Sobering Commentary on the Proposed Immigration Legislation

Regarding the immigration legislation that has been pounded out by the Senate:

We are being led by politicos who lack any and all inhibitions when it comes to misleading the people who are theoretically their constituencies.

We are being repeatedly told that the current immigration system is broken and we need to modify the system in order to adequately address the contingencies that have�proven to overwhelm our current procedures when it comes to immigration. However, putting the rhetoric aside for a moment, and, instead, switching to a decidedly sober look at the modifications that are being proposed in this new legislation, I think all of us - no matter what our personal convictions are in respect to this issue - can agree that this ‘bipartisan’ legislation is a canard.

Assuming there is some credibility to the estimates of the staggering numbers of illegal immigrants in this country, we can assume that there are approximately 12,000,000 - give or take millions upon millions - undocumented, illegal immigrants in this nation. The proposed legislation will apparently compel these undocumented residents to pay back-taxes; undergo a background check; leave the country - in some instances - in order to reapply for residency, only to return; and, depending upon one of the statuses for which they apply, leave the country for a period, only to return again, according a cyclical pattern of defined intervals; or, in other instances, learn English and American Civics, (not that native Americans even have a grasp of American civics), in order to eventually acquire citizenship.

I hate to expose myself to accusations of a Doubting Thomas; however, how the hell will all of these bureaucratic processes be implemented, and, if we are to believe they will actually be implemented, how much will these augmentations to our current immigration system cost?

Are we going to import foreign labor - specializing in accounting - in order to assess the back-taxes owed by the undocumented immigrants, whom we are assuming will even subject themselves to the background checks and so forth; not to mention the necessity, under some conditions, of returning to their homeland in order to reapply for legal entry into the country?

I could continue with the sarcasm; although, the point is so transparent, I doubt any further elaboration will be necessary in order to drive home the senseless nature of this proposed legislation. What we are being told is preposterous, and it is being proffered by politicians, who, apparently, lack any compunction when it comes to representing their constituencies, for whom they obviously have no regard, because they are selling a package that is absent of any substantive contents.

Of course, the current immigration system is broken. Nevertheless, this bullshit that is being served up as a solution is nothing less than fraudulent. This legislation needs to be obstructed and killed, because we are all better off deferring this issue to a point in time when we might - under extraordinary circumstances - have some representation in Congress that possesses the conviction and character to address the realities of the situation, rather than contributing to its lunacy.

Russell Cole

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