See, Curing the Border Is A Problem

The failure of Congress to properly and effectively address United States’ Immigration laws and policies has provided the opportunity for a number of States to demonstrate their ineptitude at understanding what causes and promotes illegal immigration, what the real problems are that are derived from such immigrations, and what laws and policies should be created as effective means for addressing the causes, the problems and the law.

I don’t suppose that it is to be unexpected that State politicians are as worthless as our elected national Congressional and Presidential leaders are. They seem to succumb to the same let’s choose an easy answer solution that sounds good to one constituency or other. First defend the border, do whatever it takes to prevent illegal aliens from physically crossing the border. Once we do that then we can deal with other illegal immigrate issues and problems. Or, first we need to deal with the 11+ million illegal aliens [some sources push counts that put the number at almost twice that] that are already here in the US. Do either the national or state politicians really think that these are the immigration problems that need to be addressed, and if addressed that these would solve the immigration mess that our state and federal governments has allowed to infect, fester and endanger our social fabric?

Neither securing the border nor deciding how resident illegal aliens should be dealt with will solve the immigration problem. Yes, both would change the conditions around illegal immigration; but really! Why would either stop illegal immigration?

Making the border harder to cross will guarantee that we accomplish one specific result. It will make it ‘harder to cross’; but it will not make it impossible to cross. As long as there is a good enough reason to want to get here, there will be folks who will provide a way to achieve it. And the cost to perpetually improve, upgrade and enhance the ‘secure’ border will become just another one of our politicians’ favorite phenomenon: a budgetary gold mine for special interests, campaign contributors, and themselves. There will be a final solution just another $2 billion (plus annual operating cost and increase) away. And the worst thing is that there will be superior solutions that cost one-tenth the cost that will never be recognized nor accepted because it will not serve the vested interests.

Dealing with the population of current illegal aliens in the country does not solve the immigration problem, because it doesn’t stop border crossing nor does it account for the social and economic consequences to the US from either deportation or from amnesty. Just choosing to deport or to provide a ‘path to citizenship’ for illegal aliens does not assure us that there are no negative consequences to either or both actions, and it does not guarantee that in balance the results will be advantageous.

It would be wise to understand the consequences of what we are proposing to do, before we do them.

And it would be even more essential that we understand what causes illegal immigration so that we can develop well reasoned and logical solutions to address the causes and the consequences of illegal immigration.

This is clearly something that neither our federal nor state politicians nor their respective bureaucracies are prepared to or competent to handle.

Angry Over Their Own Ineptitude

Congressional members, mostly Republicans, are angry that President Obama has used the executive branch power to make interim appointments to make Donald Berwick the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. They are upset because they feel he has ignored their responsibility to advise and consent to such appointments. Surely this is a justified reaction to the President’s unreasonable use of a completely legal use of a procedure used by many Presidents before (both Republican and Democrat).

After all, Congress had the ability to hold their hearings and to make their ‘advice and consent’ vote if they had chosen to just do it. But that would not have served their desire to delay the hearings and to try and try and achieve a political benefit out of their own delaying tactic. Is there any American who would not agree with these Congressional self-righteous individuals are being unreasonably taken advantage of just because they didn’t want to do their Constitutional duty and were instead looking for a self-serving opportunity? Of course not! No one expects our elected legislative officials to do their jobs. What responsibility does Congress have to serve the public! Is their oath of office something that they should be bound by, just because they made it on a bible (or other text appropriate to their faith)? No! These are Congress-men/women who are not expected to serve honorably or living up to American principles of civic duty.

And besides, how dare President Obama undertake to put someone into a governmental position to do something to serve the public! He has a lot to learn about being a politician.