We can certainly say that the American landscape these days is not short of political streetwalkers dolling themselves all sexy like in the lingerie of illegal immigration.
We vote for them because they look pretty and they give us what we want, and maybe something else that we don't want. Something that requires medication.
But let's be clear. We are sharing a bed with these folks because the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States is flat out of control.
And we've let it get that way because we like yard care, produce and nanny services on the cheap.
So we shouldn't be surprised — in fact, we should take the blame — that every American president and too many federal judges over the last 30 years have paved big, broad alternate avenues into this country that detour the twisting mountain road of American immigration law.
So now we are mad. Not at ourselves for placing in office the knuckleheads who let it get this way, but at the folks who — desperate to keep food in the bellies of their children and make a better life for themselves — have chosen the path of least resistance.
A path we created. Nevertheless, we want them out of here.
Those sexy politicians are cozying up to our angst as if it just pulled up in a luxury car. They're telling us they've got what we want (a solution to illegal immigration), but do they really? Our anger over illegal immigration is their ticket to power.
They'd rather we stay mad, which means not really solving the problem that has us steamed.
We'll keep voting for them because all that sultry talk and boudoir dress makes us forget that the problem we created (the 12 million or so illegal immigrants now stateside) aren't going away anytime soon.
If you don't think that's the mating dance going on here, then you've bought what the politicians are peddling. And sooner or later, we'll need a prescription to get rid of it.
For instance, the floosies who continue to shrill -- without taking a breath -- that the stop-and-start immigration reform bill is nothing more than amnesty by another name ignore what Webster's tell us amnesty means: the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals.
Clearly, the immigration reform bill in its current state — replete with fines and other punitive actions for folks who entered the country by way of the other path — is not an amnesty bill.
