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Originally published in the November 14, 2004 issue of the Alamance Independent

A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN

By Mark Andrew Dwyer

Current immigration mess is a disaster waiting to happen. Or, to be more precise, a disaster that is in the process of happening. And I don't mean by that another act of terrorism similar to 9-11 attacks, although it certainly is a very real possibility that a terrorist organization may smuggle its operatives and weapons through largely unenforced American-Mexican border, perhaps even with a help of Mexican coyotes.

I am much more concerned with million+ Mexicans that illegally cross the border each year and settle on American shores, and am so not just for economic, cultural, or social reasons. What concerns me most is that this unprecedented mass "migration", a phenomenon sanctioned neither by the U.S. Constitution nor by the American law, slowly but steadily takes away from American nation what this nation needs most in order to survive and to prosper: our land. And our federal government, theoretically obliged to duly enforce the American border and the immigration law, does practically nothing to stop that preemption.

In addition to old discredited claims that those who support the mass "migration" from Mexico (and who coach illegal Mexicans and their cheerleaders how to circumvent the law and the opposition from a vast majority of Americans) repeat like a mantra, like that American Southwest used to be Mexican "Historic" land, that entire America belongs to its native populations regardless of where they actually came from, or that welcoming millions of "Hispanics" is necessary in order to prove that America is not racist anymore, a new line of attack seems to emerge recently.

In an L.A. Daily News article "Perhaps It's Time to Leave the Union" [1], a "Hispanic" writer Mariel Garza calls for a breakaway of California from the U.S. She wrote: "It's time to go our own way. With the sixth-largest economy in the world and a population larger than most countries, we have the means to do it. And we should take Oregon and Washington with us. We could call it Caliwashegon." Whoa! Tell me more about "migration" and how it "strengthens" this country (horse's feathers).

It doesn't really matter if Garza's idea is feasible at this very moment, and she herself admits that it may be a long shot, at least for now. What does matter here, though, is that in a rare moment of sincerity the Mexican mass "migration" lobby shows its true colors. Mexican settlers are not just after "jobs that Americans won't do". They want, eventually, the ownership of the American land they are settling, and it doesn't seem likely that they will content themselves with anything less than that.

But the real disaster that waits to happen, or, should I say, is in the process of happening as we speak, is President George W. Bush. He, apparently, doesn't have a clue that Mexican settlers are after the land and not just after jobs, and is about to facilitate Mexican invasion with his half-baked plans of the so-called "guest-worker program", often referred to as "don't-call-it-amnesty amnesty" for Mexican illegal aliens. Not being a volcano of intellect, he made out of himself an easy subject of manipulation by his political advisers, many of whom seem to believe that any meaningful enforcement of the border and the immigration law would constitute an insult to the (memory of) victims of the Holocaust. I, certainly, don't know the details of his dealing with Mexican authorities, but if he conspired with Vicente Fox to legalize Mexican illegals in exchange for "Hispanic" votes then he may deserve an impeachment as well.

Unfortunately for all those who believe that America was built for Americans, and I mean here both native and foreign-born Americans, talking Bush out of his plans to give away what's not his (America, that is) to Mexican settlers and their compatriots looks like an up the hill battle. It would have been much easier if all those who voted for Bush despite his failure to defend this nation against the invasion saved their votes for someone else, but apparently they thought that gay marriages, abortion issues, and mention of God in pledge of allegiance, were more important than possible preemption of our country by millions of Mexican "migrants" and their countless offspring. Now, those Bush voters may feel goofy (or betrayed), and those who accepted him to Yale and let him graduate from Harvard while his SAT scores and academic performance would be a better fit at Texas Tech, should feel guilty, as well. They are the ones who deserve the credit for the disaster when it happens.

REFERENCES

[1] Perhaps It's Time to Leave the Union
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~29627~2518954,00.html

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