Arizona immigration law is based on Federal law


It may be a wink and a nudge, but it is on the books
I've already said that the Arizona immigration bill is a lousy law. The sooner it is repealed or overturned in court, the better.

Here's what you are not being told.

The Arizona bill is based on existing Federal law. Yes, the Federal law is pretty strict but seldom enforced. That has been the pattern for decades. Pass a really nasty law to get the law and order crowd supporting government, and then do a wink and a nudge when it comes to selectively enforcing it.

I think people should be able to come here to work. I don't think they're stealing jobs and I don't think the majority are committing violent crimes. I don't think you should be able to vote unless you are a citizen. I don't think immigrants should get social benefits, but then I don't think ANYONE should get social benefits "paid for" by government.

I don't believe that the "amnesty plans" have worked. Those plans have been barely disguised voter stuffing schemes.

I remember the exact moment when I started questioning U.S. immigration policy. I was using an ATM machine and noticed that it offered English and Spanish instructions, just like every other machine I had been using for years. The ATM was in San Francisco's Chinatown. That reminded me of the machines I had seen in Flagstaff and on the Navajo reservation that also only offered English and Spanish instructions.

The history of Arizona is filled with attempts to accommodate rather than asking people to assimilate. Bilingual education, official forms in English and Spanish, the list goes on and on. As far as I can tell, accommodation has only fostered tribalism and a kind of second class citizen who isn't American but blames the U.S. for all their perceived troubles. Victim psychology and identity politics at the worst.

Of course people deserve to celebrate their ancestral culture. But in U.S. history, no other immigrant group has been accommodated like Mexicans, and no other group has has resented it more.

I don't have a clean solution. I think that if the U.S. keeps doing what it has been doing, the only viable solution will be to annex Mexico. That would be a terrible idea.

Here's my solution. Let whoever immigrate to the U.S. They can come here and work as long as they commit no violent crimes. But they can't stay longer than four years without becoming citizens. No student or worker visas, no exceptions. You want to stay, you have to become citizens and work at it. Just like generations of Americans have done before.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - May 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM  Tag


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