Golmer's Blog

Let’s face it. America is chock-full of illegal immigrants. I’m a law-abiding and constitutional kind of guy. I believe whole-heartedly in the constitution and the process of application of that constitution through law.

There is a perfectly good, constitutional and lawful way to enter and remain in this country. It is through the existing legal immigration process. Sure, that immigration process takes time and doesn’t allow the flood of immigration that illegal immigrants would like it to allow, but that doesn’t mean that the constitutional, legal process should be bypassed or ignored.

The Irish immigrated to this country legally. The Chinese immigrated legally to this country. The Italians immigrated legally to this country. Every swinging dick that showed up on Ellis Island did so through a legal immigration process. And yet now we are asked to completely blow off that legal, constitutional process just because our southern neighbor wants to walk across the border for a better life - as they have been doing for a really long time. 

Now to the Arizona Law. All the Arizona law does is state that Law Enforcement officers have the right (which they really ought to have now anyway) to have anyone produce a document stating their US citizenship and/or naturalization paperwork, green card, work visa, etc. showing that they are following the law. If they cannot do so, and are in fact here in this country illegally (irrespective of national origin), then law enforcement ought to have the right to detain them and turn them over to the proper authorities for processing as an illegal immigrant, whatever that happens to mean. 

I think the proposed Arizona law ought be taken up by every single state, and also be promulgated up to the federal level. But I don’t think it goes far enough.

The reason Illegal immigrants can not only come here but live and work here outside of our system of laws is because there isn’t a mechanism in place to verify the identity of US citizens. There isn’t a system in place to ensure that enough physical and biometric indicators are used to positively identify an individual citizen uniquely, in a way that is not subject to fraud, duplication, or corruption. People (and not just illegal immigrants) can work the system with multiple IDs, multiple social security numbers, duplicate social security numbers, identification based on dead people, etc. We need a REAL identification system that can be irrefutably tied to a specific individual, that CANNOT be faked or duplicated or used fraudulently. If we had that, then we could verify whom is and is not a citizen, not just for immigration purposes but for purposes of establishing a domicile, executing monetary instruments, acquiring property, etc.

The next piece is to do away with cash. Then the only way you could use money would be to have citizenship and, through citizen ship, have established a bonafide ID, and thereby being able to execute monetary instruments - i.e. get paid. If you are illegal, you have no legal ID and therefore have no way to work illegally, rent a house, get a driver’s license (or a car), or gain anything else that would allow you to stay here illegally. 

Our law enforcement officer ought to be able to immediately tell whom is a citizen and who isn’t. That hispanic Americans call foul because they have the largest group of illegal immigrants here (true most are good, hard working people, but criminals working a broken system nonetheless) who would suffer by being pulled off of Uncle Sam’s teat is irrelevant.

The next thing you could do, if really serious about border security, is simple. Declare a 3-mile wide strip of soil along the US border under US Imminent Domain, make it a military base, and conduct all weapons testing there - munitions, bombs, mines, guns, rifles, automatic heat and motion sensing popup gun turrets, movement detection systems, railguns, etc. Anyone crossing would do so at their own peril. It would also give an excuse to centralize military training, and make plenty of jobs for our military and people who support the military. 

The message should be simple - if you want to emigrate to this country, do so legally.