Update: Malkin’s latest: “Bipartisan Betrayal At The Borders.”
Warning: Long-Winded, Rambling, Somewhat Verbose Illegal Immigration Rant Ahead.
I am not a racist. I’m a realist. I’d rather be living under government-sanctioned racial segregation than in this pitiful, politically correct, culturally decaying place.
(Do I really want to live under Jim Crow? Of course not, but I wanted to get the point across that our culture continues to decay at a rapid pace. If I could experience in my lifetime just a sense of national pride and unity in this country, I’d be willing to forgo a few privileges.)
This world is upside down. Right is now wrong and the perverse is the norm. Sound reasoning…no, forget that…The instinct to survive has been suppressed by an irrational, hare-brained desire to be “tolerant” and open even if it means the end of our way of life and our very lives.
You see, liberals believe that Bush should have done more to stop the terrorist attacks, but criticize law enforcement officials for racial profiling and inquiring about citizenship status of suspects. While liberals contend that Bush could’ve stopped the attacks, they don’t believe targeting young Arab men is the way to do it.
My indignation was prompted after spotting a copy of the 9/11 Commission’s report, a thick 500+ page book. I’d read the Executive Summary, or some such nonsense, last month. What the book doesn’t contain is not surprising, given the suicidal tendencies of our cultural elite.
For our tax dollars, a group of “bipartisan” policy wonks had no deport-them-back-where-they-came-from kind of suggestions. Instead they spouted the same weak-kneed mumbo jumbo that made us vulnerable in the first place and offered similar inane reasoning that will lead to another attack. (Did you know that Middle Eastern men are sneaking across the southern border along with Mexicans?)
My prediction: If George Bush and his cronies don’t seal up the southern border or at least allow border agents to threaten to shoot border jumpers, the next commission — 4/13, 11/21, 12/25, whatever — will conclude what the 9/11 Commission concluded: immigration enforcement in the United States is slack, but we still don’t want you to do anything about it.
The 9/11 Commission’s report contains such gibberish as this:
“It is elemental to border security to know who is coming into the country. [You think?] Today more than 9 million people are in the United States outside the legal immigration system. [PC for "lawbreakers"] We must also be able to monitor and respond to entrances between our ports of entry, working with Canada and Mexico as much as possible.”[sarcastic remarks added]
Responding and monitoring. How about just enforcing the darn law? Nowhere in the report does the commission suggest we shut down or heavily guard the southern border. Instead, we get this junk:
“Our borders and immigration system, including law enforcement, ought to send a message of welcome, tolerance, and justice to members of immigrant communities in the United States and in their countries of origin.” [By providing water, food and rest to aid illegals crossing the border?]
And here is their uninspiring, taxpayer-funded advice:
“Recommendation: Secure identification should begin in the United States. The federal government should set standards for the issuance of birth certificates and sources of identification, such as drivers licenses. Fraud in identification documents is no longer just a problem of theft. At many entry points to vulnerable facilities, including gates for boarding aircraft, sources of identification are the last opportunity to ensure that people are who they say they are and to check whether they are terrorists.
Have you learned anything new? They’ve just stated the reasonable and the obvious, but this is what we paid for, people. This is their grand recommendation.
In the midst of a war for survival and preservation of Western culture, our PC president proposes reprieve for outlaws. Back in December 2003, I e-mailed the White House and told Bush I wouldn’t vote for him in 2004 or his brother in 2008 if he went ahead with this. I don’t think he read it.
Bush’s amnesty plan is sick, and here’s why. The rate of crime in America is high; the crime rate in certain cities is off the charts. Our supposedly conservative president talks tough on crime but wants to reward lawbreakers! Instead of rounding up illegal aliens and shipping them back to their countries of origin (or anywhere but here), he proposes to grant amnesty. For their crimes, they get to stay and enjoy America’s amenities.
