 | Rudolph Giuliani Proposes Massive Federal Spending on Immigration |
Oh, I know he doesn’t say it that way, but Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has proposed huge levels of new federal spending on immigration.
Mr. Giuliani has sent me a letter in which he writes:
I have a sign at the front of my desk that says, “I’m responsible.” I want you to look at the Twelve Commitments attached to this letter and hold me accountable for implementing them.
One of Giuliani’s Twelve Commitments:
End illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation.
Giuliani says he is committed to ending illegal immigration. Not decreasing it. Ending it. The only way to end illegal immigration is to implement a Korea-style zone with mines and multiple razor-wire electrified fences along the entire length of the U.S. - Mexico and U.S. - Canada borders. But there’s more. We’ll also have to post constant armed guards every 100 feet along the more than 12,000 miles of saltwater coastline, plus the Great Lakes coastline too. That’s the only way to end illegal immigration, and it will bankrupt our nation. But Giuliani’s made his commitment, so there you go!
Then there’s Giuliani’s commitment to identifying every non-citizen in our nation. This is a more intensive process than the decennial U.S. Census, which will cost an estimated $11.3 Billion in 2010. To find and identify every non-citizen in the nation requires looking for people many of whom are undocumented, many of whom do not have social security numbers, and who may be even hiding. Citizens will have to regularly be stopped and told to supply identity papers to make sure they are not really non-citizens. When government agents somehow finally find every non-citizen in America, they will have to be identified. That means they’ll have to be questioned, and definitive records will have to be shipped from home countries. Where those records don’t exist, the U.S. government will have to send people overseas to interview family members and other known contacts. And so we have another intrusive, hugely expensive big government program.
Big government. Huge amounts of new spending. That’s what Rudolph Giuliani has committed himself to…
… unless he’s not being serious when making commitments he says we should hold him to.
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There is another way to end illegal immigration: legalize it. Open the borders, let everyone in, declare that everyone that enters the US is a US citizen (hence there’s nobody to identify). Suppose that’s what Giuliani wants?
Comment by John Stracke — 7/31/2007 @ 12:11 pm
Egad, John! That’s it! THEN it won’t cost a red cent!
You’re a GENIUS!!!!! That must be Giuliani’s plan.
Comment by Jim — 7/31/2007 @ 1:26 pm
That’s exactly what Clinton did. Remember the amnesties way back when? Everybody got so upset, then as soon as Clinton said ‘we’re going to do it’, the only thing anyone wanted to know was where to send people for the paperwork. People were digging up old letters to prove they had been here the required number of years.
It wasn’t really that long ago. Has everyone forgotten already?
Comment by Iroquois — 7/31/2007 @ 11:57 pm
Reagan.
Comment by Jim — 8/1/2007 @ 6:50 am
Reagan what? Reagan did it too or Reagan forgot?
Comment by Iroquois — 8/1/2007 @ 10:04 am
Maybe it’s a knock-knock joke.
Okay, Reagan who?
Doesn’t it seem different this time for some reason? I mean, I was living in a partly Hispanic neighborhood back then too, and there was absolutely no comment about the amnesty. Last week someone saw me planting some flowers in the front yard down the street and stopped the car to tell me about “the Mexicans”. There is a huge buzz in this neighborhood about “the Mexicans” suddenly moving in, but where are they? There’s some new black faces around the neighborhood, for sure, and some new gang signs on the buildings, but the only Mexican in this building moved out a couple years ago. We’ve got the same old ones, but no new ones have moved in.
So why is everyone talking about this Mexican influx no one can see? And why so much raw hostility? Are there larger numbers of Mexicans moving in this time, or more illegal ones, or is it something more subtle, like economic factors?
Comment by Iroquois — 8/2/2007 @ 1:26 am