Undocumented immigrants, a product of our own doing
It goes without saying, the problem has been neglected by Congress far
too long, and we have seen and experienced massive immigration in
Southern California for a long while.
For most all of those years there may as well not have been any border-
keeping at all. The Federal government has indeed been asleep-at-the-
wheel and totally incompetent. There should be no argument, though,
that we are going to need to continue being a humane country. We
should all accept responsibility-=96=96not just blame it on Congress and/
or the many Administrations that have come and gone over the years-=96=96
because we are the keepers of the people we sent to Washington D.C. We
have allowed these very elected representatives to sit on their hands.
We too have sat on our hands. In concert, we have enabled the status
of illegal immigration to become what it is today. We place elected
representatives in office, we keep them there, we decide how long they
stay.
The people we see--our neighbors, friends, acquaintances, the people
out-and-about doing all the same things we do--these are (among) the
same people without proper documentation, the people who have
participated with us in our society. We need to work with these
people; that is, we ourselves need to accept responsibility and do
what is right. But that's not all that needs to be accomplished.
The people we send to Washington D.C. need to focus on enforcing U.S.
borders. That they should finally get it right in terms of
enforcement. That should be an important priority. The American people
want it. The Middle-East war we so desperately engage in is a throttle
we need to pull back, it's driving us like a run-away locomotive.
I think the North American Union isn't going to be much help either in
terms of controlling illegal immigration. Its very success depends on
open borders and free access between countries. Some say that the
North American Union--Canada, the U.S. and Mexico becoming one big
Union like the EU-- is more of a priority in Washington, than illegal
immigration is a priority. That's the paradox. That's the paradox;
the North American Union and controlling the border are incompatible.
My opinion, Branson Hunter
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