For 50 years, Congress has done little or nothing enforcing existing immigration laws, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Of course, Congress is supposed to legislate and the Department of Justice enforce Federal laws, but Congress’s connection to the law enforcement branch is hardly arms-length, since it must appropriate the money the DOJ needed to enforce immigration laws. The same conundrum will apply in respect to Homeland Security. So if there are certain immigration laws Congress doesn’t want enforced, they simply withhold the money.

If you think we have a budget, pollution, water, sanitation, law enforcement, education and health services problem now, just wait for the U.S. Congress to do nothing for another 50 years and see what happens. It isn’t going to be pretty. Study the immigration issue and get involved in immigration reduction.

Aristotle said, “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”

Paul Westrum

Albert Lea