Wednesday Morning Rant

The damage of the open border and associated disastrous policies hits everyone and at all times. There is no immunity. Whether you go to school or have a medical emergency or need to find work (something that is more important than ever given the economic decline that is setting in) or drive a car, you see the problem. The costs are multiplying and the conditions are worsening. This is unsustainable and will end in ruin for the places that aren't ruined already. But what is the solution?

Border control is part of it, but only a part. I think there should be a border wall. I think that wall should be aggressively patrolled and violators ejected. But this is not a solution to the problem, it is merely one "arrow in the quiver." The larger problem than the open border is what happens once someone illegally crosses it. We are appealing to the border jumpers. Even with improved border security, the fact of our appeal will continue to incentivize people to make the leap. The incentives will still be there, and "build the wall" will not work in a vacuum.

What needs to happen is more comprehensive. We have to stop being such a juicy target. Make the juice not worth the squeeze. Some of this requires broad-spectrum, federal action. Those things are off the table. The feds should be enforcing "remain in Mexico" or an equivalent. The feds should be deporting people aggressively. The feds should be building a wall and securing the border. The feds should be cutting off so-called "sanctuary" cities and states. The feds should be restricting foreign aid to Latin America and imposing trade retribution until they knock it off. They should do these things and more, but they won't. The Federal Government despises the United States and her people. They want new people, so they're all-in on this colonization.

But the feds are also not the only players. There are things that can be done at the state and local levels to make your place unappealing to illegal aliens. Where there are local laws that mandate services for illegals - like NYC's laws that they must be sheltered or CA's new laws that extend MediCal to them - agitate to get those laws repealed. The two places cited are dead letters already, but if you have similar rules or laws in your town, fight to have them changed. Lobby to pass laws explicitly forbidding services for illegal aliens. Without proof of citizenship or legal residence, don't allow enrollment into public schools. Do not issue them IDs. Do not provide multilingual government services. Agitate to pass laws mandating English only and defund ESL programs. Forbid the provision of any government service to illegal aliens.

EMTALA is a Federal problem, but it doesn't need to be compounded locally. Do not extend any state benefits (including Medicaid) to anyone without proof of legal status. Forbid "housing assistance" for illegals, starting at the local level in your city or county. Demand that the local authorities go after those who employ illegal aliens. The feds won't be enforcing work rules, but the local and state authorities can. Do not turn over criminal aliens to ICE so they can be released back into the country, arrest and prosecute them and put them in prison if convicted. Turn them over to ICE once the sentence is served.

The border problem is primarily federal, but there are no solutions there. What can improve your daily life and your average condition is ignoring the feds and their hatred, and pushing your local authorities to make where you live as miserable as possible for illegals. That doesn't solve the national problem, but it can help address the local problem.

Throw up every obstacle you can think of. Some will fail in court, some will buckle under protests, some will succeed. Even when something passes but gets overturned or repealed under protest pressure, it sends a message to the illegals that they are not wanted in your town. Where you can and in any way you can, push your local authorities to make your area unappealing to illegal aliens.

posted by Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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