Amnesty’s Flaws

“Garth Trekker”, posting at Bloggin’ Outloud, offers a post promoting amnesty for illegal aliens. *sigh* How often are good men seduced by the Dark Side? He advocates amnesty for illegals on supposedly “practical” grounds, asserting that deporting “10 to 12 million illegal immigrants” (the number may well be closer to 20 million) is impossible.

No, no, no, no, no! The “impossible” has already been done in the past. What man has done once, man can aspire to do. It is not impossible, simply difficult–though if existing law were enforced against the hiring of illegals, “difficult” would become much easier.

But amnesty for up to 20 million illegal aliens is simply wrong.

Let me point out a couple of things: rewarding outlaws for their behavior while punishing law-abiding persons is immoral. That is what such a mass amnesty for illegals does. It rewards those who entered our country illegally, compounded their crime with identity theft, forgery, stealing jobs from citizens, improperly expropirating government services, and more. And it punishes those who have followed the law, waited patiently for permission to enter legally and who have had their place in line extended by swelling illegal migrations.

And then there’s the bill itself, which is a mass of obfuscation, deciet and outright lies. And those are its good points, because it is fundamentally flawed (offering an advanced form of immorality in its anarcho-tyrranical design) and does not even accomplish–in any way, shape, fashion or form–what its proponents claim in terms of border enforcement and protection of American sovereignty: it is wholly a Mexican/big business bill, designed to do one thing very, very well: confirm President Bush’s place as Felipe Calderon’s lapdog by surrendering our borders.

NumbersUSA offers these specific flaws in the current senate shamnesty bill:

Flaw No. 1: Sen. Sessions pointed to perhaps the biggest flaw by noting that the ‘enforcement trigger’ fails to require the U.S. VISIT system – the biometric border check-in/check-out system established by Congress in 1996, but never
implemented — to be fully functioning before new worker or amnesty programs begin. Without the system in place, the U.S. has no method of ensuring that workers and their families do not overstay their visas.”

Flaw No. 2: While most Americans tell pollsters they want less immigration, this bill dramatically increases overall immigration. It TRIPLES chain migration through the year 2016 — all the while sanctioning a mass importation of low-skill foreign workers and, by extension, a mass importation of poverty into this country.

Flaw No. 3: Illegal aliens get “legal status before enforcement” begins;

Flaw No. 4: The “triggers” require “no more agents, beds, or fencing than current law” mandates;

Flaw No. 5: The completion of background checks, including checks against criminal and terrorist databases, is “not required for” the granting of amnesty (in this bill, it is referred to as “probationary status”);

Flaw No. 6: Criminals of all kinds — including gang members, some child molesters, and absconders (i.e., “aliens who have already had their day in court [and who are now] subject to. ..removal” [covering “more than 636,000 fugitives”]) are eligible for the bill’s mass amnesty;

Flaw No. 7: “Illegal aliens with terrorism connections are not barred from getting amnesty. An illegal alien seeking most immigration benefits must merely show ‘good moral character.”

Flaw No. 8: Illegal aliens granted amnesty or guestworkers imported via the new “Y” “temporary worker” program can claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, which “will cost taxpayers billions in just 10 years”;

Flaw No. 9: “Affidavits from friends” are acceptable as evidence of satisfying requirements for amnesty, thus “invit[ing] fraud and more illegal immigration”;

Flaw No. 10: “In-state tuition and other higher education benefits. ..will be made available to current illegal aliens that are granted [amnesty], even if the same instate tuition rates are not offered to all U.S. citizens,” a violation of current Federal law, which “mandates that educational institutions give citizens the same postsecondary education benefits they offer to illegal aliens”;

Flaw No. 11: New visas are created for individuals who are prone to overstaying their period of authorized admission — namely, the new “parent” visa, which allows parents of citizens, and the spouses and children of new temporary workers, to visit a worker in the United States. Not only is this term “a misnomer, but also an invitation for high rates of visa overstays” because it “specifically allows the spouse and children of new temporary workers who intend to abandon their residence in a foreign country, to qualify to come to the U.S. to ‘visit.” To obtain the visa, one must only post a $1,000 bond, “which will be forfeited when, not if, family members of new temporary workers decide to overstay their 30 day visit. Workers should travel to their home countries to visit their families, not the other way around”;

Flaw No. 12: To be granted amnesty, illegal aliens need not pay back income taxes;

Flaw No. 13: Social Security credits for work done while in the United States illegally will be granted to “[a]liens who came to the U.S. on legal visas, but overstayed their visas and have been working in the U.S. for years, as well as illegal aliens who apply for Z visa status but do not qualify”; and

Flaw No. 14: “The criminal fines an illegal alien is required to pay to receive amnesty are less than the bill’s criminal fines for paperwork violations committed by U.S. citizens, and can be paid by installment,” which means that “the fine for illegally entering, using false documents to work, [is] one-tenth the fine for a paperwork violation committed by a government official.”

Given the fundamental moral flaw (sharply exacerbating anarcho-tyranny) and these few (of many) structural flaws even in what the bill’s supporters disingenuously claim it does, this thing should never have seen the light of day, and it has only been put forth and retains some semblance of life because of the basic amorality and disregard for the future of our society that its supporters embody.

CALL, WRITE and FAX your senators today! If they have voted to defeat cloture before, encourage them to continue to vote against this bill in all its forms and in every measure designed to advance it. If they have not voted against it before, outline to them what its flaws are–both the injustice of it and the way it encourages outlawry and the specific flaws noted above.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Even worse is when otherwise good men are seduced by the Dark Side and advance immoral, unjust laws that will do nothing but damage society, harm individual citizens and advance the cause of outlawry.

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