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Jewish World Review
April 3, 2006
/5 Nissan, 5766
The logical solution to immigration problem likely won't ever be implemented
By
Jack Kelly
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Susie Morales lives on a ranch west of Nogales. When she cooks supper, she keeps a rifle on
the kitchen table, because her house has been broken into so often.
Susie used to offer food and water to illegal aliens crossing her property, but can't any more
because what was once a trickle is now a flood, she told Leo Banks, who wrote about her and
other south Arizona ranchers in National Review Online.
Stories like Susie's illustrate why there is so much anger in the debate on illegal
immigration.
There are between 11 and 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. At the low end,
that's equivalent to the population of Michigan. At the upper, Ohio. That's reason enough to
indict President Bush and his predecessors as far back as Jimmy Carter for dereliction of duty.
As Michael Barone said: "The immigration issue shows us to be an attractive country with a
vibrant economy and a government that seems on the verge of breakdown."
The first responsibility of nationhood is to provide security at the borders. The leaders of
both political parties have failed us grotesquely. Worse, they seem not to care.
The other major feature of the immigration debate dishonesty was on display in the
massive demonstrations held in Los Angeles and other cities the weekend of March 25-26 to
protest the House-passed bill on border security.
The news media described these as rallies for "immigrant rights," but civil rights leader Joe
Hicks demurs:
"Many Latino immigrant-rights organizers ...seem to be saying there is some inherent right
being expressed when people sneak into the country, thumb their noses at the law, and make
fools of those who wait patiently in foreign lands for visas to come to the United States," Mr.
Hicks wrote in the Los Angeles Times. "What we are witnessing is not the birth of a new civil
rights movement but the attempt to render meaningless the concept of border controls."
There were more Mexican than American flags at these rallies, but most were airbrushed out of
news photos. Nor did most in the media mention these rallies were organized largely by
radicals who hope to detach the Southwest from the United States and restore it to Mexico.
"If many thousands of illegal aliens marched in their zeal, many more millions of Americans of
all different races and backgrounds watched and seethed," wrote Victor Davis Hanson. "They
were struck by... the spectacle of illegal alien residents lecturing citizen hosts on what was
permissible in their own country."
A debate dominated on the Right by anger and on the Left by dishonesty is unlikely to produce a
happy result. We need to take a deep breath, let passions cool, and face facts squarely.
The first and most important step is to gain control of our borders. With one glaring
exception, the House bill is right on, as far as it goes. This includes the provision to build
a fence along 700 miles of our 2,000 mile border with Mexico.
Barriers work, especially when they are covered by fire, or in this case, by observation. The
Israeli wall has sharply reduced terror attacks within Israel.
The nutty provision in the House bill is the one that would make just being an illegal
immigrant a felony.
A sign carried by many demonstrators read: "somos illegales, no somos criminales" (we're
illegals, not criminals). To many Americans, this is a distinction without a difference.
It isn't. The mere fact of being here means illegals have broken the law. But the vast
majority are no more criminals than you are, just because you got a speeding ticket.
The overwhelming majority of illegals are decent, hardworking people. Though the importance of
immigrant labor to our economy is exaggerated by advocates of guest worker programs, most
contribute more than they take.
George Will noted it would take a line of buses stretching from San Diego to Alaska to deport
11 million people. To devote the resources required to round up all those who pick fruit and
clean houses would be like telling the police to forget about murderers and rapists to crack
down on overdue parking tickets. That would be insane.
And immoral, said the Web logger the Anchoress:
"We have to think long and hard about what it means to gather people at gunpoint and put them
on trains to send them to a place they do not want to go," she said. "That cannot be America,
if she is to survive."
The logical thing would be to combine the enforcement provisions of the House bill with the
path to legalization provided by the Senate bill. But logic is hard to come by in Washington
these days, especially in an election year.
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