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The Long View: Push Comes to Shove
By Brendan Long, April 19, 2006

More elitist treachery. This time from the Senate. And, if it is not quickly addressed, it could soon result in our first-rate country becoming a Third World nation.

Maybe you heard about it. ‘Not one dime for border control.’ It is the dirty little secret behind their aborted, ‘would- be’ Immigration Bill. It surfaced, after they slipped out of town, for Easter vacation. Just the day before, they were an ace away from completing their fraud bill. And getting ready to ram it down our throats. But, with it, not one dime for border control. An immigration bill that ignores the most basic element of the problem—securing the border with Mexico (and Canada).

Face it. The ruling elite, running and ruining our lives from afar is not indifferent to us. They are against us. So please, ponder this: The illegal immigration crisis is beyond everyday politics. We, the American people, must force a solution. In short, it’s time for push to come to shove.

After reviewing forty plus years of Immigration history, I personally don’t need any more convincing. Where we are today can only be a product of willful, treacherous design. Consider some of the evidence.

*1965—The Immigration and Nationality Act. Triggers a wave of mass immigration, so huge and so different that it transformed and continues to transform the demographic make up of the country. It opened the gates to impoverished, unskilled, hard to assimilate, Third World immigrants. All but shut out, are educated, skilled Europeans. A policy of ‘Family Reunification’ trumps personal skills and economic needs.

-Early on, critics spoke of a population ‘time bomb’. Then-Immigration Sub Committee, chairman, Edward Kennedy, responded: “Our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually…The ethnic mix of the country will not be upset.” And to think, 40 years later, this guy’s still at it.

*1971—The 1965 act’s emphasis on family reunification, coupled with welfare availability, lax border control and lack of law enforcement looses the initial onslaught of illegal immigrants, primarily from Mexico.

*1982—The Center for Immigration Research and Education demographers Leon Bouvier and Cary B. Davis, using complex mathematical calculations, complete a study predicting that the United States, by the mid 21st Century, would be a Tower of Babel hodgepodge society, thoroughly Balkanized with no real national identity.

*1983—Illegal immigration becomes a national issue. An Immigration and Naturalization Service Study reports that up to 500,000 illegal immigrants enter the country annually. President Ronald Reagan Responds: “This country has lost control of its borders. No country can sustain that kind of position.”

*1985—Ninety percent of Americans remain opposed to more immigration according to American Enterprise Institute.

*1986—Immigration Reform and Control Act. Some 3 million illegal immigrants receive government amnesty. Given the intense multi-national corporate and leftist lobbying for amnesty, many illegal immigration control advocates mark this as the full emergence of illegal immigration as a political phenomenon.

*1990—Immigration Act. Introduces a lottery program as a means to set aside 40,000 to 50,000 additional visas for Third World countries ‘underrepresented’ in the 1965-1990 influx of previously restricted immigrants.

*1994-1999—California’s Proposition 187. The festering illegal immigration issue explodes. A California state ballot initiative, approved by a 60 percent margin, denies welfare and other public services to illegal immigrants. The measure is immediately put on hold by a liberal judge. It remains in limbo for five years. In addition to a relentless attack by the national media and political establishment, Prop 187 is declared unconstitutional in Federal Court.

Finally in July, 1999, liberal California Governor, Gray Davis announces he would not appeal the court ruling. After its overwhelming voter approval, Prop 187 never sees the light of day.

*2000—The U.S. Census Bureau confirms the dire 1982 findings of demographers Leon Bouvier and Cary B. Davis. Given the rate of Third World immigration, America will cease to be a country with a national identity by mid-century.

*2001—The terrorist attack on New York’s World Trade Center. Despite the obvious connection between mass illegal immigration and terrorism, the borders remain dangerously vulnerable. Citizen demands for immigration reform receive lip service from the political establishment. Four months after the attack, proposals to restrict massive illegal immigration, are unable to get a formal hearing on Capitol Hill.

*2006—Spurred on by an increasingly militant leadership, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and their leftwing supporters march and demonstrate in cities throughout the country – under the Mexican flag. They demand government amnesty. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate fails to come up with comprehensive bill to address illegal immigration, and then, like a bunch of hormonal college kids, takes off for Spring break.

Not a happy trip down memory lane, is it? The more I think about it, the more nervous I get. Brave, optimistic talk is great, but it must be backed by reality. The current reality is that the illegal immigration juggernaut is bearing down on us like a freight train. The numbers are approaching critical mass. Time is running out. Who would think they’d one day, see thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants, taking to the streets demanding rights the rest of us don’t have? In a foreign language. And in your face with the red, white, and green!

These illegals have some very powerful forces behind them. Like our own government. Like the Mexican government. That is why they will not back off. Victory is in the air. They have made it us, or them. We do, hopefully, still have a window of opportunity. But things must happen. Fast! The political elites must experience the legitimate apprehension of the ballot box. They must be made more afraid of ‘us’ than ‘them.’ That means massive grass roots political action.

It as precisely that kind of action that led to passage of California Proposition 187 in 1994. That Prop 187 was murdered cannot cause us pause. Rather, it must spur us on. There are other issues: a moratorium on all immigration, a security fence along the Mexican border, and deportation of all illegal aliens. It is around these issues that we must organize. And then raise them to a political boiling point. Our “leaders” must be grabbed by the lapels. As it is, near vigilantism, as a defensive measure, has already emerged along some sections of our southern border.

It’s late in the game. So late, that populist activism is probably no longer a guarantee. But it is the only remaining peaceful means of resisting what is now clearly an invasion—or in the case of so many Mexican illegal immigrants, colonization.

Brendan Long is a former blue collar worker and corporate executive, with nearly two decades of Washington political experience. That’s the Long view. Let me know what you think it at blong10@alltel.net.