Wells Fargone

Saturday night, Fox News aired a story about Wells Fargo knowingly giving home loans to illegal aliens. A paid propagandist for the company appeared on the show. I doubt it was a coincidence that he looked like one of Mexican heritage.

After a long-winded diatribe filled with flowery phrases masking the fact that he had nothing coherent to say, he summed up by announcing that "their money is as green as anyone else's." His opponent--whose name eludes me--said "one could say the same of drug money, yet it's illegal to profit from it." The Wells Fargo mouthpiece then decried his comparison of "undocumented workers" and drug dealers. But it wasn't a comparison of the moral actions of the people involved. It was a response to the ludicrous notion that "their money is as green as anyone else's." His point was that this is irrelevant, since that doesn't address the moral or legal ramifications of accepting illegal alien money.

This is part of the problem with immigration in our country. Those on the pro-illegal immigrant side refuse a factual debate and opt for a verbal song-and-dance routine. Watch the news and read stories on this subject. It happens every time, without exception.

Worse, we have a government which will not enforce laws already on the books. Would Wells Fargo be so giving to illegals if its corporate board feared the real likelihood of penalties for its largesse? I think not. The company openly admits its involvement in this unethical venture precisely because it knows the threat of consequences is less realistic than the likelihood of Bill Clinton wearing a chastity belt. The threat of deportation is minute. The threat of businesses being prosecuted for profiting from and influencing the influx of illegal immigrants is equally small. Wells Fargo gets this, and acts accordingly.

It seems the bigger the business, the worse the corruption, in general. We live in a time when many corporations put such stock in the almighty dollar that they've forgotten patriotism, law, or the future awaiting their children's children.