Immigration
My position on immigration is, has been, and always shall be that illegal means illegal.
The reason there is any issue at all over immigration is the uneven application of the law by activist judges. For instance, if you are a Cuban refugee or a Haitian refugee and you try to cross the border over the ocean, you must get both feet on dry land under the wet foot-dry foot policy to be considered for asylum in the United States. If you cross the border from Canada and you do not have a passport with you, you cannot gain admission at the border and vice versa for American citizens. If you cross the border from Mexico it is like a sieve. When we pass laws, we expect and demand that our laws be applied equally, but there is no check on activist immigration judges. That needs to change.
Recently, in the ruling on the Arizona law, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton denied certain provisions of the law and put others on hold for hearing in the courts.
The most aggravating thing in this debate occurred when the governor of California initiated a boycott of services and products manufactured in the state of Arizona. The last time I looked, Arizona is one of the United States and the people of Arizona are citizens of our country. California is likewise one of the United States and their citizens are likewise Americans.
Americans do not boycott other Americans, especially when the issues they are at odds over concern people that are not Americans!
From my own experience traveling into other countries, I am always mandated to have my passport on my person and to surrender it to authorities upon request or risk a trip to jail. Why is it that Americans always have to bend over backwards for immigrants and foreigners, while visitors get a free ride from our courts?
We have complete immigrations laws. We do not need immigration reform, but we need to enforce existing laws. I will fight any attempt to rearm immigration laws and I will initiate efforts to make it easier to remove renegade judges who do not enforce the laws that we have all agreed upon.
