Illegal Immigration and the Politics of Treason

Illegal Immigration – The Politics of Treason

Illegal immigration is one of those issues that everyone is talking about but no one in the mainstream appears to know what they are talking about. The state and the media have foisted upon the public a false dichotomy in this discourse that few have shaken.  

As I see it you have two camps. On the one hand you have those decrying the porous borders, the political apathy in spite of the popular lawlessness, and the security threat of criminals and terrorists who enter and roam our nation largely unchecked and undeported. On the other hand you have the Democrats and the Republican majority, who would rather defend this lawlessness than enforce the law.

What does the law say about illegal immigration? Under Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, "Improper Entry by Alien," any citizen of any country other than the United States who:

has committed a federal crime. Violations are punishable by fines and/or prison, and, according to the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 237 (a)(1)(B): “Any alien who is present in the United States in violation of this Act or any other law of the United States is deportable."

Has our government been following the law? Not by a long shot! Up to twenty million illegal aliens roam our country. Some cities, such as Chicago and San Jose, California, are “safe havens” where local law enforcement is forbidden to notify the immigration authorities when they have apprehended an illegal immigrant. Lou Dobbs has reported that 33 percent of our prison population is now comprised of non-citizens. 

I will give one example of how government policies contribute to the violent crime epidemic perpetrated by illegal aliens. Sister Helen Chaska was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2002 by being strangled with her rosary beads — the beads were found imbedded in her neck.  Another nun who accompanied Sister Helen during walking prayers was also raped. Both women were in Klamath Falls, Oregon, doing missionary work when the crimes occurred. Her accused murderer was illegal immigrant Maximiliano Esparza, who had been convicted in 1988 of robbery and kidnapping in Los Angeles and sentenced to six years in prison and then three years probation. By law, this man should have been deported to Mexico after his release in 1992. Instead, the I.N.S. allowed him to remain in the United States and commit even more heinous crimes.

The Republican majority may have the rhetoric that resonates with most Americans about securing our borders and protecting us from terrorism and from crime, but both the Republicans and the Democrats refuse to evict twelve to twenty million illegal aliens from our country – even after they have committed violent crimes. These politicians speak as if you change the law by violating it. Their only ethical option is to enforce the law or change the law. If they don’t want to protect our nation from criminals – and all illegal aliens are criminals – then they shouldn’t have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and our country from invaders. 

President Bush’s immigration plan grants amnesty for millions of illegal aliens (amnesty is setting aside the penalty of a law that has been violated.) On the flip side, he is imprisoning American citizens and law-enforcers who chase Mexican drug-dealers back across the border (see ‘No Drug Smuggler Left Behind’ by Ann Coulter). There’s nothing so telling about President Bush’s motives than this.

How can these acts protect America’s interests or uphold and defend the Constitution? It may be protecting the interests of the future “North American Union” the Bush family and other powerful new-world-order globalists have planned for us, but it is not protecting the interests of those who elected him to office. The saddest part of this affair is that President Bush and his dwindling number of GOP defenders can survive politically having made such a proposal. (Here is hard evidence that public schools are working!)

Just as your neighbors need permission to enter your home, foreigners should get permission to enter our country. If they don’t get permission and they break in, they should be punished with a severity sufficient to discourage the crime. (No, that’s not three free meals a day, free basketball courts, weight benches, air-conditioning in summer, heat in winter, free attorneys to defend you, and free medical care.) Every invader should be treated as an enemy of the state. 

Leading Presidential candidates have complained that it is impossible to follow the law and evict all of the illegal aliens in our country. Not necessarily. One alternative to stopping illegal immigration at minimal expense is to severely penalize all employers of illegal immigrants. Punish all local police and bureaucratic agencies if they knowingly let illegal immigrants stay. Disallow children from illegal aliens from being accepted as American citizens. Disallow illegals from getting Medicaid or Social Security. Without jobs, welfare, and without the ability to roam at will, they wouldn’t come. Make a hasty exit from our country an act of self-preservation and the path of least resistance, and illegal immigrants will leave by the droves. Let them come if it can be shown first that they are criminals or terrorists, but our national security trumps their job opportunities in our country.

Have you heard politicians quip the phrase that illegal immigrants are doing jobs Americans just won’t do? Several politicians have made this observation publicly to justify their apathy in enforcing immigration laws. Well, if only the comment were true: in fact, only two-thirds of them are working at all, as 36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare. Moreover, any American will do that job if it pays well enough. Americans probably won’t do it for less than minimum wage, which is what employers are paying illegal aliens. The government exacts hefty fines if you hire a citizen to work for you for less than minimum wage, but if you hire an illegal alien to work for dollars a day, you may do so unmolested. 

Ann Coulter said it rather bluntly in one of her most recent articles, “Bush’s America, Roach Motel.” “And as long as we're adopting an open borders policy for immigration, how about opening the borders for emigration? As it stands, anyone can come in and start plotting terrorist attacks or collecting government services right away. But the rest of us can never escape having to pay for it. You can leave the country, you can renounce your citizenship -- but you still owe taxes for 10 years. The government does not allow us to stop supporting welfare recipients in America, millions more of whom it plans to import under Bush's bill. That's not a free market -- it's a roach motel. If these free-marketeers at The Wall Street Journal want the free movement of people, how about letting us freely leave after they've wrecked the country?”

It’s time for Republicans to abandon false remedies that exasperate the malady, and return to traditional Republican principles. Let’s put the government in its proper place: to protect life, liberty, property, and our borders from invaders, not be the chief violator of these rights.