Posted by
flagwaver on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:08:25 AM
With the Arizona immigration law so much a part of the current news cycle, much of the political discussion in the country has turned back to the subject of illegal immigration. The protestors are out in force, people are calling for boycotts of Arizona, and high ranking federal officials are on record in opposition to the law. In fact, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner even brought the law up to the Chinese government as a way of showing them that we have our own “human rights issues” to deal with, as if the Arizona law is morally equivalent to the Chinese subjugation of Tibet, or the jailing, after show trials, of Chinese dissidents. But if any of those people had actually read
SB1070 they would notice that the law explicitly states, “The legislature finds that there is a compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws throughout all of Arizona. The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona. The provisions of this act are intended to work together to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United States.” That is very simply stated, and the remainder of the ten pages of legislation doesn’t get much harder to understand than that.
However, my point isn’t so much to argue the merits or demerits of SB1070, but to take a strong look at what we have happening in our country today. It is my view that what we have is not a matter of immigration, but something far different.
Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary defines an immigrant as “a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence”, and in our nation’s history we have seen much of that type of activity. We have all read or heard stories of immigrants from Europe coming through Ellis Island and being overwhelmed at the sight of the Statue of Liberty, or the perilous journeys made by the Vietnam boat people, Cuban exiles, Chinese dissidents, and Haitian refugees all undertaken to get to this land of freedom. Those people wanted nothing more than to get here and become Americans, and to someday bring their families here to become Americans as well.
Those immigrants and asylum seekers sought to add their special flavoring to the “melting pot” that was American society, and to adopt a clearly American way of life. The first generation may have struggled to learn the language, but they were intent on making sure that succeeding generations knew the language and customs of their new home so that they could be seen as “fully” American. They gladly assimilated; while never forgetting their cultural roots, they wholeheartedly laid down new roots in American soil. It was important to them to become simply Americans, not (insert nation here)-Americans.
What we have in America today is not immigration at all. Rather, it is much more akin to a move to colonize our nation from without. Webster’s defines a colony as “a body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state.” Can there be any doubt that this is what we are truly witnessing today?
The vast majority of illegal colonists in our country today have no intention of becoming American citizens, and retain their loyalty to their mother countries. How many Mexican “immigrants” do you know that care to learn English? How many of them have any real stake in the health of our society? I would posit that the number is quite small, and if you doubt that, just take a look at their economic priorities.
It is a known fact that as of 2005, a full 81% of all illegal immigrants in this country were of Hispanic/Latino descent. Further, of that 81%, 57% were from Mexico. Now if these Mexicans were interested in building lives for themselves here, it would stand to reason that the money they make here would be used in our economy. However, that is certainly not the case. The facts are that remittances to Mexico from monies made abroad by Mexican workers are one of the top three sources of income in the Mexican economy. In 2009 alone, remittances to Mexico totaled $25.14 billion…and that was down from around $26 billion in 2008! These alleged immigrants are not making any investment in our economy, but are instead taking wealth from our economy to support their parent state.
And if that doesn’t convince you,follow the links and take a look at the following pictures (
here,
here,
here,here,
here, here, and
here). Most are from various immigration rallies, while the most egregious is from a 2006 rally at Montebello High School in California, where students inverted the American flag and raised the Mexican flag above it. Now you tell me where their allegiances lie.
Now, I don’t presume to have the answers for the problems we face with illegal immigration, or illegal colonization if you prefer, but I do know that we cannot survive if we take the course our “leaders” keep pushing o us. Arizona’s SB1070 is a good first step in shaming the federal government into doing its job in securing our borders and enforcing the federal immigration statutes already on the books. And we had all better realize that the people pouring into our nation are not here to assimilate or immigrate, they are here primarily as colonists. We need to get a handle on that before our new colonists set about destroying their host.