The Last Hurrah for Immigration Enforcement
by Jeff Davis
It seems as though the Immigration Department may be having one last fling at enforcing immigration laws in this country before the new President, be it McAmnesty or Barack “Born-in-Kenya” Obama, throws open the borders and simply lets the Mexican stampede trample us and what remains of our economy.
A recent news article reports that “Federal officials say nearly 600 suspected illegal immigrants were detained in a raid on a manufacturing plant in southern Mississippi, making it the largest such sweep in the country. A spokeswoman says more than 100 of those caught up in Monday’s raid on Howard Industries were released based on humanitarian concerns, mostly because they have children. Most of the rest were transferred to a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Jena, La. Nine 17-year-olds were transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.”
“Refugees” from what? Third World poverty? Even if some of these Third World illegals face repression at home, doesn’t every human being have a certain responsibility to try to fix their home country’s problems rather than run away from them (and invariably become a refugee in a rich White nation)? Would the US even exist today if George Washington and Thomas Jefferson fled to France instead of risking their lives by fighting a revolution? (We need to change refugee laws so that political refugees can only claim asylum in a nation with the same standard of living as their home country. That should eliminate 99 percent of the so-called “political” refugees overnight.) (more…)