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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - December 28, 2010
Is This Our America Anymore?
by: Pat Buchanan
Buried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline:
"Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants."
The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains
the rage of Americans who are smeared as nativists and
xenophobes for demanding a timeout on immigration.
In the April-May-June quarter, foreign-born workers in the
U.S. gained 656,000 jobs. And native-born Americans lost
1.2 million.
From July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, foreign-born Hispanics
gained 98,000 construction jobs. Native-born Hispanics lost
133,000. Black and white U.S. construction workers lost
511,000 jobs.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, from
Jan. 1, 2000, to Jan. 1, 2010, 13.1 million immigrants,
legal and illegal, entered the United States, a decade in
which America lost 1 million jobs.
From 2008 and 2009, the figures are startling. In 24
months, 2.4 million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrived,
as U.S. citizens were losing 8.6 million jobs.
Query: Why are we importing a million-plus workers a year
when 17 million Americans can't find work? Whose country
is this?
Why do we not declare a moratorium on all immigration,
until our unemployment rate falls to 6 or 5 percent?
Charity begins at home. Ought we not take care of our own
jobless first before we invite in strangers to take their
jobs?
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, each year between
300,000 and 400,000 "anchor babies" are born to illegal
aliens. These newborns are entitled to citizenship, free
health care and education, welfare and food stamps.
Their parents -- almost all are poor or working class --
rarely pay any state or federal income tax.
How long can we keep granting citizenship and full social
welfare benefits to the children of people who break our
laws and break into our country or overstay their visas?
How long can we keep bringing in workers to take jobs
when our unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent?
Again, according to the Pew Center, the number of anchor
babies here now is about 4 million. Add to that 3 million
to 4 million born each decade, and it will not be long
before Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and Texas resemble
California, which is on the brink of default.
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If no action is taken, the Republican Party will soon be
unable, even in wave elections, to win the presidency,
as it won nothing and indeed lost state legislative seats
in California in 2010.
The border will disappear, and America will be a geograph-
ical expression, not a country anymore.
Legal scholar William Quirk describes a new phenomenon in
the invasion of America: "maternity tourism." Pregnant
Asian women pay $15,000 to agents to ensure they are in
the United States when their child is born so that they
can return home secure in the knowledge he or she will be
a U.S. citizen with the right to a U.S.-taxpayer subsidized
education in college.
Though the nation has awakened to the threat to social
cohesion and national solvency, Harry Reid is still
attempting to ram through a lame-duck Senate an amnesty
for illegal aliens up to age 30 who claim they were brought
here before they were 16, have a high school diploma or
GED and state that they intend to go to college within
six years.
An estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens would be amnestied,
put on a path to citizenship, and be eligible for student
loans and more.
According to Alabama's Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican
on the Senate Judiciary Committee:
"Aliens granted amnesty by the DREAM Act will have the
legal right to petition for entry of their family members,
including their adult brothers and sisters and the parents
who illegally brought or sent them to the United States,
once they become naturalized U.S. citizens. In less than
a decade, this reality could easily double or triple
the 2.1 million green cards that will be immediately
distributed as a result of the DREAM Act."
Lawbreaking would be rewarded. Chain migration would
continue. A permanent powerful magnet would be provided to
all foreigners to sneak into the United States and be sure
to bring the kids.
As Rep. Dana Rohrabacher argues, one effect of the DREAM
Act will be to move illegals applying to college ahead of
many Americans, as 80 percent of illegals are Hispanics
and eligible for affirmative action.
U.S. soldiers coming home from Afghanistan will "sit in
back," as Obama puts it, when competing against amnestied
illegals.
Several days ago, UCLA's Kent Wong addressed a pro-amnesty
rally in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. Wong turned the race
card face up.
When Reid's bill passes, said Wong, "the young people of
the DREAM Act movement will go on to accomplish and do
great things. ...You will go on to become lawyers,
teachers, doctors and members of the U.S. Congress to
replace those old white men...."
If the DREAM Act passes, Wong is right about whose time
has come and gone. May the tea party take names at the
call of the roll.
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