Short Quiz on Illegal Immigration

[johnkarls]

1. What do polls show is the most important issue for 2008 after Iraq and the War on Terror?

2. What is the relationship, if any, between illegal immigration and out-sourcing American jobs?

3. How does the 2006 illegal-immigration proposal of Pres. Bush which was championed by the Democratic Party but defeated by Senate Republicans compare to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?

4. What criminal penalties are prescribed for American employers who hire illegal immigrants?

5. Why have Messrs. George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton and George W. Bush refused to enforce these criminal penalties and why has Congress permitted them to shirk their duty?

6. In addition to violating their oath of office by refusing to enforce the law, are Messrs. George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton and George W. Bush guilty of anything else as a result of their refusal?

7. Is Salt Lake City a “Sanctuary City”?

8. What is the philosophy of “Sanctuary City” legislation?

9. Is each member of the Salt Lake City police force an “accessory after the fact” as a member of a conspiracy to violate Federal Immigration Law?

10. Do all Americans have a legal obligation “to rat” on anyone who violates any law, whether or not relating to illegal immigration?

11. What new Arizona law is taking effect on January 1st?

12. Are agricultural workers in the United States required to be paid at least the federal minimum wage?

13. Is the United States the only country in the world that bestows citizenship on children of non-citizens if the children are born in the United States?

14. To avoid having 13 questions, what is a “mule”?


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BillV’s original questions accompanying his proposal of “Illegal Immigration” as our topic for January =

1. Are "limousine liberals" once again "screwing the Democratic Party base" (please pardon my French) by championing the cause of illegal immigrants on the assumption that African-Americans "have nowhere to go"?

2. Who made the decision that the Democratic Party will champion the cause of illegal immigrants who tend to be family-oriented Roman Catholics (the quintessential "religious right")?

3. What does the polling show re championing illegal immigration since this seems to be looming as the second-most important issue in the minds of voters behind Iraq and the War on Terror? Should we "do what's right" or do what's in the best interest of the Democratic Party? And (warping back on the first question) what is right from the viewpoint of poor African-Americans and Native Americans vs. what may appear to be right from the viewpoint of illegal aliens enticed by American employers who "thumb their noses" at federal law making it a crime to employ illegal aliens?

4. Isn't the illegal employment of "undocumented aliens" by American employers really a form of "out sourcing" American jobs that can't physically be moved to low-wage nations such as China and India?

5. Isn't our society immoral to permit American employers to illegally hire "undocumented aliens" under de facto "slave labor" conditions just so that we can enjoy lower prices at the grocery store, etc.?

6. Why should so much be spent on social services for illegal immigrants (emergency-room medical care, school for their children, etc.), when we refuse to spend adequately for our permanent American underclass (African Americans and Native Americans) who are displaced in the job market by the illegal immigrants?

7. Why is there so much emphasis on spending a lot of money on security along our southern border with Mexico? Wouldn't simple enforcement of federal criminal laws against American employers who hire illegal aliens "remove the honey that is drawing the bees"? Isn't all the spending on our southern border really a part of the War on Terror rather than part of our immigration policy?