Former U.S. Treasurer Buchanan Details Arguments against Illegal Immigration

Tufts University Daily ^ | March 12, '08 | Alexandra Bogus

[T.L.Sink]

Bay Buchanan, former U.S. treasurer under President Reagan, argued that the United States must secure its borders. Buchanan addressed the growing negative sentiment towards the immigration issue. "Never even in the time of Nixon have I seen a populace as angry as they are today," she said. Buchanan directly linked this anger with America's unsecured borders. "Now it's a complete sieve again," she said. She noted that American small-business owners cannot compete with businesses that hire Hispanics and pay them lower wages. Buchanan went on to highlight overcrowding in schools and hoapitals as consequences. She cited gang-controlled trafficking of drugs and humans across the Mexican border and went on to discuss other devastating economic consequences as well. "They're taking all the jobs," Buchanan said of illegal immigrants, citing the high unemployment rate Americans have had to endure. She placed most of the blame on corporations. "It's cheap for corporations, but taxpayers are footing the bill. They're sheep in Washington who do what the power people tell them," she said. Buchanan said three things were necessary to enforce the law of the land: build a physical fence; enforce the law against the illegal hiring of illegal aliens; securing the border because 'we're being flooded.'

[T.L.Sink]

Right - but whether we’re unable or unwilling to build the fence the end result is the same: Indifference to our national security, national sovereignty, and the economic, political and social destruction of our culture which is being transformed into Third World status before our very eyes.

[T.L.Sink]

Absolutely! As you point out the massive illegal invasion is NOT a single issuue but one that affects every aspect of the economic, political and social segments of our culture. It’s like a matasticizing cancer.

[jnsun]

It’s like a matasticizing cancer.

(A few days later) - seems a good analogy. Corny as it may seem, I can't stop visualizing Goths and Lombards filling the roles of the Roman legions in the fifth century, with the citizens and even commanders saying, hey these guys are great soldiers, tough, brave, let's use them with impunity - just like the Mexicans are great laborers. Even Alaric, who later sacked the place, was a legitimate Roman general (an amnestied immigrant?). Hence in retrospect reflecting many disturbing similarities, e.g. the citizen apathy thing, the diversity thing, the isolation and aloofness of the Senate thing, the bread and circuses thing, the dictator thing, etc.

Amazing, repeating historical paradigms right before me own eyes.

[T.L.Sink]

I think your analogy is a good one. As Edward Gibbon pointed out in “Decline and Fall...,” the barbarization of the Roman army was instrumental in the collapse of the empire. Speaking of that great historical work, in the last volume Gibbon gives - in his own inimitable style - an unforgettble description of Mohammed and the Muslim conquests. He sardonically describes Mohammed as a semi-literate, epileptic, lecherous and savage barbarian. I’ve always wondered why the militant Muslims havn’t rioted and killed to ban that as they did a few much more harmless cartoons.