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What's Worse tha Open Borders
Human Events ^ | 1/10/07 | Mac Johnson

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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Copyright © 2007 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borders; doasearchnexttime; immigrantlist; immigration
Excellent Article on our disaster on the Border.
1 posted on 01/10/2007 6:05:51 PM PST by BnBlFlag
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To: American72

Ping!


2 posted on 01/10/2007 6:14:48 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: BnBlFlag

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.


3 posted on 01/10/2007 6:14:53 PM PST by Schwaeky (Welcome to America--Now speak English or LEAVE!)
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To: Schwaeky

The "immigration" today is more akin to an Invasion.


4 posted on 01/10/2007 6:17:07 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Schwaeky

Where did his ship dock?


5 posted on 01/10/2007 6:37:07 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Schwaeky
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.

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.

6 posted on 01/10/2007 6:38:41 PM PST by madison10
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To: BnBlFlag
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765103/posts
7 posted on 01/10/2007 6:39:23 PM PST by NapkinUser (Tom Tancredo for president of the United States of America in 2008!)
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To: Schwaeky
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.

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.

8 posted on 01/10/2007 6:40:13 PM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: BnBlFlag
The "immigration" today is more akin to an Invasion

Exactly. We are being invaded and the fed's are having circle jerks about what to do about it. BUILD THE DAMN WALL!!!!!! We can bet our bottom dollars that the Dem's won't touch this issue. It's depressing to think about.
9 posted on 01/10/2007 6:44:40 PM PST by BigTom85 (Proud Gun Owner and Member of NRA)
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To: BnBlFlag

Posted before, but a very good article!


10 posted on 01/10/2007 6:57:07 PM PST by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: BnBlFlag

Well said.


11 posted on 01/10/2007 8:08:25 PM PST by djreece ("... Until He leads justice to victory." Matt. 12:20c)
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To: BnBlFlag

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.


12 posted on 01/10/2007 8:39:35 PM PST by oldbill
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To: oldbill

I agree...it is just the 'educated' flip side to the 'uneducated' illegal immigration, cheap labor coin.


13 posted on 01/11/2007 4:02:02 AM PST by Kimberly GG (PATRIOTS MARCH TO "TAKE BACK AMERICA" (www.lframerica.com ))
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To: BnBlFlag

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...


14 posted on 01/11/2007 6:27:41 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: DuncanWaring

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.


15 posted on 01/11/2007 10:01:53 PM PST by Schwaeky (Welcome to America--Now speak English or LEAVE!)
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To: BnBlFlag
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.

This is one of the best analogies I've seen to describe our border mess.
16 posted on 01/27/2007 12:09:43 PM PST by weef
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To: Schwaeky

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.


17 posted on 01/27/2007 12:27:09 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Forgot your tagline? Click here to have it resent!)
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To: weef

I agree! Wish I'd said it myself!


18 posted on 01/27/2007 5:19:03 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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