Immigration reform, or the lack thereof, is all about politics, and has nothing to do with national security. In the nineteen eighties, Congress vested some three million illegal aliens, most of whom were citizens of Mexico, with a stay in the US, and receive your US citizenship card, free. Congress then made an explicit promise to the American people to tighten border security, so this would never happen again.
Fast forward twenty years, and now we are talking about some eighteen million illegal aliens, most of whom are citizens of Mexico. Congress would now like to give them all a stay in the US, and receive your US citizen card, free. In return, Congress is willing to make an explicit promise to the American people to secure our borders, so that this will never happen again.
Sorry, but I am not going to buy that load of happy horse chit, twice.
If Congress and US corporations wish to create a North American Free Work Agreement (NAFWA), then fine, let's all debate it out in the open.
As for “border security” in an era of “backpack” portable nuclear bombs, that is a joke. The USSR spent trillions of hard earned rubles on border security. For what? A kid flying a Cessna penetrated that security and landed in Red Square. If he had chanted Allah Ackbar three times, pressed the red button, and converted some sixty pounds of uranium into carbon, strontium, iodine, and cesium, then adios Moscow, and adios to trillions of rubles worth of “border security.”
In my not so humble opinion, any nation that wants security in the twenty-first century, had better start by addressing the problems of it's neighbors. And, like it or not, in the twenty-first century, we are all neighbors.
