Immigration Bills

Some immigration bills are wending their way through the General Assembly here. I think the provisions sound fairly innocuous, as they are mostly reiterations of "being here without permission is wrong", and "helping people who are not supposed to be here is wrong, too."

Naturally, some disagree. I'm willing to accept that some Americans think our immigration rules are too strict, but what should I think about this organization? I think their name says it all. -

Advocates of illegal immigrants in Virginia yesterday began four days of events at the state Capitol to draw attention to bills they believe will harm undocumented workers.

Nancy Lyall, legal director of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras (Mexicans Without Borders) said more than 40 bills are being considered by the General Assembly this session that target illegal-immigration issues.

One would require immigrants to produce documentation proving they are legally in this country before registering their children for public school.

Another would make it a crime for a citizen to provide shelter to an illegal immigrant.

Still others would allow state law-enforcement personnel to act as immigration officers.

"The Virginia Legislature is considering some of the most offensive bills in the history of Virginia," Lyall said during a news conference. "We're wondering where is the onslaught of mean-spirited and truly hateful legislation coming from?"

Mexicans Without Borders? So, y'all won't mind if I come down and carve out a little kingdom for myself around Cancun, huh?

As to "where this is coming from", I could get into discussions concerning the general illegality of the immigrant actions, costs to our society, and so forth, but why bother?

Let me leave it at this - "What damn business is it of yours what laws we have in our country? If you don't like it, you can go home. "

"We need Virginians to say, 'We will not be terrorized by laws that divide us against their neighbors and laws that make the immoral seem moral.'"

By, the way, that statement is not against the illegal aliens, it against the laws trying to "dis-invite" them. This is about the most incredible moral inversions I've yet encountered. Well, maybe not considering the state of the Democratic Party.