Don't look now, but I've just figured out the solution to the immigration problem, you know, all these Mexicans and OTMs crossing the border?
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) was on the radio the other day insisting that since all these folks were lawbreakers, they were evildoers who needed to be penalized for jumping the line, swimming the river, crawling across the desert, so they could work for us, picking our food, building our houses, serving us in restaurants, and cleaning our hotel/motel rooms when we traveled for pleasure, unlike these folks without beds.
Tancredo favors a way of planned immigration so long as those who jump the line are penalized.
Perhaps we could react to this dire problem a little less formalistically, legally, while still satisfying Rep. Tancredo's fundamental urge to punish those who are so morally impure as to sneak into the circus to feed their kids with peanuts.
Why don't we pass a law that makes it legal to enter the U.S. in either one of two ways that penalize:
1. You can wait in line, civilized fashion, while your family starves, until your papers are processed, or,
2. You can crawl across or under the desert at the mercy of coyotes who may rob and rape you, and risk dying of thirst, and then, after you arrive, you may legally enter an immigration office to pick up a glass of water and your papers.
I call Option-2 "Earn your visa the hard way."
This insures that we only accept the fittest Hispanics who survive, which should satisfy Rep. Tancredo's, belief, which I presume exists, in Social Darwinism. American stock gets stronger while Mexican stock gets weaker as we get their strongest. I can see the advantages already as the national genetic averages shift over the generations; a long-term project, to be sure, but one that will be well worth it.
Or we can summon up a latter day Paul Revere who will ride across the land shouting the cry of alarm, "The Mexicans are coming...to feed us!"
One if by land, two if by the river...