A Load of McCrap

Proving that he can lie with the best of them, John "Bueno Gringo" McCain said this about U.S. immigration policy at a golf course speech: "The old rules are not workable and enforceable. We've certainly proved that over the last 20 years.''

Man, that's hilarious. The government has spent twenty years doing nothing about immigration, except creating more incentives for illegal aliens to hop the border, and ignoring or making excuses for the ones already here. That's the only fact verified in the last two decades. The rest is smoke and mirrors.

Congress "failed you,'' McCain said. "We passed a law in 1986 that said we'd give amnesty to some people and now we have 12 million more,'' illegal immigrants.

So the solution is adding insult to injury, as well as worsening the initial injury? This is like saying that the only way to mend a hairline fracture is with a compound fracture. That's brilliant, John. Presidential, even.

In response to a question from the audience about deportations, McCain said: "In case you hadn't noticed, the thousands of people who have been relegated to ghettos have risen up and burned cars in France. They've got huge problems in France. They have tremendous problems. The police can't even go into certain areas in the suburbs of Paris. I don't want that in the suburbs of America.''

Of course, he neglected mentioning that those poor, downtrodden ghettoized folks in France are mostly self-segregating Muslims, who are little more than fifth columnists desirous of transforming France into a sharia state. Setting this inconvenient tidbit aside, his argument still holds no water. The government created and exacerbated the immigrant problem in the U.S. That tending to it poses difficulties is not surprising news, nor does it provide Congress and the president a pass on addressing these issues. No one expects a cakewalk. His comments amount to: "We screwed up and shirked our duties. We held our countrymen's views on mass immigration in contempt. Now fixing the situation we tailored means getting our hands dirty. How dare you ask or expect us to decrease our comfort level." He also blithely sidesteps the discomfiting reality that these folks are causing us problems right now--in terms of economic drain, assimilation, and crime. One final note: had those holding the reins of power in France protected their country's borders and practiced a little discernment about who was allowed within, they wouldn't be dealing with uprisings and large-scale violence and car-burnings, would they?

France has a lesson for us, all right; just not the one McCain suggests.


UPDATE

Just thought I'd pass along this link detailing some of France's recent responses to illegal immigration.