Los Ilegales

If there’s one phrase that’s guaranteed to get steam coming out of my ears, it’s “undocumented immigrants”.  As if they merely forgot to stop at the office on the way into the country to pick up some papers.  What utter bullshit!  These people committed a crime by entering this country illegally and should be arrested and sent home.

I may rant and rave about all the stupid and unconstitutional laws that we have at the federal level, but controlling the borders is one of the few jobs that government legitimately has.  Now it appears that we’re going to abdicate that responsibility and ignore the law.  This doesn’t exactly send a good message about our seriousness concerning our borders (nor does it do much to enhance “homeland security”).

I really don’t have a problem if people want to come to this country to work, especially given that the majority of the Mexicans who come here take low-paying grunt work that Americans don’t want to do.  Our economy depends on them.  But that doesn’t mean that we should ignore our own laws concerning legal entry into the country.  If the law is getting in the way of people who want to work coming into the country, then we should change the law.  But granting “amnesty” to people who have violated the law is just inviting more lawbreaking.

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