Illegal Immigration

I find myself continually amazed with the "immigration issue" because of the way it is constantly framed. As with so many things concerning the government they choose to rename things and thus try to take away points of debate. In the case of immigration they desperately needed to find another term than illegal. They quickly happened upon “Undocumented”. This term doesn’t have the connotation of illegal only delinquent or something that is a mistake or a lapse on the part of breaking the law. The method used is very crafty. Once they start using the term undocumented they can then leave off using any modifier and just start talking about them as immigrants. After all aren’t we a land of immigrants? How un-American to be against immigration. But at the point you allow that into the conversation you have already left off with any sense of legality.

Once they’ve assumed a legality or at least that we shouldn’t hold it against them because they only want to work and find decent jobs, you are then left being the bad guy if you stand against what they’re doing. You are then the bad guy for calling them illegal or law breakers.

The reality is that every day they are here without visas, immigration papers, or green cards they are here illegally and by definition are breaking the law. This means they are not law abiding citizens. If a person continues to steal but obeys every other law of the land you would still not call him a law abiding person, why then do we call illegal immigrants law abiding. They are not!!

Applying the term criminal to a person who breaks the law and is still breaking the law is certainly valid. At least it seems to be in every way except where immigration is concerned and then it is only in regard to Mexicans that it applies. It is rather like talking about terrorists and not wanting to mention Islam. Can anyone think of a terrorist attack that hasn’t been committed by a Muslim in the last 10 years?

It is for this reason that I don’t have a problem with someone being called an illegal immigrant and indeed am for it all the more. To distract the conversation by saying they add to the economy is still to ignore their illegal actions in the first place.

I wonder if the government or the IRS would accept this kind of reasoning. We don’t need to pay taxes because we’re adding to the economy just by working so it should be find to just be undocumented workers. After all isn’t this what they’re calling the illegal immigrants. So if they’re so law abiding where is their social security money? Where are their taxes…ALL OF THEM! Does this mean that we don’t need to pay all of our taxes? If so then I’m all for this undocumented thing as long as it gets to apply to us as well. Eventually they can offer us Tax Amnesty status. After all if enough people aren’t paying their taxes the only thing to do is give them all amnesty.

I wonder if our non-representing representatives will vote for a bill for that? If we’re simply going to ignore any law that makes a large group of people angry then I say we should start at the tax law. That certainly makes more than enough people angry and as such we shouldn’t have to abide by it. Certainly if undocumented workers (Mexicans) don’t have to abide by it then we certainly should be exempt from it as well!