Immigration Reform

Yes, you did read correctly. Today's topic is Immigration Reform since it is foremost on many peoples' minds. I read this morning the government is taking the governor of Arizona to court on the premise the Arizona Immigration law violates the Constitution. If you read the Constitution, and then read the Arizona law slated to go into affect on 29 July 2010, you will find the Arizona law does not truly violate the Constitution. The truly sad part is, our elected officials, who should be marginally literate in Constitutional law, presently seem, lost at sea. Obama wants to just make the illegals, legal, the constituency largely say NO! and they still do not understand what the problem is.

Let's look at some basic facts. The Constitution, and ancillary laws, state you must request permission to live in this country, just as most other countries do. The caveat to this is, if the immigrant's country is in turmoil of some sort, think Cuba, you can request asylum and enter the country that way. This holds true for Everyone, except the illegal immigrants who violate the law, hence the name Illegal Immigrant. The law applies to Everyone. Want to argue case in point? Okay, a military member and their civilian spouse are living in Spain and have a baby. They can just bring the baby back to the states no problem, right? Wrong! They have to apply for the child to be added to the civilian parent's passport, the military member may have to request an extension of their tour, if there is insufficient time remaining to get the child into the States prior to the passport being returned with the child's information appended to it, this, by the way, is a minimum of 15 months. Then, depending upon what country the child was born in they may have to go through the naturalization process, if they are not fortunate enough to be born in a country that recognizes "dual citizenship", and no, being born in a military hospital does not make you a U.S. citizen. Very few countries recognize this, in case you were wondering. The military family, the ones defending your freedom, have to obtain permission to bring their foreign born child into this country, but the Illegal Immigrant should be allow to just become a citizen, be "absorbed" as it were, into this country, but the people defending the country should have to wait, file documents like law abiding citizens, obtain permission and the proper documents and some feel this is okay. Sorry, Not Okay!

They are Illegal Immigrants because they broke the law. The single largest offending country is Mexico, who feels they should be treated as citizens. Here's the deal, they can become part of the United States, obey our laws, speak our language, which was determined to be English at the first Continental Congress, and quit complaining we are not treating them fairly, or they can apply to come into the country legally, obey our laws, learn our language and expect to go to jail if they break the law just like everyone else in this country. Very simple equation. Unfortunately, the majority we see, do not want to obey our laws, learn the language, and become citizens. Therefore, we need to send the illegals back to where they came from. When they can obey the laws of our country, then we will entertain allowing them back in. Until that point and time the government needs to shelve "Immigration Reform" and concentrate on upholding the existing laws and dealing, in a rational, not emotional way, with law breakers.