Fix It And We Can All Become More Safe
"This country has lost control of its borders. And no country can sustain that kind of position." --Ronald Reagan
In an epic and critical time of ongoing runaway immigration, of both legal and illegal migration, the tumultuous waves of undocumented people/workers are exploding and blowing off the charts. We soar upward to 1.1 million immigrant people per year, and growing exponentially.
Legal immigration is so oppressive, costly, and personally threatening, it is a wonderment to me that more émigrés don’t just give up, and become "overstayers," and "absconders." It makes a bad immigration situation even worse.
Our obviously deeply flawed immigration policy has consequential overwhelming destructive impacts on our National Security, healthcare, education, crime, jobs and wages. That's not all: it has a deeply personal enveloping history of misfortune and abject murderous loss of life, most particularly within the very ranks of the undocumented coming here, as well as to our loyal sworn officers unsupportedly poised to stop them.
All of these unfortunately well known, unchecked persistent and sobering problems, in and directly resulting from our callous immigration system, and more, were devastatingly and well exposed again as a result of 9-11. The inconceivable systemic overload, bureaucratic negligence, and dangerous loopholes -- still, even now, have inexplicably not been addressed. Bandaids, where reconstructive life saving surgery is desperately needed. We the patient, our very democracy is dying.
In the absence of any constructive change, combined with nature’s oft ill perceived abhorrence of a vacuum, we are left with -- in the place of an: orderly; organized; safe; secure; efficient, and humanistic Immigration System -- a befuddled, confused, complicitous, dangerous and utterly indefensible antiquated, unfair system. Persisting inexplicably, in the face of societal common sense.
… And make no mistake, we are all involved.
Sadly filling this vacuum of beaurocratic unwillingness and ineptness, are the not so unfamiliar corrosive, self serving, strident misguided xenophobic voices further driving this already self destructive anarchistic fury, further into useless and dangerous ruin.
So … We have to begin somewhere.
Why then, not adopt ideas that are already working elsewhere?
What is the matter with beginning with and instituting a National law, similar to that which was passed by voters in Arizona, and upheld recently by our very own San Francisco based activist 9th Circuit Court of Appeals?
Why can’t we have a National Arizona Proposition 200, as a cornerstone of rebuilding a rational fair, and secure immigration policy, and a just and equitable derivative system?
Why not also put expansive and enforceable teeth into our already existing and proven US-VISITBorder-Screening Program . So that we can actually Authenticate, Screen and Record immigrants coming into this country.
It is clear that we have needed legitimate controls that work, and that are enforcibly and economically workable for our Country, now for decades.
There is no longer, nor has there ever been, an excuse for this abysmal absence of permanently remedying this destructive and most inhumane condition, and National embarrassment.
This is about sanctifying everything we supposedly stand for: Human rights; Property rights; Voting rights; Economic rights; Civil rights, and more, the very foundations of our Country, our Constitution, and moral human judgment.
What’s wrong here? Can we keep putting this off? What must we do to fix this NOW?
In an epic and critical time of ongoing runaway immigration, of both legal and illegal migration, the tumultuous waves of undocumented people/workers are exploding and blowing off the charts. We soar upward to 1.1 million immigrant people per year, and growing exponentially.
Legal immigration is so oppressive, costly, and personally threatening, it is a wonderment to me that more émigrés don’t just give up, and become "overstayers," and "absconders." It makes a bad immigration situation even worse.
Our obviously deeply flawed immigration policy has consequential overwhelming destructive impacts on our National Security, healthcare, education, crime, jobs and wages. That's not all: it has a deeply personal enveloping history of misfortune and abject murderous loss of life, most particularly within the very ranks of the undocumented coming here, as well as to our loyal sworn officers unsupportedly poised to stop them.
All of these unfortunately well known, unchecked persistent and sobering problems, in and directly resulting from our callous immigration system, and more, were devastatingly and well exposed again as a result of 9-11. The inconceivable systemic overload, bureaucratic negligence, and dangerous loopholes -- still, even now, have inexplicably not been addressed. Bandaids, where reconstructive life saving surgery is desperately needed. We the patient, our very democracy is dying.
In the absence of any constructive change, combined with nature’s oft ill perceived abhorrence of a vacuum, we are left with -- in the place of an: orderly; organized; safe; secure; efficient, and humanistic Immigration System -- a befuddled, confused, complicitous, dangerous and utterly indefensible antiquated, unfair system. Persisting inexplicably, in the face of societal common sense.
… And make no mistake, we are all involved.
Sadly filling this vacuum of beaurocratic unwillingness and ineptness, are the not so unfamiliar corrosive, self serving, strident misguided xenophobic voices further driving this already self destructive anarchistic fury, further into useless and dangerous ruin.
So … We have to begin somewhere.
Why then, not adopt ideas that are already working elsewhere?
What is the matter with beginning with and instituting a National law, similar to that which was passed by voters in Arizona, and upheld recently by our very own San Francisco based activist 9th Circuit Court of Appeals?
Why can’t we have a National Arizona Proposition 200, as a cornerstone of rebuilding a rational fair, and secure immigration policy, and a just and equitable derivative system?
Why not also put expansive and enforceable teeth into our already existing and proven US-VISITBorder-Screening Program . So that we can actually Authenticate, Screen and Record immigrants coming into this country.
It is clear that we have needed legitimate controls that work, and that are enforcibly and economically workable for our Country, now for decades.
There is no longer, nor has there ever been, an excuse for this abysmal absence of permanently remedying this destructive and most inhumane condition, and National embarrassment.
This is about sanctifying everything we supposedly stand for: Human rights; Property rights; Voting rights; Economic rights; Civil rights, and more, the very foundations of our Country, our Constitution, and moral human judgment.
What’s wrong here? Can we keep putting this off? What must we do to fix this NOW?
posted by don regan at 8:14 PM
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