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What's Worse Than Open Borders?
HumanEventsOnline ^ | Jan 10, 2007 | Mac Johnson

Posted on 01/09/2007 9:29:35 PM PST by NapkinUser

Look around you...

When the U.S. is trespassed upon at will by 15 million to 30 million illegal aliens, our border troops are under orders to flee from their posts if attacked, and the only thing upon which President Bush and Speaker Nancy Pelosi agree is the need for amnesty for brazen masses of immigration criminals, it would be easy to say that America has a de facto policy of open borders.

But upon reflection, it must be admitted that our current corruption is worse than open borders. For with a truly open border, oxymoron and nation-killer that that term may be, it could be expected that both the illiterate and the educated would pass easily across it. Likewise, the middle-class and the poor, the peaceful and the violent, the honest and the criminal, and the skilled and the unskilled would be expected to enter into our nation with equal facility.

Yet that is hardly the system we have had imposed upon us by our federal government—for many skilled computer programmers from India are kept out while they await their visas. Educated Chinese scientists cannot find cash-only jobs in our aerospace industry. And the honest of all nations are kept outside our country by their very honesty, except for the small portion of aspiring legal immigrants that, after much paperwork and time and expense, are admitted properly.

And while those who know they will pass background checks wait for them to be performed, while those who would bring the most value to our economy are held up in legal bureaucracy, and while the honest are shocked by the idea of paying criminal gangs to smuggle them across desperate deserts, our current system selects perfectly for their demographic opposites.

For those who are criminals, the border is open.

For those without degrees, the border is open.

For the violent, the dishonest, the unskilled, the destitute, the illiterate … the border is open.

And so they flow in by the millions each year—unfettered by the compunctions that keep out their moral betters, and undaunted by the need for unforged documents that keeps out their intellectual betters (for high tech businesses have too much to at stake to play the “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” game with fake IDs and random Social Security numbers).

No, we do not have an open border. We have an anti-border.

Where a real border is designed to keep out the bad of the world and let flow in all its good, our anti-border keeps out the good and drowns us in the bad.

Where a real border is intended to politically define a distinct nation, our anti-border is intended to redefine that nation into something indistinct.

Where a real border is supposed to declare to the outsider and the would-be entrant, “Here begins a new set of laws,” our anti-border declares to them “Here begins whatever lawlessness you need to get by.”

With this selection process in place, we are supposed to believe that our economy is benefited?

It would be as if a world-class company suddenly stopped interviewing applicants for new positions and simply gave the jobs to whomever managed to break into the building the night before. While titans of industry brag that much of their success is attributable to picking good people and letting them work their talents in service of the common good (Jack Welch, I believe, once jokingly claimed to be the Chief Human Resources Officer of GE), our nation is pursuing the opposite approach.

We most heavily add to our national organization those that first break laws, fake their resumes, pay bribes, evade their taxes, communicate poorly, have few legitimate skills and disrespect our culture.

For people such as these, our borders are open, and amnesty is a civil right.

For the people we really need, however, our border is mockingly closed, and amnesty is just a word for their place being taken by some lesser man.

We have, in short, the worst of all possible systems.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration
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1 posted on 01/09/2007 9:29:35 PM PST by NapkinUser
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To: NapkinUser

GW Bush, our counterpart to the Emperor Valens. Oh, except that Valens went out to fight the Goths.


2 posted on 01/09/2007 9:37:59 PM PST by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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To: NapkinUser

Excellent article!

Thanks for posting!

A fresh perspective!

BUMP!!


3 posted on 01/09/2007 9:48:17 PM PST by upchuck (The American coup de grâce is well on its way. Thus far, the Donks haven't had to fire a shot.)
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To: Czar

Ping


4 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:05 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (http://SelectSmart.com/plus/select.php?url=08frontrunners)
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To: NapkinUser
We have, in short, the worst of all possible systems.

We do indeed. There is an unholy alliance of Big Business (which is amoral, and has an insatiable desire for cheap labor, in order to enhance the bottom line) and postmodern transnationals (who see national sovereignty as an antiquated concept, and view America's riches as an affront to the less-developed world).

