Reading the lovely and vivacious Bryanna’s recent column regarding El Concilio reminded me of numerous news accounts of the recently passed Sensenbrenner bill and the wails of outrage from the illegal alien lobby on the prospect of being punished (however remote) for aiding and abbetting illegal aliens.

A reminder from Marietta: it is already a crime to facilitate illegal immigration.

It has been since the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996 was put into law… even if it was then promptly ignored.

Title 8, 1324 of the US Code says that it is a federal felony to bring in, assist, shield, transport, shelter and employ an illegal alien - or encourage an illegal alien to remain in these United States.

More so if done with the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain.

Mortgage loans to illegals anyone?

We watch as those who will lose the most if this law were actually enforced attempt to divert attention from it by making it appear that the ongoing violation of federal law would be a crime if House bill 4434 comes out of the Senate intact.

It won’t.

A large majority of the illegals presently using our country as an address while they are permitted to bilk us out of our sovereignty, rule of law, culture and our common language did not make it into El Norte on the first try.

Existing law [Title 8, 1326] makes them criminals for eventually being successful.

Using stolen, forged or bogus Social Security numbers, accepting cash payments without those pesky tax deductions and then not filing an income tax return is also a crime (report tax cheaters here [PDF]. ) Unless, of course, you are already here illegally, are a “victim of geography”, Latino or have hit the jackpot by being all of the above, then…not so much.

Extra credit if you are Mexican.

Not having been there, I don’t know if a tree makes a noise if it falls while no one is in the forest…but the law is still exactly that …even if it is not enforced.

Because no one wants to hear it, the President is still the President, even when he refuses to honor his oath of office.