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 American and Iraqi soldiers. But the men and women of Congress can divert the attention of ordinary Americans from their errors in judgment with the sudden declaration of war "Latin American 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 has passed an immigration bill authorizing a few hundred miles of fencing along the 2,000 mile Mexican-American border to be "effectively" guarded by the addition of a few thousand new Border Patrol agents.

This bill also grants the possibility of citizenship to the illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than five years—if they pay both a fine and back taxes, learn 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 extends for only 200 miles of the 2,000 mile 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?

To stop bees from gathering pollen, the flowers must be removed—permanently. In this case, the promise of employment in the U.S must be removed, for this is the honey drawing hungry peasants north across the border. It is the American farmers and businessmen who knowingly employ illegal workers that are the real criminals in this sad situation. They are the ones who should be punished by the American legal system, not the hungry and desperate neighbors from the south seeking the means to feed their families.

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 hordes of Latin American 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 American business community has influenced the decisions of the American government for hundreds of years. and its Republican party has been in control of the American political system since 1981. Where will this new phony American war end? Who knows? The war against illegal immigration is sheer hypocrisy, considering that Americans have enticed these desperate people to cross their borders. It is the American business community that has made it possible for these people to enter the country, and it is the American business community that prospers by their presence.

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, 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. But good, righteous Americans won't lose any sleep over this, will they?