Feds sue Arizona over immigration law.
Books will be written on this subject but since this is a blog I will keep to just a few points today.
The background. The US is a nation of immigrants; we all come from somewhere else. Yes even the Native Americans migrated here some 10,000 plus years ago. There has always been conflicts between the older immigrants or their children and the batch of new comers. Watch “the Gangs of New York” were the established Italians didn’t like the new Irish coming in. Or a number of movies about the decimation of the native cultures at the hands of the European newcomers. This nation has been built on the backs of cheap foreign labor. The Chinese build the first transcontinental railroads. Italian craftsmen built the Victorians of San Francisco. Etc. The last thirty years or so lots of Mexican and other Americans from farther south have been coming into the nation. It’s hard to get a green card and the borders are a joke. Now we have an estimate 11 million illegal aliens in the country. Businesses like the cheap labor that can’t complain. Everybody likes the cheaper prices that result from this. Cities and municipalities don’t like the extra folks that take up resources and don’t pay much tax. Everybody knows the system is broke. The question is how to make it better. Arizona has passed a law that will go into effect soon. I’ve read only what the headlines print about the law. It seems the state is fed up with doing what the Fed’s say is there job but not doing. I don’t like the tone of the bill from what I have read but a small part of it makes sense to me.
The Part of the law that I support is having your papers on you. If I get stopped by a police officer for a traffic infraction I am supposed to have my state issued driver’s license, which should mean I’m a citizen, proof of insurance, depending on the state, and car registration. If I can’t produce an ID, I’m likely to go to jail till my record, can be verified. When I am in other countries I carry around my US passport as my ID and proof that I entered the said country legally. I see no problem with expecting foreigners to carry around their papers while in the US. They are guest here.
Now if police officers have the right to stop folks just so they can check one’s papers. This gives police too much power that they will abuse. I think some joined the force because they got power issues. This is a blatant break from the Bill of Rights and should remain illegal.
I can see why Arizona wants this. The US government isn’t doing their job enforcing immigration and the borders.
One Solutions is installing Check points for leaving the USA. Most borders have two gates; check out of one country and into another. Why is the US/Mexico border so different? Up until a few years back, no passports were needed to reenter the US. What the f@&# is up with that? The easiest solution to a number of border related problems is installing secured exit points along the borders like most other countries have. Right now one can simply drive into Mexico with no stopping. The Mexicans don’t have an entry gate so they can get cheap stolen cars from the US. Why don’t we stop everyone that is leaving the country and make sure they have their passports stamped and the car they are driving is theirs. Seem like a no brainer but I haven’t herd a peek about this from anyone, left or right. It will be cheaper and more effective than a wall. In parts of Arizona, your car can be stolen and in Mexico before you even know it’s missing. Think of all the crime that would solve if the thugs didn’t have a place to run to. It would make human trafficking more difficult also.
There is much more to talk about on the issues and I will do so in the coming weeks.
Wolf out. end transmission
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