Illegal Immigrants

It is a U.S. Constitutional mandate that the U.S. Congress
shall secure the borders of the United States. It appears this
was never done and never will be. When the Federal Government
failed to do its job and made things worse, it became the
responsibility of the affected border states to secure these
borders and start programs that reduce the pressure on those who
are driven to the U.S.. The border states did nothing but point
to the irresponsible Feds….and continues to do so. Not our job,
they say, and the job goes undone.

In the past few years citizen groups have begun to step in, to
attempt to do what government will not. These citizen groups
scare the hell out of everybody, but the people and the drugs
just keep on coming. Since no one can stop the illegal traffic,
it is way past time to create a uniform policy for these people
that were essentially invited here by the governments'
irresponsible, unlawful behavior.

Because every undocumented immigrant represents government
carelessness and dereliction of duty and the lack of domestic
security, they should be recorded and rewarded for their effort.
In many cases they have risked their lives. Congress has risked
nothing. The immigrants deserve recognition for the triumph of
will over bureaucracy. They should be an inspiration to us all.

Offer amnesty, a green card and a state driver's license to
every one who desires them. Document where they came from, who
they are, what skills they have brought with them and why they
have come here. Take DNA samples so we can identify them and
their offspring so long as they remain in the U.S.. They came for
a better life and we will see they get one. We can help them
with skills training and work options, education, health care,
housing and more.

Because they essentially invaded the country, there must be a
penalty that will discourage others from doing the same. That
penalty is the forfeiture of citizenship for them and any
offspring, forever. Unless they return to their homeland, apply
for legal admission and obtain it, based on their record while
living in the U.S..

The citizenship provisions of the U.S. Constitution were
deficient from the day they were written. They encourage illegal
immigrants to have children here because citizenship is a
privilege of birth. Citizenship should not be a privilege. It
should mean as much to someone born here as it does to legal
immigrants who study for naturalization. The tests should be
meaningful and difficult to pass.

Citizens need to be knowledgeable in religious, common and
Constitutional law. This law is the contract we agree to live
by. Not to know the terms of the contract generates criminal
society and government. That's what we have today and that's
what we'll have tomorrow. Citizens have left it all to
incompetent and self interested professionals. Liberty demands
personal vigilance. A lazy free man is a hermit.

Gift citizenship makes political equals of the ignorant and the
educated. What is the point of obtaining degrees and being a
conscientious citizen, when ignorant fools can outvote you? How
can you have a jury of peers when people who know nothing of law
are seated on a jury and simply take instruction from some
authoritarian, black robed, law priest? When citizenship is a
gift it has no meaning but privilege. When citizenship becomes
an achievement, it has honest value. Let's fix the many
deficiencies in the U.S. Constitution. It won't be easy.

Immigrants are one of the best sources of foreign aid the U.S.
has ever had. Poverty stricken immigrants work hard and long for
low wages, continue to live simply and send a large part of
their pay to the families that did not come with them. This
serves as a check on increased immigration. At the same time,
their relatively cheap labor helps U.S. industry remain
competitive in the global exploitation market. All of which means, these immigrants have value and add value to U.S. society. We need to respect and reward that value, not frustrate and block it.

Over the past one hundred years, we have ignored the
opportunity to export economic prosperity to our Southern
brothers and sisters. We could have invited those of talent and
ability to come and learn business, trade and the skills that
would raise the standard of living in their homelands. These
people would agree after a five year program, to return to their
homelands and teach others what they have learned about creating
prosperity at the local level. After such a program had been in
place for twenty or thirty years, the pressure to cross the
border would be substantially relieved. Instead, the welfare of
the entire Southern Hemisphere has been largely ignored unless
the U.S. Government had some pressing strategic or political interest.

Not only has the U.S. Government created the immigration
problem, they now insist the border states and many others pay all the associated costs for medical care, criminal behaviors, and the general welfare. This is the way the national government says to the states and the citizens, you have no more sovereignty. We are the boss of all we see. We tell everyone what they will do and we pick the pockets of every man, woman and child as we see fit. The states and the once sovereign people say Amen.

Let the once sovereign states rebel. Let them forbid the
collection of federal taxes within their borders. Then their
citizens will be able to support effective state and local
government. We only have federal tyranny over citizens and
states because we pay the tyrants. Since the federal War Against
the States in the 1860s, the power and money has increasingly
flowed to Washington, D.C. from the people's pockets. It is time
to build a dam and stop this bleeding into a bottomless pit that
buys nothing but empty promises, from people who refuse to obey
the law and do their jobs. It is time for citizens and states to
grow a backbone.

Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com or do an author search here at Ezine Articles.