Breakfast with W & JR (Chief Justice) was fun, but it's been kind of an errand-running, kid-chauffering day otherwise. Which is how I know the radio news guys have spent the day tsk-tsking the stall of the Senate immigration bill with an exasperated, "when will they get it together" tone. As if the whole purpose of the Legislative Branch is to Do Stuff. No matter what Stuff it is. Take the lede of WaPo's coverage:
Efforts to rewrite the nation's immigration laws collapsed in the Senate today, renewing doubts about Congress's ability and willingness to tackle the complex, emotional issue in an election year.
Personally, I'm glad the Senate has another two weeks to consider my proposals to solve the immigration crisis, which no one has taken sufficiently seriously to date:
- Since Vicente Fox (and his poorest citizens) claim there is no border between Mexico & the U.S. he's bound to respect, let's agree with him. Declare Mexico the 51st state. Yes, there will be an assimilation problem, but on the other hand, our dependence on foreign oil is over. All those exported American jobs and factories? They're back!
- Or: instead of deporting illegals, give them vouchers to fly to Europe. This will solve Europe's demographic crisis by re-populating it with Christians who share the commitment to Western civilization.
- Or as some radio wag said: instead of a fence, build a tunnel under the U.S. to Canada. There are so many Canadians here illegally, too, it's a fair trade.
- (Repeating myself) Repeal the minimum wage laws, ending the unfair competition between illegal workers and our own unskilled poor.
- UPDATE: VDH argues that not only do we not assimilate newcomers, we actually radicalize them by leaving them to home-grown hate groups (no one actually comes here for the purpose of re-colonizing). Therefore, instead of building a fence along the border, we should build fences around the offices of La Raza, Mexica.org, & the ACLU.
