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TEN REASONS
FOR ENFORCING
AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION LAWS
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By Frosty Wooldridge
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February 7, 2005
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."
Not only that, legal immigrant Chai Vang blasted six Wisconsin
hunters to death last fall on a shooting rampage because he was
asked to leave their private property. It’s another aspect of the
farce of ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘diversity’ being jammed down
America’s throat. It’s not working all over the world with wars
and tension brought about by forcing incompatible cultures onto
one another--so our Congress and this president want to make our
country into a balkanized war zone.
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 will go 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.
Pass this commentary to all your friends with directions on how to
take action.
Ed Garrison started with the tenth reason and worked up to the
first.
Why? Because the first nine support the most important reason
which you will find out. Garrison brilliantly 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! More
importantly, the creeping ideology of open borders--the (usually
unspoken) belief that treating foreigners who enter our country
differently than we treat our own citizens is somehow
"discriminatory" or "racist"--is creating a terrible dilemma:
Either we cease to monitor the aliens (and open ourselves up for
even worse attacks), or we create the "equality" of the police
state by casting aside constitutional protections for citizens and
monitoring everyone. 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 arrivals 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. Let them arrive LEGALLY according to our
laws.
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.
That’s why you may want to write me for the 28-point action letter
for stopping this nation-destroying invasion. For you West Coast
night owls, every Thursday you can catch yours truly in Las Vegas,
Nevada on Mark Edwards’ "Wake Up America" talk show on 50,000 watt
KDWN-Am-720 10:00 PM to midnight PT, or on the worldwide internet
at
www.AmericanVoiceRadio.com. 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.
© 2005 Frosty Wooldridge - All Rights Reserved
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Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures
and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000
miles, on six continents in the past 26 years.
He has written hundreds of articles (regularly) for 17 national
and 2 international magazines. He has had hundreds of editorials
published in top national newspapers including the Rocky Mountain
News, Denver Post, Albany Herald and Christian Science Monitor.
His first book, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" by Falcon Press
is available nationwide. His second book "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR
BASE" by the Brookfield Reader published in January 2002. His
bicycle books include "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD."
His latest book. ‘IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION—DEADLY
CONSEQUENCES.’
http://www.newswithviews.com/HNB/Hot_New_Books16.htm
Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell University,
teaching creative writing workshops, magazine writing at Michigan
State University, and has presented environmental science lectures
at the University of Colorado, University of Denver and Regis
University. He also lectures on "Religion and Ethics" at Front
Range College in Colorado.
Website:
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