AMNESTY IS ALMOST HERE!
By Bill Heinrichs, Esq.
Wake up, Xenophobes: attitude adjustment time. America cannot deport 12,000,000 undocumented foreign nationals. It is a physical impossibility, and the vast majority of foreign nationals in the United States are here permanently. President Obama is addressing immigration reform, and it is likely that his plans will include amnesty or conditional admission for undocumented foreign nationals, legitimatizing their presence and conforming the laws of the United States to the realities.
Legalistic whining by radio talk show Limbaughites - that the undocumented foreign nationals broke the law, are criminals and should not be afforded any rights - changes nothing. These Neanderthals should shift their messages to talk about how to make Amnesty work. However, I do not hold out much hope for the metamorphosis of those talk show parasites into thinkers.
Amnesty will bring a wave of relief for all of the undocumented foreign nationals. The individuals who entered the United States without inspection or overstayed visas have lived in fear of their every encounter with police officers. They have woried whether their turn will come soon, every time they see a raid by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE). No one should have to live with such anxiety and uncertainty, especially in America, the Land of Opportunity. No human being in America should have to submit to abusive, disrespectful treatment by local law enforcement officers, untrained in immigration law, who have made it their personal agenda to profile and harass people whom they think look like they are not Americans. These police officers neither read minds nor know how to perform a Vulcan Mind Meld. Amnesty will mean that such local police will have to curtail their profiling and return to their mission for which we pay them: to prevent serious crimes and to apprehend the criminals, and not to harass people whom they think look different. (By the way, have you ever noticed that many cops wear those short crew cuts and that makes them look different?)
I have no doubt that there will be a correcting period once immigration reforms are enacted, as we peel the layers of the onion and find new problems that the initial legislation neither anticipated nor addressed. There will be backlash from the whining Limbaughites as well. But given time - not much more than a year or two - most of America will embrace our new future citizens and begin to question why we did not act sooner. Change is good.
By Bill Heinrichs, Esq.
Wake up, Xenophobes: attitude adjustment time. America cannot deport 12,000,000 undocumented foreign nationals. It is a physical impossibility, and the vast majority of foreign nationals in the United States are here permanently. President Obama is addressing immigration reform, and it is likely that his plans will include amnesty or conditional admission for undocumented foreign nationals, legitimatizing their presence and conforming the laws of the United States to the realities.
Legalistic whining by radio talk show Limbaughites - that the undocumented foreign nationals broke the law, are criminals and should not be afforded any rights - changes nothing. These Neanderthals should shift their messages to talk about how to make Amnesty work. However, I do not hold out much hope for the metamorphosis of those talk show parasites into thinkers.
Amnesty will bring a wave of relief for all of the undocumented foreign nationals. The individuals who entered the United States without inspection or overstayed visas have lived in fear of their every encounter with police officers. They have woried whether their turn will come soon, every time they see a raid by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE). No one should have to live with such anxiety and uncertainty, especially in America, the Land of Opportunity. No human being in America should have to submit to abusive, disrespectful treatment by local law enforcement officers, untrained in immigration law, who have made it their personal agenda to profile and harass people whom they think look like they are not Americans. These police officers neither read minds nor know how to perform a Vulcan Mind Meld. Amnesty will mean that such local police will have to curtail their profiling and return to their mission for which we pay them: to prevent serious crimes and to apprehend the criminals, and not to harass people whom they think look different. (By the way, have you ever noticed that many cops wear those short crew cuts and that makes them look different?)
I have no doubt that there will be a correcting period once immigration reforms are enacted, as we peel the layers of the onion and find new problems that the initial legislation neither anticipated nor addressed. There will be backlash from the whining Limbaughites as well. But given time - not much more than a year or two - most of America will embrace our new future citizens and begin to question why we did not act sooner. Change is good.
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