Arizona

Lets try again with this immigration thing.




I have said that I find no fault with hard working Christian people coming to America and trying to make a better life for them and for us. Frankly Alabama needs the population.

But, Imagine for a moment that a group of armed Russians landed on the Alaska shore.

Imagine that the Canadians tried to take Detroit.

Imagine even that the British invaded Boston harbor.

What would be the response of the American People?

What would happen if a state that borders Mexico suddenly found themselves facing armed insurgents who ruthlessly murder American Citizens.

Apparently nothing. Because this is exactly the situation in Arizona. Apparently we care too much about the sensitivities of the Mexican Government and too little about our own.

We worry about troops in Kandahar.. But say nothing of the National Guard in Chicago or the need for boots on the ground along the Mexican border.

We are slowly becoming an occupied land.

And the soldiers we need to prevent it are half a world away.

Oh Dear! I misspoke!

That is the trouble with talking about Immigration. Like any complex issue, painting with a broad stroke is likely to put a little whitewash the innocent victim. I said the problem was not Illegal Immigrants, but rather Legal Immigrants.

What I meant by that, and what I should have said was,

"The problem is a failed immigration system. "

What kind of country allows a foreign country to build a manufacturing facility and then staff it with people from the home country. Can Toyota build a plant then put up "little Japan right outside the gates?" I think not.. I hope not. Yet when we are talking about neighbors from the south it happens all the time. People legally in this country with a green card, brought in to work in a plant, while people who live with a mile of it are on state unemployment.

Please understand that there are thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people who immigrate from Europe and South America and Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras for legitimate reasons and become citizen-track Americans. These people need not carry the label immigrant. they are American Citizens.

Such is the problem with painting with a broad brush. Usually when we are talking about the Immigrant problem in Alabama we are talking Hispanic. In New York it is Asian, 40 years ago it was Irish. It has been in the past English, German, Italian, Irish, African, Chinese, Japanese, even Jewish as an immigrant group.

Arizona is absolute right. Something has to be done to stop the lawlessness that flows from the south. I think maybe we are blind to the fact that an invasion of another kind is happening in Arizona. An invasion that may require a military response.

About the new registration law in Arizona. I support it. If only to avoid a military occupation of Arizona. American history is filled with events that required drastic measures. However the Supreme Court seldom asks me about these things. Thus I promise you the law will be overturned before a single arrest is made.

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Immigration, Arizona, and the Illegals.

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." Rev 13:17-18


We are going to wade in some deep and murky water today gentle reader. To answer the question put to me -"What do you think about Illegal Immigration?"

My friend has a tag on his email that says something to the effect of

" What part of Illegal in Illegal immigrant don't you understand?".

I agree.

Sort of.

Just like I agree that we should all not cheat on our taxes and we should always obey the speed limits and we should always yield to the flashing turn signal on the driver in front.

Illegal border crossing is a problem. A huge problem. If a person can smuggle in a baby they can smuggle in a weapon of mass destruction. A nuclear or chemical device. Even a modified biological like a variation of deadly E-Coli on your lettuce. Preventing this from happening is the job of our nations highest military commander-n-chief.

And it is not being done.

We will have to wait until there is an explosion or people die to get excited about it.

But there is another side of the coin. The poor, the tired, the huddled masses. Mostly the poor that are legally imported by some ruthless manufacturer or chicken processor who wants to bring in cheap labor to keep the price of chicken soup or tomatoes low and take your job opportunities.

Actually the foreign burden on our health care system is largely Legal Immigrants. The jobs that are lost are largely the Legal Immigrants. The illegals don't get food stamps, or medicaid. They can't get a drivers license. If they work in a job that deducts social security or state taxes they don't apply for a refund. They don't get earned income tax credit.

This, I am afraid, is the dirty little secret. That Illegal immigrants actually make money for the State. So the elected leaders don't want to "find' them.

Then there is the third side to this coin. The idea that we can somehow check for legal status with "papers". I assure you that a criminal who can make a $20 bill can make papers as well. The only proven alternative is a national database of DNA (and this has been proposed) for citizens and a smartcard ID system that can take a blood or cheek swab on the spot.

That makes me nervous. Not the ID system so much. The people in D.C. who would be in charge of the information. That makes me very nervous.

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Official Song of the State of Arizona

Come to this land of sunshine
To this land where life is young.
Where the wide, wide world is waiting,
The songs that will now be sung.
Where the golden sun is flaming
Into warm, white shining day,
And the sons of men are blazing
Their priceless right of way.

chorus

Come stand beside the rivers
Within our valley broad.
Stand here with heads uncovered,
In the presence of our God!
While all around, about us
The brave, unconquered band,
As guardians and landmarks
The giant mountains stand.

chorus

Not alone for gold and silver
Is Arizona great.
But with graves of heroes sleeping,
All the land is consecrate!
O, come and live beside us
However far ye roam
Come and help us build up temples
And name those temples "home."

chorus

Sing the song that's in your hearts
Sing of the great Southwest,
Thank God, for Arizona
In splendid sunshine dressed.
For thy beauty and thy grandeur,
For thy regal robes so sheen
We hail thee Arizona
Our Goddess and our queen.


Arizona
Written by Margaret Rowe Clifford