"Is It Too Harsh To Force
Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport?"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues for over 10 years
© Copyright Sunday, May
24, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, May 20, 2015
"The current
practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor
babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our
country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not
encourage lawbreaking." Steve King
"We cannot afford
all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from
the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the
beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's
wrong! It's wrong!" Arizona
Governor Jan Brewer
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Immigration, legal or illegal, has been festering in America
since the ink was dry on the Constitution. Racial bias and ethnic purity,
along with financial, economic and security fears have driven immigration policy
right, left, up, down and inside out for well over 150 years, every time a wave
of immigration hits American shores.
Government always reacts to immigration woes. It is never
proactive. Government policies can inhibit or enhance legal and illegal
immigration. Since President Johnson's 1965 Immigration and Nationality
Act, government's policies have essentially created several magnets to illegal
immigration. President Reagan's granting amnesty to over 3,000,000 illegal
aliens without the enforcement of and severely penalizing illegal employment,
just added to the magnets. President Obama's immigration executive orders
have accelerated illegal immigration to the point of a flood.
But the worst magnet was the bastardization of the 14th Amendment that
created what is now known as "Anchor Babies" where any child born in America,
from anywhere on the planet, automatically becomes a citizen of the United
States. Ludicrous!
The only "fix" that seems to come out of Washington DC, the
President, Democrats and a whole host of pro illegal immigrant Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGO's), is Comprehensive Immigration Reform, more generally
defined as "AMNESTY." What is overlooked is that there are
already laws on the books to control illegal immigration. (You
won't find AMNESTY in any one of those laws.)
The first law is, it is illegal to come to America
illegally. The punishment is deportation.
The second law is, it is illegal to employ an illegal
alien. The punishments are severe for violators.
The third law is, if an illegal alien commits a crime, he
either goes to jail, or he is deported.
The magnets are:
1. The 14th Amendment granting citizenship to
babies from foreign lands being born in America ("Anchor
Babies.")
2. Government benefits, paid for by the
taxpayer by the billions of dollars every year.
a.
Ample subsistence (welfare) over 80 government programs
b. Education, bi-lingual,
all ages
c. Health care (emergency
room visits cannot be denied, by law)
d. Child tax
credits.
e. Earned Income tax
credits.
f. Social Security and
Disability payments.
3. Cheating employers who hire and exploit
illegal aliens, solely to increase their bottom line.
4. Over staying visas with no government
controls or oversight.
5. Child labor laws that have all but removed
young, teenage legal Americans from summer agriculture jobs.
How many of you in our reading
audience, as teenagers, picked berries, vegetables, or fruit to make extra money
in the summer? What are your kids and grandkids doing now? Playing
on their damn electronic machines, getting fat and dumb, that's
what!
In a recent Heritage Foundation study on illegal
immigrations, they wrote this:
http://www.heritage.org/"In 2010, the average unlawful immigrant household received around $24,721 in government benefits and services while paying some $10,334 in taxes. This generated an average annual fiscal deficit (benefits received minus taxes paid) of around $14,387 per household. T his cost had to be borne by U.S. taxpayers."
At an estimated 3,445,000 illegal immigrant households,
(from the study) that deficit equals almost $50
Billion per year. Some estimates are much higher than that.
OUR SOLUTIONS
:
Our solution to illegal immigration is to trigger
self-deportation by closing the borders, removing all government benefits
inuring to illegal aliens including welfare, education and health care,
eliminate child and earned income tax credits, strictly enforce employer
violations for hiring illegal aliens and to mount a legal challenge to
re-adjudicate the 14th Amendment regarding the U. S. Supreme Court "Anchor Baby"
decision and return the provision to the original intent of the Congress at the
time the Amendment was ratified, that is, repatriation of the Negroes as
American citizens.
Many of you will think our solutions are too harsh and lack
compassion? We will tell you what is even harsher and even less
compassionate.
1. Forcing legal Americans, at the point of a gun,
to pay for illegal aliens, who break our laws.
2. Illegal aliens profiting off the American
taxpayer for child and earned income tax credits.
3. Illegal aliens getting education, health care
and welfare ….. for
FREE!
