The Madness of Illegal Immigration

Our economy is mired in severe recession and in fact is teetering on the brink of another Great Depression.

Millions of Americans are out of work, and the hemorrhage of American jobs continues.

In the best of times, scofflawing illegal immigration does great harm to our Country and destroys respect for the rule of law. But in our current situation, it is absolute madness to continue our current course--and much more madness to consider exacerbating the problem through any form of amnesty program.

Illegal immigration displaces 12 to 20 million Americans from employment, drives down wages, skirts taxation and increases our national debt, and drains billions of our currency to foreign countries annually.

I stand for vigorous enforcement of existing laws against illegal immigration. We must begin to aggressively and comprehensively prosecute those who employ illegals. When these criminal employers begin to face a real prospect of severe fines and prison terms, the "jobs" for illegals will quickly evaporate--and the illegals will deport themselves.

Don't be fooled by the vacuous and self-serving arguments of the political establishment on both ends of the political spectrum.

The dirty low-down fact is that the right wing ignores the problem because illegal immigrants weaken the American labor movement and keeps wages down, and the left ignores the problem because it is kowtowing to a voting bloc.

America, American jobs, and the American future are more important than these self-serving motivations of the political establishment.

We can and must stop scofflawing illegal immigration, and in Congress I will work to make this happen.