Our oligarchs' positions and statements about illegal immigration demonstrate that they have gained a new level of confidence that they can get us to believe anything.
For example, they're now in the process of fashioning new legislative proposals to grant amnesty, under the guise of a path to citizenship, to immigrants already in the country. Supposedly, the amnesty/path will be available only after our borders are secured to prevent more illegals from coming in. Hah ! ! ! ! That's a knee slapping howler that assumes everybody has forgotten that a very similar deal was made once before. It resulted in the legitimization of a lot of illegal immigrants. Not a single effort was made to secure the borders and the flood of illegals swelled.
Similarly, our rapacious Congress repeatedly has gotten tax increases in exchange for promises to cut spending. They always got their tax increases but somehow never got around to any spending cuts. Now, they say, border security will come first. But who will determine if or when the borders are secure, and how will they do that? Even if the answers to these questions seem satisfactory, how can we be confident they will not be changed.
The only way to avoid being snookered is to avoid omnibus comprehensive legislation on any subject. Do not accept promises or enactment of necessary or desirable provisions linked to anything the oligarchs want. Such linkages always lead only to the oligarchs getting their way at the expense of the rest of us.
As for immigration, enforce our existing laws and do whatever else is necessary to stop the flood of illegal entrants. Then get the illegals who are here to deport themselves. That can be done easily by denying them employment, which can be accomplished by simply transforming them from the least costly to the most costly workers any employer can hire. All that need be done to do this is to compel every employer to supply with its tax return the name and social security number of every employee whose compensation is being taken as deduction, and then deny the deductions for employees whose names and social security numbers don't match -- a simple computer software matching program.
Getting back to our overlords' assumption about our gullibility, take a look at the brouhaha over Arizona's efforts to control the onslaught of illegal immigrants that is transforming much of the state into a dangerous battleground. The federal government, which has done and is doing nothing to stop the onslaught, is decrying Arizona's efforts to protect its citizens. Were the feds unable to secure the borders only because of a lack of resources to do so, would one not expect them to welcome Arizona's assistance in doing so? How come then are the feds demanding free passes and compassion for the illegals while showing none and doing nothing for their citizen victims?
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