There is a huge push on the part of the current administration, certain members of Congress, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Mexican government, many industrial and growers' organizations, and many unions, to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the United States. No one has any good idea of how many - estimates range as high as twenty million and at NAFBPO we would not call that an unreasonable guess.
Let's call it what it is, an amnesty. That's what the aliens who would benefit call it, so we will too. The American proponents of it don't like the term, though, for the word says we are forgiving the criminal violation of the law by the illegal aliens - and the American people would not look favorably on something presented in that light. You can't change what it is by calling it something else, though, so "amnesty" it is, and it is a corrupt bargain to boot.
They say the beneficiaries will have to pay a fine, and application fees, and will have to learn English. NAFBPO says that's like letting a burglar off the hook AND keep everything he stole if he will just 'fess up and pay a thousand-dollar fine. In fact, it is that aspect of the process that makes it a corrupt bargain. It is indistinguishable in concept from the practice so common in other nations of buying your way out of a legal bind by passing money to an official to get what you want, whether that is staying out of jail or buying a favorable decision on an application for some benefit. It is corruption and it should not even be tolerated, much less proposed as the solution in a nation ostensibly devoted to the rule of law.
We had an amnesty in 1986 for three million people. It was supposed to be in conjunction with getting control of the border so the situation would not get out of hand again. As we know now, it didn't work, and it's not hard to understand why not: Illegal behavior rewarded encourages more illegal behavior. Yet despite the failure of what was to have been a solution back then, certain people want to do it all over again.
Never mind why they want to have another amnesty, we'll examine that in another essay (hint: it's about money - who'd have guessed?). For now, let's look at all the reasons it's a bad idea for America and for Americans.
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