Letters to the Editor
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The Immigration Bill
Dear Mr. Shapiro.
And excellent article.
What I don't think most folks understand is that the immigration bill has been very carefully designed to both fail to pass in congress AND also fail to actually work, in the extraordinarily unlikely event that it ever passes into law in ANY form whatsoever.
Consider the following points: First, this bill is chock-full of admendments that enough senators find repugnant enough to vote against, while at the same time only lip service is being given to the only logical starting point in the process of controlling illegal immigration, i.e. securing the border. It is quite clear from this that the powers that be simply are not interested in any change in the status of the so-called immigration problem. 2) The proposed legislation would force illegal aliens to pay a fine of $5,000, register as undocumented aliens, and most significantly, go back to their country of origin and wait 8 to 13 YEARS just for a CHANCE to get back into the States. In other words, it expects people with jobs, homes, families, educations and businesses to down tools and do the very thing they've been dilligently and strenuously avoiding for years if not decades - to go back to where they came from. How many illegal aliens, given their long years of living and prospering and raising children in the United States, does ANYONE think are going to go back to whatever socio-economic nightmare they originally fled from, and get in line for a decade or more without any real expectation of ever getting back in?
Get real: This is just another snow-job, a package of political subtefuge carefully wrought to do absolutely nothing at all about the problem at hand, while at the same time being held up as a flag of bigotted patriotism, politically- expedient security-consciousness and all american faux-apple pie.