Immigration payback time

The New York Times is reporting in Thursday's edition that President Obama, not content with the large number of fingers he's simultaneously putting into every other issue currently affecting the country, is going to introduce a plan to phase in a complete amnesty for illegal aliens "comprehensive immigration reform".

The Times theorizes (correctly, in my judgment) that the Messiah is almost being forced to do so, even as he's frantically trying to solve every other perceived national problem at the same time and despite the polarizing issue's obvious political risk, because his naked campaign promise to immediately legitimize millions of lawbreakers caused a massive bloc of mainly Hispanics to vote for him, and they want their reward now, not in some nebulous future time frame.

"'I know this is an emotional issue; I know it’s a controversial issue,' [Obama] told an audience at a town meeting on March 18 in Costa Mesa, Calif. 'I know that the people get real riled up politically about this.'"

With good reason, usually. It's tough to lose your job in hard times, especially in part because a large influx of illegal workers has artificially depressed wages and taken positions that could be filled by lawful workers, especially the young and unskilled who are disproportionately affected by a bum economy.

"But, he said, immigrants who are long-time residents but lack legal status 'have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows.'"

Actually, they do. It's called "return to your home country and apply to come here legally, instead of jumping the line ahead of millions of others who are doing things the lawful and orderly way".

Millions just like the family of Gonzalo Martinez Celaya of Tucson, Arizona, who wrote the following on March 19 as part of a letter to the Arizona Republic defending Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's enforcement of immigration law:

"...I'd like to state that my father and maternal grandparents all came from Mexico to work here legally and to assimilate into the American culture. I am ashamed to see the sheriff so unfairly attacked and vilified by Chicano separatist radicals."

Celaya and many others clearly see how so many rude people have pushed their way ahead of others waiting patiently in line, and it sticks in their craw, as it should to any law-abiding citizen.

The Messiah's apparent sacrificial lamb point man on the issue is Democratic Representative Luis Gutierrez of Chicago, who is barnstorming the country trying to gin up support for the amnesty instead of representing the legal voters of his district:

In an interview, Mr. Gutierrez rejected the idea that the timing is bad for an immigration debate. “There is never a wrong time for us,” he said. “Families are being divided and destroyed, and they need help now.”

Wrong, sir. The only families being "divided" are the ones doing it to themselves, by arriving here and then having anchor babies to use as an excuse for why they can no longer be returned to where they properly should be.

Besides, when does it end? Even if a new amnesty is declared, people will still come here illegally in the future, just as they did after the last failed amnesty in 1986. Should we allow future illegal aliens to stay here as well, because after all there "is never a wrong time" to enforce our borders and our laws, as Rep. Gutierrez apparently thinks?

No. The immigration merry-go-round stops here. Enforce our borders and our laws right now. The Federal government broke its promise to us after the 1986 amnesty, when it failed to live up to its end of the bargain. It's time to let our legislators know in no uncertain terms, just like in 2007 when a similar push for amnesty failed due to a massive popular revolt, that we peasants will not be fooled again, and that their cushy Washington jobs are riding on this.