A New Look at the Federal Suit Against Arizona’s Immigration Law
“The question on how to deal with illegal immigration is an emotional one for many people. Some call for mass deportations, but that should not happen: mass deportations are a typical symbol of dictatorship, not of democracy.”
Making an emotional statement after saying the issue is an emotional one is just chasing your own tail. First, we only have the writer’s word that mass deportation is equated with dictatorship. Lack of examples or cited source! Second, dictatorships tend to keep people IN, not OUT!! You know? Iron Curtains? Barbed wire and machine gun patrols? Third, mass deportations are not normally regular occurrences in any sort of government. It is normally a response to massive problems involving immigrants which have gone unaddressed for decades. You just don’t have a sudden need for mass deportations arising overnight, or even in a few months. It takes years of neglect and inaction, and a porous border, first.
That having been said, the American people aren’t idiots. We’re just fed up with the “Americans are too lazy to do the work” mentality we hear coming from the people who appear too lazy to perform their own jobs! ICE has repeatedly stated that they will not accept illegal alien referrals from the states, while the DoJ is suing Arizona for having the nerve to try to do SOMETHING about the situation, while Americans are suffering, dying, AND paying the bill for it! Enough anger, and “deport ‘em all!” starts sounding like REASON, especially in comparison to, for example, the DREAM Act, where young adults children of illegal immigrants are slated to be rewarded for their parents’ violation of the law.
No, we can’t deport ‘em all, and do so in compliance with due process, habeus corpus and all other civil rights. So…do nothing???
I tend to agree with the core subject of this article. Yes, getting favorable precedents established will help, but not necessarily overcome, the Arizona lawsuit, and even willing a total victory in court is meaningless if the Feds don’t make an effort to enforce illegal migration law. There can be no victory, nor even an improvement, until we no longer have a Liberal in the White House, who considers the rights of illegal residents to be superior to those of legal residents and citizens.
