The upcoming immigration battle

Yesterday on the great Mark Levine Radio Show on 77-WABC in New York, I heard Mark list and discuss 10 steps that could be used to destroy American society. Don’t worry; he wasn’t giving the Left any new ideas. In fact, he made clear his belief that the Obama administration along with the Democrat dominated congress is purposely following each and every destructive step. I couldn’t agree with him more!  

Here’s Mark’s list:

1. Rewrite the Constitution and break down its firewalls through Judicial and Bureaucratic fiat.
2. Concentrate all meaningful power in the Federal Government.
3. Suppress and Repress the Individual by attacking his Unalienable Rights through laws and constant torment.
4. Eliminate Private Property through Confiscatory Taxation and Regulation and wage constant war against Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurs.
5. Control Institutions of Education at all levels and turn them into Indoctrination Centers for the State.
6. Change the Citizenry by opening National Borders to virtually all comers and changing the qualifications for Citizenship to include mostly poor, uneducated illegal aliens.
7. Destroy the Private Financial Institutions that have funded the Greatest Production and Accumulation of Wealth for the Most People the World has ever known.
8. Destroy Capitalism and replace it with Redistributive Policies by destroying the currency and replacing it with a new currency or Revaluing the old currency.
9. Eliminate American Sovereignty through arrangements and agreements with Foreign Countries and International Bureaucracies.
10. Use American Foreign Policy not to improve American Economic and National Security, but to advance the Notion of One Government Globalism.

All 10 items on the list are a nightmare for any free society. For the moment, I want to focus on what I believe to be the most destructive and the hardest to reverse once fully implemented.

I’m referring to #6. Change the Citizenry by opening National Borders to virtually all comers and changing the qualifications for Citizenship to include mostly poor, uneducated illegal aliens.

I believe that anyone with half a brain and no personal or political agenda can see the permanent destruction that will result from massive illegal and…..yes, legal immigration of predominantly ignorant and poor people into our country.

The ignorant and poor have long been the favorite pawns of dictators, despots, and Marxists. That’s exactly why the modern day Democrats and statists like Obama favor open borders and massive immigration from underdeveloped or third world nations. It’s very easy to play the class-envy card with people who live on mere dollars per week in their native countries. People who are ignorant (many times through no fault of their own) don’t understand free-market economics. They don’t understand how wealth is created. They often seem to believe that the streets of America are paved with gold. They don’t understand the blood, sweat, and ideas that have made us as prosperous as we are. Many of these people look at a person who makes 40 thousand dollars a year like the rest of us look at millionaires.

Many good but misguided people have come to believe that allowing massive immigration from the third world is a moral issue. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase “people just looking for a better life” when the issue of immigration comes up. I don’t buy the legitimacy of the phrase, and quite frankly, it makes me sick! Where in the US Constitution does it say that we have to lower our standard of living in order for someone else to have a better life? Where is it written that we have to give up chunks of our freedom in order for someone else to have a better life? Where is it written that we have to give more and more of our hard earned money to subsidize people who want a better life? Where is it written that we have to water down, or outright surrender our culture to accommodate immigrants who just want a better life?

Another key fact that almost all proponents of massive immigration miss is the plain and simple fact that like most things, immigration has changed over the years. For the most part, immigrants who flocked to this country throughout the 19^th and 20^th century came here to seek opportunity without any guarantees or assistance from the government. They came here to become Americans, not to remake America into the country from which they came. They went to work almost immediately after entering the country. Their sponsors had to make sure that they had work and a place to live. They went to school to learn English. They weren’t catered to with signs in their native languages. They took a lot of guff in the beginning, but they didn’t complain. They realized that it was part of the price for the freedom and opportunity they sought. Eventually they proved themselves to be hard-working people who wanted first and foremost to be Americans. It didn’t take long before they were accepted with open arms and treated as fellow citizens – fellow Americans. How do I know all of this? Because I’m speaking about people from my own family who went through it – that’s how!

Many, if not most of today’s immigrants (often through no fault of their own) don’t share the same attitude as the earlier immigrants. Largely because of the politicians in Washington DC, many come here with certain expectations if not outright demands. Many expect to be subsidized by the current citizens. Many expect government programs to help them get by. Many expect bi-lingual education and bi-lingual government services. Again, I don’t really blame the immigrants. I blame the corrupt politicians who want to use these people as pawns to advance their agendas and power. We need to reestablish the message to potential immigrants that America is the place to go if you want to work hard and achieve success, not the place to go for cradle to grave hand-outs. The progressive left in particular looks at today’s immigrants as people they can easily control in their quest to transform America into a Marxist nation. It’s undeniable that desperately poor people are much more likely to accept and tolerate Marxism, Leninism, Statism, and even Totalitarianism.

With our economy in shambles, with multi trillion dollar debts and deficits as far as the eye can see, and with real-world unemployment at 17 or 18 percent, we can hardly afford to import poverty from all over the world. Our federal entitlement programs are all at the breaking point. We simply can’t afford more people jumping on the wagon. What we need are more people to help pull the wagon! We need to run our immigration system like a small business, or even a fortune 500 corporation. Immigrants should explain what they can do for us, rather what we can do for them. Regardless of skin color, native language, or country of origin, we need immigrants who will be assets to our economy and a plus for our nation. We need stricter guidelines for immigration. We need immigrants who better understand our history and free-market system (while we still have one). We don’t need hyphenated Americans. We need immigrants who while holding on to their cultures, want to be Americans first. We need immigrants who crave personal and financial freedom over a supposedly benevolent centralized government.

Have no doubt that Obama and the Democrats will soon try to ram some sort of radical “immigration reform” down our throats. I believe that this will make the healthcare reform fiasco seem like a schoolyard spat between first graders. They well know that by importing poverty and desperation, and by legalizing all of the “undocumented” aliens that are already here, they can build a permanent progressive political base that can never be defeated again at the ballot box. This will get very, very ugly. They will brand anyone who opposes their “immigration reform” as Bigots, Racists, Haters, White Supremacists and Klansmen. They will hope that people who have a low tolerance for being at the receiving end of vicious name calling will fall silent. They will try to appeal to people who for some reason or another suffer from a misguided sense of guilt. Others, they will try to outright destroy. Many gutless Republicans will easily become intimidated and are likely to fold under the pressure. Once again, it will be up to us – the American people to defeat this.

All of the 10 steps that Mark Levine talked about are scary to anyone who wants to preserve our great country for future generations. However, once there is a super population of poor and ignorant immigrants from around the world residing within our borders, we will once and for all witness the irreversible destruction of our beloved country.