Some garlic cloves perhaps, or some magical, mystical, mumbo jumbo words to say that will ensure that the Immigration bill finally completely dies.
As noted previously, the new immigration bill that has been making it's way through the Congress in the U.S.A. (as of June 2007) is probably one of the worst bills in the history of all congressional bills, but it just doesn't seem to want to die already.
We thought it was dead and pretty much buried, but Pres. Bush and those that are supporting the bill wound up applying the defibrillator to it and brought it back to life, or at least to the level of a faint pulse.
When last I read about the issue, Pres. Bush was pleading with the Hispanic population to flood congress with calls supporting the bill. While I don't begrudge the rights of Hispanics in the U.S.A. who wish to lobby on the issue, I would sincerely hope that the voices of thousands upon thousands of others would be drowning out those voices with demands that the congress step up and pass real, significant, immigration reform that includes real, strong, controls on our (U.S.A.) borders and real, strong, penalties for those that employ illegal immigrants in this country.
AFTER we tighten our borders, and after we nail those that have cheated the system by employing undocumented workers and paid them with money under the table, then perhaps we can take the time to decide just how many legal immigrants we wish to let into the country to perform jobs that people don't seem to want to do. But lets please be sure that events happen in the proper order, and that we don't open up the gates to the country until we have our ducks all in a row.
