Schlichter: No amnesty, no compromise, no surrender

By Kurt Schlichter | Commentary, Townhall

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. 

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