A recent letter arrived in my mailbox from a distraught American over
his personal crisis with illegal immigration in Wisconsin. He wrote, “I
am so sick of illegal aliens sucking the life out of our country. Our
taxes go up and up and who benefits? The aliens. Our hospitals are overrun
and our businesses ruined. I work in a factory and we employ a large number
of illegals. How do I know? I ask them. They aren't afraid of being deported.
Once they are here and have a job, they get their friends and families
jobs. They’re killing our own children’s education and destroying
our classrooms. I just don't know what to do. Help us.”
Do you remember Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in the Spanish/American
War? Do you remember Audie Murphy a real life hero from World War II?
Do you remember GI Joe slinging a rifle over his shoulders to protect
America? Do you remember that sailor giving a kiss to that nurse on the
streets of New York at the end of WW II?
That was their time; this is yours. It’s time you take the gloves
off and take action on behalf of your kids and the future of this country.
Wishing this nation-destroying crisis away on its own won’t work.
Hoping that Bush and Congress will stop this invasion renders all of us
a bunch of fools!
Bush has done NOTHING to stop the 10,000 illegal aliens crossing our
borders nightly. Nothing to stop the flow since 9/11. It might be added
that we don’t have much time to stop this invasion. The sooner you
act and all your friends, the sooner we control our borders.
Why? Because the first nine support the most important reason which you
will find out. Ed Garrison brilliantly wrote them. He declares:
10. It's time to raise the American standard of living.
The real minimum wage has been declining for over a decade. Some advocate
raising the minimum wage--but this would raise the price of unskilled
labor above its free-market value. Mass unemployment would result.
Why has the market value of unskilled labor declined? For the same
reason that all prices move: supply and demand. It's hard to change
the demand side of the equation: You can't make anyone "need"
an unskilled worker who doesn't need one already. For years, however,
we have been artificially modifying the supply side by tolerating a
massive influx of unskilled workers across our borders. We can reverse
the trend by enforcing immigration laws. We won't need to raise the
minimum wage. It will raise itself. Millions of Americans will be lifted
out of poverty, and millions more from the lower middle class to prosperity.
9. We can immediately create millions of new jobs.
Conservative estimates place the number of illegal aliens in the U.S.
at 10,000,000. Taking into account minor children and the aged, that's
still millions of people who are flooding our labor force. Remove them,
and opportunities will abound for Americans.
There's a canard that says that illegals "take the jobs Americans
don't want." This is a fallacy! There's no job an American can't
or won't do for a living wage. It is a cruel joke on the American worker
to allow illegals to depress wages for many jobs below poverty level,
and then to mock Americans for being reluctant to participate in the
poverty.
8. Breaking the law is crime. Lawbreakers are criminals.
Out of deference to the PC crowd, many like to use the term "undocumented
workers"--as if illegals were merely missing a piece of bureaucratic
paperwork. By the same logic, we can call a car thief an "undocumented
driver."
Our immigration laws exist for good reasons: to protect our safety,
our national sovereignty, our standard of living, our health, and our
culture. Those who break them may "want a better life for themselves,"
but then again, so do all that enrich themselves by disregarding the
law.
Many people who wish to immigrate honestly are waiting patiently. Granting
privileges like driver's licenses and social security cards to illegals
is a slap in the face to law-abiding citizens and immigrants alike.
It's like opening an express window to give titles and owner's cards
to car thieves, while making legitimate owners stand in line!
7. Open borders threaten our safety. Since the attacks
of September 11, 2001, two things have become clear. First, we have
enemies, and they are vicious and without conscience. Second, our enemies
obviously believe that an attack from within is more feasible than an
attack from without.
Even before the horrid events of September 11, our immigration laws
had the primary purpose of protecting us. The use of visas and passports
allows our government to monitor, and control who enters our country,
and why.
Few illegal aliens are terrorists. But it only takes one!
The more resolutely we protect our borders against threats from without,
the safer, and freer, we can live within them.
6. We're a nation of 293 million; the Third World
population is over six billion and growing by 85 million annually. Do
the math.
Our country seems large, but its population is tiny compared to that
of the Third World. China and India alone have seven times our population.
For whatever reasons, our society has succeeded in creating immense
wealth where many others have created only poverty. An American welfare
recipient would still be "rich" by the standards of most of
the world.
One can't blame the citizens of countries who produce much less wealth
per capita than we for wanting to reap the benefits our forefathers
have sown for us. But if we open the borders, our island of productivity
and prosperity will soon disappear beneath a flood of Third World squalor.
5. American culture is worth preserving. Culture is
more than operas and Shakespearean plays--it's the sum total of the
customs, beliefs, artistic creations, attitudes, goals, and norms that
make a society what it is. It is passed down, as a treasure, from grandparent
to parent to child. In other words, culture is what gives us our identity.
Some advocate "multiculturalism"--creating a society in which
multiple cultures exist side by side, and believe that "diversity"--having
as many cultures as possible, with none dominant—is desirable.
The majority of the media elite believes that we need more multiculturalism
and diversity; the majority of the population doesn't. Regardless of
how anyone stands on this issue, the fact is that our society is already
multicultural and diverse. Anyone who wishes to enjoy, and celebrate,
the many cultures now coexisting in America need only visit any American
city.
By contrast, genuine American culture--the Founding Fathers, the story
of the pioneers and the winning of the West, the Pledge of Allegiance,
Columbus Day, the Bill of Rights--is under constant assault. Some of
our country's detractors vilify all that is traditionally American,
while others would reduce our traditions to one more example of quaint
folklore beside those of other nations.
