Little-Acorn
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Our immigration system is a set of laws passed long ago by Congress and signed by the President of that time. One of the things it says is that no foreigner can enter the U.S. without a visa. And it provides for deportation of those who try. Nothing "broken" about that.
All that's remaining, is for the Executive department to do what the law says.
And that's where the problems lie. Not with the system, but with the lack of willingness of the Executive to carry out his duties: To uphold, enforce, and obey the laws of the United State. Including that one.
Many Presidents have failed to enforce that law, the latest being Obama. They have let more and more illegal aliens come into the country, and done little or nothing about it. The result by now, is a huge body of millions of illegal aliens living in this country in defiance of the law. Or, for those who actually do get caught and deported, a simple repeat trip to the border and an easy walk back in, again breaking our laws.
Don't offer some mealy-mouthed excuse like "The system is broken". The system is clear, straightforward, and reasonable. If we only did what it said, we wouldn't have a problem today.
And... Congress made the laws. Congress can change or repeal them. But it has largely refused to do that, which is its prerogative.
But now we have a President who has actually issued "Executive Orders" that directly violate the laws of the U.S., instead of the normal action of issuing E.O.'s that will help carry out the laws.
To offer disingenuous falsehoods like "Well, the system is broken" is the height of cupidity. The system is fine. To have a President who decides that he won't obey Federal laws he doesn't like, is like a bank having a guard who, instead of defending the bank and capturing bank robbers who try to rob it, simply opens the vault for them and let them take all the money they want.
The first solution to the problem is, obviously, to fire the guard who does that, and replace him with a different guard.
Next part of the solution is to get a stronger vault, maybe one that the guards can't open unless the Board of Directors give permission in each case.
But to say "The system is broken" is like saying that, since robbers keep taking money from the vault, the Board has to change its rules and allow more robbers to steal the money, and let them keep it after they do.
Our immigration system (on paper) is just fine. The problem is that we haven't obeyed it ourselves, and haven't been keeping out foreigners who don't have visas.
What we don't need now, is to announce that the millions of robbers who have stolen money, can keep it all and we won't pursue them and penalize than as the laws clearly say.
No, the first thing we need to do, is fire the present guard. And get a new one who will penalize those who have broken the laws, and take whatever measures are needed to prevent more illegals from breaking them any more.
All that's remaining, is for the Executive department to do what the law says.
And that's where the problems lie. Not with the system, but with the lack of willingness of the Executive to carry out his duties: To uphold, enforce, and obey the laws of the United State. Including that one.
Many Presidents have failed to enforce that law, the latest being Obama. They have let more and more illegal aliens come into the country, and done little or nothing about it. The result by now, is a huge body of millions of illegal aliens living in this country in defiance of the law. Or, for those who actually do get caught and deported, a simple repeat trip to the border and an easy walk back in, again breaking our laws.
Don't offer some mealy-mouthed excuse like "The system is broken". The system is clear, straightforward, and reasonable. If we only did what it said, we wouldn't have a problem today.
And... Congress made the laws. Congress can change or repeal them. But it has largely refused to do that, which is its prerogative.
But now we have a President who has actually issued "Executive Orders" that directly violate the laws of the U.S., instead of the normal action of issuing E.O.'s that will help carry out the laws.
To offer disingenuous falsehoods like "Well, the system is broken" is the height of cupidity. The system is fine. To have a President who decides that he won't obey Federal laws he doesn't like, is like a bank having a guard who, instead of defending the bank and capturing bank robbers who try to rob it, simply opens the vault for them and let them take all the money they want.
The first solution to the problem is, obviously, to fire the guard who does that, and replace him with a different guard.
Next part of the solution is to get a stronger vault, maybe one that the guards can't open unless the Board of Directors give permission in each case.
But to say "The system is broken" is like saying that, since robbers keep taking money from the vault, the Board has to change its rules and allow more robbers to steal the money, and let them keep it after they do.
Our immigration system (on paper) is just fine. The problem is that we haven't obeyed it ourselves, and haven't been keeping out foreigners who don't have visas.
What we don't need now, is to announce that the millions of robbers who have stolen money, can keep it all and we won't pursue them and penalize than as the laws clearly say.
No, the first thing we need to do, is fire the present guard. And get a new one who will penalize those who have broken the laws, and take whatever measures are needed to prevent more illegals from breaking them any more.
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