OrpheusAgonistes
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I'm extremely concerned about illegal immigration and the effects it has on the U.S. economy. I absolutely think steps need to be taken to curb the influx of illegal immigrants. This particular law is one of the stupidest pieces of legislative garbage in recent memory. What does it actually accomplish? Very little. Deputy Cornfed T. Banjostrummer is now authorized to....do what exactly? Prance around in jackboots and demand to see papers from anyone he suspects of driving while Mexican? Cause a certain amount of hassle and inconvenience for a few people? Laws like this allow grandstanding jackasses to send newsletters home to their constituents full of swagger and tough talk about how they're cracking down on the by God immigrant problem in the great by God state of Arizona in the United Goddamn States of by God America. Everyone feels better. Things continue to fall apart and nobody pays much attention because didn't the local newspapers and radio hosts just say that State Senator Peckerwood had fixed the immigration problem? The single most effective way to end illegal immigration is to punish people who hire illegals. I don't mean a slap on the wrist and a wink and a fine and "Oh don't do that again and we'll see y'all in church next Sunday okay?" I mean deport the workers and make the people who hired them (as gardeners, as undocumented domestic help, to work in some sweatshop, whatever) wish to God they'd never even thought about considering hiring an illegal worker. I mean burn it down and salt the fucking earth. But nobody is willing to do that. Do you know why? Because too many of the people hiring illegals are good God-fearing capitalists who vote, who go to church, who give money to politicians. So instead, we get moronic half-measures like this, specifically designed to make people feel like Something is being done when the root of the problem is never being addressed. Sadly, it's unbelievably effective. This law will inconvenience a few people, piss off a few cops who have to process the paper work, and eventually be struck down as unconstitutional. Then what happens? People get to vent their spleens at the ACLU, at the damned activist judges, at those pesky liberal politicians....at all the familiar targets. And that's how to talk tough, make the problem worse, build up a campaign war chest, get reelected, and live the American dream of continuing to get elected while continuing to make things a little worse than when you came into office.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.--Feynman Every sentence I have written here is the product of some disease.-- Wittgenstein
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