Jonah Goldberg had an interesting take on illegal immigrants this morning.
I'm having a hard time getting worked up about the illegal immigration issue. I'm opposed to amnesty and the President's position he claims is not amnesty. The problem seems simpler to me than people are making it out to be. We need not round them all up, and I don't think anyone is arguing this despite the President's and others' statements to the contrary. I think we just need to have the will to prevent more illegals from coming. This simply means making it harder for them to find work and harder for them to get anything from the government. This will deter more from coming, and perhaps cause illegals already here to leave willingly. We just don't have the will to crack down on employers or deny illegals welfare. The courts even entitle illegals to some things such as in Plyler v. Doe where the court claimed the 14th Amendment required that illegals could not be excluded from public schools. The logic of this equal protection argument can't be stopped at an entitlement just to education.
This is just nonsense. But as I said, for some reason the issue doesn't seem all that pressing to me. This may be changing, though, the more I see unassimilated illegals claiming entitlements to the Southeast or a life in America in general and all the generosity of Americans that entails.
