Palm Beach Post's joke editorial about Senate amnesty
The Palm Beach Post offers an editorial that would be funny if it weren't so utterly pathetic: "Real immigration reform also comes at good price". Like the S.F. Chronical, they call for an "honest" accounting of the costs vs. benefits of giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. And:
For example, one provision that has wide support in the Senate calls for fining immigrants who sign up for the government program $2,000 for illegally entering the country. The idea could generate billions.
If we really wanted to make the long green, we should just open the floodgates now, then wait a year or two and declare a massive amnesty for everyone. Think of the profits.
An honest accounting of the Senate plan - allowing for the needed security upgrades and the offsets brought by new taxes and fees - shows that the net cost to the government would be about $4 billion over 10 years.
Their version of "honest" is obtained by subtracting the $78 billion for security from the projection of $126 billion. Leaving $48 billion, from which the projected income of $44 billion is subtracted. As Homer Simpson would say, we'd be stupid not to do it.
The number that House Republicans don't want to talk about is 12 million. That's the estimated population of illegal immigrants, and the House GOP still doesn't have a plan for dealing with it.
Many pro-American House Republicans do indeed have a plan: start enforcing the laws, whether something like HR4437 or the current laws. That will reduce the number of illegal aliens currently here and disencentivize others from coming.
As if the preceding wasn't enough, the PBP stretches the limits of credulity with this:
The Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think tank, puts the cost of arresting, processing and deporting all the illegal immigrants in the country at between $206 billion and $230 billion. The estimate is theoretical because it's hard to find a rational person who believes that mass deportation is possible. Which says a lot about House Republicans.
CAP is affiliated with the Clintons, and as discussed at the link the study they mention is as much a joke as their editorial. And, of course, no mainstream Republican is calling for mass deportations.
Does the Palm Beach Post expect anyone to take them seriously?
Comments
Fred Dawes (not verified)
Fri, 09/01/2006 - 00:50
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nothing susie is wrong with mass deportation, but the rats in washingtion and the guys with the money and the other's who run things for congress need 12 or 40 or 60 million third world people here to make us into a third world so called country. but understand right now people eyes will not open but when the real B.S. Hits soon with the economic system and the coming mass revolt inside mexico comes down, people will start getting the point about third world ideals and will cry for not kicking the little rats out, but by that time we will see people dead here from wars started inside mexico, watch L.A.
susie (not verified)
Wed, 08/30/2006 - 12:14
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What's wrong with mass deportations?
Gary (not verified)
Wed, 08/30/2006 - 12:04
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It's not just the Clintonistas you here this "you can't deport 12 million people" BS from. You here it from Republicans in the Bush White House, and you here it from "conservative" radio talk show hosts like Michael Medved.
Medved will not own up to it, but he's basically an open borders guy. And his reason for it is nothing more substantial than the 1924 immigration reductions that almost (that's right, almost) kept his grandmother and grandfather separated. Even a supposedly smart guy like Medved, who went to Yale, is unable to separate the micro from the macro, to keep his personal sentimental involvement from seeing what is good for the country and what's likely to damage it.