the farce of immigration

the recent immigration issue that it being portrayed as a huge issue is, in actuality, a farce. it is simply a hot-button topic for an election year and the right-wing conservatives are running out of ideas. they have already played 9/11, gay marriage/rights, abortion, and euthanasia to the hilt and people are not responding to that. what better way to get their attention than by telling them that hordes of brown people are invading whitebread america. land of the free- home of the wasp.

what better way to get the evangelicals' panties in a bunch than to tell them that mexicans, in particular, are taking the jobs of poor americans? now, they already know that because their housekeepers don't speak english, but they have to put on a good front about how the godless heathens are taking over america. forgetting, i suppose that most of them are catholic- oh, i forgot, catholics might as well be heathens.

anyway, i have to give it to the catholics, they take care of their own- go california catholics. now, don't get me wrong- i think that the illegal immigrants should have to be legal. there isn't a reason i can think of why they shouldn't go through the immigration system and be here legally. i also don't think that we can ignore the fact that we have ignored the fact, for decades, that 12 million people have been crossing in and out of america like an ocean wave.

that being said, i don't think that it will be feasible to deport all of these people. hell, we apparently can't even enforce the border. no, i think that we need to focus our energies- our real energies- on corporate crackdowns and getting mexico to produce it's own jobs. not and easy thing to do with the mexican government in bed with the bush administration (1 and 2). yes, that's right folks. while clinton had the dubious honor of signing NAFTA- it was actually started by dubya's dad. when i say corporate crackdowns, i don't mean like the farce of homeland security raiding the german company as an appeasement. why not really enforce the existing laws instead of letting american corporate interests decide for themselves?

anyway, until the mexican government works with its own people to improve their economy, and until someone in america has the balls to stand up to corporate lobbyist money, nothing here will change. chertoff will saber rattle and round up a few thousand mexicans to be let out at a later time to go back to work. midterm elections will come and go and life will go on for everyone much the same as it always has. viva la america.