Posted by
John Finnigan on Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:02:33 AM
If I were an unskilled citizen of, Ireland, and had been waiting for the past five or six years for a visa to enter the United States I would hate the current immigration reform bill. I would look and see that this bill clearly favors people of Hispanic ethnic origin.
I would also hate the bill because the United States has an abysmal record enforcing previously enacted immigration legislation. The Immigration Reform Control Act of the 1980’s being a prime example. Anybody who worked with immigration issues will remember how the Federal Government declined to enforce some of the most elemental provisions of that fiasco.
I would look at the immigration reform bill and see that there really are two immigration systems. One for Hispanic people and one for everybody else. People of Hispanic origin get through quicker, easier and with greater creativity. Everybody else waits.
The price that the Hispanic people pay is being part of an illegal underclass is that citizens of the United States call these immigrants criminal, and they operate in underground status. This despite that fact that our country let them in.
We let these people in the country. Our businesses prospered because of them. Our governmental services have been overwhelmed because of them. There are thriving and growing illegal immigrant ghettos around the country that are filled with them. Their citizen children despise the system makes them untouchable, and rightly so. And unskilled want to be immigrants in non Hispanic countries are mad because the system favors Hispanics.
The current bill probably won’t do anything to change those facts because the next administration will probably not enforce this legislation.
It is a mess and we made it.
John