Treating the Symptoms of Illegal Immigration, Not The Source

(Just for fun, I gotta see how many of you came out of this again)

Let's just say that your family is driving down the road to come and visit you at your house. On the way there a drunk driver smashes into them causing great harm, if not death. Let's also say that you come to find out that this driver is here illegally. So they are:

1. Illegally here in the U.S.
2. Driving illegally on the roads
3. Intoxicated
4. More than likely have some sort of false identification (driver's license or social security card)

If you really think that is a far fetched story, you can search the Internet for like-wise crimes committed by illegal immigrants and find MANY. This just so happens to be a case that I hear a women tell over the radio in her own words.

Had that person gone through the system the right way or not at all, they probably would have never been on the road. I say "probably, because there is always the chance that had they done the right things they could still have been stupid enough to end up in the same predicament.

Where am I going with this? Who knows, cause I certainly don't, I am just a racist Conservative. No, I actually have a point here.

This week in the Supreme Court, the Justices ruled unanimously that federal identity-theft law may not be used against many illegal workers who used false Social Security numbers to get jobs.

Apparently prosecutors were using the identity theft to pressure the immigrants (illegal) into confessions of smaller crimes.

According to this NYT article:

“If it turns out that the number belongs to a real person,” Justice Alito wrote, “two years will be added to the defendant’s sentence, but if the defendant is lucky and the number does not belong to another person, the statute is not violated.”

While that is certainly not a "backwards" step, it still only treats the symptoms and does not cure the source.

As with so many other things that deal with illegal immigrants, we keep looking at and right past the word "illegal". They shouldn't be here in the first place and therefore should be subject to the law, not have laws made to cater to them.

Let me be very clear, I am all for immigrants, as long as they go through the correct process. Illegal immigrants only hurt and hinder the system while causing pocket problems across the country. My ancestors didn't start off here in America, they immigrated here from England and Italy, but they went through Ellis Island and did the right thing.

This also brings me to all of this conversion to Spanish language everywhere. Billboards in all Spanish, press 2 for Spanish. At some point you have to assimilate. Our ancestors did and to be a part of this society you should too. We appreciate our heritage but to think that a country you move to has to bend its traditions to cater to you is just ridiculous.

While I am on the topic, I hate when people refer to themselves as "African American" or "Italian American" or anything else American. You are an American, be proud of that.

That was another rant, excuse me.

Back to the article:

"Nearly 8 million illegal immigrants are working in the United States, the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington estimates.

Stephen H. Legomsky, a professor of immigration law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, said Monday’s decision would have a major impact on the strategy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, making it more difficult for the agency to press criminal charges against immigrants with no other offenses but working illegally. "

"The Obama administration has said that it will shift the focus of immigration enforcement to employers who intentionally hire unauthorized immigrants in order to pay lower wages or otherwise lower costs. But last week the administration said agents would continue to detain illegal immigrants found in raids."

Some good news, some bad news...what can you do but sit back and watch the chaos?