"The Impending Disaster from
the Hordes of Illegal Aliens"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart, President of the
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author
and speaker on freedom and property rights issues
Copyright
Sunday, June 29, 2014 - All Rights Reserved
Article appeared in Newswithviews
on June 25, 2014
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We wrote the following article in June of 2008, 6
years ago. It is even more relevant today with our southern border unraveling
into pure chaos. Can you think of anything more insane than highly trained
border patrol agents babysitting little children by the tens of thousands while
drug smugglers and human trafficers cross over the border unimpeded? And blaming
brutal conditions in other countries as the reason to allow these children to
enter America with no means of support is equally insane. With that philosophy
we should take them all in, millions and millions of them.
If a sinking cruise ship has only half the
lifeboats necessary to save the number of people on the ship, half the people
are going to die and if the lifeboats are full and those drowning try to get on
the already full lifeboats, a lot more than half are going to die. It is a
question of life-supporting resources. With an anemic American economy not
likely to improve, not enough jobs for the existing population and a country
over 100% of GDP in debt, the lifeboats are full and can't take any more without
overwhelming the existing lifeboats. Flooding America with the uneducated,
illiterate and quite possibly diseased children or adults from third world
countries is an invitation to the destruction of a once free, vibrant and
prosperous nation. Unfortunately, that is exactly what progressives want us to
do ….. for votes. With progressives, it is all about getting sufficient votes to
remain in perpetual power, no matter where they have to get them, or what laws
they have to break. As an example, here is an excerpt of a
recent Obama speech to the gay and lesbian community.
"So we can’t stop. We’ve got to keep fighting. We’ve got to
keep fighting for the human rights of people around the world.
(Around the world?) That’s why this community should be
fighting for workers who aren’t getting paid a minimum wage that’s high enough.
(What's high enough?) That’s why this community
has to show compassion for the illegal immigrant who is contributing to our
society and just wants a chance to move out of the shadows. (That's the magnet that draws more illegal aliens here in the first
place) If you’ve experienced being on the outside, you’ve got to be
one to bring more folks in, even once you are inside. That’s our task. That’s
our job."
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June 15, 2008
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Most, if not all of the problems of America can be solved with fairly simple
solutions, if it wasn't for the fact that those problems were obfuscated and
clouded by an agenda of special interests, or a bunch of politicians looking to
pander to some group for votes, money, or an easy path to re-election. Never
mind common sense or constitutional principles, or what a normal, reasonable and
prudent person knows what is right. It is only government that can make things
complicated, complex, ambiguous and essentially impossible to implement, much
less understand. Only government can take a simple solution and convert it into
2,000 pages of double speak, political correctness and legal mumbo-gumbo that
would take a covey of outrageously high-paid lawyers to unravel, or find fertile
grounds for never-ending lawsuits. Only government can manufacture a complex
solution when there is already a simple solution available to us by just
enforcing current laws.
Such is the case with illiterate, non-English
speaking, illegal aliens that are pouring into this country by the millions,
taking jobs, bringing in diseases America eradicated years ago, over-burdening
every social service offered by government and adversely "coloring" the
political landscape.
A while ago we had an exchange with a gentleman
who took issue with our stand on illegal immigration and illegal aliens in
general. The exchange illustrates the wide divide between opposing positions
and perhaps why the problem hasn't been resolved. To set the stage, this
gentleman is a farmer and a recent legal immigrant from Europe. Perhaps these
characteristics are a window to his thinking. The following abbreviated
message outlines the basis for his arguments. Our response follows his
message.
"I do not have to remind you that the 6 million Jews were
exterminated through rounding them up through the help of employers, regulated
by the government. Visit the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, if you will, but if
you deny 12 million people ( or more) to make a living they will resort to
begging and stealing!!"
"So here is the simple solution: All of the illegal
immigrants have to get a sponsor, who will take care of them, so that they are
not a burden to society. (Employers will find a way to organize that) They can
get citizenship (under some formula) if they do the following: pay their taxes,
learn English, integrate in someway in US society, pay their debts and stay out
of trouble (legally). So what is wrong with 12 million people who are working
hard, which we need, because we do not want the jobs they do and which become
citizens in due time?"
"The 'illegal immigrants' have become legal because of us not
acting earlier."
"Anyway, quit whining about it, but come up with the
solution."
We responded to this gentleman with the
following:
"You have two biases that "color" your position. First, you
are a farmer and second, you are a legal immigrant. But the American farmer has
been getting all kinds of government handouts for about 8 decades now from the
American taxpayer. Maybe not you personally, but way too many farmers are
receiving subsidies from our government that we get to pay for, when most
farmers are more than profitable and do not need a subsidy. And even if they
weren't profitable, there is nothing in our Constitution that grants farmers the
right of taxpayer-funded subsidies. Now the farmers get an additional handout
from our government by a failed immigration policy that rationalizes illegal
immigration because the illegal aliens will supposedly take jobs (in the
agricultural industry) that Americans don't want. That, of course, is pure bunk
as they are also taking jobs in all kinds of other industries that Americans
would definitely take, construction for one. Why? Cheap labor! Long before
illegal aliens came to here to pick crops, as kids, we picked strawberries,
loganberries and apples to earn pocket money. There are still a lot of American
kids out there who would do the jobs at low wages, if those jobs weren't being
sucked up by illegal aliens."
