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June 10, 2006
by Deloris Finch
U.S. Borders: Everybody Welcome -- Terrorists, Narc Runners, Insurgents, Immigrants, Criminals, Come one, Come all! 20 million illegals have heeded the call. The Bush administration and their subservient lackeys in Congress have conspired against Americans by repeatedly refusing to appropriate sufficient money to fortify the borders thus encouraging and facilitating illegals to defy, and with impunity violate American Law. As a consequence, millions of illegal Hispanics are flooding the U.S. availing themselves of social services denied needy Americans as well as depriving workers of jobs -- well paying jobs causing hardship to American families. Illegals willingness to work for a fraction of what supports a decent American standard of living is the reason our borders have been abandoned by the Bush administration. There is something detestable about the administration favoring Corporate profits over middle class living wages -- once the hallmark of family security. Corporations have forced labor migration throughout the world by subjecting humans to a state of poverty and abject living conditions whereby indentured laborers strike out for greener pastures and a more rewarding life. Corporate despotism under the auspices of governmental paternalism has been instrumental in subjugating and exploiting the world's population. Illegals will accept anything as wages and are petrified to voice their mistreatment to authorities when their rights are violated. A legal worker in Argentina spends 16 hours a day sewing slacks for chic stores for $65.00 a week, slave labor, but a crutch against starvation. That though, is the ultimate objective of corporations, to enslave labor to maximize their profits. People in their estimation no longer represent human beings but rather expendable units. The hoards of illegals, 20 million strong, presently dispersed throughout our nation have displaced a proportionate number of American workers from their jobs. Companies knowingly employing illegals display a contempt for the consumers who have created their wealth, and should be boycotted. Retaliation might be just punishment. And speaking of retribution, if our political leadership is inclined to spurn their constituents concerns they should be shown no mercy and banished from office. There is absolutely no reciprocity between Mexico and the U.S.A. in the sense that we can freely cross their borders, buy and own a home there, receive welfare or food stamps or medical care or become a citizen. Extending the same privileges accorded their own people in our country is forbidden for Americans in Mexico. Mexican requirements toward residency are quite extensive and restrictive if one decides to settle there: To qualify for residence it is essential that you speak their native language, your resume must indicate being a professional or investor. They will not accept unskilled workers. Foreigners do not have the right to vote or hold political office despite their length of residency. They ban Americans from purchasing ocean front property and with all other property individual ownership rights must be relinquished if the government so dictates. Foreigners have no right to protest, demonstrate or wave a foreign flag, organize politically, insult the president, or criticize his policies all of which will get you evicted from the country. You're a foreigner you "Shut your mouth or get out." If you enter Mexico illegally and are caught it's a one-way, three year ticket to jail. All of these dictatorial laws are presently operative in Mexico. Considering their rigid, austere rules compared to ours Americans should march on Congress and White House en force enraged at allowing the Mexican government, with the tacit consent of the Bush administration, to dump millions of poverty stricken human derelicts into the U.S.. If Americans don't get tough with Congress we will soon be submerged by Mexicans, losing our identity as Americans. It's evident that Mexico is anti-immigration. Their government has erected admission barriers that are virtually unbreachable. Yet they insist the U.S. is being arbitrary and anti-Mexican in it's determination to seal their borders and deny amnesty to 20 million illegals to whom the Mexican government gave their blessings to for violating our border laws. If their current laws also applied to our country 20 million illegals would soon be shunted back to Mexico post haste. Both congress and president should be sacked for allowing our nation to be overrun with Hispanics. This massive surge of illegals are now brazenly clamoring for guest worker programs and amnesty as being their given rights. Guest workers are also permitted to have their entire family accompany them into the U.S.A.. If a child is conceived by a guest worker's wife, it automatically becomes a U.S. citizen. A large segment of naturalized Hispanics are augmenting illegals by hoisting the Mexican flag, and joining in their demonstrations in defiance of those that oppose their demands for amnesty. Saturation and domination by a single ethnic faction bodes ill insofar as maintaining a balance in the diversity of our racial mixture. Serious confrontations can evolve in the future if the economy falters and racial enclaves become antagonistic vying for territorial conquest; Stark evidence of ethnic polarity exists flaring in various parts of the world. One need look no further than France's clashes with a burgeoning Muslim population. Also, a sporadic state of strife exists in African nations where