It seems you cannot turn on the news these days without seeing some story about immigration reform. We can thank the multi-year election cycle for that. Much air time is burned talking about needing a fortress like fence for the southern border. Personally, I would prefer the candidates to focus on the illegal immigration which is actually a threat to national security rather than those who come over to take the kind of jobs nobody really wants.

What kind of illegal immigration you ask? The kind which is going on every day with consulting firms bringing IT workers over from countries known to harbor al-Qaeda training camps and recruitment cells on vacation and tourist visas. Placing them in companies where they can run pre-strike surveillance and report the information back via email.

This threat has already been identified once, and there appears to be nothing being done about it and nothing being said in the current presidential campaigns. Not all that long ago Pakistan arrested a computer consultant whose PC contained what officials in this country termed as multiple man years of tactical surveillance about financial targets in New York city. Six months later the UK arrested this mans accomplices (if memory serves correctly, there were six of them). The US didn’t bother to nab them while they were here.

So, presidential candidates. If you want to get my attention, and the attention of the American people, quit taking campaign contributions from the very same software companies that are putting our lives at risk out of nothing other than greed. Forget about barricading off Mexico. We all know the solution to that problem is an improvement in the Mexican economy. If they don’t need to come her for jobs they won’t. If any of them were software consultants willing to work for below minimum wage like terrorist operatives, your very same contributors would have them here on a vacation visa racking up billable hours.

Of course, once the Mexican economy improves, you will have a much bigger problem to deal with. There won’t be anyone to pick our fruits and vegetables. When the American public has to pay $30 for a bushel of apples or $12 for a single head of lettuce, you will have a much bigger problem indeed.

Yes, some of them are moving drugs across the border in back packs. If you do the math, you will see there aren’t enough back packs coming across the border to account for the tractor trailers full of drugs being confiscated in this country, let alone the quantity of drugs not being caught, or the tons of crystal meth being manufactured within our borders. So, that argument doesn’t really hold a lot of water.

Yes, some of them end up in the ghetto and join street gangs. This problem exists for every ethnic group which ends up in the ghetto, including those that join gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood. That problem won’t be solved until you eliminate the ghetto. The problem is, many of your campaign contributors need the ghetto. It is where they find people to work for minimum wage or less. This is what gives them the money to contribute to you. In truth, your campaigns are being financed by the exploitation of these people.

Too bad none of you read the “Ethics in Income” act I posted here, because that would solve most of these problems, and give the government the money to solve the rest, even considering the amounts you tend to line your own pockets with.