Illegal Immigration

Anyone who watches more than a few minutes of CNN's Lou Dobbs show gets a repeated litany of the evils of illegal immigration. Although I don't care for a steady diet of Mr. Dobbs, I do agree with him on this issue. We should not have porous borders, open to anyone who chooses to cross them. We should not be held hostage to Mexico's Vicente Fox and serve as a source of cash and a site for "excess" poor population of Mexico. A sample of Mr. Dobbs views can be found here .

In an interesting note the Arizona ACLU has decided that the Minuteman project and, seemingly is a violation of the First Amendment Rights of illegal immigrants. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." It is even a stretch for the ACLU to explain how non-citizens have the "right" assemble and peacefully petition the government for redress of grievances by crossing the boarder illegally and remaining anonymous, except for sucking down our tax dollars.

Many sectors of the US economy depends on immigrant labor. We can't get out of that. Our borders ought to be open to legal immigrants, who come through by legal means. We ought to have the right to determine who comes in, for what purposes, and how long they can stay. It works that way when Americans go to other countries. As it is, we don't know who is coming in, for what purposes or where they are. It is quite a stretch to confer the rights of citizenship on these folks. Round them up, send them home, don't let them sneak back in. Then allow legal, controlled immigration.

Too bad most of those we elect to serve us, don't see it that way.