Residual Forces

This is the biggest issue of the day, in my mind. Not because of it’s importance, but because Congress, led by ‘Maverick’ John McCain is making it an issue. This guy who wants to be President, is pushing legislation that would grant citizenship to those who broke our immigration laws. People that entered the US illegally, would be given a fine and granted immunity from the standard punishment for their crime, deportation.

I am one of McCain’s biggest opponents in his quest to be President. I personally think he has done more to harm the Bush Presidency than any of the Liberals, Michael Moore included. Every-time the media is chomping at the bits to find a Republican to speak against the Bush administration, McCain was there. Whether the way the war was being handled or judicial appointments, McCain was always willing to buck his party and be the ‘Maverick’.

Well here we are we up to 11 million people in our country who do not belong here. They came here illegally, and are here illegally. Sure they are filling a need in some respects when it comes to taking jobs ‘no American would do’, but does that make it ok? 99.9% of them probably do want the same things the Real Americans want, life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So does that make it ok?

Most people around the world want those things. Should we just allow anyone in then?

I have a realistic vision for dealing with illegal immigration. It is tough, yet fair. Let’s reform our immigration system to increase quotas so that good hardworking people can be given the chance to come to America with the chance of an honest days pay. Our current system obviously doesn’t fit our economies’ needs nor that of the potential workers’. Let’s get the brightest minds to analyze the workforce and job needs biannually and adjust our numbers of visas for the jobs needed. We should consider making visas career based as well as ethnic.

This would allow us to increase or decrease the numbers of available workers in a given sector according to needs. If we need more harvesters, we increase Mexican visas. If we need more computer tech workers, its India. (Give me some slack on the breakdown.) You get the picture. Let our needs set the quotas. Currently they are idealistic and diplomatically controlled. We need to get them based on reality.

Alongside of the reformed immigration system, we need to secure our borders. I’d like to see us mobilize the National Guard and military to enforce our borders immediately. Then we create a division of Home Land Security with the chief role of border enforcement. We would have up to thousands of border guards who actually patrol our borders, and turn away illegals before they disappear into society. We need to stop the flow!

When the levies in New Orleans broke, we didn’t decide to let them be since the town was already flooded and the damage was done, did we? No, we knew that if we were going to save New Orleans’ existence, we’d have to stop the flow of water.

We also need to create a process in which when illegals are discovered, regardless of how long they’ve been here or what they have accumulated while here, they are deported. We would take them, do a criminal/background check, and return them home. They’d be given the paperwork to apply for a visa, with instructions to fill it out and return it to the US embassy of their homeland. This would help fast-track them so they could return, but not simply overlook their law breaking in the first place.

Just like the waters that flooded New Orleans, we need to pump out the illegals. If we left the water in the city, there could never be any rebuilding.

Of course this plan of mine is imperfect, but I came up with it over a beer at the bar.

We have got to do something to fix this problem, and what McCain has offered does nothing but legalize an illegal activity. I support punishing businesses that hire illegals knowingly, and they should also be punished somehow, not rewarded as they would be under McCain’s idea of Border security.

Congress owes it to it’s citizens to protect the rights of Americans. It is our right to have our laws enforced, not usurped. I am hopeful that McCain has finally tried to bite off more political opportunism than he could chew, and that this will be the end of him politically. He is pandering to an interest group who, legally, cannot vote not support his Presidential aspirations. He is abusing the power he was trusted with, and he must not be rewarded.

I think it is time for the Republican PArty to stand up and make McCain choose. It is either his ‘Maverick’ motives or his Elephant club membership. He’s a cancer to our Party and this country. He is sticking his finger in the wind, and playing off the polls, not right and wrong.

ARORA (Against Republicans Obstructing the Republican Agenda)  is ramping up again, and it is high time that McCain be served his walking papers.