Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Sanctuary
Sanctuary -noun
1. immunity afforded by refuge in such a place
This is not a difficult concept to understand. If you are in this country illegally, you are an illegal alien plain and simple. If you are not a citizen of this country, you are not entitled to the same considerations as a citizen. Citizenship is given to those born in this country and to those who ask for and abide by the regulations to become one, not to persons who steal their way into this country and expect the same treatment.
I have heard the stories of cities that consider themselves "sanctuary cities" in regards to illegal aliens. How is this legal and in what way do these governments, run by citizens, actually believe that what they are doing is right and proper? Are they not breaking the law as well as the illegals? Surely this cannot be tolerated. Allowing any city or local government to ignore the Federal law is absolutely wrong and this practice needs to cease immediately.
It is not the choice of local officials to refuse to enforce any law they desire. We are a nation of laws, the rule of law always trumps the rule of man in America. We have a Constitution that states that very specifically. If you deem a law wrong you must lobby to change that law, you cannot refuse to abide by it. When you do that, you are setting the rule of man above the rule of law and that contradicts everything this country was founded upon.
Let's just let every local and state government pick and choose which Federal laws they desire to follow. Anarchy will follow. Granted, our Federal government does not have the necessary manpower, or will it would seem, to follow up on every single illegal alien in this country. But that is not the point. Enforcement of other Federal laws would greatly diminish the number of illegals living here and thus reduce the potential difficulty of local governments to comply with the Federal law concerning illegal aliens.
We don't need to spend, or waste, countless hours debating a "comprehensive immigration" bill. The laws are already on the books to solve this problem. They simply need to be enforced, not ignored. It would seem to be such a simple concept that Congress cannot or refuses to grasp. They enjoy the grandstanding on divisive issues. They get to reap enormous political benefit by appearing to search for complex solutions to grand problems. All the while they are ignoring previous attempts to solve the problem.
And in the end, no one is better off because of their solutions. All of this illegal immigration and sanctuary business was thoroughly debated 20 years ago. A comprehensive solution was passed through Congress and the illegal alien problem was pronounced solved. However this legislation was never enforced, except for granting amnesty to all the then illegal aliens, and the problem was forgotten until recently. Time again for more grandstanding and bullshit to force more useless and destructive legislation on us to once again pronounce the problem solved so we can get on with other useless business, like admitting defeat in Iraq and punishing Scooter Libby and Alberto Gonzalez.
Enough already! Stop the BS. In fact, I would suggest to Congress to close up shop and go home for four years. Let's have a real "do-nothing" Congress for awhile. Maybe after four years of no Congress, we can actually get back to things that really matter to this nation of laws. We don't need government passing law after useless law. We need enforcement of existing laws. Punish the people who do not respect our laws be they illegal aliens or prominent city officials. Stop sanctuary cities and let's abolish this idiotic idea of the rule of man.
A pure democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to eat for dinner. That is not what this country is meant to be.
My $.05
OH
1. immunity afforded by refuge in such a place
Illegal Alien –noun
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I have heard the stories of cities that consider themselves "sanctuary cities" in regards to illegal aliens. How is this legal and in what way do these governments, run by citizens, actually believe that what they are doing is right and proper? Are they not breaking the law as well as the illegals? Surely this cannot be tolerated. Allowing any city or local government to ignore the Federal law is absolutely wrong and this practice needs to cease immediately.
It is not the choice of local officials to refuse to enforce any law they desire. We are a nation of laws, the rule of law always trumps the rule of man in America. We have a Constitution that states that very specifically. If you deem a law wrong you must lobby to change that law, you cannot refuse to abide by it. When you do that, you are setting the rule of man above the rule of law and that contradicts everything this country was founded upon.
Let's just let every local and state government pick and choose which Federal laws they desire to follow. Anarchy will follow. Granted, our Federal government does not have the necessary manpower, or will it would seem, to follow up on every single illegal alien in this country. But that is not the point. Enforcement of other Federal laws would greatly diminish the number of illegals living here and thus reduce the potential difficulty of local governments to comply with the Federal law concerning illegal aliens.
We don't need to spend, or waste, countless hours debating a "comprehensive immigration" bill. The laws are already on the books to solve this problem. They simply need to be enforced, not ignored. It would seem to be such a simple concept that Congress cannot or refuses to grasp. They enjoy the grandstanding on divisive issues. They get to reap enormous political benefit by appearing to search for complex solutions to grand problems. All the while they are ignoring previous attempts to solve the problem.
And in the end, no one is better off because of their solutions. All of this illegal immigration and sanctuary business was thoroughly debated 20 years ago. A comprehensive solution was passed through Congress and the illegal alien problem was pronounced solved. However this legislation was never enforced, except for granting amnesty to all the then illegal aliens, and the problem was forgotten until recently. Time again for more grandstanding and bullshit to force more useless and destructive legislation on us to once again pronounce the problem solved so we can get on with other useless business, like admitting defeat in Iraq and punishing Scooter Libby and Alberto Gonzalez.
Enough already! Stop the BS. In fact, I would suggest to Congress to close up shop and go home for four years. Let's have a real "do-nothing" Congress for awhile. Maybe after four years of no Congress, we can actually get back to things that really matter to this nation of laws. We don't need government passing law after useless law. We need enforcement of existing laws. Punish the people who do not respect our laws be they illegal aliens or prominent city officials. Stop sanctuary cities and let's abolish this idiotic idea of the rule of man.
A pure democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to eat for dinner. That is not what this country is meant to be.
My $.05
OH
# posted by OH @ 1:16 PM 
