Sometimes I believe we live in a parallel universe. There is Washington D.C. reality, and then we
have the rest of the country. Nothing
better illustrates this than the illegal alien controversy. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard both
republican and democratic politicians demand we bring these people out of the shadows. I’m here to tell you they aren’t living in
the shadows. As a matter of fact, they
are shamelessly in our face about it.
You can go to any given business, and you’ll see an
illegal alien working there. Many cater
to illegals. Go to a Lowes or a Home
Depot. Ever notice Spanish signs
littering the hallways? Go to a public
school and you’ll see their children.
Hell, they’re demanding in-state college tuition and taxpayer funded
assistance. Does that sound like a
people living in the shadows to you?
What we have are a bunch of gutless wonders roaming
the halls of Congress. One of them is
Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina.
CARY — Facing criticism within her own party, U.S. Rep. Renee
Ellmers on Wednesday doubled down on her push to give legal status to millions
of immigrants living illegally in the country.
The Dunn Republican is making immigration
overhaul a top priority even as it becomes a flashpoint in her re-election
campaign and the prospect of a deal appears to fade on Capitol Hill.
“If I can do anything in Washington, I’d like
to solve this problem,” the second-term lawmaker told a forum of immigration
advocates in Cary.
Ellmers offered a broad outline of a plan that
puts the emphasis foremost on securing the nation’s borders, while also
including legal status for the roughly 11 million people living in the
United States illegally.
It is not the equivalent of citizenship,
Ellmers cautioned, but a lesser status that she did not define. To gain legal
status, she said, immigrants would have to verify their identity, pay a penalty
and admit wrongdoing.
“We have to put forward a process where they
can achieve that goal,” she said. “I don’t know what that is going to look
like.”
The notion of self-deportation is not
workable, she asserted.
“It is not practical, it is not common sense,
to assume that 11 or 12 … million people are simply going to pick up and leave
our country,” Ellmers said. “It is not possible because they have built their
lives here, they have built their families here.”
There is a practical
way. But it would mean bucking the
Washington D.C. establishment. First of
all, we must abolish birth right citizenship.
Second, illegal alien children will not have access to a public school
education. That means reversing rogue
rulings by the federal judiciary. Thirdly,
States must have the ability to enforce immigration laws. But most importantly,
States must punish businesses that hire and house them. Take away their incentives and they will
leave. Enact another Simpson-Mazzoli and
the third-world invasion continues.
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