His plan is purportedly for “willing foreign workers” and “undocumented men and women” (gag me!) to come out into the open and stop hiding (removal of stigma and shame) and work freely. We know that not all illegal aliens come here to work. How do we know? Keep reading,
Bush’s plan contains some high-sounding principles, including:
— “Protecting the Homeland by Controlling Our Borders: The program should link to efforts to control our border through agreements with countries whose nationals participate in the program. It must support ongoing efforts to enhance homeland security.”
— “Promoting Compassion: The program should grant currently working undocumented aliens a temporary worker status to prevent exploitation. Participants would be issued a temporary worker card that will allow them to travel back and forth between their home and the U.S. without fear of being denied re-entry into America.”
More conservatism, less compassion, Mr. Bush. Your brand of compassion is going to get us all killed. But his boys say: “President Bush does not support amnesty because individuals who violate America’s laws should not be rewarded for illegal behavior and because amnesty perpetuates illegal immigration.”
OK. Great. What does President Bush support?
“The President proposes that the Federal Government offer temporary worker status to undocumented men and women now employed in the United States and to those in foreign countries who have been offered employment here.”
What, please tell me, is a reward of “temporary worker status” if not amnesty? Does he think we’re stupid, that English is not our first language?
I had the good fortune of being born in America, and it pains me to see its ideals crumbling before me. I don’t jealously guard our country’s benefits; I want others to share them, but only if they go through the proper channels. Being a U.S. citizen is a privilege. That means no one who is not a citizen has a right to be here, and we are not required to keep them here.
Perhaps if I framed my concern about illegal immigration in a way liberals could understand — how it harms black people — they’d agree that we need to close our borders not only for our protection in the age of terrorism, but for the well-being of low-income American citizens.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (“Hurricane Sheila”), a favorite socialist target of mine, believes that the government is not only responsible for job creation, but it must also guarantee jobs while at the same time shirking its real responsibility: reporting and deporting illegal aliens.
Los Angeles Times (registration req.)
Now, two political initiatives are attempting to bring immigrants and native-born workers together. One is a union proposal in the current contract negotiations at Los Angeles hotels. The second is a new look at immigration reform contained in a bill introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas).
Both the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees union and Jackson-Lee see the key to better wages and conditions as prohibiting discrimination — against both immigrants and against displaced workers — by enforcing job creation and affirmative action as national policy. Both proposals share an assumption that unions and high wages offer protection against job competition….
That’s also the thinking behind Jackson-Lee’s bill, HR 4885, which would extend permanent legal status to immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and would prohibit employers from threatening or intimidating workers based on their immigration status. The money collected in application fees from those immigrants would fund job training and other programs for unemployed American workers. “The rights of minorities in this country are still a work in progress,” Jackson-Lee said. “Nevertheless, someone recognized that we had to fix laws in America as they related to African Americans. Now we have to fix other laws to end discrimination against immigrants.”
Black liberals’ precious skin color preferences will be in jeopardy as illegal aliens begin to take precedence over them in employment and college admissions, and they will in turn demand even more stuff.
Some interesting (and disturbing) facts from the Federation of American Immigration Reform:
— Immigrant welfare use is 43 percent higher than non-immigrants.
— Illegal immigration is causing a fiscal drain on our economy. Its apparent benefits (immigrants come here to work?) are outweighed by the cost.
— What should be most important to Jackson Lee: According to the site’s Immigration and Job Displacement report, immigrant workers have displaced blacks in several industries, including hotel and certain agricultural industries.
— “Many politicians and some citizens do not concern themselves with such displacement since it affects primarily low-skilled Americans, who tend to lack political clout. As a result, immigration has been responsible for 40 to 50 percent of the wage depression for workers without a high school degree in recent decades.Some estimates indicate that nearly two million Americans a year are displaced by immigration.”
Some people might call me an extremist. I don’t pretend to be otherwise. I’m just a patriotic American who is saddened to see the triumph of vulgarity, crime and suicidal tendencies. For more information, see Michelle Malkin.
I’m finished ranting now. Talk among yourselves.
Addendum: For information on Arab border jumpers, see this Michelle Malkin post.)
