A Nation of Immigrants
The politicians are missing out on the biggest issue of our times. I find it amazing. People get passionate about certain issues, but most of these issues are diverse and spread out along the political spectrum. I am obviously passionate about the war, but I’m about 1 in 20. Most people who I talk to about the war either don’t really care or say something like “nuke ‘em all and be done with it”. However, there is an issue that gets everybody’s motor running: Illegal immigration.
Every time I drop this topic in on a conversation, I get a reaction. I find this highly entertaining, because I try to distance myself from feeling strongly about it. As a Libertarian, I am mostly in favor of immigration, but I have come around to the anti side over the last couple of years. However, I refuse to get passionate about it. I want to pop some corn and see how it plays out. I have enough emotion invested in the war, that I don’t need to get riled up about this topic. I don’t need to. People are very passionate about it already.
I have yet to speak with someone who is in favor of more illegal immigration. However, that is the policy of the government. Republicans and Democrats both seem oblivious to the problem and both seem to encourage more of it. I cannot think of another issue that elected officials are more out of touch with the people who elected them than illegal immigration. Someone can make some serious hay with this issue in 2008.
There are towns scattered across the country that are taking matters into their own hands. A town in California, one in Texas and even one in Pennsylvania have enacted laws making it illegal to rent apartments to anyone who cannot prove citizenship. The Lefties have filed suits in each case, attempting to block to laws from being enforced, but this just shows how people are fed up over the issue. And it also shows how politicians still don’t care. Supposedly, there are lobbies in favor of illegals because they bring cheap labor. I don’t believe it. I know that companies do indeed hire illegals, but I do not believe that they lobby Congress to keep this practice alive. If they do, they are seriously playing with fire. McDonalds has actually lobbied Congress in favor of higher minimum wage laws, because they know they can blow away their competition if their competitors are forced to pay more for their workers. Wal-Mart is in the same boat, although I have not heard if they officially favor higher minimum wages. The point is that the big players in the corporate world don’t need cheap labor in order to be big. The money trough is coming from the small guys, which isn’t enough to fill a national political candidate’s appetite for cash.
The Democrats in general have an interest in more illegal immigrants, as people at the bottom of the wage scale will most likely vote for those who offer the most payouts from the national treasury. However, with union workers and legal minorities also key constituencies, even the Democrats will not survive a platform that favors illegal immigrants.
Newt Gingrich helped the Republicans take control of Congress for the first time in 40 years with the Contact With America. If any such contract is proposed for the 2008 elections, it must include a clause for stopping illegal immigration. It is a political gold mine.
Every time I drop this topic in on a conversation, I get a reaction. I find this highly entertaining, because I try to distance myself from feeling strongly about it. As a Libertarian, I am mostly in favor of immigration, but I have come around to the anti side over the last couple of years. However, I refuse to get passionate about it. I want to pop some corn and see how it plays out. I have enough emotion invested in the war, that I don’t need to get riled up about this topic. I don’t need to. People are very passionate about it already.
I have yet to speak with someone who is in favor of more illegal immigration. However, that is the policy of the government. Republicans and Democrats both seem oblivious to the problem and both seem to encourage more of it. I cannot think of another issue that elected officials are more out of touch with the people who elected them than illegal immigration. Someone can make some serious hay with this issue in 2008.
There are towns scattered across the country that are taking matters into their own hands. A town in California, one in Texas and even one in Pennsylvania have enacted laws making it illegal to rent apartments to anyone who cannot prove citizenship. The Lefties have filed suits in each case, attempting to block to laws from being enforced, but this just shows how people are fed up over the issue. And it also shows how politicians still don’t care. Supposedly, there are lobbies in favor of illegals because they bring cheap labor. I don’t believe it. I know that companies do indeed hire illegals, but I do not believe that they lobby Congress to keep this practice alive. If they do, they are seriously playing with fire. McDonalds has actually lobbied Congress in favor of higher minimum wage laws, because they know they can blow away their competition if their competitors are forced to pay more for their workers. Wal-Mart is in the same boat, although I have not heard if they officially favor higher minimum wages. The point is that the big players in the corporate world don’t need cheap labor in order to be big. The money trough is coming from the small guys, which isn’t enough to fill a national political candidate’s appetite for cash.
The Democrats in general have an interest in more illegal immigrants, as people at the bottom of the wage scale will most likely vote for those who offer the most payouts from the national treasury. However, with union workers and legal minorities also key constituencies, even the Democrats will not survive a platform that favors illegal immigrants.
Newt Gingrich helped the Republicans take control of Congress for the first time in 40 years with the Contact With America. If any such contract is proposed for the 2008 elections, it must include a clause for stopping illegal immigration. It is a political gold mine.
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