Real Message of The Bush Amnesty

The American Conservative ^ | 1/9/2004 | Pat Buchanan

[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.

[uncbob]

yeah, yeah, Pat. From jealous, bitter people like you! I don't believe your BS, and I don't like you. Compared to George Bush, you're a nit.

Well he may well be a NIT as you say but in this cased he has editorial writers from the major conservative organizations magazines newspapers etc etc AGREEING with him

I guess they are all screwed up in the head

[Dane]

Well, if you're wrong, ad hominem works.

What ad hominem? Buchanan was against the invasion of Iraq also.

[JohnGalt]

Know any billionaires with a big ego who will run on the single issue of immigration?

[luvbach1]

Third world, make room for US.

[Willie Green]

Just how the heck are we supposed to move millions of men, women and children in a matter of months? Cattle-cars?

Nah. The myopic federal transportation policy has let our railroad infrastructure decay and decline.
But fortunately, IKE had the foresight to build the Interstate Highway System for National Defense purposes.
We can stick 'em on a bus headed South.

[STD]

Just a little benefit for big business. Don't be alarmed We're a nation of immigrants; Blah, Blah, Blah!

These immigrants don't have the same values that we have come to identify as distinctively American;

Yup, they are even lazier than the current crop of Americans.

More of President trying to out crat the crats!

[BushisTheMan]

If Pat is against it, it must be a really good idea then.

[Pharmer]

Thank you Hier Buchanan for you voice of reason! Send the troops into the barios, round them up and march them to the rail yards! Maybe Carnival Lines has a USS St Louis in its fleet to accomodate the ones with money!Place troops at the border and shoot all who cross! Is that your vision of America? Pat, you seem to think that those who wish to come and work form Mexico are a greater threat than those who come to kill us from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Vicente Fox is who we need to topple not Sadam Hussein! Hey Pat... Did you know that the sinking of the Titanic was a jewish plot?? (Iceberg...Goldberg..whats the difference?) </sarcasm>

[swarthyguy]

Maybe there's some immigrant software tycoon from India.

Ross Perot, where are you?

At least someone should challenge the philosphy behind this proposal.

Actually, I can see the logic of this proposal being very useful in ending the WOD, minimizing the IRS and abolishing speed limits.

Too many people violate these laws anyway, so why keep them.

But Social Security must be saved and converting illegals to legals boosts contributions into SS.

[lelio]

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.

Good point, and is probably why the Kennebunkportians of this world are all for this amnesty: they don't live in the real world that the blue collars inhabit. They're not going to be affected by this as their own salaries won't go down, but they'll reap the benefits of cheaper services.

[luvbach1]

...outrage if we deported 10 or 15 million people out into the Sonoran desert...

We can't, therefore, we won't.

[JohnGalt]

Pharmer, Another Iraqiot War Freeper Appeasing the Alien Invasion.

[lelio]

We attacked, defeated, and destroyed the last country to send away a few million people of another race on rail cars.

The Holocaust is now "Sending Away" jews?

[beckett]

Pat Buchanan is against it? I'm for it then.

[The Old Hoosier]

We could halve the number of illegals here in less than a year, if we were serious about it. Especially if we started jailing employers instead of fining them.

[narby]

According to 'narby', if you support expelling illegal aliens you are no better than the Nazis.

How many illegals would die if we deported that many? A thousand? A hundred thousand?

Where would they go when we dump 10 million or so of them off in Tijana?

The real problem here is we haven't followed immigration laws for decades. There's no reason to get mad at Bush. He's just trying to make an impossible situation a bit better.

I don't feel anything against the illegals who came here. They just did what was best for them. I blame those in this country who didn't follow the law for all these years.

The only good solution is to asimilate (sp?) these folks. Teach them English. Teach them American history. And open up the artificial limits on immigration from Europe to balance things out a bit and keep this country a melting pot, not North Mexico. I like tortillas, but I don't want to live in a Mexican culture.

I appreciate those folks out there who have a rigid "law and order" attitude and want to send these people back because they "broke the law". Well, we let them. They're here. It's too late. Deal with it.

[luvbach1]

No analogy to holocaust at all, even if we were to do it; which, of course, we won't.

[Cyber Liberty]

You are correct, of course. The problem is, with the present state of our culture, any politician trying that would be run out of town on a faster rail than the illegals.

[Aetius]

Whether or not we could deport all illegals is questionable. Mabybe we could, maybe we couldn't, but the notion that we couldn't withstand the international outrage is just wrong. What exactly would the international community do? The worst would be that Mexico stops selling us oil. You think France, the UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Italy, and Russia would actually do anything other than express some holier-than-thou outrage? They'd probably study how we did it in case the day comes when they have to expel all the illegals from their lands.

And your equating the possible deportation of illegal aliens from the United States to the Nazi atrocities is absurd and insulting. The differences should be obvious, but here are some of them: Germany murdered much or most of the people they removed, while the US would simply be returning them home. Germany was in most cases removing citizens, while the US would be removing non-citizens who have broken the law to come here ( or stay) and have no right to be here. And to say that we'd deserve the same fate that the United States, Britain, and Russia gave to Germany in WWII , for merely enforcing our laws is crazy.

Really, how can you say something so ridiculous. You sound like those nuts who are calling Bush the new Hitler.

As for what Buchanan said, he left out the part about how the anchor babies these 'guests' will have will one day be eligible for racial preferences. As will the guest themselves once they gain permanent residency, as will the other family members they will sponsor for legal immigration once they gain permanent status...........

[narby]

Especially if we started jailing employers instead of fining them.

So then we'd have 10-15 million UNEMPLOYED mexicans in the streets? Doing what? Rioting maybe?

Real smart.