There is cringe, and then there is the DIGNITY Act. It’s one of those stupid bills whose authors turn its title into a stupid acronym, but this latest amnesty proposal doesn’t make an acronym out of “DIGNITY”; fittingly, it makes it out of the Spanish word “DIGNIDAD” (Dignity) and stands for “Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream.” We should ignite it all right, and deliver it to be used as a suppository, not just because of that idiocy, but because there’s so much more to hate. Basically, it’s a free ride for illegal aliens in exchange for enforcement that will never happen as soon as Democrats or a soft Republican takeover, another of those “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” proposals that the GOP Wimp Caucus is always offering. They don’t call the Republicans “el partido estupido” for nothing.
And what great timing – we finally shut down the border, and we’re finally shoveling the teeming masses of Third World intruders out of our country, so when better to totally surrender? Let’s seize defeat from the jaws of victory! Besides sponsoring Representative Maria Elvira Salazar (R(sic)-Florida) and her dozen or so fellow invertebrate collaborators, the only guy who likes it is Senator James “Jimmy the Sap” Lankford because he’s no longer Amnesty Sissy No. 1 – hopefully, next election cycle, the Oklahoma voters will make him a Squish Emeritus.
What does this bill do? It lets people who came to this country illegally stay. They broke the law, and they get rewarded. Oh, they are supposed to put out a little cash (America is for sale now, I guess), and we get to pretend that we’re going to vet them somehow, yet somehow summon up the stones to toss out the ones who don’t pass said vetting, but it’s still amnesty. They broke the law. They get rewarded. And you know what happens to something that gets rewarded – you get more of it.
What do we get out of this deal? Well, we get a promise that the laws that have not been enforced until Trump will totally, certainly, absolutely be enforced in the future this time. Of course, laws are not worth the paper they’re printed on if they’re not enforced. My beloved Ronald Reagan got suckered into one of these deals in 1986. “Why, let most of the Third World into America, and we will totally stop illegal immigration,” he was promised. And we let most of the Third World into America, and they didn’t stop illegal immigration. As Trump has shown, existing law is perfectly sufficient to close down the border and get rid of uninvited intruders. But the law doesn’t matter if it’s not going to be enforced. So, we get a promise that they’re totally going to break because they have broken it every single time. Do you think they’re going to turn into deportation fanatics overnight? They can’t even support deportations now without screaming that every single scumbag that ICE arrests is Madre Teresa.
Sure, trust them. Trust the people who don’t even recognize the legitimacy of America’s borders or our right to control who’s in our country. Trust them even though the last time we did one of these comprehensive deals, we got screwed. We opened the doors, and the traffic only flows one way – in. But hey, this time they’re going to do what they promised. Absolutely. Totally. Count on it, suckers.
They call this abomination “the DIGNITY Act,” as if being a criminal entitles you to dignity. But what about our dignity? What about the dignity that comes from being a citizen whose country’s laws, which were passed through our democratic processes, are actually enforced? Is it really a democracy if we pass a law, but then a small group of people can decide, “Nah, we’re just not going to do that?”
No, it’s not. It’s an insult. It’s disrespectful. Where’s our dignity? When do Americans get treated with some respect? They spit on our laws. They spit on the choices we’ve made as a people, yet somehow we owe them dignity? Ignoring the citizens in favor of foreign invaders is the kind of thing that leads to the chaos describes in my new novel, American Apocalypse: The Second Civil War. It is absolutely corrosive to a nation – as well as an insult.
Here’s an idea. Go back to whatever hellhole country you came from, and you can have all the dignity you want. But you don’t earn dignity by being a criminal, and you are a criminal if you break our laws. Let’s stop the pretense that these people didn’t commit a crime. It’s a crime to come into our country illegally. It’s also a crime to steal identities and fake Social Security numbers to illegally work here, though no one wants to talk about that. No, if you had to spend two years unscrewing your destroyed credit because some dude from Honduras stole your SSN, that’s an indignity. What is more of an indignity than to be told that you can’t have a say in how your own country is run, and that you owe the intruders a free ride once they sneak in?
We owe them dignity? We don’t owe them anything. They broke in here. They’re uninvited, and they don’t get squatter’s rights. Just because you’ve ignored our law for 30 years doesn’t mean you get a free pass. The proper response when you read about some abuela who’s been here illegally since 1986 getting hooked up by ICE and shipped back to her hellhole of origin is to pop a cork and celebrate. That is dignity – honoring the citizens of the United States by honoring the laws our elected representatives passed.
Now, I understand why Rep. Salazar did this. There are lots of immigrants in Miami, though the immigrants I know are legal and want the illegals out of here more than I do (to the extent that is humanly possible). Also, her husband is a big farmer guy who no doubt wants a stable serf class to exploit, as do many nominal Republicans who make money off it. What about the other Republican reps joining in on this fiasco? What the hell is wrong with them? Are they just stupid? Are they just weak? Did they fall for the nonsense that Jesus says we’ve got a dish out cash for every peasant who decides to move to America uninvited – and don’t start up with “Actually, Mary and Joseph were refugees” because they were actually traveling to participate in a census of people who were legally in their jurisdiction.
Allow me to explain, for the millionth time, the unwavering position of the people who elected Donald Trump regarding illegal immigration. It’s a very simple position. Not a lot of nuance. Not a lot of leeway, because we tried leeway and we got screwed over. Our position is to deport every single one of them. Moms, dads, grandpas, people with dogs, honor students, particle physicists, veterans (who inevitably have some criminal conviction in their background), and all the rest—every single one. No exceptions, no slack, get the hell out.
Yeah, the dreamers have a dream, but I’m an American citizen, so my dream counts more than theirs. And you know what I dream of? I dream that I get to decide how this country is run, not a bunch of foreigners getting to decide by default. I want my dignity.
Leave it to the tofu Republicans to generate this kind of stupid proposal just as we are winning the fight. It’s frustrating and annoying, but amnesty is not going to happen. Sure, there are a lot of business interests that love to have peasants toiling for them at subhuman wages, and the tab for their care picked up by us taxpayers. But Donald Trump is not an idiot and doesn’t want to commit political suicide by completely betraying the people who elected him on a platform of no more illegal immigrants, no more amnesty, and no more being suckered. The Epstein thing was disruptive, but if he signs onto anything remotely like amnesty, whether you talk about dreamers or DACA, or strawberry pickers or hotel maids, or anything else, it would be a political Dresden. Trump would not just lose a few of the key influencers. He would lose the MAGA base.
And he knows it. If you think George HW Bush got slammed for saying “Read my lips, no new taxes” and then imposing new taxes, just watch what happens if Trump were to do the same thing with illegal aliens. MAGA is built on the idea that Americans have a right to rule their own country and control who gets to come in. Trump did not invent that; he was just the first candidate not afraid to carry the banner. Once again, our position is straightforward and non-negotiable. No amnesty, ever, and any Republican pushing it needs to suffer the indignity of a primary defeat.
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