12.06.2005
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"Mexicans Without Borders"
The title refers to what the WaPo refers to as "a District-based immigrant advocacy group." "District" being, of course, Washington, D.C., the home to all sorts of advocacy groups, and the feeders at the public pork trough, Congress.
In a heart-warming story (sort of), the Post tells of one of those public displays of treacle, this time in the form of this bit of paganism:
Well, some of the Mexicans appear to worship that old Virgin of Guadalupe. But, hey, they're just poor illegal immigrants just trying to eke out a living in this harsh, harsh Protestant land. That must mean it's simply "multiculturalism", and who are we to be critical? I mean, these folks are pitiful to begin with, and are simply trying to make a living.
The problem is that their own country, Mexico, is an economic failure, and they send us their huddled masses yearning to eat Big Macs. By the millions, without papers. And we, being thrifty Protestants, hire them for much lower wages than pampered natives would be willing to work.
"Mexicans Without Borders" is offensive, as it seeks to not just normalize, but celebrate that many Mexicans are here breaking the law. I don't have a solution to the problem, but I do know that if laws are routinely broken and such crimes are ignored, then it can only lead to wider disregard of law.
You don't like our immigration laws? OK. How about laws on check-kiting? Or rape? Or murder? Or drugs? Hey, welcome to the American legal cafeteria. You get to pick and choose which laws you like. Ignore the rest. We won't do anything to you. After all, we just love to keep our costs down.
I mispoke above. I do have a partial solution. Catch them. Send them back. With their families, if they are also here illegally. Immediately. No appeal, no due process. Impose hefty fines on businesses that knowingly employ them. The illegals are not citizens, they've not got our rights. By entering our country illegally, they've forfeited those rights.
The only alternative to this? Change the law. But let's stop pretending we can have it both ways and still claim to be "a nation of laws."
In a heart-warming story (sort of), the Post tells of one of those public displays of treacle, this time in the form of this bit of paganism:
...the Guadalupan Torch Race, honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, whose blue-robed image is revered throughout Latin America. The torch left the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Oct. 9 and is scheduled to arrive at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Monday, a Catholic holiday honoring the saint.I'm just being a cranky monotheist, here. Christians certainly don't worship the "Virgin of Guadalupe," now, do they? I was taught that only God is worthy of our worship. But, hey, that's just one man's opinion.
Well, some of the Mexicans appear to worship that old Virgin of Guadalupe. But, hey, they're just poor illegal immigrants just trying to eke out a living in this harsh, harsh Protestant land. That must mean it's simply "multiculturalism", and who are we to be critical? I mean, these folks are pitiful to begin with, and are simply trying to make a living.
The problem is that their own country, Mexico, is an economic failure, and they send us their huddled masses yearning to eat Big Macs. By the millions, without papers. And we, being thrifty Protestants, hire them for much lower wages than pampered natives would be willing to work.
"Mexicans Without Borders" is offensive, as it seeks to not just normalize, but celebrate that many Mexicans are here breaking the law. I don't have a solution to the problem, but I do know that if laws are routinely broken and such crimes are ignored, then it can only lead to wider disregard of law.
You don't like our immigration laws? OK. How about laws on check-kiting? Or rape? Or murder? Or drugs? Hey, welcome to the American legal cafeteria. You get to pick and choose which laws you like. Ignore the rest. We won't do anything to you. After all, we just love to keep our costs down.
I mispoke above. I do have a partial solution. Catch them. Send them back. With their families, if they are also here illegally. Immediately. No appeal, no due process. Impose hefty fines on businesses that knowingly employ them. The illegals are not citizens, they've not got our rights. By entering our country illegally, they've forfeited those rights.
The only alternative to this? Change the law. But let's stop pretending we can have it both ways and still claim to be "a nation of laws."
posted by Jack Rich at 2:12 PM
I was born, grew up, and went to school in the Bronx, New York -- on the wrong side of the
tracks. Got the chance to go to college, so instead of joining the NYPD (the obvious career choice at
that time and place), I became an engineer. Spent
some years designing things that go boom (or things that take things that go boom to their destinations...), principally for our military.
Also took an interesting career turn and for some years was in charge of counter-terrorism for my agency...so I learned something about guns. And when to use them.
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