The Left Half of the Immigration Puzzle
Most voters don’t want the immigration situation of the past several decades, where we have reasonable laws on the books, but those laws go unenforced while huge numbers of illegals pour over the border. In a democratic republic you would assume that a majority of voters will eventually get what it wants, but not in this case. And that’s the puzzle: Why has democracy failed here?
The puzzle has two pieces. The left wants massive immigration for long-term political advantage, while the right’s natural allies in big business enjoy the benefits of cheap labor with the taxpayers bearing most of the costs.
Neither side of this unholy alliance has any reason to talk too freely about what they’re doing, because the whole scheme relies on them pretending that non-enforcement of our immigration laws some mysterious otherworldly phenomenon, rather than the specific intention of those in power. But Michelle Malkin reports on Senator Barbara Boxer slipping up and revealing a little too openly how the game works.
Boxer recently introduced an amendment (SA 3246) to a spending bill in which the Senate would openly instruct the immigration enforcement authorities not to enforce the law:
It is the sense of the Senate that as part of the effort to count all persons physically in the United States during the 2010 Census, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau of the Department of Homeland Security should limit aggressive enforcement of federal immigration laws to promote full participation by non-citizens in the census.
And more illegals in the census means more House seats for California.
That’s where all the illegals come from, folks. Don’t fall for any silly stories about how the border is too big and the logistics of enforcement are too difficult. The immigration laws go unenforced because the politicians want them to go unenforced.