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.

[The Old Hoosier]

He's a Hitler lover--that ad hominem.

Whether Pat is the one saying it or not, mass deportation is the only solution to the problem of illegal immigration. Every hospital should be reporting them when they come in, every state should deny them benefits of any kind, and every day laborer site should be hit with stings on a regular basis.

Then we can have a limited guest worker program where we don't reward those who jumped the border, but rather those who apply from their home countries.

[ShadowDancer]

I think that Pat is the only person Dr. Norman Vincent Peale(writer of the book "The Power of Positive Thinking) would say is doomed to terminal negativity.

Okay, give me your positive spin on it. Spin being the operative word here.

[The Old Hoosier]

No, leaving, because no one would hire them, which is the only reason they came here anyway.

[alloysteel]

Well. Perhaps this IS the old America. Back and better than ever. We survived the influx of the Irish, the Mediterranean Europeans, the East Asians, and even a flood of Middle Easterners. We should have no trouble absorbing a few million Mexicans.

Of course, if the US had any sense, with a huge investment in Mexico in industrial development, and some graft in the right places, Mexico could be made so attractive that a minority of US citizens would be slipping over the border illegally to enjoy a better life than they have here.

Now THAT would be a new America.

[The Old Hoosier]

Not true at all. There's no way Howard Dean will ever be more outraged than he is now, so let's give him something to cry about. Hispanics who can vote and who are U.S. citizens are not necessarily in favor of illegal immigration.

[swampfox98]

For some conservatives, this amnesty will snap it.

That's me. I have snapped. Over 50 million illegals will eventually come to America, now that Bush has issued an open invitation. I'd like to know how our politicians think they can hold onto their jobs when illegals will be taking over the political parties and electing their own people. Already illegals have cost 9 Republicans to lose their seats in the house.

They are coming to America to suck us dry, spit us out, and take over our country. This must be the "New World Order" George W. spoke of over twelve years ago. It is amazing that the Democrats are not terrified of this. Are they stupid enough to believe the illegals will keep them on in Congress and in Judgeships and as Mayors, etc.? Sheesh! How ignorant can you be?

[org.whodat]

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.

You left out that each one would then be able to bring their mother's, fathers, brothers, sisiter, and all their kid. Snape your fingers and 8 million becomes 40 million.

[Nick Danger]

By offering amnesty and residency to millions who broke in line...

Can someone explain where this claim about residency is coming from? I've heard this from other authors as well. My understanding of the Bush proposal is that these people get no, nada, zero preference in gaining residency. As I understand it, they have to get in the same line everybody else does to get a green card. In the meantime, they have to 'fess up to who they are and where they are, which is not something we actually know right now.

[lelio]

Of course, if the US had any sense, with a huge investment in Mexico in industrial development

I think it was Rush that made the point that this amnesty program is really solving a problem that Vincente Fox should have to deal with: his faultering economy. Why fix your own economy when the people that can't get jobs go off to another country? And plus they send money back.

However this has already been tried in part by NAFTA and it hasn't slowed down the influx, mainly as the people that come over here service middle class workers, for example as car wash attendants or cheap nannies. Does Mexico have a middle class that can support these kinds of extras?

[Mr. Bird]

The "old America" Pat laments losing was actually quite favorable to foreigners seeking the Dream. The difference is that we now have a "social safety net" that creates a disincentive for success.

Another difference is that the current influx is Mexican, and I think that makes a difference to Pat.

[lelio]

As I understand it, they have to get in the same line everybody else does to get a green card. In the meantime,

In the meantime what's their status? Half a citizen? Guest worker? H1b?

[superloser]

Shhh! Don't tell anyone that Eisenhower rounded up and shipped south over a million Mexicans in the 1950s. It was called "Operation Wetback"

Or that FDR did a similar thing.

[Dane]

Can someone explain where this claim about residency is coming from? I've heard this from other authors as well. My understanding of the Bush proposal is that these people get no, nada, zero preference in gaining residency. As I understand it, they have to get in the same line everybody else does to get a green card. In the meantime, they have to 'fess up to who they are and where they are, which is not something we actually know right no

If you actually state what is in the proposal, you can't whip up a frenzy.

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm not talking about the foreign press or Dean the Mean. I'm talking about regular folks who remember the cattle-cars in Nazi Germany.

We would be handing our domestic enemies a club large enough to beat us to death with. And, as narby pointed out, we'd probably deserve it.

[MosesKnows]

Real Message

The Real Message is that if we had stayed within the Constitution we would never have fallen so far as to have to contemplate such a pitiful state of affairs.

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." -Albert Einstein

[org.whodat]

We attacked, defeated, and destroyed the last country to send away a few million people of another race on rail cars. And if the US did the same, we'd deserve the same fate

Are you really this sick? Are do you get a kick out of insulting Jewish people?

[The_Eaglet]

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.”

There is a candidate challenging him from the right. If Pat had read the Washington Times or made a journalistic effort to investigate other sources, he would know that Michael Peroutka is running for President. In his interviews with various media, he makes the point that Bush "is not conservative enough."

[swarthyguy]

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[Aetius]

Proponents of unending mass immigration always like to point out the success of assimilating the last great wave, yet they always leave out critical differences between that era and this one. Some include the modern existence of welfare, multiculturalism, and racial preferences.

But perhaps the biggest difference of all was that the last great wave was cut off by Congresssional action. In the early 1920s legislation was passed, and one of the results was that immigration levels fell from about 900,000 per year to about 200,000 for over the next 40 yrs. We went from mass immigration to modest immigration. Do you really doubt that reduction played an important part in assimilating all those Irish, Italians, and Germans? Of course it did.

So to follow the logic of 'past mass immigration turned out ok, so current mass immigration will to' we must truly follow the example of the past. We should reduce immigration levels. We should limit family reunification to spouses (i.e. female wives of male residents and male husbands of female residents) and minor dependent children, and possibly parents.

Does anyone doubt that would help assimilate all the Hispanic and Asian immigrants who have come in the last 30 yrs?

But you're right about Mexico. With their natural resources and abundant labor supply it is an indictment of that country's leaders that they are still mired in third world status.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I'm talking about regular folks who remember the cattle-cars in Nazi Germany.

The regular folks who remember the cattle-cars in Nazi Germany wouldn't dare toss around this insulting analogy so frivolously.