Sunday, April 15, 2007

Marching for their Amnesty!

Once again, ‘immigrants’ are protesting in an attempt to persuade our government to provide a general amnesty. Unfortunately, as immigrants are those who enter our country legally, these criminals must be referred to by more accurate titles, such as ‘criminals’ or ‘illegally resident aliens’.
The most appropriate and non-offensive term available, especially for those who don’t like referring to criminal activity as ‘illegal’, is ‘undocumented resident alien’.
An interesting point to ponder however, is those millions of people who are here illegally, but who many seem to claim it is their ‘right’ to be here? How can you plead for amnesty if you are not guilty of a crime? If amnesty itself means forgiveness of a crime? Anyway, I digress.
I have finally decided that I may have gone about how to handle these good, honest, hard-working citizens (3 lies in 4 words, cool). Rather than enforcing our immigration laws, maybe we should permit these invaders of our country to remain and provide them amnesty for their violation of our sovereign law. But, to gain their amnesty, we require that they must also prove that they have been working performing honest work while here.
They should show how they were making a living without using false documents (a felony), identity theft (a felony), tax evasion (another felony) or drug trafficking (yet another felony). They should also be made to identify who they were working for, and explain how they were able to ‘trick’ that company into believing they were eligible to work, and into hiring them.
Since these are all ‘honest’ and ‘good’ people (despite being criminals), we shouldn’t expect to find many who have committed these felonious acts. Should we?
How about those who have committed fraud to obtain state/federal benefits? Having a child, yet not reporting your full income to ensure your child’s eligibility for housing assistance, food stamps, wic, etc.... This is illegal. It is also a federal offense. AMERICANS go to jail for it if done intentionally.
Of course, I would be willing to bet that by eliminating those illegal aliens who have committed these types of crimes, the number eligible for amnesty would drop significantly, possibly by as much as 95%. I don’t have any statistics to back this up, however, as of yet, I have not been able to determine how a person who is not authorized to work, can exist in our country without violating any other laws.
So why don’t we simply make it a requirement that illegal aliens must prove their existence, and how they did it without committing a variety of felonies, and then we might be able to start to talk amnesty.

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