THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 8, January 9, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
"GUEST WORKER" PROGRAMS: OPEN-ENDED SLAVERY
By Christopher G. Adamo
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & THE PROBLEM OF U.S. BORDER CONTROL & SECURITY: THE CONTINUING INVASION OF
ILLEGAL ALIENS ACROSS AMERICA'S SOUTHERN BORDER -- WHY WASHINGTON INSIDERS PUSH FOR ADOPTION &
IMPLEMENTATION OF A "GUEST WORKER" PROGRAM TO DEAL WITH THE ILLEGAL ALIEN SITUATION -- HOW ANY
"GUEST WORKER" PROGRAM WOULD WORSEN, RATHER THAN ALLEVIATE, THE SITUATION
FULL STORY:
In her December 13, 2005 article, nationally syndicated columnist Phyllis
Schlafly issued a blanket indictment of “guest worker” and “amnesty”
programs being proposed in Washington, bluntly characterizing them as
“immoral.” In closing, she quotes Theodore Roosevelt, who, when President,
likened such policy to slavery.
Hardly excessive, Schlafly’s contention is inarguably supported by history
and fact. If anything, she did not fully elaborate on the dire consequences
of any “guest worker” program that the Washington crowd may consider.
Recently, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff announced an ostensible
policy that elated those Americans who have been increasingly concerned
about the invasion of illegal aliens across the nation’s southern border.
According to Chertoff, all such people needed to be escorted out of the
country, and within the amazing timetable of one year.
Yet, as with all great deals that sound too good to be true, this one
certainly was. Within days, Chertoff was backtracking and waffling,
ultimately revealing the real goal of his outlandish pronouncement to be a
grand scheme of smoke and mirrors, with a “guest worker” program residing
far back within its dark recesses. Here, Chertoff tipped the hand of
Washington insiders whose phony professions of alarm over the illegal immigration
problem belie an ominous agenda.
As awareness and outrage among the grassroots grows, several “fixes” to the
illegal immigration situation have been floated. However, all of them have, as a final
caveat, the implementation of some form of legitimate status for illegal aliens.
Though more comprehensive programs seem to suggest greater concern by the
government, they, in fact, only signify more convoluted facades, the ultimate
purpose of which is to distract the public, while some manner of “guest
worker” program is put into place.
Washington bureaucrats are confident that, once this Pandora’s Box is opened,
it will be impossible to close. So, if they propose and adopt a twenty-point
program to “secure” the nation’s borders, Americans can be assured that the
first nineteen points will ultimately be ignored, and the last point, a
“guest worker” program (surprise, surprise), will be the only agenda item to
see the light of day.
Hardly alleviating any present detriment caused by the illegal alien invasion,
such a program will, no matter how it is implemented, guarantee a continued
worsening of the situation. The very nature of the present predicament makes
this inevitable.
Consider the plight of illegal aliens. Motivated by a nearly universal hope for a
better life, they breach this country’s borders and take up any menial job
they can find. Their desperate circumstances play well into the hands of
this nation’s growing cadre of morally rudderless “entrepreneurs.”
Although the intruders are initially satisfied with mere sustenance, they
have no intention of remaining indefinitely on the bottom rung of America’s
economic ladder. In time, they will move into ever-higher levels of the
nation’s job market, leaving those entry-level positions once again open to
newcomers.
In the interim, they burden innumerable government programs, from the
medical care system to the schools and colleges. Thus, any ostensible “savings”
enjoyed by those who illegally hire them are borne by the American taxpayer.
In the end, those jobs that we are told “Americans will not work” (at least
for third-world wages) are once again open and in need of further foreign
incursion in order to be filled.
Consequently, whether the illegal alien population is fifteen million or fifty
million, the universal “need” of exploitative business owners, across the
economic spectrum from agriculture to manufacturing, would only be to bring
in continually more. In the process they sell out the future of America for
the rest of us.
The only means by which any “guest worker” program could provide a stable
solution to the current quandary would be if participants were ever after
sentenced to remain in their initial status. But does anyone believe this
would be the true nature of such a program?
Meanwhile, the pandemic of “multiculturalism” ensures that the ongoing
influx of illegal aliens has little or no chance of assimilating into the fabric
of society that once unified and fortified America as a nation.
America’s recent media-inspired floundering in the “War on Terror”
unequivocally proves that the greatest threat to the future of the country
results not on account of foreign aggression, but from an ascending culture
within our homeland that is indifferent to or ignorant of the principles on
which America was founded. Until the border crisis is honestly and
realistically addressed, it will only continue to aggravate this dangerously
burgeoning problem.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Immigration & Illegal Aliens
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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