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8/27/2008
Lasee: Arrest the illegals
Last week there was an article highlighted on FoxPolitics from the Wausau Daily Herald. (FoxPolitics.Net is a great source of early morning news around the state. I recommend you sign up to receive your daily email.)
The Wausau Daily Herald describes how the Mexican community in Wausau held a meeting because they are upset due to difficulties getting services, education, Social Security cards and driver's licenses. The article went on to say that many speakers at this town hall meeting admitted they are here illegally. Gee, it's good they are still having problems. Because the liberals and certain business interests want to make it easy for them.
What disturbed me most, beside the fact that they felt comfortable having a public meeting, is that Wausau Police Chief Jeff Hardel and Marathon County Sheriff Randy Hoenisch were in attendance and they didn't make a single arrest.
Now, what I would expect law enforcement to do when discovering criminals is to arrest them, then deport them. Instead, Sheriff Hoenisch and Police Chief Hardel said their officers aren't targeting them. They assured the audience that they want them to feel comfortable with law enforcement. They don’t care that they are here illegally.
This disturbs me. We have law enforcement welcoming lawbreakers with open arms.
What is the value of United States citizenship? If anyone who gets here, somehow, has the same rights (not the responsibilities) that citizens enjoy? Citizenship should be something to be valued. (Apparently citizenship is being devalued, just like our money.) Unfortunately, liberals and the Catholic Church are calling us to be soft on the illegals and recognize all that they have been through. They say we should greet these illegals with open arms when they get here. It shouldn't matter how they get here, by hook or crook, by swimming, digging or climbing. Once here, we should ignore the fact that they are illegal non-citizens.
In other countries, for instance Mexico, non-citizens can’t fully own property. Citizenship means something. How far would we (non-Mexican citizens) get, if we demanded English be used on official Mexican forms or insisted an English translator be provided for all court proceedings? I wonder if they have any Spanish as a second language classes. This is at a time when the Mexican government is deporting Central Americans who are jumping their borders. And we aren’t?
We should treat the Mexican illegals exactly the same way Mexico treats their illegals and even legal non-citizens. What they need to do is fix the problems in their own country, not escape to ours (only if they use legal channels).
We need change, all right. But not the type of change talked about by either national party and their candidates. It is time that citizens of the United States demand that illegals be returned to their home countries.
Frank Lasee is a Republican and represents the 2nd Assembly District.
COMMENTS
Frank has a good point here, at least in theory. In actual practice returning the illegals to their own country is a logistical nightmare. The cost of moving millions of people across the border, which is over 1,700 miles from Green Bay, is astronomical. Just sending one illegal from Wisconsin to Mexico would cost our taxpayers nearly $1,000.00. I've vacationed in Mexico - believe me the travel costs are not insignificant.
Add to the costs of deportation not only the fact that the feds reserve unto themselves the privilege of immigration enforcement, but also that the locals incur lots of costs and red tape they don't need and have no budget to fund. By the way, I should mention that Rep. Lasee is the primary proponent of the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights," which limits local government's ability to meet the expenses of enforcing federal laws. Perhaps the State of Wisconsin could get involved in assisting the feds with their immigration problem.
Here's a new concept, adapted from the potheads "tax the vice" argument for legalizing marijuana: Let's tax the illegals! Require employers to withold taxes from the illegals' pay and remit it into a local witholding fund to be used to deport the "troublesome" noncitizens. These are the "frat boys" who come to Wisconsin to party, and the "welfare sponges" that use up our Health and Human Services budgets. Let the hard-working roofers, siders, landscapers, cow milkers and housekeepers stay and just tax them at the same rate we tax the citizen roofers, siders, landscapers, cow milkers and housekeepers. The fund could then be used by local law enforcement to deport the unproductive troublemakers back to their country of origin or to house them at Waupun or Green Bay Correctional when they've killed someone while driving drunk.
Of course this is just a fantasy. First off, Gov. "Diamond Jim" Doyle would very quickly realize that he has a new fund available to "borrow" from. And soon thereafter the Gov's liberal friends would find the pool of taxed persons just as valuable in the voting booth as Bill "Boss" Tweed did the Irish in 1854.
Duke (Wed Aug 27 10:15:33 2008)
Something that a lot of people ignore is the fact that illegals bring their untreated diseases here. My husband had to have chest xrays to prove he didn't have TB, before he was allowed a green card. Illegals can just come in and cough and hack their germs all over--it won't be long before WI is no longer a "TB-free" (re. dairy animals) state.
emily matthews (Wed Aug 27 15:33:23 2008)
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