diverse tribes annihilate each other. There are though nations that display a rational approach pertaining to immigration. They are well aware that indiscriminate acceptance of humans from all walks of life presents a volatile mix that unforeseen circumstances could ignite into a monumental problem and ultimately Civil War. Australia has come to grips with this visceral issue taking a stern attitude towards émigrés seeking refuge or asylum in their country. Their policy is one that should be adopted by the U.S.A.. Buut that possibility is highly unlikely considering the warped brain trust we are encumbered with in our capital. Their immigration formula can be applied to Hispanics in America. Australia has a significant Muslim population who insist on living under their mother country's Islamic Sharia Law. The Australian government's reply to them is: Pack up and move out. They are labeled as radical provocateurs. Prime Minister John Howard's response to the Muslim clerics' vocal opposition to the laws of the land would be perceived as an ultimatum that any indication of hostility or incitement would result in their expulsion from Australia. Muslims were told that they would have to accept Australia as a secular state whose laws were conceived by Parliament. If instead they could not abide by that edict and were determined to pay homage to the mantra of Sharia Law -- or a theocratic concept -- then they were in the wrong country. No two nations laws of rule such as Australia's Parliament or the U.S. Constitution can co-exist in harmony together. Consider the diversity of customs, laws and religions prevalent throughout the world. Each nation is unique unto itself and must vigilantly preserve it's integrity against those that profess radical change. Yet our great nation is ensnared in the merciless talons of the Religious Right. Talons capable of exerting enormous leverage on government policy, slowly extinguishing Constitutional safeguards by injecting Theocracy as the rule of law. It's a battle that's reaching epoch proportions, which will culminate in the November elections. We cannot as a free nation retain our freedom under the lash of the religious right. Our government was predicated on 3 diverse branches of the Constitution. Three branches, united yet separate, dominated by opposing political parties that counter- balance each other. That principal, embodied the Founding Fathers' Constitutional concept of a Democracy, which constitutes the blocks and balances that form the foundation of our freedom. That historic determination of creating an unalterable separation between church and state has been breached, leaving America vulnerable to the predications of a religious faction surreptitiously assuming governmental power and authority through the auspice of the President and his following in Congress. Such is America's dilemma besieged, internally by religious zealots and Corporate Carnivores, both of whose ambitions reside in debauching our democratic process of government. Coupled with that lethal threat democracy's adversaries have endorsed open Southern Borders with the forethought that it would be an open invitation for the Hispanics to exploit our country to the degree that all Americans, middle class or otherwise, will eventually be forced to submit to similar degradation in the workforce as the illegals are subjected to. The forthcoming election for Congress will determine whether the dyke of Democracy is swept away as so much flotsam and America falters, or if America regains its stature and prestige as a free and resilient nation. Each of us play an integral role in our nations perpetuation as a Democracy. The Republican Religious Right's chokehold on all 3 branches of government can, and must, be broken. Cutting that Gordian Knot, in the final analysis, will be entirely dependent on whether the Nov. 7th election is conducted in good faith. The election blueprints of 2000 was warped considering that the U.S. Supreme Court chose the president, by so doing, defying the nation's constitutional rights for the electorate to elect their president.. In the 2004 election there were unprecedented voter disqualifications, disenfranchisements- voting machine malfunctions. In Democratic districts confusion abounded -- insufficient voting machines, erroneous postings of voting centers, phone outrages, requests for identification from registered voters. Partisan Secretaries of State and their staff have also been instrumental in indiscriminately voiding legitimate democratic ballots, and the list goes on. One aspect of the national disgrace was consistent in its repetition, wherein the millions of purloined votes that were discarded and trashed were Democratic. Unless honesty is reinstated in representative government whereby the American people are no longer deprived of having their vote honestly counted, we, the people will no longer represent the government. And it follows that the constitution will no longer be relevant as an advocate of people's rights. Our vote sends Representatives to Congress. If elections are rigged, the dominant party perpetuates and continues to represent itself. End of the voting process! One last word on Electronic Touch Screen Voting Machines. By virtue of association, practically all major brand voting vendors are unreliable. These prime manufacturers virtually produce all voting equipment, ballots and provisional ballots used in the primary and general elections. The CEOs are important Republican Party Insiders, Contributors, Campaign Chairman and unswerving party loyalists. One would get the impression