Shankar Vedantam in the Washington Post has an article on why our leaders in Washington D.C. have failed us on immigration and why they will continue to fail the citizens of this country if the Senate Amnesty Bill is passed. Here are some of the money quotes:
"Husak and Solum, legal theorists and philosophers, argue that laws on immigration are part of a broad pattern. In recent decades, they say, Congress has passed innumerable laws that no one seriously expects will be enforced. Such laws largely seem to serve symbolic purposes and are often designed to placate some powerful constituency -- conservatives in the case of immigration, or the entertainment industry in the case of laws that seek to deter people from swapping copyrighted music and movies."
No one seriously expects to be enforced? I think the American people actually want our immigration laws enforced. It is Congress has yet to learn that when they make laws they actually have to enforce them. They did not do it in 1986 when there were three million illegals in the U.S. and now they want to do the same thing when there are 12 million illegals. "Stupid is as stupid does" as Forrest Gump would say.
"When we set up laws that are intended to express symbolic disapproval, but that we are not willing to enforce, we send a message that we are not expecting people to obey the law," Solum said. "The immigration laws are a perfect example of that."
And if the Senate Amnesty Bill passes the stupid Senators who vote for this bill will be sending that message to the world once again!
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