Jun - 7th
The Real Deal on Illegal Immigration, our Expensive Bandaid
Posted at 4:47 am | Filed Under Republicans, Election 2008, Immigration
Immigration seems to be a new rallying point for the Republicans lately. The biggest idea that they can come up with is building a wall, recording the illegal alien in a computer system, and then trucking them all back to Mexico. The first illogical thing that many people think is that by building a wall along the border you will be able to keep illegal immigrants from coming across the border. This tends to defy logic by miles figuratively and in reality. The border is not just a line on a map, anyone that has visited the border will tell you that the area is massive not just an easily drawn line across the border. In many places the border crosses right through the middle towns. A wall is not a realistic solution to the illegal immigration issue. Also walls without watching will be breached. If someone is willing to walk or be trucked for miles in the desert to cross the border how much is a fence going to slow them down? Second, the system to record illegals is already out of date and inadequate to capture and validate illegal aliens. The system is run and maintained by the government, who can barely maintain their current systems without spending billions of dollars, and still not having the kind of relational data on felons that they need to make decisions on people residing in the country. The third issue is that somehow all of these illegal aliens must somehow return to their country of origin and then wait up to 13 years to be processed? What exactly is in it for the illegal alien to go through the system?
