Posted on 01/09/2004 12:56:02 PM PST by JohnGalt
Real Message of The Bush Amnesty
by Pat Buchanan
If George Bush’s amnesty for between 8 million and 14 million illegal aliens is enacted, you can kiss the old America goodbye.
Consider what the president is saying with his amnesty. He is telling us that he cannot or will not do his constitutional duty to defend the states from invasion. He is saying that he simply cannot or will not protect our borders or enforce our immigration laws. He is saying he will no longer send illegal aliens back.
Not long ago, this would have produced calls for impeachment and cries that, “If Bush won’t enforce our laws, let’s elect a president who will.”
By offering amnesty and residency to millions who broke in line, broke our laws and broke into our country, Bush is not only rewarding wholesale criminality, he proposes to legalize it.
His amnesty will send this message to the world: the candy store is open, and the Americans cannot protect it. Now is the time to bust in.
As there must be billions of people willing to come and work for a fraction of our minimum wage—and exploit our social safety net—the number who could come under the Bush guest-worker program is almost infinite.
Imagine a car wash that employs 40 African-American, Latino, and white working-class folks at $8 an hour each. A new car wash down the street opens up, offering 40 new jobs at $5.15 an hour. No Americans apply. Under Bush’s proposal, that employer would be free to go to Asia, Africa, and Latin America, round up workers, and bring them in.
The new car wash with its foreign workers then drives the old car wash with its American workers out of business. Taxpayers are then forced to subsidize the newly unemployed—and pay for the medical care, food stamps, rent supplements, welfare, and schooling of all the new immigrants and their families, provide legal services when they get in trouble and pay for more cops to police their neighborhoods.
And every child born of a guest worker would, under our 14th Amendment, become an American citizen, automatically entitled to all the benefits of citizenship. Meanwhile, Bush’s amnesty will do nothing to halt the illegal invasion that continues to this hour. If you would know what America’s social, cultural, and fiscal future will look like, take a ride through Los Angeles, capital of Mexifornia.
But why did President Bush pick now to propose as explosive an idea as amnesty, when it seemed he was holding a winning hand on the issues of taxes, national security, the economy, and gay marriages?
One sees here the cynical ploy of “Boy Genius” Karl Rove. With the filing deadlines for the Republican primaries having passed and no GOP opponent, with no Third Party challenger from the Right, and with Dean the likely Democratic nominee, Rove knows conservatives are boxed in. In the old cliché, “The conservatives have nowhere else to go.”
So Rove is executing an “apertura a sinistra,” an opening to the Left, pandering to Hispanics and Mexican President Vicente Fox, to whom Bush is to pay a visit.
But Rove may be too clever for the president’s good. For there is no hard evidence that Hispanics, other than those militants who detest Republicans, are demanding amnesty. And with Bush’s spending on foreign aid soaring, his deficits rising, and the White House refusing to veto a single spending bill, Rove & Co. may have stretched conservative loyalty to the breaking point.
For some conservatives, this amnesty will snap it. They may just get on their hind legs and fight, for huge majorities have repeatedly registered opposition to any amnesty for illegal aliens. How is the president helped by a bloody battle with his political base in an election year?
Half a century ago, Dwight Eisenhower, informed there were a million illegals in the United States, most of them from Mexico, ordered them sent back. The project was called “Operation Wetback.”
Ike was a strong president. But in George W. Bush, we have a leader unwilling to pay the political price of doing his duty and enforcing the immigration laws of his country because he fears the reaction from the media elite and Mexican-Americans.
When it comes to standing up to truly powerful ethnic lobbies—the Hispanic Lobby, the Cuban-American Lobby, the Israeli Lobby—Bush wilts and folds every time. Nor is it a healthy sign for the future of our republic when its president offers an amnesty to law-breakers, rather than doing his painful duty to protect his country from what has now become an unstoppable foreign invasion.
The real threats to America’s survival do not come from the Sunni Triangle. They come from within, and unfortunately we have a president who either does not understand them or will not look them in the face.
If these illegals had been kept out of our country, there'd be one more American alive today.
We've got enough whites and blacks committing senseless crimes as it is. We damn sure don't need a whole population of illegals here doing the same thing.
That's true --- making them illegal and making their employer pay them minimum wage and benefits does take away their advantage ---- so what's to stop the employers from just finding some old-fashioned illegals just like they have for the last 20 years and for the very same reasons? Why would you pay a blue card holder what you'd pay an American? There will be pleny more illegals coming in to take their old slots.
Hunting down each and every illegal isn't really necessary --- it's not "deport every last one of them" or "legalize every last one". You would never have to arrest the beet picker --- but slap a big fine on his employer and make sure he pays any hospital bills his illegals forgot to pay.
Even Cesar Chavez who is considered to be a great hispanic leader insisted that the border be controlled and that wetbacks ---- as he called them --- be sent back home.
Actually Mexicans sometimes do get deported --- that involves taking them to some border town in Mexico and releasing them. They never are deported into the desert --- the INS has holding stations in the border towns, when they are processed they get taken by the INS buses and are let go. The illegals choosing voluntary departure don't get a trial --- they just wait until they get enough of them, take them to this gate in the fence, open the gate, and the Mexicans walk into the Mexican town. Pretty much the same thing happens to Americans found illegally in Mexico I think --- maybe after some big fines and mordidas, you'd simply be allowed to walk back over to your own country at a border town---- obviously once you're back in your own country, you can hire a taxi or catch a bus --- so the amount of walking amounts to a few steps.
You are one of the 'hate Bush' crowd. That's OK with me. Go and do whatever you want to do. I live with a whole bunch of Latinos around me. Whatever legislation comes out of D.C. doesn't matter. Apparently you don't know many folks who speak Spanish; Castillian or South American. Low crime here. I live in the middle of the San Fernando Valley. Gang members get their ass handed to them by real men! They stay away.
Amazing how many people forget that!
Presently, India plans to round up and deport 20 *million* illegal Bangladeshis -- no global outcry.
Mexico uses its MILITARY on its southern border -- no global outcry.
Spain is using its NAVY in the Mediterranean as is Italy -- no global outcry.
I don't get it. Why are people here in America afraid of enforcing the law?
I would cheer them to the stockades. In the meantime seal the border. The illegals who do not find work will pack up and go home one by one and there will be no new illegals to take their place.
Only those seeking to silence those that want to enforce immigration control throw out the holocaust images in an attempt to silence us.
See #229
See if I vote for any of them ever again.
This is one of the most idiotic arguments I've ever read on this board.
When something like NAFTA is to be forced upon us, it is "Liberal" who does it...
And now we have a "conservative" pimping this treason.
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