COSTA MESA UNPLUGGED:We created illegal immigration mess

We can certainly say that the American landscape these days is not short of political streetwalkers dolling themselves all sexy like in the lingerie of illegal immigration.

We vote for them because they look pretty and they give us what we want, and maybe something else that we don’t want. Something that requires medication.

But let’s be clear. We are sharing a bed with these folks because the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States is flat out of control.

And we’ve let it get that way because we like yard care, produce and nanny services on the cheap.

So we shouldn’t be surprised — in fact, we should take the blame — that every American president and too many federal judges over the last 30 years have paved big, broad alternate avenues into this country that detour the twisting mountain road of American immigration law.

So now we are mad. Not at ourselves for placing in office the knuckleheads who let it get this way, but at the folks who — desperate to keep food in the bellies of their children and make a better life for themselves — have chosen the path of least resistance.

A path we created. Nevertheless, we want them out of here.

Those sexy politicians are cozying up to our angst as if it just pulled up in a luxury car. They’re telling us they’ve got what we want (a solution to illegal immigration), but do they really? Our anger over illegal immigration is their ticket to power.

They’d rather we stay mad, which means not really solving the problem that has us steamed.

We’ll keep voting for them because all that sultry talk and boudoir dress makes us forget that the problem we created (the 12 million or so illegal immigrants now stateside) aren’t going away anytime soon.

If you don’t think that’s the mating dance going on here, then you’ve bought what the politicians are peddling. And sooner or later, we’ll need a prescription to get rid of it.

For instance, the floosies who continue to shrill -- without taking a breath -- that the stop-and-start immigration reform bill is nothing more than amnesty by another name ignore what Webster’s tell us amnesty means: the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals.

Clearly, the immigration reform bill in its current state — replete with fines and other punitive actions for folks who entered the country by way of the other path — is not an amnesty bill.

Curiously, the opposition campaign to kill the bill under the ruse that it’s a granting of amnesty infects us with precisely that. Amnesty.

No bill means every illegal immigrant already in this country will simply continue on with their lives.

On the flip side, the authors of the immigration reform bill couldn’t have penned a bigger flub. Creating a pathway to citizenship without border security amounts to bailing a leaking boat with a colander. Border security should have been the first step.

Shut the front door, and then you can noodle on the more practical measures of what to do with the folks already here. But since we don’t have that, we still have the problem, and we still need those winsome politicians.

The really sexy pols of the night are the guys and gals in the highest heels demanding the deportation of every illegal immigrant in the U.S. But to do that would dwarf this country’s internment of Japanese Americans during World War II by at least 100 fold. I mean, imagine the American landscape dotted with dozens of little Guantanamos packed with immigrants ready to be shipped out. Nice.

And what of Costa Mesa? Well, there’s this: Our City Council just voted to send yet another letter to the president demanding that he enforce our immigration laws. More pretty nothings.