from that degree of party fidelity that a conflict of interest could cloud their impartiality. That perception is not unwarranted since the exit poles (very reliable) were worlds apart from the voting machine's count in both the 2000 and 2004 election. The disparity is far from reassuring and ample cause for a drastic revision in voting procedure. Unless that occurs, the vote will become obsolete, having no significance whatsoever. Today infractions of voting laws are not prosecuted. If they were much of the skullduggery that has pervaded the system would be avoided. Finally, it is imperative that our government restore immigration quotas, initially starting with a freeze on all immigrants whether on Visa or Student Exchange or Special Congressional Visas for Hi Tech Workers. There has to date been a stupendous surge of Hispanics into the U.S. estimated at 10-20% of Mexico's population -- that doesn't include the 20 million illegals already hunkered down across the country -- plus the millions still slipping across the border each year. In 1986 3 million illegals in the U.S.A. were given amnesty. It's time to secure the floodgates and inform Mexico's president, Vincente Fox, that we will no longer tolerate any further border violations and enforce that warning by throwing all border violators in jail, instead of recycling them back to Mexico as is presently done (which is futile, since they are immediately dispatched back for a second, third and forth try if necessary, to cross the border.) It's best to use Mexico's stringent tactics and incarcerate them, then ship them back after a dose of prison. If we don't stop this torrent of Mexico's discards, it will be America's undoing! It becomes self-evident that border fortification embracing its extremity be adequately manned and the rebirth of immigration quotas which mandates a freeze on all nations' immigrants whether on Visa or Student Exchange or Worker Programs, (wherein Congress permits hundreds of thousand high tech professionals to access our country on extended Visas to replace American technicians), be severely restricted. In conjunction with securing our border and limiting unbridled population explosion, it also behooves our lawmakers to proclaim that our nation was founded on One Flag (The Stars and Stripes), on One Language (The English Language) and that those immigrants who won't adapt to our customs will be deported back to their place of origin. Are we going to permit either legal or illegal Hispanics to superimpose their culture over ours and despoil our traditions and values that our ancestors shed their blood for? Is that what the administration and it's congressional allies are attempting? Being a multi-cultural society doesn't imply that we forfeit our sovereignty or National Identity as Americans! Our hard-fought nation has endured 230 years of internal conflict and foreign aggression. Are we once again to succumb from the internal strife perpetuated from within? Let it be emphatically restated: Our language is English, used worldwide as a universal language. Those of other lands and languages who wish to use their native tongue living in a host country are not needed as citizens in America. And the law of the land should designate those who reject our language as undesirable. Democracy is an all-encompassing expression of Freedom that radiates like a beacon of light. Under its munificence each person's intimate beliefs must be honored without reservation. America is being polarized by those in positions of power who are intent on imposing their confirmed belief or faith on others. Our Democracy cannot sustain autocratic directives that run contrary to its fundamental precepts. The Constitution's First Amendment sternly forbids religious intolerance and discrimination. Yet despite our history of religious compatability, we are rapidly drifting dangerously towards the shoals of perdition. Therefore, it behooves all Americans who believe in America's First that in Our Country, Our Land and Our Way of Life, all the opportunities and rights shall be shared by all citizenry except when shaming our flag, our pledge thereto and all it symbolizes. If you lack that devotion to America you still possess one last freedom -- the right to leave. In summation, my observation of the massive turnout of Hispanics, bear mention. The May Day demonstrations -- which would have been banned in Mexico, but in the U.S.A., were exhilaratingly featured, like victorious troops returning home -- in reality was a foreign entity flaunting their nation's colors, saying, in effect, "Gringos, get out! We are now the rightful owners of this country. "Since when," say these intruders, "have you Americans been united and vociferous, as we have been, taking to the streets in defense of your rights? "Your president supports us and favors our occupancy of your country, regardless of our illegal entry. He fights for us foreigners, knowing his corporate benefactors want it that way." Hell, if the president is on our side what more can be said? If you are unhappy with his policies, that's your problem. Wake up America! ! There is a war going on here at home that makes Iraq look puny in comparison!! Unless you come to terms with the fact that the time for passivity is over, one morning when you awake, your cherished Democracy will be forever gone.
Deloris Finch and her husband are owners of a small business in southern Oregon. They are community activists and involved in local politics. You may respond to this article in The Radical Academy Forum.
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