ARE WE A COUNTRY OF LAWS?

Many years ago I was a resident of the former great state of California. I use the term former advisedly. Back then the governor was Pat Brown. He had a son who was by all accounts a little weird. His name was Jerry. He also had a unique nickname, “Moonbeam”. Jerry, at one point in his life, apparently wanted to be a priest and went to school for it. Later on he decided that the priesthood wasn’t for him. Then he started dating singer Linda Ronstadt. I guess that didn’t work out either. So, the only thing left for him was politics. He ran for and was elected to several offices. He even tried to become President of the United States. Fortunately the voters thought better of that notion and sent him back to California.

I have always been amazed that a state like California, which has beauty and resources like none other, would do everything in their power to destroy their own state. Today they are among the most highly taxed and expensive states in the country. Many of their residents cannot afford to live there anymore.

That would be bad enough but another problem has surfaced for California. The uber-wealthy and the well-to-do are also leaving the state in droves. They are flocking to lower tax states like Texas, Nevada, and Florida. And, they are taking their wealth with them. Not only is California’s wealth disappearing but so is the tax base for the ultra liberal policies of their lefty governor and their legislature.

To add to the joke that California has become, Governor Moonbeam just pardoned five felons who were also illegal aliens. This was an obvious effort to poke his finger into the eyes of any who would question him as supreme dictator of California. This is on top of California’s proclamation that they are a “sanctuary state” whose laws supercede federal law. Something tells me that once great state is about to learn a huge lesson about who is actually in charge.

Finally, our own government has sued California and their legislature to overturn their so-called sanctuary status. Several cities and counties in California have either joined in the suit or filed separate suits of their own. This nonsense will finally come to an end.

I am sure you have heard by now of a large group of Central Americans who are travelling through Mexico with the goal of entering America illegally but with such force of numbers as to overwhelm our border security. This group is being funded and encouraged by another lefty group known as “countries without borders”. Excuse me, but a country without a border is not a country.

If our government doesn’t stop this latest assault on our southern border, we absolutely must fire everyone who is responsible and replace them with people who will do their jobs. We cannot continue to open our doors to every individual in the world who wants to live here.

I hate to keep harping on this but the only way to successfully deal with illegal immigration is to take away the incentive to enter illegally. If there was no job, no healthcare, no free schools, no welfare, no food stamps, and no other free goodies, these trespassers would have to find another country to invade. This is as simple as requiring evidence of legal residence for any of the freebies mentioned above. And, punishing any employer, welfare organization, medical facility, school, or state who violates the law. And I mean seriously punishing them. No silly fines. I am talking jail time.

We are either a country of laws or we are not.

Ron Scarbro