During the last year Americans have been consumed with our national election, a collapsing economy, heroics on the Hudson River and a mind-boggling number of job losses. Immigration reform has temporarily left the radar screen, but it could soon return with a vengeance.
The political situation in Mexico is deteriorating by the day. Our troops in Southern California and Arizona have been officially advised that Mexican border towns are now “off-limits.” Media outlets around the world are reporting horrific criminal activity in Mexico, including murders, kidnappings and beheadings. Drug cartels are reportedly in control of many cities and several high-level Mexican officials have been arrested and accused of working for the drug lords. Lawlessness is spreading across the country like a wildfire, and the violence has reached an unprecedented level. Simply put, Mexico is becoming a very dangerous place to live.
Mexico’s emerging political crisis could soon create an enormous immigration problem for America, and it will be bigger than anything we have experienced in the past. Under our current immigration law, most aliens within the U.S. (legally or illegally) who can prove “a well-founded fear of persecution” in their home country, are eligible for “asylum.” If granted, “asylees” are immediately given work permits and after one year become eligible to apply for a Resident Alien “green card.”
Immigration advocates are salivating. Despite the sound defeat of “comprehensive immigration reform legislation” in 2007, “asylum” here in the U.S. for millions of Mexicans is looking more and more like a viable “end run” on our immigration system. If most Mexicans living here file for “asylum”, not only will the system collapse under the shear enormity of the paperwork, the U.S. will have no alternative but to grant temporary legal status to those who apply. In other words, “amnesty!”
When it comes to reforming our immigration laws, who needs the Congress or the Obama Administration? “Amnesty” may soon be a simple by-product of the Mexican drug cartels.
The political situation in Mexico is deteriorating by the day. Our troops in Southern California and Arizona have been officially advised that Mexican border towns are now “off-limits.” Media outlets around the world are reporting horrific criminal activity in Mexico, including murders, kidnappings and beheadings. Drug cartels are reportedly in control of many cities and several high-level Mexican officials have been arrested and accused of working for the drug lords. Lawlessness is spreading across the country like a wildfire, and the violence has reached an unprecedented level. Simply put, Mexico is becoming a very dangerous place to live.
Mexico’s emerging political crisis could soon create an enormous immigration problem for America, and it will be bigger than anything we have experienced in the past. Under our current immigration law, most aliens within the U.S. (legally or illegally) who can prove “a well-founded fear of persecution” in their home country, are eligible for “asylum.” If granted, “asylees” are immediately given work permits and after one year become eligible to apply for a Resident Alien “green card.”
Immigration advocates are salivating. Despite the sound defeat of “comprehensive immigration reform legislation” in 2007, “asylum” here in the U.S. for millions of Mexicans is looking more and more like a viable “end run” on our immigration system. If most Mexicans living here file for “asylum”, not only will the system collapse under the shear enormity of the paperwork, the U.S. will have no alternative but to grant temporary legal status to those who apply. In other words, “amnesty!”
When it comes to reforming our immigration laws, who needs the Congress or the Obama Administration? “Amnesty” may soon be a simple by-product of the Mexican drug cartels.
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