| Observations from the EdgeRobert T. | | | | resources and our tenuous quality of life. |
| NanningaBuzz PublicationsMay 31, 2007 | | | | That said, I figured I could find find 500 words to |
| Jon Bell of Vista, emailed me last week telling me | | | | wax philosophical about U.S. Sovereignty, federal |
| I was right and wrong about the U.S. Occupation | | | | mendacity, and the importance of writing local |
| of Iraq and requested I take pen in hand and | | | | officials. |
| address a more pressing and dangerous issue. | | | | In the past, when I have written about |
| That is the impending Federal legislation (S.1348) | | | | immigration it was usually regarding the ecological |
| that would give INSTANT legal status to 12-20 | | | | destruction resulting from failing attempts at |
| million lawbreaking, invaders of US sovereignty. | | | | border security. Habitat destruction due to border |
| You should demand the Federal Govt throw the | | | | traffic, human and vehicle, border patrol and |
| illegals out of the US and encourage your readers | | | | military exemptions from environmental regulation, |
| through letters, emails, faxes to their elected reps | | | | and anthropogenic barriers blocking animal |
| do the same. | | | | migration, are my cup of tea. |
| O.K. First of all, I don't use a pen to write this | | | | The task before me however is to address the |
| column, I use a computer. And second I would | | | | federal government failing to enforce it's own |
| never demand the federal government throw the | | | | regulations, and the granting immigration amnesty |
| illegals out because I think the federal government | | | | to millions of law breaking foreign nationals. My |
| is the problem. The Secure Borders, Economic | | | | question is, if workers, employers, congressional |
| Opportunity & Immigration Reform Act of | | | | representatives, and the Bush Administration don't |
| 2007 (S.1348) is no different. | | | | adhere to current border regulations and |
| It's hard for me to get worked up about | | | | immigration policy, why would a rational man |
| immigration, legal or otherwise. Sure there needs | | | | expect anybody to adhere to S.1348? |
| to be immigration reform, yes, a closed border is | | | | Clearly cheap labor and corporate profit are the |
| impossible to achieve and maintain, and over | | | | motivating factors in the land of immigration |
| population unemployment and social inequality are | | | | politics. And since corporatists control all 3 |
| a huge issues that must be addressed. Also clear | | | | branches of the US government, where is the |
| is how the US federal government enables the | | | | evidence any amount of organized protest would |
| status quo to continue to suit the needs of their | | | | alter the strategically mismanaged bureaucratic |
| corporate masters in spite of various calls for | | | | nightmare encompassing the Mexican/American |
| changes to immigration policy. | | | | border? |
| Looking to Washington for remedy, is as futile, as | | | | Then there is the question of US foreign policy in |
| it is self defeating. A California separatist I am | | | | Latin America, and what part the US government |
| more interested in what Arnold Schwarzenegger | | | | has played in creating the economic hardships |
| is doing to mitigate the unending influx of | | | | faced by the people of Mexico and Central |
| non-Californians, and their impact on limited | | | | America nations such as Guatemala. |