Editor's notes:

Well folks, by now you've no doubt realized that I haven't posted anything for several days. That is because my family and I have been in San Antonio, Texas. Sorry about not warning you ahead of time, but I don't like to announce when I'm leaving town.

For now, I'd like to make a quick post about the immigration bill that just got defeated in the U.S. Senate. Supporters called it reform, opponents, like me , (and probably you) know what it really was, amnesty. They were just going to charge the immigrants a slightly higher price for it this time.

I was also glad to see that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, voted AGAINST this latest attempt at amnesty. On her website McCaskill states...

"When the U.S. Senate recently took up the immigration bill, there were hours and hours of complicated discussions about what to do about the problem. I believe it could be addressed in a very simple way.  As a former prosecutor, I believe it is about following the law.  As an auditor, I believe it is about following the money...

when I looked at the raid that occurred in Butterfield, Missouri a few weeks ago when over 100 illegal immigrants were arrested, I kept watching the news for some word about that employer, but there was nothing. 

I know what they’ll say. The employer’s defenders will say, “but that employer down near Springfield at the chicken processing plant didn’t know – the workers had fake IDs.  They had fake Social Security numbers.” If anyone believes that employer did not know they had illegal immigrants working there, I have a bridge I want to sell you.  Of course they knew. 

 

If you had a good prosecutor and a couple of investigators, in no time at all you’d have the evidence to prove that thousands of employers in this country are not playing by the rules. But that’s not happening right now and the employers who hire illegal immigrants know they don’t have to worry because no one is interested in putting them in jail...

 

Under current law, employers right can serve up to 6 months in prison.  If we prosecuted more employers, it would do more to shut the flow of illegal immigrants, frankly, than all the legislation we could ever pass in Congress because it would send the message to American employers that they are not going to be rewarded with more profits by breaking the rules. 

 

If we want to stop illegal immigration in this country, we have to get serious about the magnet that is drawing these people to our country, instead of looking the other way when people hire illegal immigrants.  Until we stop looking the other way, ignoring those businesses that are not playing by the rules, we will never effectively deal with immigration in this country. 

 

This doesn’t have to be complicated. Enforce the law. It is a mistake to toy and allow bureaucrats to decide who has broken the law, like one amendment I opposed. Rather, when someone breaks the law they should be brought in front of our criminal justice system and be accountable to the courts.

 

But frankly, we don’t even need this legislation to be effective. If this Administration would only enforce current law, it would make a tremendous difference.

 

In fact, I voted against the Senate immigration bill for a number of reasons, but there were two that really stuck out at me. I could not support the expansion of a broken guest worker program and I did not think the employer sanctions were tough enough."

 

Of course, recently George W. Bush said that those who oppose his latest amnesty treachery"don't want to do what's good for America" .

 

I think "W" was talking about a different "America", Mexico, Central and South "America".

 

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker,

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