by Jerry Curtis

Created on: May 24, 2007

Undocumented and illegal immigrants already have a road map to U.S. citizenship. However, to avoid the inconvenience and difficulties in following that road map (getting a visa, work permit, background check, etc.) every illegal immigrant in the United States has chosen to take the diplomatic equivalent of leg bail and sneak into our country following other road maps provided by the Mexican government and various support groups.

Meanwhile, those who chose to follow that road map watch in bewilderment as the U.S. Congress debates a law that will give head-of-the-line privileges to those who broke our laws. Equally bewildered are the rest of us who watch demonstrations by illegal aliens and interviews of people who open flout our laws and brag that they are here illegally, while demanding immediate "immigration reform."

"Immigration reform" is one of those instances in the bait-and-switch terminology employed by those who want to throw away the road map. "Immigration reform" really means open the borders, let everyone who is here illegally stay, until eventually much of the United States will be indistinguishable culturally and ethnically from our Mexican neighbor to the south - sort of a revenge for our country's land grab after the Mexican-American war of 1848.

What is needed now is border enforcement, penalties for businesses who hire illegals, and immigration enforcement on a massive scale that will:

1. provide a disincentive to those south of our border to come here.
2. provide an incentive to those here illegally to leave, and
3. protect the integrity of the system we have always had in place that provides the best road map to those who have always been welcomed to our great land.

When those conditions are met, let's look at true immigration reform. Let's set up the orderly guest-worker program. Most illegal aliens want nothing more to work and support their families. Immigration reform will accomplish that.

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