Home Invasion at the National Level

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"Some Mexicans and Mexican-Americans," writes John Tiffany, "want to see California, New Mexico and other parts of the United States given to Mexico. They call it the “reconquista,” Spanish for “reconquest,” and they view the millions of Mexican illegal aliens entering this country as their army of invaders to achieve that takeover." Emphasis added is mine. Tiffany points out that, as we've heard in recent news reports, armed Mexican soldiers (in league with or impersonated by drug traffickers, we are told by Mexico's smirking, lying government, which publishes cartoon tracts explaining to Mexican serfs how to sneak across the border into the U.S.A.) have fired on American Bortder Patro officers. Illegal immigrants have terrorized American ranchers in border states and the porous Mexican border is an ideal point of entry for Islamist terrorists impersonating Hispanic illegals.

The organization US Border Control reports that, according to something called the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC, fully 30 percent of the nation's two million prison inmates are illegal immigrants. Heather MacDonald, in her 2004 report in the City Journal, wastes no time framing the problem. "Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens," she writes. She goes on to report that 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (1,200 to 1,500 murders) "target" illegal aliens. Up to two thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens. What's worse, according to MacDonold, is that the Calfiornia Department of Justice has known since 1995 that at least 60 percent of the vicious 18th Street Gang in southern California comprises illegal aliens.

As I write this, it is almost April Fool's day of 2006. We Americans certainly are fools, as our politicians debate a law that is essentially amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. What's worse, the ingrateful national home invaders who are our illegal "immigrant" population consider even this law too harsh, claiming it is a cruel and xenophobic attempt to kick these "immigrants" out of the country, deny them the American dream, prevent them from obtaining health care and education, and generally oppress these hard-working, well-meaning, other-than-white fellow travelers. One presumes these evil lawmakers had to take time out of a busy schedule consisting largely of kicking puppies, to hear the illegal "immigrants" wail and moan over the idea that we might actually start enforcing our borders just a little.

In the last week or so, demonstrators ranging from indoctrinated, ignorant leftist high school students and their former hippie teachers to hundreds of thousands of "reconquista" supporters and their frequently communist sympathizers (waving Mexican flags, no less) marched, chanted, and bitched across the country. The AP reported that tends of thousands of students walked out of schools in California and elsewhere Monday, waving flags (the AP didn't bother to report that these flags were Mexican flags) and chanting slogans to protest "legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants." Protestors at the Capitol in D.C. were arrested and hauled off in handcuffs. California actually celebrates Cesar Chavez day, for pitys' sake, and on that Monday 36,000 brainwashed or Mexican children walked out of school in the Los Angeles area. Perhaps a thousand of these students surrounded Los Angeles' City Hall in order to intimidate L.A. mayor Antonoia Villaraigosa into a meeting at his office.

In Santa Ana, the kids threw rocks and bottles, resulting in 24 arrests. In Detroit, protesters waving Mexican flags marched from city's Hispanic area to the federal building downtown. The message in all these protests -- heralded as a new "civil rights" movement by our nation's more self-destructive pundits -- was clear. If you oppose the invasion of the United States by hordes of illegal immigrants who feel entitled to the social services we provide and for which they do not pay a dime, you oppose "immigrant rights" and you will be intimidated with threats of violence (or silenced through naked, initiated force) until you no longer stand in the way of the foot soldiers of the reconquista.

Communist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez characterized the United States as a "dictatorship" and said that all "Latin American revolutions" (as reported by the Miami Herald Wire Services) "must clash with Washington." He is part of what the AP's Traci Carl calls a "new wave of Latin American leaders -- variously labeled leftist, populist, nationalist, or socialist -- [that] is redefinining politics" south of the US-Mexican border. As these barbarian hordes gather at our southern gates, they share a common belief system -- that the richer, more powerful, more prosperous United States is an "imperialist" and "fascist" nation that should be opposed for daring to deny illegal aliens (and their countries of origin) an equal share of the fruits of U.S. labors. These fruits are, of course, taxes confiscated from U.S. citizens, who are shouldering the terrible social burden of the education, healthcare, and even incarceration of the millions of illegal immigrants burrowing like tapeworms into the American digestive tract.

The American government has failed to solve this problem on many levels. It has failed to preempt the reconquista by failing to protect our borders. It continues to fail by refusing to support programs that target, identify, and imprison or deport illegal aliens who commit violent crimes on U.S. soil. It has further failed by vilifying those who try to defend this nation's borders and culture through direct action, such as the Minutemen (citizens who watch the border in their states in an attempt to prevent further incursions by Mexican and terrorist invaders).

