Senator Rand Paul Wants to Redefine Amnesty

George Orwell's "1984" was first published in 1949, but its prophecies are still manifesting themselves.  One of the tricks of a dystopian, dictatorial society, as described in "1984," is to change the names of things to make them sound better, or more palatable to the people affected by them.  In his prophetic novel, "1984," Orwell coined the terms "double-speak," and "double-think" to describe how the government dupes people into accepting better-sounding synonyms to overcome the anathematic connotations of words.

George Bush II was the first to tell us that amnesty for illegal aliens is not amnesty.  He tried to redefine it, but could not come up with a suitable synonym.  Neither can Rand Paul, who recently appeared on Megyn Kelly's show on Fox News.  Paul struggled to come up with a synonym other than "immigration reform," or "pathway to citizenship."  (Bush also tried to deceive us into accepting a huge amnesty for illegal aliens during his second term.)

  I suppose Rand Paul remembers that the last general amnesty for illegal aliens in 1987 was called the "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1987" (or IRCA).   Politicians promised us that the 1987 amnesty law included a requirement that the border would be thenceforward secured and no further amnesties would be needed.  The people bought it. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." was a saying that Bush II could never quote correctly, though he tried, but always screwed it up.  It also applies to his and other politicians' attempts to dupe us on amnesties for illegal aliens.  Since 1900 there have been dozens of amnesties for illegal aliens, but most of them have been for smaller groups.  The ones in 1952 and 1987 were general amnesties. Law-breaking seems to have become the preferred method for immigrating to the U.S. ,which tells you that we are not getting the quality of immigrants we would, if we stick to the quotas for all countries. It shows in our declining education standards, especially in literacy.

Rand Paul alluded to the fact that none of the immigration amnesties for illegal aliens actually used the term "amnesty,' and indeed this term does not appear in the immigration law books.  Most often, amnesties for illegal aliens are referred to by the laws that define them.  Title 8 of the United States Code includes all immigration laws, as does the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended.  Sub-parts of 8 USC define amnesties for illegal aliens; for example the last two amnesties, one in the late 1990s and one in the early 2000s were called "241(i)" and "Extension of 245(i)", respectively, as they appear in the I&N Act of 1952, as amended, and as 8 USC 1255 and its subparts.