Immigration Bullshit

The other day there was something on the news about one of the border states enacting some new legislation designed to crack down on illegal immigration. You know the kind of thing - radical, revolutionary ideas like ensuring that people are citizens before giving them tons of free stuff. Well, they cut away to a speech from some local hispanic activist who was ranting into a microphone about how this was "ethnic cleansing". I don't think I have ever heard such complete fucking bollocks in my life.

I've been to Mexico and I don't remember there being an open channel for US citizens to wander freely into that country. You just try explaining to the man with the moustache and the gun at the immigration checkpoint that the Mexican president doesn't believe it's necessary for border controls to be enforced, so you haven't filled in their three forms and you're not going to queue in his stupid line. See how far that gets you.

I just don't understand the cheek of those Mexican immigrants who actually believe that we should have an open border for their citizens to come in any time they want, work wherever they want, not pay any taxes and flee back to Mexico any time they commit a crime. (Watch America's Most Wanted and award yourself a beer every time they talk about a suspect who's believed to have returned to Mexico; you won't be able to stand up by the end of the show.) But what really pisses me off is the dumbass Americans who don't want there to be a strict border control, with fence and repatriation of illegal immigrants. If you're going to leave a border open for hundreds of miles, why bother to screen people at airport immigration checkpoints? What's the point? Don't you think all the really dodgy people will just come in the back door?

Perhaps to keep all this simple we should have an extra line at US immigration. In the first line can go the citizens and in the second line all the non-Mexican foreigners. The third line will be for Mexican nationals; there will be no immigration formalities, no asking for visas, or "how long will you be staying". We won't have any background checks and we'll let them all bypass Customs, because we don't care what they're bringing in. We also won't check the passports to see if they actually are Mexican. After all, non-Mexicans are welcome to use the open Southern border too, you know.

The sad thing is that half the people reading this will be saying "Oooh! What a racist!" to themselves. That's bullshit. I know plenty of Mexican people that I really like, and there's no reason that immigrants from Mexico should be treated any differently than immigrants from any other country in the world. I just object to the utter bollocks that gets talked on this subject, and the complete lack of reason in what some people say. What I listed above is purely a logical extension of the viewpoint that it doesn't matter if illegal immigrants come over the border from Mexico. If it's OK that people come in over that border unchecked, and stay as long as they like, then it must be OK for the same people to come in unchecked at airports, mustn't it? How can people be accepted or not on the basis of whether they walked or flew?

And don't give me all that crap about illegals being needed to pick all the crops. If you have a solid border you can still allow people to come in to work on farms during the picking season. You might have to pay them more and treat them better if they're not shit-scared of being arrested, but how can you argue with that? At the moment there's an unholy alliance of apathy between politicians of both parties who would do anything to get elected and are scared of alienating the hispanic vote, whiny liberals who can't see the flaw in open borders and big farming operations who love the cheap labor.

The dick with the microphone would do well to talk to some of our other immigrants (Bosnians, for instance) about what ethnic cleansing is really like. I have a feeling they'd stick his microphone up his arse and kick him all the way to Tijuana.


Copyright 2007 Edward Bison