With all of the recent drama over the Arizona Illegal Immigration law and other under-reported bizarre actions such as the disciplining of the public school kids for wearing the American flag, the reprimanding of a office worker for displaying the stars and strips at her desk, the lowering of the Ol' Glory for the Mexican flag at a public school, and the massive under-reporting, or outright mis-reporting, of the severe negative effects that illegal immigration is having on our society, someone awakening from a sixty-year coma may wonder who's country is it? Is this a nation founded upon law, right, and wrong, justice? Is this America?
While there is much dust being kicked up with the highly organized and violent demonstrations and Americans fighting for and against legalizing illegal immigrants, with boycotts, lawsuits, and such, one could easily understand how the main issue can get lost. The main issue being legal verses illegal, right verses wrong, and whether we as a nation is going to stand on the side of lawful principle and justice or political expediency and favor?
Imagine if you broke into someone's home and realized that entering the home without permission was not against the law because the door was not locked, but you remaining in the home and taking benefits from the general welfare and resources was against the laws of the home. You expected to be arrested by the law enforcers and sent back to your home at any moment. But the time never came. Instead the policy makers enabled, encouraged, and financially supported you to continue your illegal lifestyle. Would the actions of the policy makers not embolden your behavior and encourage others to follow your path? Of course it would. So should it not be of any surprised where we find ourselves as a nation now receiving more people entering illegally than legally? Of course not. Every American should be pissed as hell at the policy makers for allowing this atmosphere of capitulation and appeasement towards the vagrants and interlopers.
We need to remember that the seemingly unabated invasion of illegal immigrants, particularly from Mexico, into America is not due to any law, but policies of corporate United States and a steady dose of political correctness tonic being doled out by the Establishment Media. There's no law requiring me to push "1" for English when I call Home Depot. The Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 U.S.C 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii), already makes it a crime for anyone to encourage illegal immigration in any way, "Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . .. fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both." If the laws of the land were being enforced and the media was truthfully reporting the story of illegal immigration we would not have an illegal immigration problem.
According to Federation for American Immigration Reform [FAIR], Arizona's illegal immigrant population is costing the state's taxpayers about $1.3 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration, and that the annual fiscal burden borne by Arizonans amounts to more than $700 per household. And to silence the regurgitated pro-illegal immigration retort that the illegals pay "their fair share of taxes", FAIR reports, "The unauthorized immigrant population pays some state and local taxes that go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments might generously be estimated at $257 million per year." Arizona workers lose $1.4 billion in wages a year because companies here hire illegal entrants, according to a study commissioned by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Reportedly, Arizona is the temporary home of 500,000 illegal aliens. Between 1996 and 2000, the illegal alien population of Arizona grew by a staggering 150 percent. According to Harvard Professor George Borjas, Illegal aliens displace American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars. The Americans for Legal Immigration reported that The Department of Justice's latest National Drug Threat Assessment states there were 267 kidnappings in Phoenix last year and 299 in 2008 and that the number of attacks on Border Patrol agents increased 46 percent to 1,097 incidents in fiscal 2008. The report also said the assaults were mostly related to immigrant smuggling or drug traffickers. Together, Arizona, California and Texas alone are now home to 4.7 million of the 11 million illegal immigrants the Department of Homeland Security estimates are in the country. That number has to be egregiously low for political digestion, in my opinion. Arizona is fighting to not be driven into the financial abyss under the weight of illegal immigrants, just as California has.
The Arizona issue is just a glaring example of a much greater contention of the governments of the several states taking it upon themselves to act with their rightful authority to protect it's citizens due to the federal government's unwillingness or inability to do its duty to protect the States as a whole. The picture of the president of the United States immediately taking the position on the side of the ILLEGAL immigrants, irregardless of the righteousness of the law and the will of the people of the state of Arizona, was a stark visualization that there is something definitely not clean in the milk of today's America.
Every state of the union has the right and obligation and duty to protect it's citizens. Every state by nature is a autonomous country with it's own jurisdiction and authority. The economic and social carnage of illegal immigration that Arizona is battling is a matter of immediacy for every state in the union. And if the federal seat of D.C can't or won't act according to it's mandate and authority, than the states and or the people have the right to. That is the Law. That is right. The question is why is the United States refusing to do its job for the general welfare and prosperity of the union? And why aren't the people demanding it to?
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