The Congress of the United States cannot repair the terrible mistake it made by the illogical and illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Nor can it stop the death and mutilation of thousands of innocent Iraqi's and American soldiers. But Congress can divert the attention of ordinary Americans from their errors in judgement, which they now do with their sudden declaration of war on "illegal" Mexican immigrants.

The Republican dominated Senate, which doesn't know the meaning of fairness or justice, has once again made a mockery of the American System. It passed an
immigration bill authorizing a few hundred miles of fencing along the 2,000 mile Mexican-American border and with a few thousand new Border Patrol agents. The bill also grants the possibility of citizenship to the illegal immigrants who have been in this country more than five years--IF they pay both a fine and back taxes, earn English, and avoid criminal activities.

This is yet another multi-million dollar waste of taxpayer's money on a boondoggle project with little chance of success. A wall that exends only 200 miles of a 2,000 border? Who is kidding whom? Even should the U.S. duplicate the Great Wall of China along the 2,000 mile border, it would only slow the migration north. It wouldn't stop it. Why not?

Because if you truly want to stop bees from gathering pollen, you must permanently remove the flowers. In this case, you must remove the promise of employment, for this is the magnet drawing so many underprivileged Mexican peasants north across the border. It is the American farmers and businessmen who knowingly employ illegal Mexican workers that are the real criminals in this sad situation. It is they who should be punished by the American legal system, not our hungry neighbors from the south seeking the means to feed their families.

This new war against "illegal" immigrants is sheer hypocrisy, considering that we Americans have enticed these desperate people to cross our borders. The recent publicized six-day raids in Las Vegas turned up only 179 "immigration violators." Imagine, fewer than 200 in an area that cannot exist without the thousands of underpaid immigrant employees saturating casino properties: employees fulfilling functions ranging from blackjack dealers to the wait staff in casino restaurants and buffets. Are we to believe that there are so few "illegals" among the Vegas Strip's horde of Mexican workers? Or is the thought of disrupting the smoothly operating mechanism that makes Vegas such an extraordinary profitable place too frightening a thought for Vegas public officials?

The saddest part of the Vegas episode, however, is that those few people who have been "captured," some of whom have been in the U.S. many years, and who have married and had children born in this country, have been viciously and uncaringly torn from their families, perhaps never to see them again.

Where will this new phoney American war end? Who knows. All I know is that the American business community has influenced the decisions of the American government since the passage of the Consitution of the United States, and has been in total control of the American political system since 1980. The American business community made it possible for these people to enter the country. It has prospered by their being here, and it has never cared for the welfare of either Mexican or American workers.

What does this tell us about the future?