a day off for illegals


Well the big day of protest about illegals has come and gone. For one day I could understand every one on the phone when I called for tech service. The side of the road was not cluttered with fruit sellers. I didn’t have to sift thru half a dozen languages walking thru Wal-Mart for once. English was every where. I think I need to rethink my standing on immigration and the illegal alien problems.

New immigrants are very important to America’s well being, but there is a huge difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal alien. I think even our standards for immigrants are way too lax. While American history would be a nice subject for immigrants to learn, it is not nearly as important as English. Speaking English well is the single most solid barrier stopping immigrants from intergrading into American society. We have more than enough problems with our school systems than stacking on top of it the need in many grades and classrooms for bilingual or even trilingual teachers. The school language problem is caused by the children having to use their parent’s language at home and then suddenly having to try to learn English once they enter school. While it is very important to be able to keep traditions from their home countries, this is not the main reason foreign languages are spoken at their homes; it is because they can not understand or speak English even remotely as well as their native language. With this single requirement of speaking eighth grade level English, it will rapidly open true access to the American dream and the reason they want to come here in the first place.

Now we come to the real problem, illegal aliens. Whether the crime is bank robbery, trespassing, D.U.I. or murder, people that commit crimes should serve the sentence for their crime. The judicial system was set up for this, to enforce the laws of the land. The legislature’s job is to make the laws of the land. Being in the United States with out having a green card or a passport is illegal and a crime. The protection of a country’s borders is paramount in protecting its soverntry. While we try to emotionalize the issue by placing gentle faces on the illegals, we miss the equally real illegals that are criminals both in their homeland and now in America, committing new atrocities, or even terrorists entering our country disguised as innocent illegals.

I think offering amnesty for a few that have been in the country for over a long period of time may not be fair, but they are apparently very good at avoiding detection, able to earn some kind of living, and not gotten caught at any other crimes. So why not let them stay only if they quickly sign up for a green card and show where they have been working, not to charge back taxes but so we know which companies to watch for the illegal practice of hiring illegals and nip that in the bud. Cutting off work opportunities may cause the illegal aliens to have to turn to crime to support themselves or their families, but then they can be easier to catch and get the heck out of dodge and back to their legal homeland.

One advantage of illegals always seems to be thrown out that they are willing to either do jobs most Americans would refuse to do or work for wages below what an American would be willing to accept. These are pretty much universally true and it is not fair to the illegals, but by being illegals they don’t have the rights or access to many of the protections Americans do enjoy. Housing rights and requirements can also be very sub par for illegals again with no real recourses available. They are actually an important part of our economy, but they would find being legal would afford them many advantages that can be very important.

We must guard our borders. South, north and the coasts all need to be watched for invaders wanting to enter and drug runners wanting to bring more poison to be placed on our streets. Of course I am not suggesting the average illegal immigrant is a coke mule, I would think really none are, but it is the open border policy we have been so plagued by. We have got to help our government clean up, both internally and in small town America. We have to bring the huge budget under control while weeding out the problems like illegal aliens and the common feeling in many places that it is too easy to enter the U.S. anytime; this thought has been taken to the level that we can expect people we export today to be back at their fruit stand or the day workers gathering point first thing the next day.

I wish I could throw out some simple fix it thoughts, but this subject while pee’s me off is way out on the fringe of my daily experiences. I have worked for foreigners that basically get a motel to start up their life in America, while thi9s kinda bites they get money and a self own business so easily, at least it is legal. Well them being in the U.S. at least, god knows I have seen them commit many shady deals even bordering or the definitely illegal, but whistle blowers don’t have high paying jobs for long and I have a super girl to keep in the good life.

One thing I think they should have is bank robber’s day, pedophile’s day, wife beater’s day, and maybe tree hugging liberal’s day. On each of these days round up these bad people and give them what they deserve.