To heck with Homeland Security, nobody should need a Visa anymore

I generally write about my deep religious convictions, but this article is different. I generally try to stay out of politics, since I am a peace-loving person and generally try to avoid confrontation; but I just couldn't take it anymore.

I am not a radical "Tea Party" conservative who thinks taxes are an injustice. On the contrary, I think taxes are a good thing--that they help to improve all of our lives, and that the money taken from hard-working Americans should not be spent haphazardly, but should be spent wisely and efficiently.

I am not a people-hating racist. I love all of God's children, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, or US political party affiliation. Heck, I even love law-breakers. I have friends and family members who are law-breakers. However, I have told even my own children, that if they ever use their one phone call to call me to bail them out of jail after they have done something stupid and broken the law, that I will not bail them out, and I will leave them there to serve out their full jail time.

Am I heartless? No. Would I hang up the phone and cry my eyes out? Absolutely. Am I a strict mother? You bet. After all, why go to all of the trouble of making household rules, or laws, if you don't intend to enforce them?

For example: New Mexico has a bad reputation for having a high number of alcohol-related vehicle fatalities. Every time a family gets killed because some idiot got so drunk that he or she couldn't operate a vehicle correctly got behind the wheel and plowed into another vehicle driving on the wrong side of the road, everyone screams for tougher laws. The truth is, that there are already a myriad of drunk driving laws on the NM law books. The truth is that when someone does get arrested for DWI, they get a slap on the wrist. They drive drunk again. They get another slap on the wrist. They might get their license taken away. They drive drunk again. The only thing that will keep those repeat offenders from repeating their offense, is to be tough and put them in jail for a long time, every time. But, because those people have families who depend on them, and they cry and promise never to do it again, the public cries, "Oh, no--you can't make their innocent children suffer, take it easy on them and let them go, after all, they did promise." Finally, after the offender commits his 19th DWI and another horrific tragedy occurs, people look around with wide gaping mouths and whine, "How did this happen?" It happened because we let it when we didn't enforce the laws that we already had.

We see it all over the news, hear it all over the radio, comedians are talking about it, people everywhere are blogging about it, and it seems like everywhere I look or listen, I see nothing but a bunch of bleeding hearts whining about how unfair it is that Arizona's State government passed a new law that says, "By golly, if you already broke the law and snuck into our country illegally and we find out, we are sending you back home." I even heard someone compare the rounding up of illegal Mexicans to what the Nazis did to the Jewish population during WWII.

REALLY?? Again, REALLY??? I guess that could be true if the cops were rounding them all up, taking away their clothes, sending them to Guantanamo, starving them for months, making them eat sagebrush, prickly pear and tumbleweed soup when they DID get to eat, beating them, raping them, lining them up along the US/Mexico border, shooting them to death and then using the dead bodies to build the border fence, for no other reason than they were from Mexico--but that's not what they're doing. All they did was pass a law to enforce an already existing law.

Now people whine, "It's going to lead to racial profiling. Oh, let's just give them all amnesty. After all, they only broke the law to come here because their own country is so bad. We can't send those innocent children back into such tumultuous circumstances. Their parents only wanted what was best for them." New Mexico's own Hispanic Bill Richardson joked that he would have to carry his papers with him when he visited Arizona, now, so he wouldn't be rounded up and deported. President Barak Obama called the new law "Misguided". Okay, now, really, give me a stinkin' break! First of all, a wallet-size Visa is hardly an inconvenience. It's not like all dark-skinned people are now going to have to carry a legal-size document portfolio around in a briefcase from now on. It's just a little card. Are we all horribly inconvenienced that we have to carry our driver's license around? I'll tell you what is inconvenient, having to show two separate forms of identification to cash my own stinking check at my own stinking bank. Why do I have to do that? Because OTHER people broke the law.

What about all of the LEGAL immigrants from Mexico who have scrimped and saved every penny that they have to follow the law, get their Visa, work hard, pay taxes and contribute to the society of the country in which they reside? Is it fair to law abiding immigrants that other people from another country broke the law, don't have to file the paperwork, jump through the hoops, dig through the red tape and didn't pay the money that should have been payed to have the privilege of living in the US?

Is it fair that those same illegal immigrants get to enroll their children in free public education? Is it fair that schools still have to count the test scores of children learning English as a second language, that those same scores are expectantly lower than legal citizen's scores, but the No Child Left Behind Act still penalizes those schools monetarily for the low test scores?

What about the people here from other countries who have Visa's? Is it fair to them? Is it fair to my German-born sister-in-law who got her Visa, stayed her term and had to drive nearly 1000 miles to Atlanta to renew it? She and her husband had to take nearly a week off of work and pay another costly fee to renew it. Is it fair to them that someone who broke the law to be here should be granted free amnesty, get free health care, their kids eat free lunches and the unwed mothers who got ditched by their law-breaking boyfriends get free welfare?

It's really not fair to my brother and his wife that they had to obey the law just because his wife didn't hide herself inside a suitcase in the luggage compartment and chose to sit in a seat in coach and fly across the ocean. Just because it's easier to climb a fence, swim a river, dig a tunnel, or crouch inside the back of a truck under a tarp than it is to try to dodge Homeland Security in an airport doesn't mean that it's okay to break the law, and it doesn't mean that it's okay for the US to let the offenders go just because it was easier for them to break the law in the first place. If we are just going to let anyone come into the country, then let my sister-in-law off the hook.

Heck, why not let them all come over here from North Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq. Let's just let Al Quaida set up home-base here. Let's just demolish all of the immigration laws and security measures that we have in place now since we don't intend to enforce them anyhow. That sounds absurd, right? Well, do you seriously think that people who broke the law to sneak into the US from Mexico are going to follow all of the other laws, or do you think they are going to commit burglaries, drug crimes, and continue their illegal gang activity here? We'll see how Gov. Richardson feels in a year or so after the mass exodus of illegals from Arizona come to New Mexico and drain an already sinking economy with their drug and gang activity. (Don't give me any lip about that, either--they already knowingly broke the law once, remember?)

I have spent many years as a substitute teacher in the public school system, and I will tell you from experience, that if you are a doormat, those kids will break every rule in the book. Even the generally good kids will try to see what they can get away with; but, if you are tough, then you only have to worry about the habitual rule-breakers, and even they will think twice. Using the same logic, if you enforce the immigration laws that we already have, then maybe those wanting to come to the US will consider using legal methods before wasting so much time and energy to come here illegally only to be rounded up and taken back home time and time again.

So, before you jump on the pity wagon that seems to be so full and popular lately, think about it. If you disagree with immigration laws, then do something about it, but don't cry and whine when America-haters come here, too, and kill another 5000 people. If you don't want that, then the present laws HAVE to apply to everybody, no matter what country they come from. The fact that one state actually passed a law to enforce an already existing law is just pitiful. The fact that so many Americans are upset about it is completely unjust.