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Grant-Will-Rant

Friday, May 19, 2006

Favorite news title of the week:

"Illegal Immigrants Found Cleaning UK Immigration Ministry"

So the US isn't the only country with immigration problems. But how do we deal with this out-of-control issue? So far these are the popular proposals:

Build a wall on the US/Mexico border? Personally I think building a wall is a terrible idea. It seems so un-American, and it conjures up bad history. Think: Berlin Wall. Why don't we simply plant a huge river on the border and fill it with man-eating piranha? Of course we'd have to put signs up everywhere warning potential border jumpers that they could very well become fish food.

Station soldiers on the border? Uh...no... We're not at war with Mexico. Are we? Why not just increase the amount of border patrollers. Hey, more government jobs! Yippee!

We should also go after the American businesses that are hiring illegal aliens. And, I know, everyone's response to that dilemma is: "But they're doing jobs Americans won't do." Well the reason Americans aren't taking on those jobs is because the pay is ridiculously low, and the reason the pay is ridiculously low is because there are huge amounts of illegals who are willing to work for such low pay. Get rid of the illegals, demand for employees increases, pay increases, more legal Americans with jobs.

We should not reward people who sneak across our border with citizenship. A friend of mine and I once snuck into Disneyland. Unfortunately for us our little escapade was caught on the security camera. When we were unable to produce our entrance ticket the guard did not congratulate us for successfully sneaking into Disneyland. He dragged us past the paying customers and tossed us out. After that we did the right thing, We paid our entrance fee like everyone else.

It was the right and fair thing to do.

6 Comments:

  • AMEN!! And they didn't let you stay at Disneyland all day and make the guy in front of you pay for your lunch either.

    By Blogger mamashine, at 1:22 PM, May 19, 2006  

  • Haha! Great point!

    By Blogger Grant-Will-Rant, at 3:13 PM, May 19, 2006  

  • I thought you made a very good point about forcing businesses to pay workers a living wage if everyone's legal.

    I definitely think our immigration procedures need to be cleaned up. It's become such a monstrous burauocracy that well, it doesn't exactly encourage people to follow the proper channels. That doesn't make it right, but it contributes to our whacked out situation.

    By Blogger Kate, at 7:21 PM, May 19, 2006  

  • You moved your blog without telling me???

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:19 PM, May 21, 2006  

  • Hel: Didn't you get the e-mail? I think I forgot to include a subject.

    By Blogger Grant-Will-Rant, at 1:55 PM, May 21, 2006  

  • I received no e-mail... maybe it was blocked by a spam filter...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:18 PM, May 22, 2006  

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