THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume X, Issue # 157, June 29, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
REAL INDEPENDENCE MEANS SECURE BORDERS
By Alan Caruba
U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY & AMERICAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, A BROKEN
IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, & THE DELIBERATE INVASION OF AMERICA BY MEXICO, WITH THE AIM OF CHANGING OUR
POPULATION & POLICIES -- THE FAILURE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO TAKE AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY
SERIOUSLY ENOUGH TO FIX THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM & EXERCISE TIGHTER CONTROL OVER U.S. BORDERS -- A LACK OF
WILL BY THE U.S. CONGRESS TO CALL A MORATORIUM ON THE INFLUX OF BOTH LEGAL & ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A.
-- IMMIGRATION POLICIES THAT WILL ULTIMATELY UNDERMINE & DESTROY THE SOVEREIGNTY & COMMON CULTURE OF
THE AMERICAN NATION
FULL STORY:
As we celebrate our nation’s independence, it is worth keeping in mind that real independence depends on having secure
borders. A nation that cannot or will not protect itself from a massive and intentional invasion for the purpose of changing
its population and politics is a nation that will not exist very long.
The world’s elites, the jetsetters, the United Nations types who keep babbling about being citizens of the world and scoff
at notions of national sovereignty and national patriotism, who deride a requirement to speak the language of the nation,
and talk of multiculturalism when clearly not all cultures are equal, are a minority. The rest of us live in a specific town or
city, in a specific state, in what we proudly call the United States of America.
There are many issues the forthcoming national election will address, but, if illegal immigration, a broken immigration system
and the deliberate invasion of America by Mexico with the aim of changing our population and policies is not among our
priorities in 2008, then our independence, our sovereignty, is imperiled.
Real independence means secure borders. We don’t have them. What we have is a porous excuse for borders, a central
government that has not and still does not take our national security seriously enough to fix our immigration system, and a
lack of will by Congress to call a moratorium on the influx of both legal and illegal immigration.
In his new book, The New Case Against Immigration, Mark Krikorian presents a cogent, moderate case for the
necessity to assert control over legal and illegal immigration. President Lyndon Johnson said it best in the 1960s, “The days
of unlimited immigration are past.” The problem is that, in reality, unlimited immigration is the order of the day in America
today!
The problem is a Congress hell-bent on extending yet another amnesty to the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, most
Mexican, in America, thus opening the floodgates, as with the previous amnesty, for the arrival of their entire family, despite
the fact that many lack the most fundamental skills required of any legal immigrant seeking citizenship.
In a nation with more than 300 million citizens in a world hurtling toward a population of seven billion, the failure to get
control of our borders can so transform America that it can disappear. As Kirkorian says, “Modern America has outgrown
mass immigration.”
At the heart of the immigration debate that has been raging nationwide has been the huge influx of illegal aliens from Mexico.
“Mexicans now account for some 31 percent of the total immigrant population — legal and illegal, naturalized and non-citizen
— and accounted for fully 43 percent of the growth of the total immigrant population in the 1990s.”
Mexico, a nation still angry over the loss of its former territories, California and the other southwestern U.S. states, has hit
upon a plan to reclaim them and, through the sheer power of demographics, population and birthrates, lay claim to the whole
of the American nation-state. This plan is so deliberate that just one statistic is enough to demonstrate it. “Mexico’s network
of consulates in the United States is without parallel in the world: fifty-six consulates and consular agencies (or honorary
consuls, who perform consular services on a part-time basis) in twenty-six states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico, (is) the largest network anywhere.”
By contrast, “The United States … has only nine consulates, plus thirteen consular agencies, in Mexico.” This network has
evolved into an advocacy and educational role that is specifically forbidden by the Vienna Convention on Consular
Relations, the international treaty that governs such matters. It forbids any interference “in the internal affairs of the (host)
state.”
Despite this, this network of consulates distributes textbooks to American schools, supports lobbying by various
Mexican-American organizations to challenge and change our immigration laws, and purports to speak for all Hispanics
seeking to enter the United States or to remain here despite having overstayed their visas or simply entered illegally.
Many of our states, unable to get the U.S. central government to perform its duty with regard to the protection of America's
borders and the deportation of illegal aliens using our schools, our hospitals and other social service benefits, have passed
resolutions to limit or deny such services and have been overwhelmingly supported by voters, many of whom are
Mexican-American U.S. citizens.
The other side of the illegal immigration issue is the way our existing immigration services are totally overwhelmed when it
comes to actually performing the security function of stopping visitors or immigrants before they ever get on a plane or
other means of getting here. “In 2005,” Kirkorian notes, “about 800 visa officers issued about six million visas to foreigners,
an average of 7,500 visas per officers, roughly one every fifteen minutes.”
Kirkorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. The data on which he relies is some of the best
offered by any organization concerned about the effect of out-of-control immigration into the United States. A panoply of
such organizations now exists to get Washington, D.C., to address the issues.
The failure to stem the tide of immigration into America, not just from Mexico, but from around the world, will ultimately
undermine our common national identity, our shared values, culture, and laws. It will ultimately steal America from the
generations who came to a very different nation at a time when they were needed -- generations who fought to protect
the American nation -- and from present-day Americans and their descendents who still cherish it.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
American Nationhood & American National Sovereighty:
The United States of America as a Single Sovereign Nation-State:
Potecting & Preserving American National Independence,
America's Common National Culture & Identity,
& American National Interests
The American Nation & Its Common National Culture:
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity:
The Basic Values, Beliefs, & Traditions Characteristic
of American Society & Its Civic Culture
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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