Illegal aliens in the United States are repeatedly, incessantly, characterized as innocent, hard-working people who just want to find a better life for themselves and their families. The imagery of these invaders as hapless would-be citizens fleeing poverty, willing to "do work that Americans simply will not do," is so pervasive that it constitutes a de facto propaganda campaign. Just as "bums" and "winos" have become "the homeless" (who are repeatedly mischaracterized as misunderstood and disadvantaged people who are simply "down on their luck," rather than as the unpredictable, frequently diseased, often drug-addicted or mentally unstable societal predators that they too often are), illegal aliens have become "undocumented immigrants" in an attempt to equate them with the huddled masses yearning to breathe free who walked wide-eyed through the gates at Ellis Island. The fact that they crawled past barbed wire fences, raped a few ranchers' wives along the way, and now accept under-the-table wages while dodging the beleaguered police forces seeking them on murder charges, is dismissed as irrelevant; it does not, after all, fit in with the imagery our popular media strive so hard to create.

The fact is that, legally and morally, illegal aliens have no right to be in the United States. There is no entitlement to a "better life" at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. If you wish to immigrate to this country, you must do so legally or not at all. You are not entitled to anything simply because you have successfully crossed the border without permission; I don't care how long you've been here or whether you've had children since you arrived. We need, quite frankly, to change our citizenship laws. Birth in this country should not be enough to establish legal citizenship if your parents are here illegally in the first place.

I have no right to live and work in Canada, no matter how nice I might find Toronto. I cannot expect to benefit from Canadian social services if I cross the border and then stay in the country instead of returning home. I should not expect not to be ejected if I am found without documentation working as a dishwasher in Ottawa. No matter how entitled I might feel to be there and to stay there, even if I've had illegitimate Canadian children and I've been living in the country for years, I have no right to these things. When I am arrested or deported, my rights are not being violated. Those who protest on my behalf are not fighting for "civil rights" -- they're marching in support of criminal behavior!

If we're going to make utilitarian arguments about amnesty for illegal aliens, the outcome is the same. We may, in fact, be economically dependent on an illegal underclass to perform certain low-end jobs for less than minimum wage. If these workers are removed from our economy, however, the economy will not end. Prices for certain goods will simply rise. I don't know about you, but I'll pay more for an apple if it means there's less chance my wife will be raped by migrant workers. I'll pay more for just about any consumer good if it means the employees I encounter in the store are less likely to be violent felons. I'll pay higher prices at the gates of the New York State fair if it means the toothless carnies running the rides at least speak English.

The crimes committed by illegal aliens completely undercut any argument made for the utility of allowing these invaders to remain within the country, but the economic argument is even more convincing. We simply cannot afford to keep paying for welfare, social services in general, education, and healthcare for "undocumented immigrants" (who, for example, are treated in hospital emergency rooms despite the fact that they have no insurance and cannot pay for treatment). The waves of illegal aliens swamping us are already overrunning our ability to foot the bill for all these things. If we do not protect our borders the financial burden of illegal "immigration" will only become worse.

A home invasion is a particularly brutal crime in which innocent people, believing themselves safe in their dwellings, are attacked by lawbreakers who violate the sanctity of their victims' homes in order to prey on others. The need for self-defense in the face of home invasions is obvious. When violent criminals enter your home uninvited in order to take from you what you do not wish to give and what these criminals have not earned, no reasonable person would fault you for using force -- even lethal force -- to repel the invaders and preserve your family's lives. How are the invading forces of the reconquista any different? Illegal aliens are national home invaders, entering the country without invitation and taking from U.S. citizens what those citizens do not wish to give. The disporportionate population of illegal aliens imprisoned or sought for violent crimes is chilling proof of the very real danger these invaders represent; the financial burden they create, even when on their best behavior, is no less real.

We must engage in self-defense on the national level. We must protect ourselves from these invaders. We must fight to keep our families safe from these criminals -- and we must work to ensure that our children and their children have the chance to do the same. The problem is not "immigrants." Illegal aliens are not immigrants at all.

They are home invaders and should be dealt with accordingly.
 
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Can you say xenophobe? I knew you could.

That's very incisive, Ron. Such a response is certainly easier to formulate than would be a substantive rebuttal of the arguments that the crime and financial burdens of illegal immigration should not and cannot be tolerated.
 

