Immigration reform: Part 1 - Bad comparisons and

With many calling the current immigration bill dead at the hands of grass roots organizations all over America, it's high time somebody truly define the issues that make this such a difficult, contentious and controversial issue as well as clear up the ambiguities and the misconceptions.
For many to simply harken back to America is the "melting pot" response is in itself an impediment to getting at the issue. It's a common mantra used by mostly left leaning politicos and lawyers to defend illegal immigration and the breaking of US law. The comparison is spurious at best and this is where one should start when clearing the fog that now permeates and obscures the true issues that drive this debate. Nineteen century immigration was a totally different entity to the now pervasive flood of illegal South and Central Americans invading this land. Nineteen century immigration was an almost completely controlled affair with quotas and various domestic raids to keep immigration law intact. Many were processed through Ellis Island in New York harbor and if they weren't deemed acceptable were turned back or detained. This period mixed with earlier Seventeenth and Eighteenth century immigration periods controlled mostly by royal charters or mercantile banks consisted of a controlled mixing of the population of the New World.

Today is a much different story, with almost 85% of the entirety of immigration as a whole now being illegal and coming from this hemisphere, versus Europe and Asia. One constant does remain and that is the need for cheap labor, this is what drives a large component of the support by powerful interests in this country to endorse and even encourage illegal immigration and the new immigration law is exactly that, an encouragement and endorsement of those who came to this country illegally. Does everybody deserve a better life, you bet, but not at the cost of the welfare of our countrymen or the sovereignty of the USA. Much of the sympathy derived from supporters of amnesty wrest on their efforts to paint these illegals as downtrodden abused fodder. In many cases this is true but the over generalization and the exploitation of this travesty has caused citizens and some lawmakers to look at the issue with a sentimentality that is misplaced and one that is easily distorted by the puppet masters.

What is funny to note is that NAFTA, one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on the American, Mexican, and Canadian public, was supposed to thwart movement across the border. The illusion of "Free Trade", as it has been called, was supposed to reduce immigration and improve Mexico's economy, instead it made Mexico a waste land for Corporations to manufacture cheap secondary parts for larger scale higher priced items manufactured mostly in Asia, but it seems the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Business Week, Forbes, and the Financial Times fail to mention this trend and if they do they see it as a good thing. NAFTA become nothing more than an excuse to plunder North and South American workers until the new Global Economy could move into a new phase, one that is here to screw us all.

In essence Mexicans, Guatemalans, Costa Ricans, and others from the South should make their own countries' worth living in. Instead of every man for themselves, paying the smugglers and the drug dealers to get themselves into the US they should be arming themselves for take over of their country for the good of them and their children. The major stumbling block to this is the oppressive imperial foreign policy of the United States which as deposed any significant people's movement since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, as well as the passive nature of many of Central and South America's peasant populations. As usual we have created our own monster, but one that many of the ruling elite welcomes, due the fact that the importation of cheap labor keeps wages down and cuts costs while all the while keeping third world nations as resource extraction points and places to launder money. In the end the American worker and the Mexican worker looses, while sub-human, simian, elitist scum get another gold faucet for their eighth bathroom in their palace.

In short if any righteous and well meaning people's movements in all the major countries south of the Rio Grande had been able to flourish we probably wouldn't have to deal with this issue to the degree at which we now do, but the creation of people's sovereignty is not in the long term plans of the global ruling elite. Sovereignty reduces profit and control of resources and so therefore must be curtailed, suppressed, and stopped. That is why dummy government after dummy government is created and supported in order to facilitate business interests. Many in this country support such actions and say that the creation of these "friendly" governments is why the USA is so prosperous and why the US stays on "top"; never knowing the trickle down and voodoo economics is a farce. Pure military power and the threat of nuclear war is what make this country not ingenuity, hard work and moral certitude. That went out the window in 1945 when we dropped the atomic bomb.

In the end immigration issue is clouded by disinformation and constant pull at the heart strings. All amnesty will do is engender and even greater contempt for the rule of law, drive down the living standards of everybody except the ruling elite, and undermine the sovereignty of every single country involved, giving more power to the corporations and international monetary syndicates. Everybody deserves to live their lives with the inalienable rights that are self evident and given by God, but should be able to do as such in their own land. I doubt that many immigrants if they could enjoy peace, security, and prosperity in their own country would want to leave and come to the US to work for eight dollars a day and live in tenement on 169th Street in the Bronx if they didn't have to. Just like the Nineteen century there is a better life and tyrannies that need to be fled, but the world isn't as big as it used to be and this country has a people of its own. Although what is left of American culture is being assaulted daily by corporations, mass illegal immigration, decadence, drug abuse, corpro-fascism it still should be fought for. This country should strive to make Mexico the best place it can be. And if this flood of immigrants truly has to do with Hispanic Catholic culture's inability to stop procreating than that's Mexico's problem and those who choose not to abstain or use birth control do what they have to. Our court systems are overrun with illegals committing every type of offense from heinous felonious crimes to simple traffic offenses with no recourse from our government with small municipalities, county government, and state government taking the brunt. The current immigration bill would never come close to having these individuals be held accountable it would simply clear the decks for a short period until a problem occurs again.

Although asking a demure population of passive fatalist Catholics in the Southern Hemisphere to stand up and take their country back is as far fetched as asking lazy Americans to wake up and ask for their country back, that doesn't mean you shouldn't stop asking or calling for what is right, just and logical to be served. One question that should wake a few of us up is what happens to all the billions in foreign aide that goes to Mexico each year. Why hasn't this done anything to stem the influx of immigration, why does it continue to get worse and why do we continue to provide aide? If this doesn't sum up the disastrous and pernicious situation we are in I don't know what does.