Lindsey Graham part of the problem

I watched Lindsey Graham (R SC) on Meet the Press yesterday. How sad. When discussing how to stem the flood of illegal aliens coming into our country, Graham obviously confused an election campaign strategy with solving a problem.

His first task was to convince the Lex’s of the world that the 11 million illegal aliens already here were “honest hard working people.” Hmm, makes one wonder how Graham defines the word “illegal”. So if you break immigration laws to get here forge papers or steal someone’s identity to get a job and stay here, your honest and hard working. What other illegal activities is Mr. Graham willing to ignore while placing the adjective “honest” in front of the noun people? Speeding I hope.

Next was the “you can’t have a mass deportation of 11 million people” scare. Mr. Graham noted a Marine fighting in Baghdad who may have illegal parents and or grandparents. This tells me two things. First Graham and other craven pols have stood by while two generation of illegal aliens have flooded our nation and they have done nothing. Second, do nothings like Graham who allowed the problem to get to this point are now preaching to Russert and the rest of us how to the fix the problem of their own making.

Lex has noted many times that you do not need to deport the illegal aliens already in this country. Government needs to begin to crack down on employers profiting from the exploitation of illegal aliens. Government needs to refuse all benefits to anyone who broke our laws getting into this country. Government needs to put an end to the idiotic policy of granting citizenship to the off-spring of illegal aliens. But OK, create a waiver for the extended family of service members serving in combat zones in the defense of America. What does that bring the number of illegal aliens down to – 10,900,000?

Next were the economic benefits of an illegal alien work force that comprises only 5% of all workers. Tim and Lindsey ganged up on the other guest on the show some guy from the House of Representatives named Charlie. It turns out that while illegal aliens comprise only 5% of total workers they are concentrated in certain industries – agriculture, cleaning, restaurants, and lawn care – making their removal devastating.

Well two points on that. What if you’re some dope trying to run a restaurant and obey the law? The three restaurants in your neighborhood are all cheating by hiring illegal aliens. The US government should level the playing field by, A) cracking down on the restaurants exploiting illegal aliens, or B) serving as an employment agency for your restaurant and find you an illegal wait staff? Why is our government subsidizing employers who break the law?

Next, when the government comes up with its “guest worker card” it is as likely as not going to be the size of an elephant. The paper work will take 3 months 50 lawyers and $2,000 to complete. Once we have all 11 million illegal aliens registered, Democrats will demand a “living wage” of say, $12.50 an hour for them. This will force unscrupulous employers to seek out new illegal aliens without a “guest worker card” to maintain their already unfair advantage. In 20 years we have 125 million illegal aliens and the pols will be saying, “walls don’t work, you can’t round up 125 million people, it’ll ruin our economy because they're just doing the work employers won't pay a 'guest worker' $12.50 an hour to do.”