I agree wholeheartedly with the author. An open-borders policy, as undesirable as that is, would at least have the small virtue of being less hypocritical than the current “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” policy.

5 posted on 01/09/2007 9:58:04 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: upchuck

Ditto!


6 posted on 01/09/2007 9:58:15 PM PST by Joann37
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To: donmeaker; gubamyster
GW Bush, our counterpart to the Emperor Valens. Oh, except that Valens went out to fight the Goths.
And the idiot failed to wait for re-enforcements from his brother Flavius Valentinian.
7 posted on 01/09/2007 10:03:59 PM PST by rmlew (Having slit their throats may the conservatives who voted for Casey choke slowly on their blood.)
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To: NapkinUser

You people just don't understand.

How are these companies going to make huge profits and pay outrageous executive salaries and back-dated stock options and retirement millions if they pay the just wage to American and legal workers?

Get a grip! This is not your father's America!

Now go out there and pay your taxes so the welfare system can pick up the medical bills and Social Security checks for these illegals and save these companies from paying for them as benefits.


8 posted on 01/09/2007 10:13:43 PM PST by oldbill
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To: oldbill
Call me scum but, I tried for yrs. to buck the system and give as little as possible to the Gov and Corp. America. Here I sit today, legal as possible, only to have my contribution to society wasted on the derelict and illegal population amongst us.
9 posted on 01/10/2007 4:19:31 AM PST by wolfcreek (Please Lord, May I be, one who sees what's in front of me.)
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To: NapkinUser

I haven't even read the article yet, but I already have an answer.

"What's Worse Than Open Borders?"

Open abortion clinics.


10 posted on 01/10/2007 5:08:35 AM PST by NavySon (The line between the ACLU and Nazi Germany is getting thinner everyday.)
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To: oldbill

"Now go out there and pay your taxes so the welfare system can pick up the medical bills and Social Security checks for these illegals and save these companies from paying for them as benefits."

Yup, nothing says charity like a government sanction!


11 posted on 01/10/2007 5:11:23 AM PST by NavySon (The line between the ACLU and Nazi Germany is getting thinner everyday.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


12 posted on 01/10/2007 8:58:41 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: NapkinUser

TN lost a state trooper Sunday two Hispanic teenagers (They keep calling a 19 a teenager!), involved in the drug trade, and none of the local press will even ask if they are illegals! Must be too PC a question!

Mike Fleming from AM600 is stating the truth on that will be out the end of the week, that they are illegals, as Trooper Jenks is laid to rest today.


13 posted on 01/10/2007 9:08:38 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Southaven Mississippi Freeper)
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To: gubamyster

Thanks for the ping. BTTT!


14 posted on 01/10/2007 9:19:14 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Sybeck1
Illegals kill State Trooper...bumps.

sw

15 posted on 01/10/2007 10:59:08 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife ("One Nation, One Standard")
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To: Brad's Gramma
"We most heavily add to our national organization those that first break laws, fake their resumes, pay bribes, evade their taxes, communicate poorly, have few legitimate skills and disrespect our culture."

Says it all.

And brought to us courtesy of our very own federal government.

16 posted on 01/10/2007 11:22:11 AM PST by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: NavySon
I haven't even read the article yet, but I already have an answer.

"What's Worse Than Open Borders?"

Open abortion clinics.

Well if we had those 30 million babies aborted since Roe v Wade at least some of them would be productive workers by now. Maybe we wouldn't need "guest" workers.

17 posted on 01/10/2007 4:09:15 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: garylmoore

Read this and tell me Bush hasn't encouraged illegals.


18 posted on 01/10/2007 4:37:57 PM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: NapkinUser; gubamyster

Good post!


19 posted on 01/10/2007 5:03:32 PM PST by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: raybbr
Like I said, I don't agree with the administrations dealing with immigration, but there are worst problems and I still would not call our President of these United States an "Idiot".

"What's Worse Than Open Borders?"

Open abortion clinics.


Well if we had those 30 million babies aborted since Roe v Wade at least some of them would be productive workers by now. Maybe we wouldn't need "guest" workers.
20 posted on 01/11/2007 12:59:23 AM PST by garylmoore (Faith is the assurance of things unseen.)
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