Enough is Enough

I am tired of the political demagoguery about a state law that addresses the serious human/economic/environmental/political/legal travesty my state of Arizona is being subjected to. I am tired of the widespread willful ignorance of the most vocal, mass media covered opponents of Senate bill 1070 who mouth out lie after lie after lie.

Arizona simply can no longer afford illegal immigration. Our state is a billion dollars in the red, our delicate southern ecology is being relentlessly trampled upon by thousands upon thousands of illegals who litter the desert with human waste, plastic, clothing, and other detritus produced of a unregulated exodus. In flusher economic times, Arizona could better absorb the 2 billion dollar cost of illegal immigration, an amount that, by their own best estimates, open borders advocates say that the economic benefits of illegal immigrants matches. I would gladly take back every lost life, and every despoiled acre of Organ Pipe desert, in return for the supposed cost-neutral proposition of illegal immigration.

It is utterly intellectually insulting that those who oppose Arizona Senate law 1070 on "humanitarian" concerns are perfectly willing to allow people, out of economic desperation, to cross a merciless desert, too often in the supposed care of human traffickers. People are being left to the tender mercies of "Coyotes" and drug dealers, and the Sonoran Desert, all in the name of cheap labor here, and billions in remittances for the countries they come from. It is a great system for open borders advocates, both political and economic. The illegal immigrant assumes 100% of the personal risk involved in crossing and living here, while so called Raza proponents and some Democratic allies salivate at the prospect of these people's children being future voting foot soldiers for their racial/ideological revolution. The same must be said for the employers in this country who willfully hire illegal immigrants. These employers are just as much to blame as anyone else for this illegal process, and as a result, internal enforcement must go hand in hand with border security.

Illegal immigration is an affront to the process of legal naturalization and American citizenship in general. My wife Hershey obtained her Green Card by filling out the required forms, and paying the required fees. It wasn't always fun, but we went through the process. It never dawned on us the obfuscate the law, but then again, the Philippines doesn't have the benefit of a long land border with the United States. American citizenship and legal residency is too precious a privilege to be allowed to be cheapened by the exigencies of racial politics and illicit economic benefits.

I want to close on some ideas I support in response to this issue. There is an obvious need for an increased legal quota for unskilled labor in the US. Instead of allowing people to cross a desert, why not double or triple the amount of seasonal workers allowed into the country?. A viable pathway to legalisation must be created for the 12 - 20 million illegals that already live among us, mostly in peace. On the enforcement side, all future illegal aliens found here should be deported. All employers who willfully hire illegal aliens should be fined and imprisoned. The border fence, whether made of steel or a virtual one comprised of sensors, should be completed. This fight isn't against a particular race or people. It is against a shadowy process that has been allowed to go on for far too long. We are angry. We are tired. Arizona is under attack, but this state has gone too far already. President Obama and Congress can either lend us a hand or get out of the way.

Just Say Yes....Again

All of us Arizonans have a big job to do this Tuesday. In the first statewide election of the year, our state needs our help to get itself out of the budgetary morass it finds itself in.

As a Republican, I am always skeptical of government asking the people for more money. Nothing comes from nothing, and the fact is, should Prop. 100 pass, you and me will be paying the price. Therefore, in light of the recent and blatant cash grab by the city of Phoenix (2% tax on grocery items), it is with some reluctance that I support this Proposition, and ask for your support as well. What tilted my opinion in favor for 100 is the three year sunset clause built into thr propsition, and the fact that the state, under Gov. Brewer, has taken huge steps in the reduction of state spending. All my conservative government budget instincts aside, spending cuts alone won't close the budget gap alone.

There is a reason we all live in Arizona. We all call the Grand Canyon State home because, in our own individual cases, Arizona has been good to us. This Tuesday, Arizona desperately needs the 5 minutes it will take for us to go to the polls and vote in favor of Propsition 100.