is getting politicians to function in the professional, non-opportunistic way most of us have elected them to do. The voters must uphold their end of the deal throwing out those politicians who act against the harmonious entry and assimilation of immigrant pollution by rule of law and continue to use this sensitive issue to divide us.

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