Highly recommend this article found over at Brussels Journal, linked at the end of my article.

My views regarding immigration run along these lines.

Muslim immigration by and large is legal and our problem revolves around their intent. I cannot state it any better than the article at Brussels Journal: With that in mind, why not simply demand that new arrivals from the relevant faith take an oath, enforceable in a court of law, that they do not and will not support the concept of violent jihad, the idea of the dhimmi, the killing of Jews, et cetera? Surely this is a reasonable request to make of a person.

Illegal immigration is an entirely different matter. Here we have a group of people, sub-citizens, that are being used shamelessly by competing political parties for completely different purposes. Please, I don't use the term, sub-citizens, for any other reason than to show my disgust for the way they are treated by businesses and our political elite.

Democrats see potential voters and given that most of those immigrating have only known Socialism it's a fair bet that Democrats are correct in assuming that immigrants will by and large vote Democratic. But it is the Republicans who support amnesty regardless of the names its masquerading under, for whom I reserve much of my disgust.

President Bush's constant refrain is that illegals, no the President never refers to them as illegals more on that later, "they are doing the jobs that Americans won't do". How insulting can he be towards Americans, we don't consider any work "beneath" us. The only folks who think that certain work is beneath them are the stupidly wealthy. With that constant idiotic refrain he has demolished the illusion that he had created with people like me that he actually understood our lives. He exposed himself as a typical Eastern Elite out of touch with nearly every aspect of our lives. Hell I have put up Aluminum siding, installed garage doors, built pools, worked as a carpenter, and more, don't tell me what work is beneath me.

But I won't do anything for slave labor wages nor will I work without Workers Comp, two items which you can be sure are not offered to illegals. No President Bush is merely a dressed up like a Cowboy Eastern Elite with a Texas accent trying to subvert our laws regarding minimum wages and workers comp. Furthermore he is not saying something this dumb because he believes it is true. He is repeating this dumb statement because he believes we are stupid enough to buy it. No one who graduates from Harvard's MBA program is stupid enough to believe that no one will do a job no matter how much money is offered. Heck offer me enough money and I will immediately begin writing up talking points for President Bush.

Republicans, especially the President are playing games right now on immigration. They surely must know that once they have given quasi legal status to our current crop of sub-citizens that all of those once illegals now quasi legal inhabitants will have priced themselves out of the market. With their quasi-legal status employers will not be able to get away with not paying minimum wage and not covering them with Workman's comp insurance. Now all of a sudden those former illegals are as expensive as legal citizens and the market is immediately created for an entirely new bunch of illegals. Lets not think about what happens to the once illegal cheap labor now quasi-legal expensive labor but it revolves around even more government handouts. Democrats I hear your number being called as I type.

If you think that the Border enforcement is going to be any better at stopping this entirely new bunch of illegals from entering to answer the market demands then I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn, cheap. Its never been about the wall. A wall along the border is sop to the masses to get them to believe that the politicians are doing something. Without the will to stop illegals from coming across the border nothing short of installing hell between our borders will stop the flow. We haven't failed to stem the flow of illegals because of a lack of equipment or manpower, though both could be increased, we have failed because of a lack of will. Our politicians simply refuse to stop the flow. The first step is calling those illegals what they are, illegals immigrants. Hello President Bush???

Witness this shameful record of the upholding or better put non-upholding of our immigration laws by the Bush administration.
Hat tip Michelle Malkin.
Via Edwin S. Rubenstein. Sources: GAO, "Immigration Enforcement: Weaknesses Hinder Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement Efforts," August 2005. Figures 3, 4, and 5. (1999-2004.); Dept. of Homeland Security, 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, September 2004. Table 39. (1997-1998); Dept. of Homeland Security, 2001 Statistical Yearbook, Table 61. (1992-1996).

Mind you that this is compared against an administration that the Republicans like to portray as being a bunch of lawbreakers a fact I happen to agree with. How much more embarrassing that a Republican administration has done such a pitiful job of enforcing our laws in comparison to the Clinton Administration.

The center of gravity for stopping Illegal immigration lies with enforcing our laws against hiring them. Take away the incentive by locking up a few executives and the rest of the industry will take note that the cost is too high. At once the job market will dry up and while it won't completely eliminate the job market for illegals it will reduce it to manageable proportions.

And no we won't have to have massive deportations as President Bush claims. The immigrants will deport themselves if we tighten up our laws regarding who gets aid and who doesn't.
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