If you don’t understand why I am still blasting Sam over this after it’s left the Senate, then go here, basically Sam is in the conference committee. Right now I am thinking the best outcome of all of this mess might be no bill at all. Regardless, you need to keep writing letters to Sam Brownback on Illegal Immigration. If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s a series of posts from this blog on the subject.

Here you can see Sam’s record and why I will be voting against him in both the primary in 2008, and and in the general election, no matter who his opponent is. If a recall petition really materializes, I will be signing it.

Here’s a link to his speech on the topic, most of the points are not debatable because Sam is defining the problem in liberal terms — the problem isn’t immigration Sam, it’s Illegal Immigration. Please drink some coffee, read some of the mail from your constituents, and get that straight. Either that, or listen to your fellow legisltors, like this one.

Here he quotes Ronald Reagan:

America is a nation of immigrants. That is what Ronald Reagan reminded us in his final address to the nation. President Reagan said he envisioned America as a shining city on a hill, and in his mind it was a city that teemed with people of all kinds, living in peace and harmony. Then he said, “And if this city has walls, the walls have doors, and the doors are open to those with the energy and the will and the heart to get in. That is the way I saw it, that is the way I see it.” And that is the way I see it, too.

The shining city on the hill becomes a dim graffitti-scrawled slum if we continue to import poverty in massive waves. We won’t be able to be the generous country we are if our social systems are overwhelmed, and all the benefits the illegals bring melt in front of the blazing sun of the deficit this will create.

I have to assume that Sam’s intent is good, but I couldn’t disagree with him more. Mexico is a country in dire strait, and the inhabitants need to work to make it better. If we continue to import illegals, then we create an underclass here and sow the seeds of our destruction.

It is the malcontents and the industrious who come here from Mexico, and by allowing this we are crippliing Mexico’s chance to improve. It is the folks who would rail against the government in place, the folks who would work to make their country better who come here instead. Without the escape valve of Illegal immigration to the US available I have no doubt the government of Mexico would have been forced to have become better in the intervening years. The wealth of the country still lies mainly in the hands of aproximately forty families, and PAN has ruled for almost forty years. As long as we are the escape valve, Mexico will NEVER get better.

Whether it is Christian compassion driving Sam or not, it is false charity to import Mexico’s poverty to the US, it’s the difference between giving someone a fish and teaching them to fish. If it’s agri-business concerns, it’s false economy Sam. Ask your constituents how many of their children are living at home much later than they should be because the starter jobs are all taken or too wage-depressed to support a single child leaving the nest.

One last word on the subject, if the law of the land applies to a sitting president, and I agree it did in this case, then the law of the land applies to foreigners crossing our borders. Do we need to define for Sam what the meaning of “Illegal” is?

If you think Illegal Immigration will aid the conservative cause, see this.