Immigration

The thing about immigration reform is I don't understand how it's somehow become the #1 priority for our federal government to be working on. You hear people screaming that before we deal with financial reform or global warming, we need to "put up a wall!!!" Authorities have been dealing with people trying to come in here illegally for a long time. Some of it's good, some of it's bad. Feel free to tinker and make changes with any of the border policing ideas. But some sort of hysterical governmental over-reach can only be a waste of time and money. But then, I thought the same thing about how to deal with terrorism, and of course that's worked out incredibly amazing for us, so I guess I'm an idiot. Cough.

It's strange that John Q. Public is so outraged about "fixing" immigration when in fact, we're basically told exactly two things about the people who come in illegally:

1) they're doing the jobs nobody else wants to do
2) if they vanished tomorrow it would cripple the economy

Hmm. Yes, obviously we need to eschew all other legislation and figure out a way to launch these people into outer space.

Of course someone could list reasons why it needs to be overhauled, but camon.

Of course, it might help if Bill O'Reilly could go more than 10 minutes without suggesting that the reason people are at the borders crouched in a sprinters position is to grab the first car they see, pound a gallon of tequila and then plow over all your kids.