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Eh, the market demands cheap labor. Supply and demand and all that. I say eliminate social programs (so nobody gets a free ride) and allow non criminals to come on in.
 

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Phil,
You do make valid points and I wish I knew the answer to this problem. The world is changing and it is going to be tough. As our cultures blend together and we have a land of freedom, I think that we are going to have to accept more immigration. I realize that our country has to burden the financial cost but it goes against our founding principles to be xenophobes. I work in a university, a very multi-cultural environment, and the one thing I have learned is that everyone is the same. What I cannot condone is “hate” toward another culture. I am sure that you are the same. What do you think some middle ground might be?

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I realize that our country has to burden the financial cost
-This is my only problem with immigration. I'm all for open borders, just don't come here to sit on the dole.
 
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MSUTKD said:
Phil,
You do make valid points and I wish I knew the answer to this problem. The world is changing and it is going to be tough. As our cultures blend together and we have a land of freedom, I think that we are going to have to accept more immigration. I realize that our country has to burden the financial cost but it goes against our founding principles to be xenophobes. I work in a university, a very multi-cultural environment, and the one thing I have learned is that everyone is the same. What I cannot condone is “hate” toward another culture. I am sure that you are the same. What do you think some middle ground might be?

ron

Demanding that our borders be secured against illegal immigration is not hatred. This is the propaganda of those who would see our nation swamped with aliens. Recognizing the burden this creates -- socially, financially, and with regard to crime -- is similarly not hatred, nor it is a violation of anyone's "civil rights."

The solution to the problem is simple. It is aggressive enforcement of our borders and our citizenship laws.
 

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So Phil, you support increasing the size of the Border Patrol by a factor of 10? Because that's what it would take. Why should the US economy absorb the cost to do that when it's simple supply and demand economics that demands they come here to work? The $ doesn't add up.
 

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Phil Elmore said:
The solution to the problem is simple. It is aggressive enforcement of our borders and our citizenship laws.

And this, I think, is the key - the laws we have are not being enforced, and passing new laws will not change that. This country was founded on the concepts of freedom and equality, and those concepts draw people who don't have them like moths to the flame. People who, for whatever reason, cannot enter legally will enter illegally, to try to access those concepts, and that is certainly understandable - not acceptable, but understandable.

Having said that, however, I must say that, while your article was certainly thought-provoking, I found the slant toward Mexican immigrants to be prejudicial - although I suspect (or, at least, hope) that at least some of it was intended as a wake-up call, and not a condemnation of an entire group for the errors of a few. Many illegal immigrants are desparate for what they find here - and they enter illegally because the potential reward outweighs the potential punishment.

There are several components that add to this problem:

- Illegal immigrants are willing (and generally constrained) to work for very low wages - both because the employer has them over a barrel, and because employers are willing to take the legal risk for the cheap labor. This is a social issue as well as an economic one - at some level, in some facets of society, it is acceptable to break labor laws to improve one's economic standing - just like it is acceptable at some level to speed - or societal pressures (not legal pressures) would prevent people from doing it, both because it would be morally wrong, and because others would report it more frequently and fully.

- The societal pressures of "keeping up with the Joneses" require that one continue to buy and buy and buy - despite the cost and potential negative future effects on one's life of being perpetually in debt. Cheap labor can help with this purchasing frenzy on the front end - and by the time cheaply made, shoddy items are breaking down, something newer and better has been produced anyway - so just call it planned obsolescence and let it go. Buy a new one instead of fixing the old one - it's out of date anyway, and cheap labor (in this country and others) means that it will be cheaper (or nearly so) to buy a new one than fix the old one - even if you can find a qualified repair technician (a sadly vanishing breed in the quest to send all students to college - but that's a discussion for another thread).

- Market forces lead to marketing in the languages spoken in the community in which one advertises - thus the proliferation of non-English languages which dot the landscape in stores, advertisements, TV shows, and so on. But market forces are a response, not a cause. If this country were less driven by market forces, and signage, advertising, and labels were printed only in English, and stores and businesses only hired people who could speak English, immigrants (legal or otherwise) would be forced to learn English... thus ending the need for enclaves in which other languages are spoken, allowing for greater inclusion and diversity across wider areas, rather than the self-contained, often self-sufficient neighborhoods in which immigrants and their descendants find it unnecessary to learn English to survive - thus maintaining their solitude, solidarity, and feelings of lack of acceptance.

