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Peaceful invaders

By Mark Andrew Dwyer - Originally published in the March 9, 2003 issue of the Alamance Independent
Posted by American Patrol on 3/10/03

Mexicans, when caught while attempting to jump the American border and, subsequently, deported back to Mexico usually complain loudly about what they perceive as an unwarranted hardship. They say that they are not hurting any one, so the Border Patrol should not interfere with their peaceful migration in search of a better life. I wonder, is it because those who are repeating this mantra are so dumb that they don't comprehend its fallacy, or they just think that Americans are so dumb that they are going to buy it?

One needs to remember that hurting someone hardly ever is an ultimate objective of an invasion. The invaders just want to get in to another country in order to claim whatever they want to preempt form the invaded. The only need for violence results from the resistance of the invaded to the invasion itself. Should the invaders find a way of invading that would not prompt any resistance of the invaded, an armed force is not needed anymore to carry out the invasion.

And that's exactly what the Mexican invaders, a.k.a. illegal immigrants, have managed to accomplish. They (roughly a million a year) peacefully jump the American border with minimal resistance from the U.S. authorities. Once on American soil, they claim "their" rights, and the Mexican government gives them full support for their assertive claims, up to pressing the U.N. for monitoring and deterrence of illegal immigrants civil rights violations (these violations are a.k.a. the enforcement of the U.S. immigration laws). And American political establishment, including U.S. and several states congressmen, submit to the invasion by passing countless laws that bestow on the invaders countless privileges, like the right to permanent residency and, eventually, to American citizenship (federal amnesty, first passed in 1986 and being considered, in various forms, for enacting again sometimes soon), the right to free education (federal law), the right to free emergency medical care (federal law), the right to court hearing that derails their deportation if caught (federal law), the right to spread their language and culture (federal court rulings on minorities' protection, diversity, and multiculturalism), including the right to Spanish-language TV (FCC interpretation of the federal law), the right to in-state college tuition and driving privileges (several states laws), the right to not being turned to the I.N.S. when caught by police, the right to use Mexican consulate issued howdy-dowdy ID cards, matriculas consulares, in lieu of a passport and valid visa while obtaining various services in the U.S. (local government and city ordinances), and on and on and on.

Do you agree that an invasion, as long as it's peaceful, should not be stopped and deterred? Do you agree that, once the invaders denounce any use of violence, they should be given all these things that were once denied to the armed invading troops? Do you believe that America should pass its wealth to needy foreign nations, as soon as these nations learn how to get a hold of that wealth without hurting anyone? Does the fact that some American entrepreneurs are willing to do business with the invaders, or even profit from their "cheap" labor, make you any more receptive to the idea that being peacefully invaded is good for America? If you do believe in any of the above then, perhaps, you should consider making your home ready to welcome and embrace peaceful burglars and share with them what you have as long as they don't threaten you with use of force. I am sure your wife will be delighted.

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