ILLEGALS - DO THEY WANT TO BE AMERICANS ?
One of the major arguments that is quickly posed concerning illegal aliens and their status in The United States is that one of the main reason that they are here is because they desire to be an American. With elections just around the corner I have noticed that the subject of illegals has somewhat dropped off of the political landscape. Maybe it is because of the Middle East turmoil, Iran or just that it is a hot subject for anyone running for office especially re-election. Personally I beleive that re-election bids has a good bit to do with this issue vanishing from the political landscape. Yet it still exists and it is still a subject that is in the forefront of for American voter. A very interesting meeting took place at the Myrtle Beach, SC City council, (I live in the Myrtle Beach area), last night that I want to share with you that may bring some light as to whether illegals from Mexico truly want to be Americans. A little back ground first. Myrtle Beach is in the midst of a housing and growth boom as literaly thousands of retirees have discovered that their retirement dollar stretches much further in SC and especially The Grand Starnd then it does in many retirement meccas in the country. As such there is a tremendous need for construction workers and with that need a huge influx of illegal Mexicans have migrated into the area. How do I know they are illegal ? About four months ago a rumor started about a crack down on illegal workers in the area and that the INS was investigating and had actual investigators on the ground serching work sites for illegals. Amazingly 90% of the housing construction came to a halt as workers vanished for several days until word that the INS was not investigating began to filter out and again amazingly workers began to show up by the van load once again bringing construction back to full speed. Now back to last nights council meeting. There has been a large increase in this area for applications for citizenship and it has prompted adding Myrtle Beach as a site for administering the citizenship oath. In the past one had to either go to the SC Capitol in Columbia or down the coast to Charleston in order to take the citizenship oath. Last night at the City Council meeting 35 new Americans took the oath of citizenship. Congratulations to each of the new Americans. What was strange though about this ceremony was who took the oath. As I mentioned before we have an extremely large population of Mexican immigrants ranging in the thousand and likely in the tens of thousands and as I indicated by the work walk off it is obvious that a large percentage are illegal. Those who favor amnesty type progams consistantly claim that the illegal wants to be an American. Why then out of 35 who took the oath last night, (I might add that the judge who administered the oath said she could have doubled and then some that number), only 1 was a Mexican ? The numbers that are waiting in line in this area to take the oath indicate that the percentage of Mexicans waiting is similar to what was witnessed last night. The question arrises, is this indicative to the rest of the nation ? I believe it is. Most illegals that enter this country are not the least bit interested in becoming Americans as immigrants in the past have. An immigrant past that I might add strengthened and made our nation the deverse and free country that we are. Today's illegals by contrast are here for a paycheck or cash under the table only and have no intention of becoming Americans but expect America to change our culture and our way of life to accomidate them. Many of todays elected officials unfortunatly agree with the illegals and that is where much of the problem lay in border enforcement, employment enforcement and deportation of illegals whose very presence is a violation of the law. If they do not think they are violating the law then why did they vanish because of a rumor stopping construction along the Grand Strand ? This was not a few dozen workers but literaly thousands! Cheap labor drives the illegal market again as evidenced by construction workers in this area. Stories of experienced and long time construction workers even entire crews being laid off and replaced by Mexican workers because they will work for less salary are rampant in this area. Yet as shown by last nights ceremony these workers who benefit from our prosperity, live in our cities and even take our jobs have no interest in becoming an American. The problem is that until we get representaion in out state and federal governments that are willing to take a hard stand against illegal aliens and the Mexican government that actually encourages and assists illegal in crossing the border, ceremonies like last night will not change. Workers will still lose their jobs. Laws will still be broken and the flood of illegals will continue to flow until this nation becomes The Hispanic States of America.
Ken Taylor
Ken Taylor
posted by The Liberal Lie The Conservative Truth | 12:43 PM
7 Comments:
The Republican Party is in charge of the White House and Congress. They have clearly shown that they won't do anything about it, so there is only one option this November. Make a change in who runs Congress.
Big business owns the Republican Party. Big firms also want cheap labor. It is not surprising that there is an unwillingness to do anything on the part of this Congress and this President.
rob: Whine and cry about it. What solution have the dems offered to solve any problem, except to blame Bush for everything. Goes back to what I said about liberals not having any ideas to fix anything. And that, alone, is reason not to vote for democrats.
Even if you make a change, as you suggest, that wouldnt change anything cause you liberals have never offered a solution for anything. What you really fear most is FORS: Fear of a Republican Solution!!!
I'm not whining. I am stating a fact - Congress is under the control of Republicans and we have a Republican President. If they wanted to do something about illegals they would. The fact is that they aren't.
Though I am a Repubican let's face it niether party is serious about illegals. I will admit that the tougher ideas have come from the Repubican party. The Dems seem more interested in catering to the illegals with drivers license and voter registration in order to create a new dependent voters block.
Even though busines supports the GOP more, (and by the way what is wrong with business they do supply the jobs), the GOP plans that have shown backbone have gone after employers who hire illegals.
Ken
Again, Republicans are in charge of everything and do nothing.
If you want to see some change, then electing other folks is the only way it is going to happen. Otherwise it is just more of the same.
Oh put a cork in that whine!
Ken: I did a study on the immigration and assimilation issue a while back:
http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2006/04/myth-of-immigrant-assimilation-reality.html
Your conclusion is correct. The recent influx of illegals are living in totally isolated communities where exposure to American culture and English are nil.
But even some who have been here many years have no identity as Americans. There was the case of a woman the Washington Post found a few years ago who had become a citizen yet still called herself a Mexican and refused to learn English. She said (through a translator) that she would be an American "when her hair turned blonde."
The problem is that we no longer insist on assimilating these immigrants using the education system as the great melting pot it was set up to be. Education today worships multiculturalism and validates separatism.
Assimilation is a secondary problem. If we don't stop the invasion there will be more and more illegals. Once we control the borders we can turn our attention to assimilation issues.
That said, you can continue to vote this Republican "do nothing" Congress in if you want, but don't expect any changes to immigration policy. They aren't even talking about it.
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