The Wailing and the Gnashing of Teeth:Gloom and Doom on the Amnesty Bill

In the wake of the defeat of the Senate's amnesty legislation, some otherwise normally sensible people have assumed the position and donned sackcloth and ashes over something that should be a moment of great pride and rejoicing for the American people - the populist revolt that resulted in the defeat of one of the worst and most ill-conceived pieces of legislative nonsense seen in my lifetime.


`Oh woe',they cry, rending their clothes and tearing their hair out `the Republican party will reap the whirlwind over this...no Hispanics will vote for the GOP in 2008 and we will go down to defeat!'

Now, I always heard from some of these same people that the chief critique of the Left was that they would do anything for power, regardless of principle. So why the hypocrisy now?

And I wonder if these people actually understand the significance of the revolt of the electorate and the massive poll numbers against this legislation. Do they think that it was just conservatives ginned up by talk radio? Or even that only non-Hispanics participated?

Such attitudes are unconsciously racist. They assume that Latinos are a monolithic group, and too stupid to look at anything beyond `tribal' loyalties.

The group lumped together as `Hispanics' includes Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and South Americans from eleven different countries including a lot of Brazilians, who don't even speak Spanish. The vast majority of Hispanics, including the Puerto Ricans who are US citizens came here in the legal way and didn't break the law. They are all very different in culture and customs from Mexicans and Central Americans except language.

And a fair amount of them resent the idea of illegal aliens jumping to the head of the line after they put in years to come to the US the right way, especially when some of them are still struggling with bringing in family members via the ICE bureaucracy.

A lot of them are also observant enough to see what the massive influx of illegal aliens has done to our schools, our hospitals, our traffic, our housing costs, our taxes and to the wages paid to American workers.

The same applies to a whole lot of native born and naturalized Americans of Mexican and Central American descent. In California,along with better than two thirds of all voters, over a third of Hispanic voters voted for Proposition 187, an initiative to exclude illegal aliens from most government programs and services....and it wasn't a mass outcry by California's Hispanic population but a handful of activists like MALDEF, aided and abetted by a majority Democrat state government who killed the legislation at the first legal challenge without appealing.

Hispanics who have their own businesses, own homes and have assimilated to a degree into the American mainstream are much more likely to vote for the candidates who represent their interests and their wallets of whatever party.

Likewise, Hispanics newly arrived in the country, who rent, work as low wage employees, actively don't assimilate, maintain substantial ties and loyalty to their home countries, are used to a quasi-socialist government like Mexico's and regard the US primarily as one big ATM machine are usually going to vote for whomever promises the most gimmees out of the pockets of the first group.

That's simply a fact of life, and expanding the second group at the expense of the first is not going to generate gratitude in the form of more votes. Is anyone seriously going to tell me that Ted Kennedy, Dianne Feinstein and Harry Reid supported this because it would be good for the Republicans?


Moreover, it's profoundly cynical for certain politicians to masquerade their support for amnesty as `helping the GOP' when they were merely doing the bidding of corporate interests seeking a permanent source of cheap labor.

This ties in to another bit of nonsense voiced by these same politicians and repeated by certain commentators - that now that this bill has crashed and burned, we'llbe `punished' and get no solution to border security whatsoever.

Aside from the obvious fact that the two issues of immigration and border security in war time should never have been coflated, the simple fact is that `border security' was the last thing these people ever intended.

Look at Section 413 of the recently deceased amnesty legislation. For the first time, it mandated,out in the open, US active participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America as a matter of Federal law .

It makes public reference to the little known Banff,Canada tri-lateral summit between the US, Canada and Mexico where the SPP was cooked up... essentially a blueprint for a borderless EU-style mishmosh here in North America, with the bill mostly footed by American and Canadian taxpayers, along with a `redistribution' of capital and wealth to Mexico. And this section of the bill calls for Congress to accelerate its implementation .

There are, as you can imagine, billions of dollars at stake for corporate America, who is pushing this along as quickly as possible, regardless of the effect on the quality of life here in the US or what it costs the American taxpayer.

That's the real `back story' behind this bill, and the real reason certain politicians were so incensed when almost 80% of ordinary US citizens who `weren't doing the right thing by America' vociferously opposed it.

Many of them will pay a price for their arrogance the next time they're up for election, and they deserve to...while politicians on either side of the aisle who support protecting our borders and enforcing our laws will reap the benefit.

This was an historic victory, and a reminder to the elites in Washington that they work for us. And it's a wonderful coincidence that it all occurred so close to Independence Day.

Dry your tears and join the celebration. The people rule.

And remember that we still have plenty of work yet to do.