If One Doesn't Work then Two Will Do Just Fine

It’s a pretty well-known fact that Republican law-makers are in the back pocket of Big Business. And when they aren’t, as is apparently the case with California’s GOP legislators with respect to illegal immigration, they are ungrateful, untruthful and possibly hypocritical. At least this is the logic employed in op-ed here by Ruben Navarette Jr. who also trots out the “illegal-immigrants-are-good-for-the-economy” red-herring popular with border softies.

Navarette has praise for states like Arizona and Colorado who are trying to make a go of state-run guest-worker visa programs. Of course, we already have one run by the Feds but the states don’t think the Feds work quickly enough to provide them the necessary labor. Besides, the states can’t be blamed for thinking two bureaucracies would sufficiently muddy the waters on who should and shouldn’t be here. Two separate databases, two different sets of rules, two different enforcement methods, two separate jurisdictions…. Hell’s bells….. what’s not to like about that?

Yeah, were cynical. Blame Congressional action last June and July, though, for shooting to hell any good-will or trust we have in that or any other legislative body with respect to the belief that law-makers as care-takers of the Republic are acting in the best interests of its citizens.