Posted on 12/11/2002 3:56:23 PM PST by gubamyster
December 11, 2002
If the government cannot control the documents it issues, what is the point of issuing more documents, such as a national identity card?
Last week, U.S. Attorney William S. Duffey Jr. announced the arrest and indictment of Social Security Administration employees in Atlanta for selling Social Security numbers to illegal aliens. The U.S. Attorney's Office described the scheme as a large and lucrative business run by the 28 defendants.
A Social Security number is an important identification document. A person with a Social Security number can easily create an American existence for himself. If an illegal alien can buy a number for work purposes, a terrorist can purchase a number for his purposes.
If a Social Security number can be purchased in Fulton County, Ga., numbers can likely be bought in other locale, as well. If Social Security numbers can be purchased, so also can other identification documents. It recently came to light that a U.S. consular office was selling visas to Muslims.
The U.S. government is very relaxed about illegal aliens. Little is done to protect our borders or to find illegals and deport them. As the Immigration and Naturalization Service does not perform its tasks, why does it exist?
The failure of the INS to protect the United States against entry and the presence of illegal immigrants endangers the integrity of government. Prior to the presence of millions of illegals in our country, there was no illicit demand for Social Security numbers and, thus, no temptation to corruption of Social Security employees. Face it, there is a huge and overlooked cost of illegal immigration -- the corruption of government agencies with power to issue important documents.
Last August, I reported in a column that in its annual report to Congress the U.S. Office of Personnel Management bragged that "preferred minorities" were vastly over-represented in federal employment. As almost all immigrants into the United States, both legal and illegal, are classified as "preferred minorities," recent immigrants will be over-represented in federal employment.
The United States no longer draws its immigrant population from England and Europe, where behavior in accord with the rule of law is second nature to the people. For three decades the United States has been drawing its immigrants from Third World countries, where an office in government is understood by all as a license to collect bribes.
The United States cannot import tens of millions of Third World peoples, forsake assimilation, celebrate multiculturalism and avoid Third World mores. Once the United States has Third World immigrants as prosecutors and police, criminals will be able to purchase their freedom with bribes. Punishment will fall on those who can't meet the price of a bribe.
There is no rational basis for U.S. immigration policy. What drives U.S. immigration policy is the soppy assumption that environment determines behavior. Soppy-minded immigration enthusiasts actually believe that the mere act of crossing our frontier turns the immigrant into an American and infuses the immigrant with American beliefs and habits. The immigrant becomes a law-abiding person in spite of everything his life has taught him to that point.
When Greek and Latin were taught in our schools, Americans understood the challenge of immigration. It was clear to all that Rome under the Germans was different from Rome ruled by Romans.
Today, English itself is falling by the wayside as multiculturalists brand it a "racist" language and stress teaching immigrants their own language and culture. If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
People are different. Cultures are different. If multiculturalism snuffs out assimilation, America will be the next to go.
Go in any government office (starting with just about any post office, if you don't believe this.) When dealing with a public employee these days, you're lucky if they can speak english. We have three orientals at our post office who must have all just fallen off the boat. One doesn't have the slightest concept of our money system, and gets a bewildered look when you hand her a bill and she has to make change. (It's guaranteed that your change will in no way correspond with what you should have been charged.) The second speaks pigeon english but doesn't understand it when it's spoken to her, and the third doesn't understand the various postage classifications, and charges whatever she wants, regardless of what you ask for. Don't bother asking for the supervisor. He's worse than they are. Used to be a failed, worthless clerk, so they promoted him.
This is a wallop of a point, that to my knowledge, Roberts is the first to make.
There is no rational basis for U.S. immigration policy. What drives U.S. immigration policy is the soppy assumption that environment determines behavior. Soppy-minded immigration enthusiasts actually believe that the mere act of crossing our frontier turns the immigrant into an American and infuses the immigrant with American beliefs and habits. The immigrant becomes a law-abiding person in spite of everything his life has taught him to that point.
Actually, Roberts is not on as firm ground here as he was in the other case. One hundred years ago, the environment in the good 'ol U.S. of A. was utterly intolerant of the sort of behavior that is now encouraged of immigrants, legal and illegal. And in those days, you couldn't just show up and get a federal job; you had to pay your dues. Your children might have a shot at a federal job, but probably not, because (thank the Founding Fathers!) there were so few of them in those days. And by the time your kids or grandkids got such a job, they'd been inculcated with respect for their nation in school, and for the law, courtesy of a policeman's sap, if necessary.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is not welcome in Christchurch after his attack on the city's Somali community, Mayor Garry Moore said yesterday.
Mr Peters called on the Government yesterday to send feuding factions of Christchurch's Somali community back to their homeland.
He was responding to a newspaper report that police were investigating Somali attacks on other Somalis' cars in a feud that possibly related to leadership tensions within the city's 400-strong community.
If they were having problems adjusting to living here "the most humane course of action" would be to send them home with funds to help them make a fresh start, Mr Peters said.
Patrick O'Connor, director of multi-cultural learning centre Peeto, who has been helping opposing Somali factions, suggested Mr Peters meet the Christchurch community to debate refugee and migrant issues.
But Mr Moore said the MP was the "last person we need in this city".
"I wouldn't be seen dead in a hall with Winston Peters. We have many issues to discuss and I'm particularly keen to discuss immigration in a wholesome way but I consider his technique neither wholesome nor helpful.
"I recommend he stay in Tauranga," the Mayor said.
"Politicians who play to people's fears and don't show leadership where communities need it are engaging in toxic politics."
Christchurch MP Tim Barnett also denounced Mr Peters' comments.
"When a senior politician condemns a whole community...because some cars have been scratched, there is only one word for that and it's racism.
"It shows self-righteousness and a total disregard for the reasons why Somalis are here and the nature of their society."
The Somali community, which is made up of 13 clans in Christchurch, had come from refugee camps, a civil war, and a country that after 12 years still did not have a functional government, Mr Barnett said.
"They have dealt with the tensions they have brought with them internally and quietly and occasionally that has spilt into something more overt but that's all that's happened."
But Mr Peters said those problems demonstrated growing divisions in New Zealand.
"We have imported civil war and ethnic strife that now threatens law-abiding New Zealanders," he said. "We have enough problems of our own without importing the hatred and blind prejudices of other cultures.
"There is no room for ethnic violence in New Zealand."
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres was briefed on the situation this week and said he was encouraged by the efforts being made within the Somali community and by Christchurch community workers to address the underlying issues.
He said the refugees had been through traumatic situations that were bound to place continuing pressures on victims.
"Let's recognise both the difficulties refugees face and the long-term success that has been achieved with earlier refugee groups, and have some confidence in the steps being taken to address these issues," Mr de Bres said.
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