Playing with Amnesty

George Rebane

Amnesty – “an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole”, Random House Dictionary (unabridged).  “an act of oblivion, a general overlooking or pardon of past offences by the ruling authority”, Oxford English Dictionary (unabridged).

Amnesty for illegal aliens today has become the new third rail of politics for both sides.  On long established principle the Republicans will not countenance it from their politicians (save the special amnesty once approved by Saint Ronald).  The Democrats, aided by the lamestream, will do their damnest to implement it without using the word or letting their faithful learn of it (the latter being an unusually easy task).

Part and parcel of the progressive propaganda blitz on amnesty is the dunning of Trump’s immigration policy speech in which he declared that 1) legalization of resident illegal aliens will be done according to existing immigration laws, and 2) the disposition of remaining illegal aliens will be addressed after the border is secured.  The rationale being that granting illegals amnesty by allowing them to shortcut the path to legalization, over those hundreds of thousands abiding by our immigration laws, is both unjust and motivates more illegal entrants, further breaking of our laws, and burdening the country’s fisc.

For openly stating that part of his immigration reform policy Trump has been likened to Hitler herding Jews during the Holocaust.  The country’s leftwingers and socialists take every opportunity to remind their acolytes and the muddled mid-roaders that the fate of the fabled ‘eleven million’ under Trump will be midnight knocks on the door and cattle car trains full of Hispanics heading for our southern border.  Unfortunately, the nation’s aggregate critical thinking skills are not up to parsing this ridiculous image that is daily tattooed on such minds.

But the bottom line is that any path to legalization, let alone citizenship, for resident illegal aliens that circumvents our laws is in fact amnesty.  The information-free thinkers must always be reminded that these people within our borders are not ‘immigrants’ in the normative sense of the word, since our country was not party to any agreement that permitted their surreptitious entry.  However, on these shores today that is not the dispensed wisdom; in the public square we, instead, pirouette with words few understand.

Comments

[fish]

Awwwww.......narrative fail!

"Mexico has zero tolerance for illegal immigrants who seek to work inside Mexico, happen to break Mexican law or go on public assistance—or any citizens who aid them …

In Mexico, legal immigration is aimed at … denying entry to those who are not healthy or would upset the, quote, “equilibrium of the national demographics.”

A rational discussion about immigration......it seems it's not just for nativist, Nazi, racist, haterz anymore!

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/242717/president-mexico-bars-immigrants-racial-grounds-daniel-greenfield

[fish]

Germans want some control over who is let in as well it seems! I guess a Cologne New Years Rapefugee fest galvanizes public opinion!

Merkel's CDU beaten by anti-immigrant AfD in state election: exit poll

Wherever is jeffy....err....jon Dozer to lecture us as to what a benefit these imports are?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-election-exitpoll-idUSKCN11A0UX?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=57cc5b4504d30152db7bd70c&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

[Bill Tozer]

Let's try something we were promised for 30 years first, then continue this dialouge about the millions of illegal aliens already aqui. Something like secure the borders first, then let's jawbone about the best way to "going forward."

I have to give Paul Ryan some slack. Yes, he sold us down the river at crunch time and gave away the store. Made him worse than Hillary among the Rowdy Conservatives. Come to find out, the poison pill to avoid another gov't shutdown during primary season was over securing the border. Imagine Jellystone Park closed for the family vacation. Bad juju. 750 million in the budget (as passed by Reagen's Amnesty Bill) finally got some funding released and was sent to the border patrol folks. But, but, but, if Ryan in the closing days/hours of the loading shutdown did not go along with having that particular 750 million dollars sent back to the Treasury, it would have been political party time gift for the Democratic Globalists. Oh, my, that would be ear plug time for sure.

Language, borders, culture. Worth a listen, IMHO

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRmPvhBAtg

[Bill Tozer]

PS: link posted above from March 20, 2014....Trump not on the scene yet.

[George Rebane]

Angela Merkel opened Germany's border to over one million Syrian Arabs last year. She hoped it would sustain the country's economy with new workers, but she doesn't know how many migrants she had to import to get one worker and the rest to suck on the federal tit. But it has given rise to new nationalist parties like 'Alternative for Germany' which beat her badly in a provincial election yesterday.

An economically viable nation that does not produce its own labor force will be invaded by the economically destitute; we have only to look to our own borders for that. It was ever thus. But in our case we have tens of millions of our workforce sitting on their ass and voting Democrat to keep their checks and substitute workers coming. Given the healthy push to unemployment also given by accelerating technology, the tipping point of democracy is fast disappearing in our rear view mirror.

[Bonnie McGuire]

It's interesting that President Bill Clinton's 1995 State of The Union speech sounds just like a Donald Trump speech in 2016. What has changed so much that the ideas and policies spoken by Bill Clinton that received bipartisan applause in 1995 are now castigated and branded xenophobic and racist today? Has common sense become inflammatory rhetoric?
Here's a video of what President Bill Clinton said about emigration during his SOTU in 1995.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4351026/clinton-1995-immigration-sotu

[Bill Tozer]

Dr. Rebane mentioned Angie Merkel. Boy, is she spouting the party line. This is what she said recently:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/angela-merkel-defends-refugee-policy-poll-defeat-095811234.html

This is what I say: Go pound sand, pinko.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328536/Angela-Merkel-Communist-links-new-image-uniform-released.html

[Don Bessee]

So the Brits are building a wall in Calais to keep the riotous illegal migrants from boarding fright trucks and getting to the chunnel and England. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I have heard. ;-)