Secure the border or amnesty will provide only one thing, millions more illegals demanding they get AMNESTY TOO.
I have no problem with securing the border. But that is not the actual aim of Grassley's amendment which is the subject of this thread.
The actual aim was to kill the whole bill. It was a poison pill. A legislative con for the rubes.
The border cannot be secured within the next six months. As I said, that is as realistic as an amendment calling for the national debt to be paid by the end of next week.
Smoke and mirrors, Gunny.
The illegal immigration problem is not going to be solved with a wall. There is no magic bullet. It is a multi-faceted problem, and to put the entire onus on the INS in the next six months is a dick move, and nothing more.
Our quota system is whacked. It needs to reflect reality. And the reality is we are not meeting the labor demand with a legal labor supply.
The leaky border will not be solved by a wall. That is one of the biggest boondoggles of all time. A tremendous waste of money just to please the ******* rubes. The very same rubes who claim to be fiscal conservatives!
There are far better tools to secure the border than a wall. And they are coming. They are being developed. I've seen some very promising things in the pipeline.
But that shit isn't going to happen in the next six months. The six month amendment has nothing to do with border security, and only the most gullible of amoebas would buy that it does.