There are many forces at work here, some social, some economic, and all needing detailed, dedicated attention - not knee-jerk responses. If a law is not producing the desired effect - find out why - writing another, more restrictive law may not be the answer, if the problem is that the first law is not being properly enforced. In this situation, entering the country illegally is attractive, and the potential rewards are great - and generally easier than entering the country legally, despite the fact that the rewards for that are even greater. Amnesty programs, while socially acceptable, encourage illegal immigration - the key is to make legal immigration easier, more attractive, and more acceptable than illegal immigration. Until that is done, we will continue to have to fight with this issue.
 

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Build a wall, not a fence.
Man it 24/7/365 like Hadrians Wall.
Allow for roaming patrols of well armed and trained troops.
Use scanning devices to look for tunnels under the wall, and other boarder areas.

Use the National Guard as well as Regular Military as the manpower.

Yes, it will cost some money, but if we are serious about our border security, a serious lockdown must be done, as if a lettuce picker and sweatshop worker can sneak across, so can a shoe bomber, or jihadic kamikaze.

At the border crossings, use all technology possible to scan and search each and every vehicle for smuggling, as well as safety issues, and turn back all that fail to meet regulations. Staff and equip those crossings properly.

Build 1 less bomber a year. The money to fund this will be there then.
 

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I know there isn’t an easy answer to this problem. We as a nation need to look more at the big picture and not go on the whim of the media. I am in a job position where I have to deal with contractors on just about a daily basis. I would say of these contractors 80% are Hispanic and the other 20% mixed bag of races. In my opinion the Hispanic workers work very hard, will work for less money, never complain, strike, and do a good job at the trade they work in. Also if you have ever had a house build, re roofed, tiled, framed, siding put on, carpet installed or most any work done on your house. The chances are that the General contractor you hired turned around and used/hired a crew of Hispanic workers to perform this work. If this was not the case how much more would same repair cost if the contractor had to pay $22- $30 per hour vs. $8 to $10? I don’t think we could afford to have a house build if this was the case. I don’t have a problem with a work program of some sort where every one that enters this country to work will have to pay taxes. I do however have a problem with the free ride system we seem to have in place as of now. Instead of spending tons of money to secure the borders and now allow anyone in. Spend the money that is generated from the taxes to police the people coming in. Use that money to beef up the personal and make sure that it is truly a Mexican worker and not some Hamas Terrorist.

Oh and just for the record I am not of Hispanic decent.

Just my .02
 
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Correctly identifying the source of a problem is not "prejudice." This, too, is the propaganda of those whose policies will destroy us. The illegal immgration problem is overwhelmingly a problem of illegal Mexican immigrants, who enter illegally with the explicit help and encouragement of their government. It is not "racist" to recognize this as a fact. I'm all for any number of people from whatever ethnic background entering this country -- as long as they do so LEGALLY.
 

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Wow Phil. Just, Wow.

The immigration issue is tremendously complicated, as so many people here have already pointed out, so I won't go into that.

What I do notice is this: For someone like yourself, who spends so much time thinking about, writing about, and preaching about, self defense, nation defense, defense against criminals, defense against hippies, defense against terrorists, defense against immigrants, defense against communists, defense against liberals, rights to defend yourself, rights to be armed, etc., the world must indeed look like a huge scary place. Yes, these are real issues, but most of us don't live our lives in a state of constant, vigilante fear and paranoia.

Stop being afraid, Phil. Trust me, the world is really not such a frightening place to be. Once you manage to shake off your irrational fear of everything and everyone who walks the earth, you might actually find yourself making some friends and having some fun. Stop being afraid, Phil. Leave the dark side. Come over to the light.
 
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Wow. Just wow.

Instead of substantively addressing an issue you consider "complicated," you choose instead simply to attack me. That's tremendously intellectually bankrupt. No offense.

There is nothing fearful about recognizing the need for self-defense and choosing to devote oneself to writing about and furthering that goal. To consider someone paranoid for bothering to devote their effort to productive contributions to this field is like telling someone who sells life insurance for a living that he or she has a morbid desire to see people die. Here I am, writing under my own name rather than hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet. Here I am, with my phone number in my signature, my mailing address on my web page, and my opinions on display for all the world to see and to criticize. Yes, these are the actions of someone very fearful, indeed.

The grasshopper always considers the ant uptight, fearful, paranoid, and whatever else. The ant, in turn, goes about his work shaking his head, knowing that there are others who understand what needs to be done -- and knowing how useless the grasshoppers of the world ultimately turn out to be when the time for work arrives.
 

