It's About Time--The Illegal Alien Roundup

Despite protests from Labor Unions, Democrats, and others among the Leftwing, the recent roundup of illegal aliens employed by Swift at their meatpacking plants is a good thing. For much too long, this nation has essentially abdicated its responsibility to enforce immigration laws that are already on the books.

The problem has NEVER been exclusively a border control issue but a law enforcement issue. The INS has not been doing its job.

As much as the President and others would like for us to believe that a border fence is going to solve the problem, such bandaid approaches are bound to fail. However, the President and his administration can be heartily commended for finally getting around to enforcing the nation's laws.

The neglect of the growing problem of illegal aliens is not a Republican or Democrat issue. The problem has spanned several Presidencies and several configurations of Congress. Rather, the crisis the nation faces can be laid squarely at the feet of politicians in BOTH parties who have failed to enforce laws that rational people placed on the books in days past.

Granted, the arrest of a few thousand illegal aliens at Swift is only a small step, but it is an important FIRST step. This country needs a major overhaul of its immigration policy, or else things will quickly get totally out of control, such as we find in France today.

In fact, I call for a complete moratorium on immigration for a period of years until this nation decides how to devise a more realistic and manageable immigration program. Until that time, as things now stand, we are vulnerable not only to the nation being overrun by people who couldn't care less about its laws, language, and culture, but we are at great risk for terrorist infiltration.

A moratorium on immigration will give allow the nation to catch its breath, stop the rapid, chaotic change brought about by the inability to adequately assimilate the numbers of immigrants flooding into the country, and give us the opportunity to examine a prudent course for future immigration...a course that can be adequately enforced.