The Unasked Question About Immigration ‘Reform’
If we build it, will they come?
Everyone assumes that the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States will jump at the chance to accept whatever amnesty program is offered to them. No one is asking what happens if they choose to remain in the shadow economy. But why shouldn’t they?
Why should an illegal alien who has for years successfully flaunted immigration, employment, and tax laws be eager to join the new Peculiar Institution of the “Guest Worker” program? Will they be enticed by the opportunity to pay a $2000 fine and back taxes? Maybe the chance of being registered and tracked by the US government will seem attractive to them after all those years off the grid. Certainly being ordered to learn a foreign language, English, must have illegals all excited and eager to begin night classes.
Why would people who have fled the corrupt Mexican system, where la mordida rules every encounter with government officials, suddenly decide that ICE is their friend and savior? Especially since virtually the entire US government has declared that they are beyond the reach of law enforcement?
And what will we do when they, in their millions, don’t come?
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Posted by John Bambenek on May 17, 2006 12:56 pm
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That is a lot of “whys” there Bluto.
You left out one big one.
Why are “illegal aliens” protesting in our streets when the fact is that they have a Mexican President who won’t help his own people but is doing all he can to get “illegal aliens” to America and they have an American President who won’t help his own people but is doing all he can to get “illegal aliens” to America?
What do they really have to hide from?