4. Illegal aliens getting driver's licenses and
magically becoming eligible to vote (for Democrats)
5. Green card recipients being up graded to legal
status so that they can vote (for Democrats)
6. 5,000,000 illegal aliens removed from the
threat of deportation. (Obama)
7. A gutless Congress that sits back and lets it
all happen.
8. A government that won't enforce current
immigration law and stops states from enforcing it.
9. A government that won't adequately track
criminal illegal aliens and let them create havoc, mayhem and murder with almost
virtual impunity and letting thousands of criminal aliens out of jail into the
general population ….. for
FREE! If the criminal aliens are deported, they just come back and even
though it is a felony to return to America after being deported, these criminals
never seem to see a jail cell.
Then there are these "harsh" injustices perpetrated on legal
Americans by their government.
1. The passage of Obama Care forcing taxpayers
into a government-mandated, government-run, going broke, health insurance
program that forces producers to pay for exponentially growing non-producers,
non taxpayers and illegal aliens ….. for Democrat votes.
2. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
penalizing legal property owners $75,000 per day for alleged violations of the
Clean Water Act, in direct violation of the 8th Amendment.
3. The IRS being used as a political weapon by
the Obama Administration to go after conservative, non-profit organizations
applying for tax exempt status. And the IRS employees are given bonuses, if you
can believe that.
4. The Department of Energy (DOE) giving
$525,000,000 of our tax money to Solyndra while it was going broke. Crony
capitalism for environmental and social agendas, run rampant in federal
government bureaucracies.
5. 20% of total government expenditures
(your money) in waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.
6. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
deploying over 200 heavily armed federal agents to oversee the rounding up of
Cliven Bundy's cattle for allegedly grazing on government land.
7. President Obama, his Administration and ex
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lying to the American people over their gross
negligence in protecting U. S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other
brave men, that gave their lives, unnecessarily, at the Benghazi compound in
September 2012.
8. Shoving down every American child's throat
Common Core State Standards, to add to the brainwashing already under way in our
public schools, at the hands of the Progressives for the last 60 to 100
years.
9. Government's relentless abuse of civil asset
forfeiture laws against law abiding Americans.
Look, we could go on and on about how government penalizes,
incarcerates, badgers, harasses, intimidates, indoctrinates and brainwashes
legal American citizens, enforcing millions of laws, little and large. Now
that's harsh! How is it that legal Americans are supposed to feel sorry
and have compassion for those who break our laws? An American can't break a law
without being punished, sometimes severely. And God help you if you break
an environmental law.
(See "Rural America in the
Crosshairs"
video) Why is it illegal aliens can break our laws,
including environmental laws, and get rewarded for it, at the expense of legal
American's government-enforced generosity? It not only defies common
sense, it spits in the "eye" of justice and the face of every legal
American.
Compassion is a worthwhile human attribute when applied
rationally. Irrational compassion however (a product of
Progressives to buy votes), whether it is applied to illegal aliens,
or millions of legal American freeloaders, can and has become a direct threat to
our economy, jobs, financial stability and to our national security.
America is going broke fast folks. NO! IT IS BROKE!
It can't afford to add more souls to our sinking lifeboat. We could add
these folks to the good ship America if it wasn't for the fact that Progressives
have all but destroyed the one basic element to our freedom, wealth and jobs -
CAPITALISM - by regulating it to death and sucking the money out
of the system to buy votes, such that true capitalism doesn't work any more.
But once again ladies and gentlemen, we ask, who
is going to stop it?
What this author doesn't get is why the American people aren't
furious and ready for battle. As little as a hundred years ago, angry
citizens formed groups and tarred and feathered errant, corrupt and stupid
politicians and took them out into the forest to walk back home in shame.
If there is no punishment for corrupt politicians who spit in their
constituent's faces and the law, the crimes will continue and the citizens will
only have themselves to blame.
A representative republic becomes a dictatorship, if the people
won't hold their representatives accountable to the laws of individual liberty,
either by law, or by force.
In case you hadn't noticed, the crimes
against the American people by their government are continuing, unabated.
Now that's really harsh, far harsher than forcing illegal aliens to
self-deport.
Additional Reading:
"The Impending Disaster from the Hordes of
Illegal Aliens"
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NOTE: The
foregoing article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily
shared by the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
publisher.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban and rural landowners and a
non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington State. He can be
reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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