Closing our borders to massive immigration is not racism
This letter is a response to all those people who like to label this organization and all other people concerned with open borders and uncontrolled immigration as racists.
Dear (name withheld)
Why is it that whenever anybody disagrees with another person's point of view, they have to dehumanize them. You don't know me at all and yet you imply that I am a racist. And you claim that the illegal aliens coming here are only doing what Anglos did years earlier.
My ancestors did come here from Europe -- eastern Europe. They came here because they were being slaughtered like animals in their native country. But before they could enter this country, they had to pass (a) a physical; (b) a language test, (c) a civics test. And many of their fellow countrymen were turned away.
Those who were allowed to pass the threshold at Ellis Island had to fend for themselves. America did not have to offer them bilingual classrooms, give them free medical attention and all the other benefits today's immigrants now loudly demand and usually receive.
To be perfectly honest with you, I don't blame people from countries with no opportunities to want to come to America. There is great honor in the efforts of a poor person who is willing to leave his family behind and go to a strange country so he can provide a better life for his family.
And America has a system to help such people. It is called immigration. A person can simply fill out an application and wait their turn to immigrate. Do you have a problem with that? I don't. Neither to tens of thousands of people throughout the world who regularly fill out their paperwork and wait for their turn to immigrate. The waiting, by the way, offers the immigrant time to learn our language, customs and way of life.
Unfortunately, our neighbors to the south don't choose to wait. They feel they are more entitled than those honest pepole who wait their turn. They feel more entitled than real victims of persecution who truly need to get away from where they are living because they or their loved ones will be tortured and killed.
Are you telling me that a Mexican grape picker has more rights to be here than a legitimate victim of persecution who has applied for permission to come here and is waiting for his chance to save the lives of his family?
But, as I said, I don't blame the grape picker or anybody else for wanting to come here. I don't even blame anybody for trying to jump to the front of the line or who sneaks under the wire fence. I blame my government for allowing it to happen. I blame my politicians for holding the borders open in the hope that the illegal aliens will appreciate this gesture and vote for them as soon as they get amnesty.
And I blame the politicians who take huge sums of money from those businesses who use illegal labor and who bribe our Congressman to hold the borders open. In time of war, these Representatives ought to be charged with treason and hanged for their crimes.
Do I benefit from lower prices because illegal aliens are being paid slave wages by the big growers? Yes I do, but I would gladly pay much higher prices or do without certain foods I cannot afford to know that Americans who are unemployed are doing those jobs and are being paid a decent wage. It is also worth it to know that the dishwasher in the restaurant I go to doesn't have a TB or some other disease that has already killed hundreds of Americans who no longer have any immunity to these Third World diseases.
I started this organization, in part, because I feared that if our uncontrolled immigration policies were not stopped soon, Americans would harden their hearts to all immigration and I feel that this would be a terrible mistake for our country.
I am sorry that we don't agree on the issue of giving preferred immigration rights to Mexicans over everybody else on our planet, but now that you have read my reply, you might decide that there is some merit to my arguments.
Best Regards,
Edward I Nelson, Chairman
U.S. Border Control
8180 Greensboro Drive #1070
McLean, VA 22102
703-356-6567
ednelson@usbc.org
www.usbc.org