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Phil Elmore said:
Correctly identifying the source of a problem is not "prejudice." This, too, is the propaganda of those whose policies will destroy us. The illegal immgration problem is overwhelmingly a problem of illegal Mexican immigrants, who enter illegally with the explicit help and encouragement of their government. It is not "racist" to recognize this as a fact. I'm all for any number of people from whatever ethnic background entering this country -- as long as they do so LEGALLY.

Where you live, Mexican immigrants may well be a large part of the problem - but they are not the only source of the problem, and concentrating on them to the exclusion of all other sources is, in my opinion, short-sighted. As a teacher, I see a representative sample of immigrants to this country - and the two language families I see rising rapidly are Cyrillic (Russian) and Asian. Are as many of these illegal as Mexicans? Not yet. But it behooves us to watch all borders equally. In addition, many Hispanic immigrants (legal and illegal) are not Mexican - a concept you did not address. These immigrants come through Mexico, true - but the are from central and South America; their expectations are different, they come from a different culture, and, while they are Hispanic and do speak Spanish, they are not the same population, and they represent different problems.
 
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The illegal immigration problem in this country is overwhelmingly a problem of immigration across the Mexico-US border. It occurs with the explicit encouragement of Vincente Fox and the Mexican government. It is not Russian soldiers who are crossing into the United States and firing on the border patrol; it is Mexican soldiers who have done this. Yes, there are exceptions -- but if we start staking our arguments on irrelevant semantic points ("X percentage of illegal Mexican immigration consists of immigration from countries farther south") we're really wildly missing the point of what I wrote. (If you read carefully, you'll see I mentioned Latin America in general and Hugo Chavez in particular.)

Identifying exceptions doesn't change what I wrote. Reading "racism" or "hatred" or even "fear" into the recognition of this very real problem likewise does not change what I wrote. The United States is in very real danger financially and socially -- based on social services budgets and crime rates -- because it has not and still refuses to protect its borders. The problem is primarily the U.S.-Mexico border, rather than the U.S.-Canadian border (though real issues can be raised there as well, particularly with regard to entry points for terrorists). This is a fact that is not and should not be in dispute. We can argue the appropriate solutions to the problem, but trying to pretend that the problem doesn't exist, or isn't as bad as all that because exceptions can be identified, doesn't change the problem itself.
 

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well, if you feel that strongly about your work, by all means, carry on.

I am just a liberal, sort of hippy-minded person who believes in both human rights, and the right to defend oneself, including the right to be armed. But I also believe that most people have no need to be armed and find it somewhat silly that many people feel they have to be armed so much of the time. Coincidentally, I happen to live on Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco. I guess I am one of the people you are afraid of. Pity, because I'm actually a pretty nice guy.
 

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I don't really care who it is sneaking across. I just think it should be stopped.

And, if Mexican soldiers or cops are firing at our defensive line, I think an aggressive reminder of the stupidity of that action should be demonstrated. Perhaps as a battery of 60 cal emplacements?
 
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I am just a liberal, sort of hippy-minded person who believes in both human rights, and the right to defend oneself, including the right to be armed. But I also believe that most people have no need to be armed and find it somewhat silly that many people feel they have to be armed so much of the time. Coincidentally, I happen to live on Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco. I guess I am one of the people you are afraid of. Pity, because I'm actually a pretty nice guy.

That is the problem. This is an attitude of wishful thinking. It is not a recognition of reality. To see prudent preparation as paranoia is a mental defense -- a way of compensating for the cognitive dissonance created when we realize someone is better prepared than are we. What you think you need has no bearing on what is. It is my hope that you will go through life never learning that your belief system is ultimately naive and self-destructive, for I'm sure you are a perfectly nice person (apart from your somewhat annoying tendency to project onto others your own latent fears or inabilities). I would only ask that if you cannot be part of the solution, you not project contrived psychological misinterpretations on those of us who are trying to contribute to others' safety and wellbeing.
 

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Phil Elmore said:
That is the problem. This is an attitude of wishful thinking. It is not a recognition of reality.

Why not consider opposing views for a change? Why always right them off as leftists hippy crap and wishful thinking?

Reality doesn't appear to everyone the way it does to you.

Apart from when I was in the army, and then only when I was on duty, I have never carried a weapon. Never felt the need too. Winnipeg has the wonderful title of "Murder capital of Canada", and I have worked in some of its worst areas.

Because of my job I spend a lot of time working with the same people you tend to be afraid of, and they are actually quite nice :)
 

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