"And to equate the situation with American illegal aliens with
what Hitler did in rounding up the Jews, is absolutely insulting, uncalled
for and without merit. Jews lived in Europe legally."
"The hard truth is that most Americans are more than tired of
paying billions of their tax dollars every year to subsidize a group of people
who seem to find it perfectly OK to thumb their collective noses at our laws and
come here, uneducated and jump on America's social services because they get
paid so little by the agriculture industry, while immigrants who come here
legally must wait years for citizenship. Further, they come here with a
socialist mindset and in large numbers are sure to turn this country
socialistic, if it wasn't for the fact we are there already. How dare they come
to this country illegally, trample on our laws and then protest in the streets
by the hundreds of thousands for amnesty and government services."
"Do you have any idea what happens to a citizen of another
country entering Mexico, protesting in the streets for government
handouts? There is a marine rotting in a Mexican jail right now for an innocent
wrong turn. The Mexican government wouldn't tolerate for one second what our
Government tolerates daily and for which the American people get to pay. It's
ludicrous, if not patently unjust! Americans cannot bear the entire burden
of the third-world poor on their shoulders."
"And your last comment about quit whining is also insulting.
Many of us have offered solutions to the problem because it isn't rocket
science. All we have to do is enforce our current laws. However, we have five
solutions that will provide almost immediate relief to this
problem."
1) Close and protect our borders from infiltration by
illegal aliens, drugs and terrorists, by whatever means, including physical
force. If there were severe penalties for crossing our borders, there would be
less of it.
2) Enforce current law.
3) Immediately deport all illegal aliens that are caught
without documentation, no hearings, no nothing. They are not entitled to due
process as illegal aliens and no right exists that entitles them to driver's
licenses and government services.
4) Punish employers who hire illegal aliens and make them
responsible for proving citizenship of their employees. As an employer we took
validating citizenship very seriously. If there was any question, we
investigated.
5) As some states are doing now, stop all social benefits,
education, bilingual services, emergency services and social services to any
individual or family that is not a legal citizen of the United States unless
here on a visa or a valid green card.
"It is a tough stance but in the end we have learned that tough
love is the best love and produces the best results, especially for an addiction
by illegal aliens to American largess and abusing our generosity. If these five
things were vigorously implemented, like the United States is supposed to be
doing by enforcing our laws and protecting us from all enemies, foreign or
domestic, the magnet for the illegal aliens coming here would go away and so
would the problem. A few states have already demonstrated that these solutions
work. But then, when did our federal government do anything that was in the
best interests of the American taxpayer, except pass laws to extract more taxes
from them?"
"Your solution to get an American sponsor for 12 to 20
million illegal aliens is pie in the sky. It isn't going to happen. In short,
any benefits derived from illegal aliens is far outweighed by the negatives they
cause and it has to stop or we
will be overrun, if we haven't been
overrun already."
"We are not about to turn over America to people who break our
laws and think they now deserve amnesty because they are hard working and
industrious. If illegal aliens are allowed to break our laws, while legal
Americans are forced to obey them (and pay through the nose for those who break
the law) then the law becomes meaningless. When the law becomes meaningless, we
have chaos and we are fast approaching chaos in America. With chaos comes a
police state."
"And just because our government has tolerated the law breakers
for all these years, does not justify continued law breaking and it does not
eradicate the crime for those who committed them."
"This battle is far from over and we guarantee you, it is going
to get ugly long before it gets better, if it ever gets better. We must
reluctantly predict that eventually, there will be blood in the streets over
this highly contentious issue, unless government takes immediate action to
solve it. But then from past experience, we know they will obfuscate and cloud
the issue, then pass a Comprehensive Immigration Bill that is 'amnesty' by any
other name."
Now some of you may agree with the good farmer, but the
questions he raise are based on false premises and misplaced compassion and the
solutions he offers will lead to chaos and the eventual destruction of America,
American freedom and sovereignty. Anyone who can't see this is hopelessly
blind. We are not anti-immigrant, we are anti-breaking-the-law and we are
vehemently against rewarding lawbreakers with amnesty and providing unlimited
social services that illegal aliens don't deserve and that legal Americans have
to fund. If this continues, then Americans are nothing but idiots, chumps and
puppets of an out-of-control government. But then we have already covered
that in our previous article, as we once again blow into the political wind with
the ineffective breath of one-man power.
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