Boy, Are We Ever a Bunch of Saps

Jonathan got it right. We are a bunch of saps. Not only that, but we are saps walking a political plank of our own making. It's the next greatest "to be or not to be" question in the illegal immigrant debate. If we kick all the undocumented workers and their kids out, then we lose cheap labor and tax the law enforcement officials who will have to search for them under every nook and cranny, in factories, in gardens and in some households. If we allow them to stay, we get to take out the welcome mats and strap them on our backs, with the justices leading the ceremony.

The problem is we need them because of cheap labor; the other problem is that we need their progeny, too because they provide jobs for the school system. The truth is most schools would be mighty empty if it weren't for their kids.

So if the 45% that finish high school want to continue on to the hallowed halls of higher learning, let them, but let them pay for it like they do in ROTC. Just let them pay beforehand or by alternating one year of college with one year of service. After all, they aren't here legally, so serving this country ought to be a small price to pay. The lawyers at the ACLU may froth at the mouth over supposed discrimination and the unfairness of it all. But what's unfair is that they are here illegally, as in what's against that oft forgotten body of work called the Constitution and that they are allowed to get in line ahead of those whose only crime was being born and raised not in another country but in another state.