The Illegal Immigrants that WILL Destroy our Economy

There has been a great deal of BS around keeping Mexicans, Guatemalans and assorted other people that are looking for a little work to send it home to their starving families.  We are spending huge amounts of cash to stem the tide.  But we are also cutting in some very significant ways.

At ports around the country, there has been a slow, quiet change of priorities.  DHS runs the ship inspections now.  They look for WMD’s, faces that match some face in a database, and proper paperwork.  But they have also cut out some seriously important activities at the port.

It used to be that some inspectors were scientists.  They went in search of the smallest of immigrants, insects.  These insects are often hidden deep in a load of bananas or guava or some other exotic fruit that we get from South America.  They can be poisonous or just really hungry.  These inspectors used to get on the boats to look for tell-tale signs of the insects (nests, droppings, kills, etc.) and then respond accordingly by killing the buggers before they got off the boat.

Under DHS, these inspections are done from the shore.  There are inspectors on the boat, but they look at people and for weapons.  The scientists are being moved to law-enforcement roles on shore, often never leaving their climate controlled office.  When they do leave, it is to find these invasive species out in the wild, now that they have been loosed on the crops of the U.S.  These enemies we will have to fight here since we didn’t fight them there.

There is a bill in the Senate that would go a long way to helping this issue by moving these inspectors out of DHS.   This is important to ensuring that these illegals don’t do real damage to our economy.  I’ll be following this to see what happens.