Excellent post, Howie.
I'm re-posting something I put up yesterday in another thread, with modification.
Amnesty -- in any form -- will be the death knell of the Euro-American culture.
If we do this, if we pass legislation -- ANY kind of legislation -- that "normalizes" the illegals already here (even if they don't get "citizenship") -- all it will do will be to encourage MILLIONS MORE to come.
There's a saying:
Anytime you subsidize something, you get MORE of it.
If we "excuse the presence" of those who have sneaked into the country in the last twenty years, what does that say to EVERY person who might be willing to give it a try in the future?
If we "normalize" illegal immigration, by removing all penalties and obstacles for entering the country illegally (even "after the fact"), it becomes open invitation to everyone of THE WORLD (shouting intentional): just get across our border, and you're in! Nothing to worry about!
Or, as Jim Morrison of The Doors said long ago in "The End": "The West is the best -- get here, and we'll do the rest..."
Let me state that I'm a realist, probably one of the few on this forum.
I realize it's a pipedream to think of "sending all the illegals home". That's not going to be done.
BUT -- anything we do to "normalize", "legalize", or excuse them will do nothing but bring MORE of them. What does that portend for the future of America, for our culture?
My solution is simple:
Do nothing.
That's right, NOTHING.
They are here. Let them continue to work, and have Social Security, etc. taken out of their pay. If they work long enough to qualify, let them even -collect- SS benefits, etc. Seems realistic to me, insofar as that goes.
But there must remain a PRICE for entering America illegally.
One that cannot simply be "payed away" in taxes or fines.
The illegals who have come here must PAY that price.
The price must be this:
They must NEVER become U.S. citizens.
They can never vote.
They must ALWAYS be condemned (carefully chosen word) to something of a "second class existence", something intentionally "below" what a citizen like you or I enjoy.
That must be the price of illegal entry.
The anchor babies?
That's not going to be changed, short of a "convention of the states".
It is what it is by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.
We'll have to live with that -- although I wish it -could- be changed.
So -- the children will be citizens.
But the parents who broke the law must NEVER be citizens, or even "legal".
I will not hold the children responsible for the sins of the fathers, but the fathers must NOT be forgiven of their sins against our country.
If we aren't prepared to stand firm about this, we are going to lose the country.
Suggestion:
Back in the 1970s a Frenchman by the name of Jean Raspail wrote a prescient and controversial book entitled "The Camp of the Saints".
You don't have to read it, but please take a few minutes to read the wiki about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_SaintsIf we "reform" immigration so that anyone can come here without penalty and without fear, this is where we're headed.
Unrestricted immigration -- and this is exactly what any kind of "immigration reform" is going to result in -- will swamp this country as were the dikes of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
It took a few centuries for the Roman Empire to collapse.
It seems to have taken only about fifty years for the United States to be approaching that brink.
I sense that five hundred years from now, some historian (if there are any left by then, probably in Asia) will look back and comment that although the facts of the American self-destruction are not in dispute, what remains a mystery is why the Euro-Americans willingly did this to themselves...
Why.... ?