Posted on 01/10/2007 6:05:48 PM PST by BnBlFlag
What's Worse Than Open Borders?
by Mac Johnson Posted Jan 10, 2007
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 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.
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The imigration laws to begin with... I'm all about enforcing the laws we have, but I'm sorry, my great grandfather came here from Italy in much the same way (though different border), and by virtue of stowing away on a ship, would be today considered an illegal alien.
The "immigration" today is more akin to an Invasion.
Where did his ship dock?
So did my husband's great-great-grandfather, but he was from France. Came up the Mississippi. There weren't near as many as those type of illegals as the ones crossing from Mexico.
And, your point? Are you saying that we should do nothing to stop this invasion because your grandfather came here illegally? Okay, I have read in the paper about a bank robber who got away with it. I guess I should be able to as well.
Posted before, but a very good article!
Well said.
There is no demonstrable shortage of American scientists, programmers and engineers that requires a huge influx of Indians and Chinese. There will soon be a shortage of them as the message gets out that it is stupid to endure 4-5 years of the hardest of college diciplines only to graduate into a world where unneeded foreigners are brought in to work at half the salary.
I agree...it is just the 'educated' flip side to the 'uneducated' illegal immigration, cheap labor coin.
The irony of the situation is overwhelming, suffocating, unpasturized...
As much as I'd like to think this could be solved with one fail swoop of a pen, and troops on the border who aregiven full reign and clear Rules of Engagement...
I believe this battle was decisively lost years ago...And when we had the chance to stem the flow and get it under control...Things were done, under the guise that it would work...And boom...It didn't...
We lost...And very quickly the coup de gras will be delivered with the "guest worker" bill (Amnesty) by this summer...
If I were an investor, I would be looking to buy stock in the company theat created the Rossetta Stone language software program...We are probably going to be required/mandated to learn a second language regardless if we like it or not...
I believe he docked initially in the Port of New Orleans, went by rail overland to NYC.. kinda convoluted, but I understand quite a few from Italy went that way.
I wouldn't compare those immigrants of yesteryear to illegals today. They had to earn their keep. There was no Medicaid or other big government handouts back then.
I agree! Wish I'd said it myself!
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