A Few Thoughts on Immigration Reform

I hate to tell you this, but we are a racist nation. Come on, admit it. You will feel better about your self if you are honest with yourself. Now, isn't that better?

Now, I hate to be Mr. Negative, but there is too much going around, so I may as well get my slice of the pie.

All this immigration debate has to do with getting rid of the illegal alien culture here. Or supposed anyway. It is a no-brainer to know that when I am talking "illegal alien" I am referring to Hispanics, those lovely people whose language is the most widely spoken in the western hemisphere. I honestly do love them. But why then did I say we are all racists? Read on...

The debate du jour (english-only people, look away, you will find no quarter here) has the US creating what would very well could eventually be the most fortified and heavily defended border in the world. It would make the 38th Parallel look like a picked fence. (yes, i have heard the long tired joke about if we kick out the mexicans, who will build it?) All stated in the guise of national security, which I can get behind. At least that is just one facet of this argument. Protecting our jobs, protecting our culture, protecting our children, blah, blah, blah....bullshit!

Pat Buchanan, in a way that triumphs the right-wing cause, goes out of his way to point out that the shooter at VT was Korean, and he loves to point out the race of anyone who does a crime here. Except white people. The republican party and their spokes-ilk like to triumph the supposed superiority of the white race. However, not too much has been made about the race of those Albanians (remember them?) who wanted to thank us for liberating them from the so-called Serb genocide by attacking one of our military bases. Which is why I say we are a racist society. Let me get to my point now.

In all this jibberish about illegal immigration, not one...ONE mention has been about sealing or otherwise guarding the Canadian border. The argument supporting that is they are not spilling into our country and taking our jobs. Oh no? How do you know? Because they, and I know I am generalizing here, are white. If you go to Montana, Minnesota or any other northern state, you can pass freely and unhindered into Canada and back again if you cross in the wilderness. Do you know what marks the border? Well, in some places there are poles spaced about 10 yards apart and no sign. In more remote places, you need a GPS to tell you where you are. Aside from road crossings, there is absolutely NO security along the 49th parallel making it the largest undefended border in the world. Now, I suppose you can argue that so much of the border crosses over mountain ranges and forested areas making it a bit difficult to monitor constantly and not too many people are going to bother crossing it as it would be too much of a hassle for them. Let me remind you that one of the complaints in Afghanistan is the ease of which the taliban cross into Pakistan, which, is a mountainous frontier not unlike the Am-Can border.

But not to worry, the mounties do do their jobs in keeping America safe. Do a search and see how many confirmed reports of mounties catching undesirables trying to cross into the US to do us harm versus how many times these same people are reported to freely cross from Mexico.
And to those who say illegal immigration is our greatest threat to national security, I want to ask you how many Hispanics were flying airplanes into the World Trade Center?

In the late 1970's, as we were coming to terms with our adventures in Southeast Asia, we accepted a lot of refugees from Vietnam and Pol Pots Cambodia (a regime we actually supported because he hated the Vietnamese, who eventually toppled him and put an end to his fun) and most settled in California but many settled into the Gulf states and became fisherman. I remember all the brouhaha about that. They were so efficient at fishing, they were driving the local fishermen out of the water. Those local fishermen were white by the way.

Now, to make my long awaited point. Just for fun, if all our IT, Call Center jobs were going to Canada, UK, Germany, or somewhere else in Europe, would we make a stink? Sure, I am sure you would say we would, but that is just to argue with me. If those Vietnamese fishermen in the Gulf were say, Norwegian, would anyone make a complaint?

Go ahead, be honest with yourself.