Saturday, November 8, 2003

Reverse Colors

In The News – Potpourri

-by Leslie Johnson, Phoenix, AZ

Saturday, November 08, 2003

There is a new Common Sense article today.

Thursday, November 06, 2003

I may throw up if I have to listen to one more political operative drone on about how we are losing the peace in Iraq because we don’t have a plan. It would be nice if the script were even an original, but check this out. How many times will history show the liberal left consistently wrong?

The CBS drama of “The Reagan’s” will not air this month in response to the outrage and flood of communications they have received. Good job to all of us who let our little voices be heard; collectively it was a roar that the sponsors heard loud and clear. The Hollywood crowd is screaming censorship on artistic expression. Haven’t heard anyone throw out McCarthy’s name yet but I am sure some moron will. They just don’t get the concept of cause and effect between angering the consumer and the economic disaster that ensues. Of course, you have to first believe in accountability to understand this.

Biggest news yesterday was the “memo” from the Senate Intelligence Committee that gives the play by play of how to leak classified information at the most opportune time and pick through the information and only leak what can be used for their political advantage. Someone needs to tell Terry McAuliffe to rein these menaces in before the American public realizes what a threat to national security they are and pull a CBS on them. In case they haven’t noticed this past week, they lost the only two governorships up for grabs, after losing California’s last month. They might also want to note that since 2000, they no longer have the White House or the Senate. An ounce of intelligence might detect a pattern here.

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Yesterday while President Vicente Fox was preparing to land at the Phoenix airport, a shoot out was taking place on the highway leading into Phoenix from southern Arizona. Two vans carrying illegal aliens and their “coyotes” were the targets. It appears that just as the drug traffickers highjack each other’s payloads, so do the people traffickers. Here’s the link to the story in the Phoenix paper this morning.

Instead of the proposed agenda of lobbying Governor Napolitano to accept the matricula card as ID and asking for her support in the issuing of Arizona’s driver’s licenses to illegals, perhaps his time would have been better spent at home working on a plan to educate the citizens of his country on the dangers of entering the US illegally. Between the low lives that transport them or the vast, dangerous, and unforgiving desert they cross while walking in, the trip can be very lethal. Those that possess that knowledge make an informed choice but many of them don’t know it and are victims of misplaced trust.

It is up to the government of Mexico to stop encouraging this illegal activity and educate its citizens to these dangers. It is up to our government to stop politicizing this issue and take a very strong stand in favor of protecting it’s own citizens both physically and economically.

Our message to those who are not here legally is very ambiguous because our politicians want their cake and eat it too. If you were on the other side of the border and were told that the US is very serious about controlling illegal immigration; but hey, if you make it there alive, you will have access to work, healthcare, an education, a driver’s license, possibly even voting rights…you might choose to make the trip also.

Monday, November 3, 2003

Vicente Fox will visit Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas this week to showcase the value of migrant workers and push for acceptance of the Mexican issued matricula consular as what I see as the first steps to amnesty at the state level. Prior to September 11, 2001, a migration accord seemed eminent but has since has been placed on the backed burner and for a very good reason, homeland security. I guess if you can’t make much headway in Washington, you go to the Border States and see if they can help put the pressure on or bypass the President.

Last time I checked, the Federal Government had responsibility for managing immigration. It seems that states can usurp the Feds by enacting laws that may increase their voting base while putting the country as a whole at more risk. The desperate move of Grey Davis in California allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses is a prime example. You only need a driver’s license to register to vote after all.

If you listen to the politicians, you will be told we need “guest” workers in this country to do the menial jobs the citizens of this country won’t do and without them the service industry would collapse. A few points to ponder:

§ I don’t think of illegal aliens as “guests” just as I wouldn’t consider someone who kicked in the door of my house to gain entry as my guest. They may be in my house but I seemed to have lacked a say in the matter.

§ It is politically incorrect to refer to these hardworking, taxpaying non-citizens as illegal aliens. The term illegal implies breaking the law or engaging in criminal behavior. The preferred term is undocumented workers. (Undocumented is more palatable because it could just be a little paperwork snafu that has victimized them leaving them undocumented.) A little snafu such as not filling out any paperwork to begin with?

§ The service industry would collapse is an interesting justification. The translation here is that the government supports businesses that are breaking the law. Silly me, I thought the government’s purpose was to make and enforce laws and punish those that don’t.

In response to pressure from all sides, some politicians are currently working on a guest worker program that no doubt will be so filled with bureaucratic bloat, holes and challenges that it will never be implemented. I believe in the KISS method of problem solving, Keep It Simple Stupid. Here’s a short and simple plan for beginning to increase homeland security by making our borders less porous and providing a guest worker program.

IF YOU ARE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY

§ You have ninety days to register, make application to be a guest worker, and be granted a temporary work visa or you may leave this country and return to your homeland no questions asked.

o In this first round, we won’t bother with background checks prior to issuing your temporary work visa because quite frankly you are already here, why bother.

§ At the end of the ninety-day grace period, anyone found in this country that is not a citizen of this country and remains undocumented will be immediately deported after a short and sweet deportation hearing.

o The hearing will consist of producing the required documentation or be shipped out.

o If we have to deport you, you will be blacklisted and will forfeit any chance to be eligible to apply for a work visa or for residency in the future.

§ You will be issued a work visa for a specific period of time that allows you to be in this country. These visas are renewable prior to expiration. Please make arrangements to exit the country on or before the day of expiration. Failure to do so will result in deportation and blacklisted against future entry.

§ Think of the guest worker program as taking a long business trip and leave your family at home. Work visas will only be granted to workers, not to the entire family. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and is powerful incentive to return home again.

§ All government agencies will be responsible for enforcement at the Federal, State, County, City and Local levels.

§ Those wishing to respect our laws and immigrate here will follow the normal channels that have been in place but disregarded for years. This includes those seeking political asylum also.

There are an estimated 10 million illegal aliens in this country right now. It’s time to take this issue very seriously.