More On The Bad Immigration Bill

Over at USA Today is an account of the twisted thinking of politicians at work on the immigration question. They cannot be honest to save their butts. Now the burning Bush has rolled out Chertoff and others who should be working for their paycheck instead of stumping for his insipid rehash of bad ideas on illegal immigration.

One example is this exchange with my comments in bold italics:

Chertoff acknowledged that there is "a fundamental unfairness" in a bill allowing illegal immigrants to stay. But trying to force them to leave would be impossible, Chertoff said, "We are bowing to reality." Translation: It's too hard to do the right thing so lets just forget about their status because they can't vote anyway.

He dismissed the argument of Republican conservatives, such as Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif., who argue that illegal immigrants will leave if strict enforcement of U.S. laws makes it impossible for them to find a job. How does he know this? They've never tried it.

"You're not going to replace 12 million people who are doing the work they're currently doing," Chertoff said. "If they don't leave, then you are going to give them silent amnesty. You're either going to let them stay or you're going to be hypocritical." Translation: A lot of bad businesses would go out of business or would have to pay their workers living wages that would take them off the taxpayer's back.

Bilbray said his idea hasn't worked because "there's been a conscious strategy of not enforcing the law." That's true. There have been virtually no penalties to companies caught with hundreds of illegal workers.

Chertoff, whose department has staged a number of recent raids that have resulted in mass roundups of illegal workers and sharp protests from religious groups, warned there will be more if the workers don't get a chance to become legal. "We're going to enforce the law," he said. "People all around the country will be seeing teary-eyed children whose parents are going to be deported." Those raids were just that, staged. They punished the workers and drew not one drop of blood or treasure from the offending companies. Providing enough legal workers for viable jobs is one function of legal immigration. It should never be used to prop up businesses who's managers are so dumb or greedy that they must use illegal workers to compete in the marketplace.

Bush and Chertoff are vile men, quite willing to cynically punish thousands of illegal immigrants harbored by companies who are huge contributors to political campaigns. Companies who's competitors, stockholders and customers should loudly demand the end of hiring of illegal workers and further, that executives and managers of those companies be punished severely for it. So what if those companies go out of business? They are not viable and a burden on the taxpayer with constant need of public subsidy for them and their workers.

Since these practices are the primary cause of illegal immigration, amnesty should immediately be given to those currently working in this country illegally. The only requirement should be that they name the people they have worked for since arriving in this country. Those named should be sent the bill for every dollar spent on social services and other costs encountered by our country as a result of this problem. Those named should also be ostracized and publicly shunned and their companies should be stripped of any government business now and in the future.

We the people need to take this problem out of the hands of our gutless politicians. Someone should start an organization that could provide a way for patriotic companies and citizens to provide traceable certification that the run or patronize only businesses employing legal workers being paid well above poverty wages and working in well above minimum standard conditions. And none of that off-shoring outsourcing crap allowed. I'm available to work on such a project but, I don't come cheap.