Stop overcomplicating the illegal immigration problem

House Speaker John Boehner has drawn a line in the sand on the Senate’s Gang of 8 bill or any bill, for that matter, that deals with illegal immigration.  He will follow the Hastert Rule.  The Hastert Rule, named for former Speaker Dennis Hastert, means that a bill will not be brought up for a vote unless it has majority support from the majority.  In other words, a majority of Republicans would have to support a particular bill before Boehner would allow a vote.

Of course, had Boehner invoked the Hastert Rule before we wouldn’t have seen a tax increase.

I’m, quite frankly, sick and tired of hearing that the illegal immigration problem is complicated.  It’s very simple.  If you broke into this country you have to leave and apply to come in the right way.  Ah, but we can’t deport 11 million people, they say.  That’s ridiculous.  We didn’t pay to import them, we won’t have to pay to deport them.  All we have to do is do what I’ve been advocating for at least ten years: Demagnetize America.

You cut off the magnets that brought these people here.  Why did they come in the first place?  Because of the magnets; the jobs and the government benefits.  You cut those off and they go home.  If the penalty for hiring an illegal alien is you lose your business license then you would never risk hiring an illegal alien.  This needs to be a federal law.  We make E-Verify mandatory.  E-Verify is a program run by Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.  It is Internet-based, simple to use and free.  In a matter of seconds an employer can check on a potential employee and make sure they’re legal.  If there’s a problem the employee has 8 business days to present the proper documentation to straighten the problem out.  Many states are already using this for state employees and it’s the law of the land for federal employees.

With E-Verify there is no excuse in hiring an illegal alien.  If the penalty is the loss of your business you’ll make double sure you’re hiring only legal workers.  If we also make it illegal to provide government benefits to illegal aliens other than emergency services then the problem is solved overnight.

Think about it.  If you were told by your employer that you could not work in this state any longer what would you do?  You’d pack up immediately and move to another state.  That’s what we do with Demagnetize America.  We give all of the illegals and their employers six months to put their personal and financial affairs in order then we start cracking down.  Simultaneously, we secure the borders.  We put some of that drone technology to good use – unarmed, of course.  We bring our boys back from Afghanistan and we put them on the border doing something that directly affects our national security.  The drug-running stops.  The terrorists stop sneaking across our borders.  The illegals who are here go home and anyone coming to this country comes the right way.

The unemployment problem all but evaporates.  With people back to work we’re able to drastically cut the welfare programs and get the economy moving.  If only Congress were proposing all of this.  What we’re trying to do is to stop them from making the problem even worse by legalizing 11 to 20 million illegal aliens.

The good news is John Boehner is standing between us and a country-crippling illegal immigration law.  The bad news is only John Boehner is standing between us and a country-crippling illegal immigration law.

The real story behind the government buying ammo

You may have heard that the government has been buying a lot of bullets lately.  The Department of Homeland Security is buying more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammo over the next 5 years.  That’s more than enough ammunition to fight the Iraq War for almost 25 years.

Of course, conspiracy theorists immediately jumped to the FEMA camp conclusion.  If you’re not familiar with the FEMA camp conspiracy theory here it is in a nutshell.  The government, they say, is setting up FEMA camps or concentration camps all across the country and at some point there will be a fabricated state of emergency and all enemies of the Obama administration will be rounded up and taken to these camps.

The problem is the FEMA camp conspiracy was hatched long before President Obama ever took office.  The theory dates back to at least the 1980s when left-wingers were convinced Ronald Reagan was going to round them up and put them in FEMA camps because of their opposition to Reagan’s Contra support in Nicaragua.  Ollie North, the theory goes, was the mastermind behind the FEMA camps and was well on his way to implementing the plan until he was snared by the Iran/Contra scandal.

The FEMA camp theory usually walks hand-in-hand with the FEMA coffin theory, that the government has purchased millions of plastic coffins in which Obama plans to bury his enemies.  Looks like it would be much easier to just burn us but perhaps that wouldn’t be good for the environment.

So, if the government is not stockpiling bullets for the forthcoming martial law and FEMA camps why is it buying so many?  My theory all along has been quite simple.  Obama and his gun-grabbing allies on the left have had little success in banning guns.  They can’t even get the so-called assault weapons ban reinstated which, by the way, didn’t ban real assault weapons, which are automatic weapons.  It just banned semi-automatic weapons that looked like assault weapons.  In other words, it was gun profiling from a crowd that claims to abhor profiling and stereotypes.

If they can’t get the guns the logical Plan B is to go after the ammo.  After all, what good is a gun if you have nothing to shoot?  Notice how every place from Walmart to gun shops is running out of ammo?  Coincidence?  I don’t think so.  My theory is the government is using its purchasing power to create a shortage of ammunition.  Sure beats being thrown into some FEMA camp.

And I’m no longer alone in this theory.  Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) offered up the same theory recently and he’s much closer to the government than I am.  He’s proposed a bill in the senate which would limit non-defense federal agencies to pre-Obama levels of ammunition.  It’s a fantastic idea but it doesn’t seem to be getting much traction.  Probably because most of the senators are already on board with this whole FEMA camp thing.

The irony of the entire gun debate is that gun enthusiasts have turned out to be their own worst enemies.  Each time the liberals start making noise about taking guns the second amendment folks start running up the price of guns and ammo.  One gun shop told me they still can’t keep anything with an AR in its name in stock.  Now with the government buying up ammunition certain types of ammo are more scarce than a bride at a Barney Frank wedding.

Until congress does something about the government there’s not much we can do except stop feeding the hysteria and stop playing into their hands.