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Yes
Created on: September 01, 2007 Last Updated: December 15, 2011
Clearly, every tool available in which to find and/or track illegal aliens and people who attempt come to the United States of America should be deployed. You see, it is too easy for an illegal alien, once arrived, to simply hide within our society in hope that our Government will simply never find him or her.
Let us not ignore the reason why so many people attempt to enter our Country from the Southern border. More often than not those people have few, if any, real opportunities in which to earn an honest living within their Country of origin.
Then again, criminals who might be wanted for crimes within their own Country simply escape to our Country and continue their illegal activities. The distribution and sale of illegal, deadly and addictive drugs is also a reason for so many people to sneak into our Country. More often than not, they already are, or soon to become, members of such organized violent street gangs who transport, distribute, sell and/or give away those drugs to any person who wants that poison.
Those tens of thousands of members of those violent street gangs also sell weapons, rob honest citizens and extort money from hard working business owners, as well as other honest individuals. They also terrorize and corrupt the bodies and the minds of our young people. In other words, they have and continue to cause grief and suffering to millions of our people on a daily basis. We all pay the price for their criminal behavior in the form of higher insurance costs for health care and property loss, to the extent of several billions of dollars each year.
That is too high a price to continue to allow an estimated 12-35 million illegal aliens to continue to hide within the United States of America. Directly or indirectly we are all victims of such criminal behavior. So much so that there are very few places left in which to safely live within our Country.
Too many people suffered and died because of the greed of foreigners and the criminals within our society. Stopping such illegal activity should be the number one priority of our, "Department of Homeland Security." It should also be the number one issue for every person who seeks election to public office.
So too, we should not forget about the greedy criminal employers who hire illegal aliens and those criminals who provide stolen identities to those illegal aliens. There are also the cowards and the corrupt people within law enforcement who simply look the other way when such crimes are being committed.
The fewer the crimes being committed the less people in law enforcement is required to maintain the "Public Safety." Who needs an army of crooked cops who do nothing more than receive our money for nothing? As a group, they have proved to be the biggest waste of money, since they do little or nothing to stop such violent street gang activity.
According to the laws that are in force, people who enter the United States of America in an illegal manner commit a criminal act. Such criminals need to be brought to justice or simply found and prevented from subsequently hiding within our society.
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No
Created on: June 04, 2007
Even debating this topic reduces people seeking the opportunities provided by the United States to the level of our domesticated pets. It is okay to insert an electronic tracking device into a cat or a dog prone to wandering away from home; it is a sign of American hegemonic philosophy that we would even consider doing this to another human being. Citizens would riot if such a proposal was made to implant them in the name of national security. Why would we subject immigrants - legal or illegal - to such measures in this, the "Land of the Free"?
The majority of immigrants entering into the United States do so because of the dearth of opportunities in their own homelands. This is how the first settlers at Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth arrived on our shores. This is what drove the "indigenous" peoples that were here on their arrival to cross the Bering Land Strait millennia ago. The Statue of Liberty, that first vision of our country for so many immigrants in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, was donated by the French with the inscription, "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."
When we take away the freedoms of a large swath of the people within our borders, we subsequently decrease all our freedoms. We are threatening to bring to life the horrible fantasies of George Orwell when we give the government the power to play "Big Brother" with any human beings. The government of the United States was founded on the principle that "All men are created equal" - though the principle seems to often be circumvented in practice and precedent. When one man can be judged as free and another as a blip on a government tracking radar, we give too much power to the practice of government and deprive our principles of their just place in policymaking.
The broad immigration bill currently being debated in Congress should never be allowed to pass. Much like the absurdity of the debate over whether or not immigrants should have to pay back taxes for time spent as illegal employees within our borders, this topic reeks of inefficiency and a desire to simply "make a statement" regardless of expense or feasibility. If most of our politicians in Washington believe that it would be near impossible to track down back taxes from illegal immigrants, so it would also be near impossible to identify and implant those illegal immigrants for tracking purposes. The prohibitive costs alone are enough to cause one to balk at such a suggestion - moral debates notwithstanding.
Peop le are always going to attempt to seek refuge and security within our borders. Implementing a tracking system, electronic or biometric, would offer little deterrence to those with no other opportunities. The government cannot even find the large majority of these illegal immigrants; how would it possibly implement a tracking program? Even attempting such a plan would be viewed as an insultory farce by the rest of the world, and would drain valuable time and manpower already depleted from wars on several fronts. On moral, practical and economic grounds, such a use would be deplorable.
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