"Look at the silly monkey."
It seems in the wake of Arizona’s passage of SB1070, the law that imbues the state with the authority to enforce Federal immigration laws independently, immigration reform has become the hot topic of political discussions. This issue is becoming a driving force on the Sunday morning chat shows as well as many of the political blogs sprinkled throughout the realm of cyberspace. It’s become the hot button issue of the 2010 mid-term elections for many of the candidates seeking office in an increasingly divisive political environment. The debate on immigration reform may very well be the pivotal issue in the upcoming November elections, which may be the worst of possible outcomes for the future of American politics.
After the financial fiasco of TARP just before the 2008 elections (or as I like to call it the “Bailouts for Billionaires” program), the 2009 Economic Stimulus bill (which I like to refer to as the “Thanks for the Votes” reimbursement program), the Federal buyout of General Motors (or as I like to call it “The UAW Jobs and Bonuses ‘Thanks for the Votes You Mafioso Bastards’ Preservation Program”), and the Health-care Reform bill (or as I like to call it the “We’re passing this 2,000 page monstrosity without even reading it come hell or high water whether you voters like it or not” bill), it seems the problem of illegal immigration is a rather small one. Granted the influx of illegal immigrants from our southern border may be a cause for concern, but such concerns seem almost trivial in the wake of the recent financial atrocities listed above.
There’s a reason why the focus has shifted from the overspending and subsequent taxation to support so-called private corporations who are “too big to fail” to kicking out the illegal aliens who pour through our sieve-like southern border. It’s very likely that the political candidates and their associated political action committees who are working overtime to shift the focus of the current political climate are being funded by one or more of these corporations who are “too big to fail.” These candidates are looking to break into politics right on the heels of the growing economic malaise plaguing the American psyche but they would be fools to do so by biting the hand that feeds them. So the blame shifts from the billionaires who bathe in money appropriated from the taxpayers on their behalf to illegal aliens who may or may not be illicitly making use of public services.
The Republican party has been doing everything it can since 2009 to capitalize on the fervor of the Tea Party movement but has fallen short of this goal due to the fact that their own fiscal insanity and corruption is on par with that of their Democrat counterparts. Some Republicans however have seemed to find a way to avoid the larger fiscal issues by playing upon an increasing sense of xenophobia and it appears to be working. The public outrage concerning our porous southern border seems to be eclipsing the outrage of taxpayer dollars being used to bail billion-dollar companies out of their financial blunders. The eyes of the public are being led away from the malicious partnership between the Wall Street financial sector and the U.S. Federal government and being led to the barely literate migrant workers from Mexico working for a slave’s wage illegally.
One should make no mistake that this is nothing more than a distraction and it’s deliberate. I can only hope that the recent anti-government sentiment among voters remains steadfastly focused on the larger issues of fundamental corruption in Washington as opposed to the trifles surrounding immigration reform. There are bigger and far more expensive fish to fry. We should not let the 2010 elections be hijacked by indictments of the U.S. immigration policy but rather a sober look at this nation’s financial situation with a ruthless eye towards sweeping audits and spending cuts. Until those issues are addressed this nation’s immigration policy will be a moot point.