A Lame Joke Becomes Reality

by Mark Steyn - June 10th, 2007 - Orange County (California) Register

About five years or so back, I started making references in columns to "fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community." But from the lame Steyn joke of yesteryear to the reality of tomorrow is a mere hop and a skip. A few days ago, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, declared:

"This week we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong."

Talk about "a fast track to citizenship"! Never mind probationary visas, Z-visas and Green Cards, in the eyes of the Democrat steering "comprehensive immigration reform" through Congress these guys are already "undocumented Americans." Was it simply a slip of the tongue? Or did Senator Reid mean it?

If he did, the very concept of citizenship is dead, and the Senate might as well opt for really comprehensive immigration reform" and declare everyone on the planet a U.S. citizen with backdated Social Security entitlements.

When a political party gets really busy giving away taxpayer money they can sometimes lose sight of the original goal. The goal of democrat giveaways was originally to help the needy. That then morphed into buying votes from American citizens who were envious of their neighbors wealth. However they have just about gotten all the votes of both the truly needy and the envious-Americans that are to be had. Since they cannot turn any more hard working citizens into democrat greed mongers, they are looking overseas to find more envious greedy people. All they need to do is extend the right to vote to them, and voila, they can guarantee political power forever.

Harry Reid has no illusions. He wants to give these illegal aliens the right to vote. Amnesty is just the first step to democrat control of your tax dollars. And that is simply one short step away from the totalitarian state he really craves.