Bush Triangulates Wisely on Illegal Immigration
Apparently realizing that shilling for the Chamber of Commerce and its endless appetite for cheap immigrant labor has contributed heavily to his political collapse, George Bush made a wise move tonight with his televised primetime address where he unveiled a plan to deploy National Guard troops to our porous Southern border with Mexico. The address still made passing references to his noxious "guest worker program" proposal that amounts to little more than American apartheid, but the focal point of his commentary was border enforcement, which sensible people of all political persuasions recognize as vital to the financial survival of our country. Since existing border security measures are clearly not taking care of the problem, the deployment of National Guard troops to our Southern border is certainly worth a try. If it fails to produce a sufficient outcome, then we'll have to regroup and come up with a Plan B.
The bottom line is that something has to secure the borders beyond some pie-in-the-sky "crackdown on employers who hire illegals" fantasy that is all too often embraced as the only acceptable solution by members of my own political party. While that certainly sounds good, the technology enabling fake identities for illegals is getting more sophisticated all the time, and there's no way that the political muscle of the INS will supercede that of the meatpackers, construction companies, and agribusiness barons caught hiring illegals and putting up the same defense that they've gotten away with for years....that "all the paperwork checked out when we hired him/her". A border security policy that includes "cracking down on those who hire illegals" is shorthand for the status quo going on for another 20 years, and Americans know it. That's why Bush's latest move in the immigration chessmatch has the Democrats' backs against the wall. Americans will almost assuredly embrace the idea of the National Guard patrolling the border. If the Dems are dumb enough to cry foul and boisterously denounce the desperately-needed border security measure, they'll probably lose in this fall's midterms....and they'll deserve to lose.
The bottom line is that something has to secure the borders beyond some pie-in-the-sky "crackdown on employers who hire illegals" fantasy that is all too often embraced as the only acceptable solution by members of my own political party. While that certainly sounds good, the technology enabling fake identities for illegals is getting more sophisticated all the time, and there's no way that the political muscle of the INS will supercede that of the meatpackers, construction companies, and agribusiness barons caught hiring illegals and putting up the same defense that they've gotten away with for years....that "all the paperwork checked out when we hired him/her". A border security policy that includes "cracking down on those who hire illegals" is shorthand for the status quo going on for another 20 years, and Americans know it. That's why Bush's latest move in the immigration chessmatch has the Democrats' backs against the wall. Americans will almost assuredly embrace the idea of the National Guard patrolling the border. If the Dems are dumb enough to cry foul and boisterously denounce the desperately-needed border security measure, they'll probably lose in this fall's midterms....and they'll deserve to lose.
posted by Mark at 5:05 PM
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