We already have all the laws we need in order to punish illegal immigrants. Why aren’t we doing it? Why haven’t we been doing it for the last fifty years or more? If the laws are no good, if they are unjust, then change them. That’s one of the duties of good governance, and I’m afraid that’s what we don’t have.

If you want to read the law itself, all you have to do is punch up the Cornell Law School’s collection of U.S. Codes and ask your computer for “Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII” (or click here) and you can read the law on “criminal penalties” for violating our immigration policies.

This is yet another case of the federal government’s refusal to follow its own rules and regulations. We’ve seen it before. We’ve seen it in everything from abandoning and distorting the Constitution to illegal invasions, torture, wiretapping, and the fraud involved with almost half of our national debt, part of which is the theft of our supplemental retirement money.

The people sneaking across our borders know that we will not do much of anything. They know that the US will not follow its own rules. They know that the worst that can happen is that they get sent back to try again. Just as it would be with children, it’s a foolish game of hide-and-seek.

The organizers of the demonstrations in our cities today tell us that America cannot afford to deport the millions of illegal aliens already here, that it’s too big a job, which is a ridiculous and childish argument in itself. With the Bush administration borrowing an average of five billion a day over its normal tax revenue, money is certainly not the problem. With a police state that’s been building for years, a military force that dominates budgets, and compounds set up at old base closures from the Clinton days, the means to enforce our laws are certainly there. All that’s missing is the will.

Better yet, we could apply the law to our own citizens who hire illegals and these border-breakers would go home in jig time. The people crossing our borders at the rate of some thirty thousand a day would give up and it wouldn’t cost us much at all. Simply arrest some of the CEOs and Presidents of major corporations along with some of the guilty personnel and “human resources” people, plus some small business owners and homeowners, and it would reverberate through the illegal population like wildfire. With no jobs, the one thing they all fear would suddenly become reality – arrest and deportation. In fact, they would probably be asking for free transportation back to their homelands.

The argument that we are a nation of immigrants and should therefore accept the illegals is just as childish. This same Ellis Island Statue of Liberty nation also passed immigration laws and quotas. If we need more immigrants, all we have to do is temporarily increase the quotas. Even “guest worker” programs make some sense in this regard, particularly for farmers. But even that’s only a temporary fix because anyone with a temporary visa is likely to overstay their time and join the ranks of those who never bothered to get a visa.

About the only sensible thing heard from the Latinos is that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has made it impossible for them to work their own farms in Mexico. Instituted by George the elder, supported by Clinton the molester, this “sucking sound” has been further increased by George the younger and king of the oligarchy with CAFTA under the same pretense that it was another win-win situation.

Ready for a real shocker?

In October of 2004, a man named James Howard Kunstler delivered predictions on the effects of peak oil. Coupled with the realities of global warming, this six page article will teach you that it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Read it. The beginning of steady decline is all around you today.

It’s depressing, not only because it says things like “you can kiss Phoenix and Las Vegas goodbye” but because it totally obliterates the argument that illegal aliens fill a need in jobs Americans will not do. We are going to be forced to take on these jobs in a return to traditional farming communities where we’ll “be lucky to feed ourselves.”

Which means:

We not only have a national debt that’s skyrocketing, a balance of trade completely out of whack, outsourcing of jobs and industries, a dollar falling in value worldwide, unemployment worse than the government will admit, and now an illegal immigrant workforce that’s dragging down pay scales while failing to recognize that they’ve jumped from the frying pan into the fire – but we also have mother nature working against us. Disappearing oil so essential to our high tech warfare, shipping, transportation, and every man's modern stallion, plus global warming that's changing our weather patterns and environment only adds weight to the conditions causing the superpower to fall on its ass. If we want to stray very far from home in the future, Americans better start learning how to wind sail on skateboards.