Head 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out

So... whenever a topic of interest comes up in the online forum community/message boards I belong to, members like to post an image of something in relation to it off Google Image Search for an added comic effect. Somebody starts talking about Hondas that have been hot-rodded with only stickers and a wing on the roof, and inevitably an image of a large box of Uncle Bens Wild Rice shows up 3 posts later.



So how insensitive would it be to post the image above (and furthermore you may falsely extrapolate it to the point I think the subjects at hand are weeds that need to be killed), when I chuckle as I read the linked article at the end of this post suggesting a round-up of illegal immigrants at these rallies next Monday? I don't subscribe to off-topic forums any longer as they killed far too much of the time I had my sophomore year of college that I realized better things to do. But I would have posted that image right after a cowboy lasso image likely posted right above it by some other student in Idaho. It becomes a game sometimes, but I digress.

Since I suppose that's the root (no pun intended) of this post, I've always thought that these staged rallies were the absolute perfect opportunity for federal and local law enforcement to come in and efficiently perform a sweeping dragnet. Think about it. All the illegal aliens are congregated in one spot, and they even let you know when and where they're all going to be at least a week in advance... by publishing it on the Internet! Even to the point that just in case you miss tens of thousands of people seizing traffic and disrupting economic commerce in the streets for the rest of us citizens trying to go about our normal days, they will even organize to all wear white t-shirts. Just how easy can it get? It's unfortunate Al-Qaeda doesn't make it this simple for the Dept. of Homeland Security. As they struggle to make it here, earning sub-minimum wage pay, I wonder how organizers expect this 'May Day' walkout to effect the economy (their objective) as if illegal immigrants are responsible for 31% of annual retail earnings or something. They expect the DJIA to tank two hundred points or something? Hurricane Katrina couldn't even really rock the system- what makes them think a few hundred thousand illegal immigrants with ten bucks in their pocket are going to ruin our economy when they 'disappear' for a day?

Yet of course, the only reason a dragnet as described hasn't been done is because the system here is too nice and panders too much to human rights special interest groups and fears backlash. And one of those interest groups backing a policy of amnesty is my own Roman Catholic Church... still not sure how to react to that one. But President Bush is also a member of that school of thought. Should I turn into a Protestant Democrat? Whoops! No, they're even more gung-ho about amnesty. WTF is going on here? The answer is: lots of fear over political correctness, against common sense and the way things ought to be. And not enough people coming out and telling it otherwise, like myself (I'd like to think, anyway), who usually have a "screw political correctness" mindset. That's what.

My answer? A 180-day (that's six months) notification given to get out of the United States before forced deportation is enforced by the DHS. That way, you can still escape back to your home country ASAP, and plenty of time at that, before being labeled as a criminal trespasser and arrested. Just because America is nice like that- it's tradition. Returning to your home country within this timeframe would also grant you 're-hire' status, if you will, to go home and earn citizenship the right way so you can come back legally. It would be nice if the Feds made that process more efficient and timely too, so perhaps a legal return to the U.S. could even come all within the same year.

Insensitive? Perhaps. But seeing as I'm not one who broke into this country and is trying to take advantage of the system to get something for nothing at others' expense, I could care less.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060429/D8H9M7B80.html