Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday the federal government "just doesn't want to know who's here illegally or not."
Of course, everyone already knows government is willfully ignorant of the illegal alien problem, but it's encouraging to hear the chief justice voice the same opinion. Politicians have looked the other way on immigration for two decades, because illegals offer cheap labor for big businesses.
The chief justice made the remark during arguments over a controversial Arizona law requiring police to check the immigration status of people they suspect of being aliens.
The Supreme Court is only considering certain provisions of the law, namely the section regarding background checks. How will Roberts vote on this issue?
Hopefully, Roberts and the other justices will not buy Barack Obama's claim Arizona is overstepping its authority. Obama has proven he has no intention of protecting the integrity of America's borders.
"Imagine if you are a Hispanic American in Arizona, your great, great grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state. But now suddenly, if you don't have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to be harassed," Obama said when the Arizona immigration law was first passed.
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It may be a lousy job, though I'm not sure what the yardstick would be, but it's a helluva lot better job than the feds have been doing for a long, long time.
Requires the Secretary to increase: (1) the number of full-time Border Patrol agents by not less than 2,000 per fiscal year from FY 2006 through 2010; and (2) the number of full-time immigration and customs enforcement investigators by not less than 800 per fiscal year for the same period.
Signed by George Bush
That's a good start.
My own ancestors came here, and followed all those same rules, to have a better life.
Which makes it even more offensive, when some think they can “cut” in line, and simply ignore the rules.
No different than people that bought a ticket for a concert, then the masses are allowed to stroll in.
Or paying for a meal, as dozens of others, walk in and get the same meal ‘gratis’.
If I have worked all week to get a paycheck, should non-employees simply walk up to the window on Friday at 5 PM, and get a check equal to mine?
We must put an end to the “cheaters”.
Jesse
I fully understand your cynicism, which is shown by the analogies you chose to use in your comment. Further, I can not in good conscious, completely disagree with your point of view on the subject of illegal aliens receiving amnesty. However, I am not comletely convinced that deportation of all 20 million illegal aliens is the answer to the problem which our country now faces.
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There are many who entered our country legally via a visa, people who have established themselves as valued industrial technicians, engineers, chemist, scientist, etc. These people are a credit to their own intelligence as well as being a needed help to the United States in it's status as world class progressive country and as a leader in advanced industrial technology.
There are those who although having entered our country illegally, after doing so, became good productive citizens, albeit, criminal citizens per our immirgratuion laws. Illegal immirgrants who go through their every day lives in a socially acceptable manner. People who have the sole purpose in life of becoming an American citizen.
There are also those who entered our country via a state department issued visa. Unfortunately for both those individuals and the United States, they failed to leave our borders upon the expiration of their visa time limit, thereby becoming illegal immirgrants. But, being productive people who are no direct harm to our way of life.
There are also those who illegally immirgrated across our borders who after finding themselves jobs, moved into a neighborhood, placed their children in public schools and right or wrong depending on one's point of view, established themselves as being apart of normal American life and thereby, have become good citizens.
I certainly do not have the answer to America's present illegal immirgration problem. However, in my opinion, for American citizens to fault the federal government for the influx of illegal immirgrants and to demand the deportation of all such immirgrants is understandable. But, it is also my opinion that to do so without considering the effect it will have on all such deportated peoples, both good and bad, deserving and not deserving, is not the American nor the humanitarian way.
I am not in any way cynical; the analogies I used are completely accurate depictions.
I do fully concur, that we cannot simply deport 20MM people at once.
We also cannot simply grant them amnesty.
First and foremost, we must secure the border.
Second, we offer a time frame, to comply with all the rules of immigration. A year. The personnel cost for us, would be offset very quickly in the taxes and fees of the “new citizens”.
The entire world operates on a basis of personal responsibility, when it comes to crime.
There was a chance to do things properly.
They failed, by cheating.
I am not opposed to giving them one last chance.
Become a citizen, pay taxes, learn enough English to survive and pass the tests, denounce all foreign powers, and pledge yourself to the U.S.A.
If a person refuses any part – send them back, or jail them.
If they choose to place their own children that were born here, in that predicament, it is no different than parents that rob banks.
Punish the parents, place the children up for adoption, or allow them to choose to stay or go – the waiting lists for adoption are incredibly long.
If any are guilty of some violent crime – ship them out.
They made the choice; they have to live with it.
And if the parents are too selfish to step up, or are violent, it is abusive, and reprehensible, to leave the children with the parents.