Duffy has been watching the immigration brouhaha with considerable interest. This Thursday, July 29, barring some last minute legal injunction, the new immigration law will take effect. Duffy sure as hell would not want to be a law enforcement officer in the state of Arizona that day! For the law enforcement community it will be "damned if do and damned if you don't!" You can bet that especially in the large cities such as Phoenix and Tucson there will be carloads of citizens both for and against the law actually following sheriff's deputies around in cars to see what happens when someone is pulled over for a traffic stop. I kid you not. Not to mention large crowds of people both for and against matching up and down city streets demonstrating for or against the law. This will be the number one story for days possibly weeks eclipsing even the gulf oil spill in news coverage and intensity. Duffy is sure the ACLU and right wing organizations will have legions of lawyers out in force to closely follow the police as they carry out their duties. Cops will be charged if they follow the law and if they, in the opinion of some, don't follow the law. It will be one unholy mess!
Duffy feels that sooner or later it was bound to come to this. Let's face it. The immigration situation in this country has been broken for at least twenty years. I don't think any citizen actually feels that the U.S. has a handle on border control and admitting illegal aliens into this country. A majority of the population apparently feels a tipping point has been reached. "Enough is enough and by God we have to do something!" Duffy agrees with that sentiment, but what? This country must control the borders, but how? Duffy is sympathetic to the argument that the U.S. government should expend vastly more resources to sealing the border along the southern U.S. I suspect that the a majority of the American people would gladly transfer the tens of billions of dollars now being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan over to building a impregnable (if there is such a thing) fence along the southern border. But what to do with the 10-12 million illegals already here? Some for years if not decades? If one could magically wave a wand and "disappear" all these people chaos would reign in the agriculture and construction industries not to mention thousands of small businesses around the country. Duffy feels the real problem is not sealing the border which can be done if enough resources are thrown at the problem but how to somehow determine who among the illegals already here should be granted citizenship and who should be deported. One has to ask, of the many who have led productive lives in this country for years, "why haven't you applied for citizenship?" Moreover, how to treat the millions who are here to work hot, low paying physically hard jobs in agriculture and construction?
Folks, I know that a lot of you are waiting on ole' Duff's solution to this huge mess.........Guess what? He doesn't have one! Duffy is of the opinion that frankly a lot of money is being wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan. Duffy feels that a lot of money is being wasted in useless government programs. Duffy also feels that the current administration, Obama and the Democrats, have no answers to the illegal immigration problem and have no real interest in going to Congress asking for the money to really, really spend on tightly closing the borders. So, nothing is going to happen as long as the Democrats control Congress and Obama is president. Which means chaos in Arizona and more states enacting Arizona type laws. You can see it coming......
