By Jackie Mason
I have a simple solution to the immigration debate. But first, why do we talk about the immigration problem? We have an immigration problem when people fight to get out of a country, not to get into a country. What we have here is something between “a condition” like when your mother-in-law has bursitis, and a “situation” like when a low-life neighbor keeps parking in your driveway.
Here is our three-part solution:
1. Registration: The most powerful weapon police have is “intelligence” in the military sense. When a cop stops you for a traffic violation, in two minutes he can find out if you are wanted for anything from spiting on the sidewalk to murder. Similarly, if a crime has been committed in a neighborhood, the police can immediately do a computer search and obtain records of other similar crimes in the neighborhood helping them to identify suspects.
What we need to do is much the same: develop a central complete registry of all aliens in America – legal and illegal. As to what we do with the illegals who step up to the plate and register, see #3. Those that don’t register will eventually either be questioned for something else, perhaps trying to get a job or otherwise interface with the institutions of our country. Prospective employers or other agencies should be required to report unregistered aliens immediately. If an employer does not do so, he should be charged with a crime. An immigrant not having the proper card should be immediately deported and never be permitted to reenter the country. Eventually all of the illegals will either be sent to jail or, over the course of time, die.
2. Fences: The idea we cannot build a suitable fence or have secure borders is ridiculous. We have had secure borders in Germany, North and South Korea, Viet Nam, etc. Dictators throughout history have been able to build fences to keep the people in or out. The Great Wall of China was 1,500 miles long, built in the 3d cent. B.C., and is still around.
In this regard, we have an additional simple solution. Just give anybody who will live on the border two free acres of land. Thousands of people will happily live there and keep an eye on things, pick up the phone if they see anybody coming from Mexico, and offer them coffee and cake until the border patrol arrives. Of course, the Miami Beach condominium market may decline, but it’s a fair tradeoff.
3. Draft Boards: For those immigrants who register but are not here legally, we should establish local community boards, similar to the local drafts boards we had in World War II. These would be comprised of small groups of dedicated citizens who would devote their time to hear cases involving the illegal aliens who have registered, on a case by case basis. In that way, local community standards, which vary from place to place in the country, would be applied. Only after this process is completed would the aliens be permitted to test adverse decisions through the judicial system.
What we don’t want to be is a country that denies health care to a child or adult, denies education or any other benefits that, on a human level, a functioning humane democracy should provide. Without immigrants, we would have no atomic age, no computers, no lasers, no microchips (Einstein, Teller, Fermi, etc.). Also, without Dr. Salk, we would now be in the midst of a polio epidemic.
Too often the people who want to crack down on immigrants are like members of a country club who, once admitted, don’t want to let in anybody else. It should be suggested to them that without immigrants we would not even have an America.
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The American People demand simple and quick solutions to problems which are anything but.
As with all of the situations which have been allowed to fester into a fully fledged disease, the problems have become difficult to define--let alone solve "comprehensively".
The idea of passing retro-active laws in this country is anathema to the Constitution. But the "anchor babies" have caused things to become completely incomprehensable. How do you handle the situation? To grant amnesty (once again,) is to diminish the rule of law in this country; and in so doing, diminish the Constitution of the United States.
No law should be enacted at any level of Government which is unenforced or unenforceable--as it diminishes the Constitution. It is as simple as that. Yet, the Congress has been allowed to do this continuously for quite awhile now.
The laws passed back in 1986(?) were touted to solve all of the problems with illegal immigration. What happened? We know what happened--they were unfunded; and when anyone tried to enforce them, members of Congress threatened to defund the INS completely (Members of both parties interfered directly with enforcement.)
Now members of Congress look at the public with shock and horror. How dare we tell them that we don't trust anything that they say about immigration! I guess the real horror to them is that the whole "Global Warming Scam" has not diverted the electorate from the issue.
People decry the problems with the judges, the health-care system, the costs and effacacy of our education system, the problems with lawlessness, and the destruction of the values which used to define this country. Yet, every one of those problems is directly or indirectly driven by the huge numbers of unskilled people flooding this country. They whine about wages actually dropping in many fields of employment--again directly a result of the open borders.
What will really, really tick people off is the extension of the Special Visa Program to include health care professionals from third-world countries. It has already happened behind closed doors. Should the public find out and be enraged by this, it will be touted as a means of getting health care costs under control. People will again be called racist because they don't trust the education and hygenic training (or lack of it) of third-world Countries.
Forget about the fact that health care is the last of the skilled and semi-skilled jobs that people can re-train for with little expense and secure high wages. Health care is one of the last means that someone can use to pull themselves out of poverty and move into the middle class. That, and perhaps becoming a truck-driver--OOPS! Construction--OOPS!
One by one, the means for the average citizen to bring themselves out of poverty are being removed. It is becoming a real danger that we will have a permanent underclass.
This would be the end of the United States. When the merely average cannot be "upwardly mobile" in our society it is the end of "The Grand Experiment". The "poor" never assimilated into our society. Assimilation was driven by the children being educated and finding well paying jobs. Chances were very good that "Mama" never learned English.
As a New Yorker, these things should be really apparent to you. They should be glaringly obvious.
The special visa programs (and other things) need to be gone over with a jaundiced eye. The borders need to be closed. An Eisenhower-esque removal of the illegals needs to be carried out. And Kennedy's "brownification" of America needs to be just plain stopped. We need emigres, yes. Very much so. But the immigrants must have the same values of right and wrong as we do, and the same drive for their children to do better than they; which is what built this country in the first place (that and seeing value in education.) We do not need cultures where the father is "unmanned" when his children do better the he--something which is found amoungst the poorest in Mexico, and in many of the third-world countries. People who come to live here should be chosen with care, as we no longer have a "frontier" to fill (or to fulfill the role of social-darwinism.)
The old rules of sponsership should be brought back--and those who do not fulfill the obligations of sponsership should be punished severely. This includes religious organizations especially, as they have been doing aggregious things over the last thirty years or so.
All of the services and infrastructure cost lots of money--anything which has a "net effect" upon the costs of those services and infrastructure is a "Very Bad Thing" when the government is heading for bankrupcy
All levels of government have been spendthrifts--the result being that the merely average is not finding upward mobility available to them.
The costs of housing, goods and services are directly tied to Local, State and Federal taxation. "Affordable Housing" is impossible if the owners are paying high taxes. Not one politician seems to be able to make the mental leap over the chasm of economic ignorance.
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