In
New Mexico, as of mid-December, 2013, there is a controversy in progress between
the governor and American citizens on one side, and the legislature and illegal
aliens on the other. At one point, NM
was one of three states to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. The reasoning for passage of this law was
that it would allow them to buy insurance, which would “make our children
safer.” (Yes, there it is, the children
card, second only to the race card in statist polemics.)
In
addressing this controversy, I’m going to play a game called, “Go down a road
to nowhere so you can see how stupid it is, then lay out a real solution.” In the interest of preventing undue
frustration, here is the last paragraph of this essay: “As much fun as all of the above sounds like,
it is totally, absolutely futile to even discuss ANY solution until the border
is closed, and I mean closed tight. So
far, very few politicians in the US have the guts to even discuss that, so all of this wrangling over driver’s
licenses, voting rights, ID cards, Obamacare, free education, and so on is a
painfully obscene waste of time.”
Now
that you know where we’re going, let’s start this crazy ride.
Astonishingly
enough, the liberal argument was flawed.
For one thing, many legal citizens in the state don’t have insurance, so
one wonders why, if having a license guarantees drivers will get insurance, why
is it so ineffective on them. There is
also the idiotic assumption explicit in the statist argument that having insurance
will prevent accidents. Our previous
governor, Bill Richardson, declared the state to be a sanctuary, meaning that
anyone who violates federal immigration law could find refuge here. (Why do
liberals think it’s okay for a governor to refuse to enforce federal law, but
have a screaming hemorrhage when a governor DOES enforce that law?)
Giving
illegal aliens driver’s licenses made the NM driver’s license utterly useless
as a form of ID because of the thousands of bogus ones floating around. Illegal aliens were coming here from all over
the country to get licenses, and there are documented cases of some
enterprising individuals getting 20 or 30 licenses, and selling them in other
states. When New Mexicans travelled out
of state and presented their licenses as ID, they were laughed at.
Both
houses of the state legislature are heavily dominated by liberal fascists who
have swatted down our governor’s efforts to repeal the Make a Mockery of New
Mexico’s License Law three years running.
The debate now is whether the governor should just give up and let it
happen, or keep fighting. A large
majority of the legal citizens of the state favor fighting it out, and an
unknown percentage of illegal aliens want her to leave them alone. So far, the latter have had much more
influence on the legislators than have the former.
I
personally favor fighting it out, and getting as nasty and immoral as the
opposition if necessary. (Illegals have
threatened mob violence and even threatened violence against specific citizens
over this. Given the fact that unknown
thousands of drug cartel enforcers are in our midst, those threats have serious
cred.)
We
have come to a point where there are no easy solutions. We have taken the easy way out for so long,
there are no more easy ways left. We
have two choices. First, we can close
the border, strike down all amnesty and sanctuary laws, and go to work cutting
the illegals out of the crowd. Or we can throw open the border, strike down all
immigration laws, and let anyone and everyone come and go at their pleasure,
with no restrictions or penalties.
If
we try to take a middle course, it will be a road to madness. For example, let’s say we declare anyone who
has been in the US for ten years with no felony convictions a citizen, or
automatically eligible to take the citizenship test. Every one of those tens of millions of people
is going to say, “I’ve been here more than ten years and have no felony
convictions.” Well, you know sure as
anything that some of them are lying.
But which ones? How do you determine
which ones really are eligible? We don’t
want to deport people who really do meet the criteria we have set, so we are
morally obliged to figure out who is eligible and who is lying.
To
make such a determination, there must be a hearing – for every flippin’ one of
those 30-million or however many there are.
Every hearing must have a judge who knows the law. Every judge must be duly sworn, have an
office, a staff, a courtroom, a bailiff, a telephone, a computer, a hammer, and
so on. How many such judges will it take
to hear all 30 million cases? How about
appeals? Is anyone silly enough to think
some of these people – the criminals among them, at least – haven’t figured out
how to game the system? They will appeal
and appeal and appeal. It will take a
cadre of a thousand judges a hundred years just to hear the cases! But it’s not over yet. Let’s say Judge Brown tells some guy he has
to get out of the country. Do we take
the guy into custody right then? If so,
it will require a bailiff or sheriff, a jail, a bus, a driver (with all the
overhead that entails). Knowing the guy
will appeal, we either have to release him on the spot or shortly thereafter. In the appeal, the accused will have a
lawyer, which means the state will have to have a prosecutor, and every
prosecutor will have to have all the same things the judges need except a hammer. We must already be up to many thousands of
government employees.
Now
consider this. You’ve got a guy who is
in the country illegally, but who has figured out how to get along and be
invisible. You’ve sentenced him to
deportation, so he knows exactly what you have in mind for him. Then you’ve turned him loose - released him
into a countryside that is saturated with 30 million others like him. How do you propose to find him in order to
enforce the deportation order? How many more
government employees are we talking about, now?
And
all of that is assuming all 30 million of these people voluntarily take
themselves to the courthouse so they can run the risk of deportation. I would
imagine that at least some of them will say, “Screw that,” and go dark, which
means we’ll have to find them, and how do you do that without shredding the
Constitution? You can’t just go rounding
up anyone who looks like a Mexican, because if you snag one of my Marine Corps
brothers whose family has been here since before Jamestown was founded, you’re
going to have to fight me, too. Besides,
not all illegal aliens are Mexicans!
So. You’ve got to find them, try them, keep track
of them through the appeal process, and either kick them out or let them
go. You’re going to need tens of
thousands of people and many, many years.
Oh, and don’t forget that with the border standing open, they’ll be
coming in faster than you can process ‘em out!
As
much fun as all of the above sounds like, it is totally, absolutely futile to
even discuss ANY solution until the border is closed, and I mean closed
tight. So far, very few politicians in
the US have the guts to even discuss
that, so all of this wrangling over driver’s licenses, voting rights, ID
cards, Obamacare, free education, and so on is a painfully obscene waste of
time.
Rebsarge
19 Dec., 2013
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