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Originally published in the February 20, 2005 issue of the Alamance Independent

Getting hooked in illegal "immigration"

By Mark Andrew Dwyer - Posted 2/23/05

Imagine your kids' school administration turning a blind eye on methamphetamine trafficking that goes on right under their noses, despite a law that strictly prohibits any possession of drugs on school campuses. When angry parents argue that they don't want their children get addicted to illegal drugs, school principal dismisses their objections saying that drug dealers contribute a lot to local economy and to the school, and if anyone is to blame for rising drug use among the students then these are the students themselves who create the demand for narcotics that the drug dealers only try to satisfy. After all, he says, there is no way that any one could enforce any drug ban with a 100% success rate, so his administration may just not enforce it at all as well.

Imagine further that now things are getting out of hands as more and more children test HIV-positive due to use of non-sterile needles and syringes. Their parents are mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore. School administrators finally get it that their jobs may be at stake if they keep tolerating the status quo. So they step in and announce a "virtual protection" effort that subjects all persons that enter the school grounds to strip searches. If, during a search, a non-sterile needle or syringe is found, it's being confiscated together with methamphetamine (if also found), and the individual that tried to smuggle them is denied permission to enter the school. This, the administration claims, prevents further spread of AIDS, so that the parents don't have a reason to complain anymore as their children are safe from contracting a deadly disease.

They could have confiscated easily all needles, syringes, and drugs, and report the perpetrators to the authorities, but they have chosen to act only if non-sterile items were found, instead, and call it a "virtual protection" (as opposed to actual one). How bizarre. You might think that things like that couldn't happen in real life. But that's exactly what Bush administration is doing about mass and illegal "migration" that floods our country and inflicts irreparable damage to the American nation.

In an article published by the Los Angeles Times yesterday (see [1]), Richard Marosi reported that "the U.S. Border Patrol has arrested tens of thousands of people with criminal records, including suspected murderers, rapists and child molesters, since the agency last year installed a fingerprinting system that identifies criminals among the 1 million illegal migrants apprehended annually." This, according to Marosi, is a part of a Bush administration's effort to create a "virtual border" that would prevent "terrorists and those with criminal pasts from entering the [U.S.]." Those with violent criminal records are being turned over to respective agencies for prosecution and punishment. Those apprehended with prior convictions for nonviolent crimes "are usually expelled from the country." All others - an obvious conclusion from the above description that Marosi didn't bother to mention in his article - are just cut loose with, perhaps, a worthless notice to appear in front of the immigration judge for a hearing that they infallibly skip.

You got it right. The "virtual border" (not to be confused with the actual border) is supposed to prevent only those illegal border crossers with criminal records from "migrating" into the U.S. while letting all other illegals in. It de facto condones violations of the American border and the immigration law as long as the violators don't have outstanding warrants or criminal convictions on their records. It tells millions of prospective Mexican migrants: "C'mon, everyone. If you are not a murderer, rapist, drug dealer, or terrorist, we will make sure that nothing happens to you when you decide to illegally jump the American border. Unless, of course, you choose to come here legally, because then we will refuse all those whose papers aren't quite alright, who cannot prove their intention of return to their countries of origin, or whose purpose of visit does not seem valid to an immigration officer."

What can we expect from our Commander in Chief next? Traffic enforcement agencies checking the FBI and immigration records of those caught while driving without a license in order to avoid fining and arresting perpetrators who turn out to be illegal aliens with no "prior" criminal record? FBI agents doing the same thing while investigating crooks suspected of identity theft so that "good" Mexican "migrants" that stole someone else's Social Security number for employment purposes are not prosecuted by mistake? What about all those "law abiding" illegal aliens who just failed to pay their medical bills, collected public benefits they weren't eligible for, voted in local, state, and federal elections, or committed similar frauds while illegally in the U.S.? Do they also qualify for impunity? These measures would, most certainly, assure that such details as the border and the law do not discourage prospective "migrants" from coming to the U.S.

President Bush has shown, and on several occasions, that he is unwilling and inept defender of our Southern border. He tolerates Mexican expansion to the North, or, I should say, he makes sure that free flow of Mexican "migrants" into the U.S. continues unobstructed. Out of concern that public outrage with the mass "migration", fueled by crimes committed by the illegal aliens, may force Federal legislature to steep-up immigration and border enforcement, his administration launched the "virtual border" initiative that has loopholes big enough to let the "migrating" millions in as they please.

Meanwhile, American businesses, the Army, the political parties, Catholic church, and sellers of used property (just to name a few) are getting hooked on steady supply of "cheap" illegal aliens, just like school kids are getting hooked on "cheap" illegal drugs. Because of the "virtual border", they don't have to worry anymore that they may get criminals and terrorist with their human contraband. And as they are getting hooked on it, the American nation, little by little, loses its land, its high living standards, and its identity to the "migrating" hordes, all in the name of free movement of labor and the "compassion" for "migrants". But that is something that, according to our Washington (DC) elites and the "main stream" media, we all are supposed to be cheerful about.

Yeah, it's cool to get stoned.

REFERENCES

[1] Criminals at the Border Thwarted by Own Hands
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-identity19feb19,0,2851438.story?coll=la-home-headline

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