Immigration: A Six-pack of Common Sense

June 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · ·

I make no bones about this: This nation needs a complete immigration timeout. Our problem is not just “illegal immigration,” it is “all immigration.” I have explained this many times before on these pages. Anyone who would take an honest look at this nation’s immigration history would have to admit that our experiencing protracted lulls in immigration, whether it was due to world conditions, natural forces, or prudent legislation, has been far more important to our being able to maintain a union and keep the republic than any willingness to give immigrants a chance to join us has. Anyone who has bought the “nation of immigrants” crapola as the be-all and end-all of this nation’s greatness is an idiot; replacing 400 years of culture, intellect, patriotism, blood, sacrifice, and ingenuity with the slogan more suitable for a T-shirt, bumper sticker or coffee mug just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

If this insidious Senate bill passes, future generations will forget all about all this “nation of immigrants” nonsense. In their lifetimes, the operating slogan will be: “shit happens.” For that will be the only way to describe what is left of this nation after our “leaders” leave this poison pill as their legacy.

With that, if you’re interested in this point of view, I suggest you read the entire articles to which I’ve linked below:

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » The Real Immigration Threat

The fact is that most of the folks who won’t assimilate are here legally, but citizenship papers can’t change a heart. A pious Moslem will gladly upend our culture to make way for sharia just as an ethnic patriot of Mexican descent will subordinate our language to his own. Legality is deceptive. Slavery was legal at one time, as was cocaine, but this didn’t render the former any more moral or the latter any more healthful.A law doesn’t make a bad idea good; like an unassimilable legal immigrant, it just makes it more entrenched.

A peril of knowing history is that it robs one of blissful ignorance. A cross I bear is that I see very clear parallels between third millennium America and Rome during its waning days.

RealClearPolitics - The Global Immigration Problem

There is a final irony. The more Western elites ignore their own laws, allow unassimilated ethnic ghettos and profit from an exploitive labor market, the more their own nations will begin to resemble the very places immigrants fled from.

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

Now conservatives and Republicans are going to have to win back their party. They are going to have to break from those who have already broken from them. This will require courage, serious thinking and an ability to do what psychologists used to call letting go. This will be painful, but it’s time. It’s more than time.

AnnCoulter.com - Printer Friendly Article: A GREEN CARD IN EVERY POT

Americans — at least really stupid Americans like George Bush — believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self-determination, human rights, the rule of law and a robust democratic economy. On this view, most of the existing world and almost all of world history is a freakish aberration.In fact, the natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world.

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Why They Won’t Assimilate

Traditionally, Americans never relied on government to achieve most goals, and ensuring assimilation was no exception. Many years ago, for instance, if a person insisted on dressing like an advertisement for the Middle Ages, didn’t learn the language or sought to impose strange beliefs in the workplace, he would have been fired or not hired in the first place. What this means is that the Moslem clerks and cab drivers who, respectively, won’t ring up pork and won’t pick up passengers with alcohol or seeing-eye dogs, would have either changed their ways or returned to where ways don’t change.

This enforcement of tradition through individual initiative is what every non-western country does and makes sense. If you’re so enamored of your native ways, stay in your native land.If you tried this today, though, you’d receive a treatment from the proctologist of government bureaucracies, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Yes, because freedom of association has been trumped by lawless judges, citizens have lost control over their businesses, rental properties and, in many cases, organizations. Privately owned and financed entities can no longer determine who receives paychecks, who will be served and who will be rented to, thus removing the social pressure to conform that the common man would naturally apply via the exercise of his values in his castle.

Likewise, local school boards have been robbed of the right to set dress codes and behavior standards reflecting the surrounding community. What this means is now you can’t refuse to hire a cross-dressing Colombian from Cartagena on the basis that he is a cross-dressing Colombian from Cartagena. Ah, it sounds almost Jeffersonian . . . almost. We’ve now traded liberty for perversity.

Pat Buchanan - Time to Split the Blanket

The damage Bush has done to his party is beginning to rival that of Herbert Hoover. If the Clintons were doing this, would conservatives be mute? Time to lock and load.

There is still time to stop this stupidity being considered by the Senate. There is still hope. And that is a very good thing. For as long as there is any vestige of a nation for real and unhyphenated Americans, time and hope areall that we need to find the courage to fight back, and win.