Russian culture can be found in Russia, Mexican culture in Mexico,
multiculturalism in any major city... but where can one find American
culture? Only in a place where Americans treasure it, and lovingly transmit
it from generation to generation. Immigration laws should ensure that
those who seek to live permanently on American territory be willing
to adopt and preserve its culture. And they are useless unless they
are enforced.
4. It's not your father's immigration. Previous generations
romanticized immigration. The images are still with us: Starry-eyed
Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Polish arrivees toting their bags and trunks
onto shore at Ellis Island... The tablet at the base of the Statue of
Liberty exhorting other nations to "Give me your tired, your poor..."
The native-born American learning to love pizza and bagels.
That was then. This is now. Yes, there are still many people in foreign
lands who harbor the "American Dream," and who seek to come
here to realize it.
Millions of illegal aliens, however, have attitudes and motives very
different from those of the immigrants in the fading black-and-white
photos of yesteryear. It's not fashionable to speak the truth about
this group. But the truth must be spoken.
What makes this new breed of "immigrants" different? To begin
with, they're not "immigrating" at all--they're sneaking in.
They don't have an "American dream" of building this country;
rather, though still loyal to their home nations, they want to exploit
ours economically. Many even dream of taking over regions of our country,
and displacing us. There's already a word for this goal: Reconquista
of Aztlan. If the members of this group don't intend to return home,
yet have no loyalty to America, what should we call them? Certainly
not "immigrants."
A ‘colonist’ is a better term. Today's colonists, like
those of the past, want to build enclaves on American soil from which
they can expand their own wealth and power, and that of their homeland,
while drawing on the resources that were created by the native population.
How can we welcome legitimate immigrants while keeping out colonists?
By knowing who is coming here, and why, and only admitting those whose
presence is in our country's best interests. In other words, by enforcing
immigration laws.
3. It's an issue we can all come together on. Conservatives,
traditionally, aim to preserve the valuable legacy of the past, and
to protect freedom by limiting the power of government. Liberals seek
to provide all citizens, even the most disadvantaged, with the opportunity
to realize their full potential. Both have worthy goals, but often squabble
over how to realize them.
Removing illegal aliens can give us the best of both worlds. We can
preserve our traditional culture. And without resorting to costly and
intrusive government programs, we can give our poor a genuine "hand
up": as the glut of cheap labor dries up, those at the bottom rung
of the economic ladder will suddenly find themselves able to climb higher
without ruinous competition.
People of good will on the left and the right can only smile approvingly
as the free market provides our unskilled and uneducated with a decent
wage, and with a job market that welcomes instead of marginalizes them.
We can "live better than we did four years ago" and have
a rebirth of national pride, as President Reagan wanted for us. And
we can have a "New Deal" for our poor, a society where no
American is left out, which were the ideals of President Roosevelt.
At last, we can come together. That's what patriotism is all about.
2. We either face tough issues now, or tougher ones
later. Immigration issues are complex. We need a national debate--which,
judging by the 2005 inaugural speech by Bush--isn't happening.
Most Americans, when confronted with the facts, want what they want
now: strict enforcement of our immigration laws.
It won't be easy. We'll have to find workable ways to deport illegal
aliens without creating unnecessary hardships for those who have broken
our immigration laws, and without creating severe dislocations for the
unscrupulous employers who have benefited from their presence. And,
of course, we'll have to counter, with quiet reason, the voices of those
who scream "discrimination" or "racism."
Some cringe at the challenges that await us.
These challenges, however, pale in comparison to those that future
generations will face if we fail to act. Imagine an overcrowded, impoverished
America with shrinking wages and expanding burdens on the social service
system. Imagine an America where millions of Americans have been driven
out of their neighborhoods by throngs of foreign colonists who neither
speak our language nor understand the culture that created American
prosperity--but who deeply resent the poverty that inevitably results
from their own unwillingness, or inability, to live as true Americans.
Will Americans be forced to tax away their own shriveling wealth, and
to transfer it to the aliens within our borders, if they wish to appease
the colonists' anger? Will the shrinking American middle class merge
with the alien underclass to form a new "peasant culture"
while a tiny American elite trembles behind the walls of heavily policed
gated communities? Or will full-scale cultural and racial war break
out? None of these possibilities is appealing. Nonetheless, a society
is a reflection of the population that comprises it. If we, as an advanced
society with a low birthrate, continue to import a
Third World population with a high birthrate, we will become a Third
World society, and will face the problems, which other Third World societies
face as well.
Isn't it better to face the issue of illegal immigration now--and to
do something about it?
... and the number one reason is:
1. We owe it to our kids and grandkids. Our children
and grandchildren will marvel at the digitized archives of the TV shows
of the 1950s and 1960s. They'll see a prosperous, free, united America--
the envy of the world, a place anyone would be happy and proud to call
home. This, they'll realize, was the legacy our grandparents and parents
left us, the American citizens of the early 21st century.
How will the America we leave to our children stack up against the
America our parents left to us? What will future generations think of
us? Will we be known as the preservers and expanders of the beautiful
legacy, or as its destroyers? By our actions or inactions, we're deciding
which it will be. Right now.
Garrison gave us the most powerful and compelling reasons I have seen
for each one of us to take actions for preserving our country. It behooves
each of you to use your computer, telephone, radio station, TV station,
letters to the editor of your newspaper and calls to every senator and
congressman every week relentlessly to gain national focus on this immigration
invasion. Democracy is not a spectator sport. This nation is in danger
of becoming a Third World nightmare with all the corruption, disease,
illiteracy, violence and balkanization known all over the world. We
need a 10-year moratorium on all immigration to catch our collective
breath and we need deportation of over 15 million illegal aliens in
a slow and orderly fashion.
This is your nation and this is your time to take action. It is a sacred
trust handed down since the time of Thomas Jefferson and our founding
fathers.
