Only
in legend—and our topsy-turvy
political climate—can lawbreakers be treated like heroes. As
an analogy, Robin Hood famously stole from the rich to give
to the poor. While doing so, he ironically wore all green: the
color of money. This bowed bandit took goods benefiting one group,
the wealthy, and redistributed them to another. Thus, was this
Sherwood Forest dweller, this “do-gooder”
outlaw, the world's first Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) socialist?
Today,
can't any political
scheme be rationalized via Robin Hood's claim of good
intentions? For example, when Democrats made their late night,
locked door legislative arrangement—with zero Republican support
that average Americans knew nothing about—that's called Obamacare.
Given their appropriation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy, Robin of Loxley would have
undoubtedly been among their
number given his own sticky
fingered proclivities. Yet, if a similar takeover was
perpetrated in the private sector, it's likely criminal; or in DACA's
(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) case at least
unconstitutional.
How
is stealing a quasi-legal status akin
to citizenship not in the same vein as bank robbing? After all,
in both cases something
valuable is stolen by individuals with no legal entitlement to
it. Complicating matters is the fact that such freedoms
are intangible: in essence, more precious than Robin's booty
could ever be. So, rather than a higher penalty, our society's
lawmakers should reward such wrongdoing, again? For context, during
the Reagan era, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
(IRCA) granted up to three million unauthorized migrants a path
to legalization if they had been “continuously” present in
the U.S. since January 1, 1982. Isn't
any DACA replacement, regardless of its particulars, singing from the
same sheet music? Make no mistake: it's politically
correct amnesty for the undeserving. A popular and easy “fix”
to low-information
voters that bolsters the self-serving agendas of both political
parties: cheap labor for Republicans, voters
for Democrats. However, what's politically
expedient still is not right. Laws turned into Swiss cheese by
Washington's
shortsighted whims are as effective as porous borders are safe.
Any
democratic society must respect the laws that bind its members or it
quickly degenerates into chaos, criminality
and tribalism. Such is the ongoing occupation of America by an
estimated 11 million illegals. Under the best scenario, even a
handful of bad
actors among this shadowy underclass are an existential
threat. Who are they? Where are they? How do they support
themselves? Where do their loyalties lie? How is any modern society
to function without safeguards or a basic measure of cultural
cohesion?
In
any civilized society, lawbreakers go
to jail for undermining
society in various fundamental ways. Consequently, that outcome
causes
absences that divide families. Children from both camps, though
no fault of their own, are made to suffer because of their parent's
unlawful decisions. In a nutshell, illegals' offspring are
“anchor babies” compelling D.C.'s current “compassionate”
DACA doublespeak. In the name of their broods, why should illegals
derive special
privileges that no incarcerated citizen enjoys: to flout our laws
with impunity, and escape
consequences all to benefit their blameless loved ones? In other
words, a good sounding excuse justifies almost any malfeasance. By
that same skewed logic, should all convicts be liberated from
America's prisons solely to rejoin their marginalized
children? The fact remains that both sets of law violators
present a
potential danger to everyone else. Even a crowd-pleasing
rogue like Robin Hood would not abet such a grand
injustice.
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