Sometimes There Are No Right Answers, Only Guesses.

I wonder how the illegal immigration question would shake out if Hispanics voted overwhelmingly Republican?  The arguments on both sides of the issue often seem disingenuous to me.  The crocodile tears of Hispanics and their supporters over the fear that any measure designed to slow the flow of illegal aliens across our borders means a new holocaust drive me batty.  I don't like emotional arguments, especially not arguments that accuse all white people of being racist who aren't pro-cause of the day.  Yawn.  If we're all racists, to what are you appealing?

I don't buy into the implied notion that protecting one's borders is immoral.  And if it's not immoral, why are we wrong to do so?  Is it immoral to force people here illegally back to their home countries?  It's a risk these people took.  They were given no expectation of citizenship if they could make it here.  Again, where is the immorality of making citizenship a process rather than a right?  Most countries have procedures one must follow to become citizens.  So do we.  My point is, we're not immoral for trying to curtail illegal immigration.

To the argument that we're racists because we're focusing on curtailing Mexican illegal immigration, I say that's silly as Mexican-born people make up the greatest number of legal immigrants to the States.  We are the oddest racists.

At the same time, I certainly don't want to herald in a new age of identity checks and overt police presence watching our movements to make sure we're acting "American" enough.  And I dislike the argument that illegal aliens are criminals in the same way that armed robbers are criminals.  They are trying to find work.  We are providing it.  We won't solve illegal immigration as long as we keep paying them.  Sort of like the drug war.  As long as there is a market, there will be sellers.  The only quick solution to both drugs and illegal immigration would be to create a police state.  Free from crime at last.

Despite thinking border control and a crackdown on illegal immigrants are actions well within our rights, and such actions are not morally wrong, I still come down on the side of fairly open borders and easy citizenship for our closest neighbors.  Sometimes it's not about right or wrong, but about preferences.  And I prefer the messiness of laissez faire to the neatness of Big Government.  The only thing that would be strengthened by solving illegal immigration would be the power of the Government.  

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