George Putnam
Thursday, March 22, 2007

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It is this reporter's opinion that the Democratic-controlled Congress has not heeded the words of the great philosopher George Santayana: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Recall the last immigrant amnesty in 1986 and what followed. The amnesty was not enforced because of a bizarre coalition of democrats who hoped to import future democratic voters, and business and industrial groups who wanted cheap, flexible employees.

Fast forward to 2006, when the Senate voted 62–36 to pass SB2611 (the comprehensive immigration reform act).

The House republicans refused to vote on it arguing that granting citizenship to illegals amounts to amnesty — a reward for law breaking.

Now we're experiencing deja vu. Sen. Edward Kennedy is proposing a retread of 2611.

If enacted, this comprehensive immigration reform act would be the most dramatic change in our immigration law in 80 years and would allow an estimated 103 million persons to leagally immigrate to the United States over the next 20 years!

That number represents one-third of the current population of the United States!

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Kennedy along with Sens. John McCain, Arlen Specter, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and President George Bush, are working night and day to shove this legislation through.

Such legislation would give blanket amnesty to illegal aliens, and carte blanche to illegal aliens to rape our welfare system, medical care, and schools, creating two tiers of justice — one to abide by our laws — another for illegals whereby they would not have to abide by our laws.

This legislation would protect employers of illegals and illegal employees alike.

Sen. Kennedy recently criticized the raids on plants that employ illegals. He cited a leather goods factory in New Bedford, Mass. Kennedy said in a letter to Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security, who oversees the immigration, customs, and enforcement agency, "ICE turned its effort to end unauthorized employment and illegal immigration into a spectacle in which the results are separated families, silent transfers in the middle of the night, traumatized children, and hundreds of people stranded by proper legal representation."

Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation, counters Kennedy's tears for the lawbreakers saying it is time to get tough, that the government simply has to sternly enforce the laws against hiring illegals. If jobs for these foreign-born workers dry up, he says, so will their flow into the U.S.

Here is what Kennedy and his coalition would do to America and its future: