Illegal Immigration Questions

One of the main groups that helped reelect President Obama was Hispanics. This has led for calls by some for Republicans to rethink their policies on illegal immigration. And rethinking the rhetoric some use on illegal immigration and possibly some policies on the margins should be considered.
But some questions need to be asked. Let's say we grant another amnesty to all illegal immigrants currently in the country. They are now legal. What happens to illegals who come after the amnesty is granted? Would we finally enforce the law? Or would we just let it slide again for several years until to pro-illegal lobby calls for another amnesty? Would we even secure our borders?
We had these promises before the last amnesty. Enforcement was promised. Border security was promised. Both were delayed and then dropped when public attention drifted away.
Wouldn't this just happen again?

Liberals, Illegal Immigration, and Their Arguments Supporting It

The hysterical, out of proportion response to the Arizona law enforcing federal immigration laws by the left demonstrates with total clarity not only how out of touch they are with the rest of the country, but also how desperate they are to support illegal immigration.

Within days of passage of the law calls for boycotts and demonstrations by the illegal immigration lobby and other far left groups sprung up around the country. These protests are highly organized astroturf protests designed to give the appearance of public disapproval of the Arizona law. But polls show overwhelming approval in Arizona and around the nation for enforcement of immigration laws. Why is the left so desperate to oppose any effort to confront the problem of illegal immigration? The answer is simple: politics.

The changing demographics in America brought about by illegal immigration will give the left ever increasing power, especially if the communities formed by illegals do not integrate into American society. The left, for all their denials and protestations, know that they are out of touch on most issues with the American public, yet they are determined to take America as far to the left as they can. So how can they take this country to where they want it to go? They must import the new majority.

Of course they cannot outright say they support illegal immigration without incurring the wrath of the electorate so they use the race card to tar and feather those who want to enforce immigration laws as racist, and frame the language of amnesty in the foggiest possible light: "A path to citizenship."

To attempt to blunt enforcement arguments directly they will paint the possibility of securing the border as hopeless and raise the strawman of deportation of every single last illegal in the nation being an equally impossible task. Yes, even if we enforce the laws on the books and get all the resources needed we will not find and deport every single last illegal in the country, but that is no reason not to enforce immigration laws. Not every armed robbery or murder will be solved, that isn't reason not to try to solve as many as possible.

The Real Motives Behind Illegal Immigration

Some on the right and most on the left are opposed to reasonable reforms to curtail illegal immigration. They will site reasons such as: there is no one else to do the jobs they perform, we shouldn't break up families just because they violated our laws and, we are a nation of immigrants. They try to deter us by saying all possible ways of preventing illegals from getting in are doomed to failure, and they try to make it as easy as possible for illegals to get by in America.

The reasons they give have a shade of truth as they see it, but, there are other reasons they won't bring up because it would hurt their cause. For conservatives who support illegal immigration their main motivation is money, they want cheap labor and lots of it with little or no benefits attached. The motivation of liberals is power, they want more voters and ones that will vote for them no matter how far left they take this country. This has already shown some successes, once republican strongholds in California are now reliably democratic.

What the pro-illegal conservatives aren't taking into account is that once the left has their way their bottom-line is going to take a serious hit. The left wants much higher taxes, more regulation and a government takeover of large parts of the economy, this is very bad for capitalism; but, at the moment the pro-illegal right are only thinking of this years profits, they are ignoring the long range prospects for a country overrun by illegals most of which will vote democrat when given amnesty, and their children will whether or not their parents are given amnesty.

There are very good reasons for wanting to stop illegal immigration now. The most important being national security, if we don't control our boarders we will be vulnerable to terrorists crossing our boarders. Also, allowing millions of poor uneducated people who don't speak our language to break the law and plant themselves in our country is not conducive to a good society. Illegal immigration is against the law, and allowing some criminal act to slide is corrosive to a law abiding society. This does not even take into account the fact that whole gangs are being imported from Mexico, nearly all illegal aliens committing crimes from theft, to murder.

Stopping illegal immigration is far from impossible, but, it does require a serious and sustained effort and new tactics, for one we need to build the fence, we also need to massively increase the boarder patrol, and put the illegals we catch in jail for 6 months, followed by instant deportation. There is nothing wrong with controlling our boarders and we should not apologize for it.