Immigration Roundup

Well, with all the illegals marching I thought I'd put in a few words and point out a few fallacies currently popular.

For starters, my biggest peeve is the "nation of immigrants" argument. Just read this.

In reality, we are not—even in a figurative sense—a nation of immigrants or even a nation of descendants of immigrants. As Chilton Williamson pointed out in The Immigration Mystique, the 80,000 mostly English and Scots-Irish settlers of colonial times, the ancestors of America’s historic Anglo-Saxon majority, had not transplanted themselves from one nation to another (which is what defines immigration), but from Britain and its territories to British colonies. They were not immigrants, but colonists. The immigrants of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries came to an American nation that had already been formed by those colonists and their descendants. Therefore to call America "a nation of immigrants" is to suggest that America, prior to the late nineteenth century wave of European immigration, was not America. It is to imply that George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant (descended from the original colonists) were not "real" Americans, but that Richard Rodriguez (descended from 20th century immigrants) and the anti-American demonstrators last week in Los Angeles, are.

And now, to the proposals that "don't" give amnesty. Well, they do. And let's be clear, amnesty is not a good thing.

Reagan gave amnesty to 4 million, and we get 12 million more. What part of “If you forget history, you’re doomed to repeat it,” do they not get?

These people are breaking the law, and we just give them a free pass. And many of them continue to break the law, as shown by the fact that illegals make up a ridiculous number of criminals.

And besides, they don't "do jobs Americans won't", they just do it them for dirt, while sponging off of the government and costing us all. STOP SAYING THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T.

And I have other issues with some of the idiotic proposals being thrown around. We are told they will have to be around for 6 years or 11 years or whatever number of years, pay a fine, pay back taxes, etc, whatever for the various plans before they can become legal. Well, I would like to know how exactly we are going to know how long they have been here. They are, after all, illegal. The point is we don't know they're here. And these plans think they can somehow make things right by documenting them? I don't think so. More and more are going to come, and guess what, they aren't going to be documented. And all the while we have these illegals marching in rallies and flying the American flag upside down. These people need to be deported. What we need is a plan with teeth. No, I take that back, what we need is enforcement. We don't need more blathering from politicians, we need the laws currently to be enforced. And it's not a matter of a divided nation. It's just politicians who think they know better. Well, come election time, we'll see who knows better.

I'm a huge supporter of free-trade, but the argument from free-trade does not hold up well. Just read this.

We don't need guest workers, we don't need amnesty, we don't need illegal aliens invading the country.

UPDATE 4/10:

Try this on for size.

Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual government forms, bulletins, etc.

Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window, or on your car bumper.

Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.

Demand a Mexican driver license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal presence in Mexico.

Drive around with no liability insurance.

Insist that Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.

Good luck!
Good luck is right. The Mexican authorities wouldn't put up with that kind of behavior for a second. As they shouldn't. As we shouldn't. And yet we do. In this one way, it would be nice if we were a little more like Mexico.