For Bush`s Amnesty, The Babies Are Coming Home To Roost
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq completed, it now
seems to be time for the Bush administration to get on
with the Mexican invasion of the United States.
Last week Arizona Sen. John McCain announced that he
favored an amnesty for Mexicans already living and
working (illegally) in this country, and Secretary of
State Colin Powell brought up the rear later by telling
reporters that the White House still wants an
"immigration agreement with Mexico," as the Bushites
now call their
amnesty plan.
Both gentlemen accompanied their statements with
comments betraying profound ignorance about the
realities of immigration.
Mr. McCain remarked that "It is not appropriate
for us to seek revenge against people who may have
disagreed with us,"
referring to Mexican President Vicente Fox`s
refusal to support the
war with Iraq. Secretary Powell unbosomed the
insight that "this precious population of Mexican
citizens" is "making a
positive contribution to our economy, and doing a
lot for themselves and doing a lot for the American
people."
At least it`s nice the secretary still makes the
quaint
distinction between the immigrants who have
illegally invited themselves into this country and
Americans.
Not adopting an amnesty program is hardly an act of
"revenge" against Mexico. But it`s interesting that the
Arizona senator seems to be more concerned about being
friendly with that country than with protecting his own
constituents – who have been so
harassed by the
illegal immigrant invasion that some have started
their own
private round-ups of the aliens.
The swamping of Arizona has been going on for years.
And not once has Mr. McCain uttered a single word
demanding more effective federal enforcement of
immigration laws.
Maybe his constituents should take revenge on Mr.
McCain by booting him from office.
As for the "contributions" that Gen. Powell`s
"precious Mexican population" is making to this country,
both he and the Arizona senator should take a look at
what`s going on with the masses of
cheap immigrant labor that big agribusiness has
imported (more exactly, smuggled) into California`s San
Joaquin Valley.
As the Los Angeles Times reported last month,
"The birthrates among
teenagers in California`s great rural swath are nearly
double the state and national averages, and in some
instances they surpass those of poor countries such as
Namibia, Haiti and Cambodia, according to recent
studies. The phenomenon is emerging as a key issue in
this economically fragile region, rivaling air quality
and transportation as major concerns, costing taxpayers
millions of dollars each year and leaving generations of
families in poverty."
The birthrates, especially among
teenagers, are mainly among immigrants, and high
illegitimacy isn`t the only problem this precious
population imports. [May 28, 2003,
Troubling Boom in Babies, By Carla Rivera, also
here]
"The San Joaquin Valley
also has the highest levels of poverty in the state,"
the Times reported, "the lowest high
school graduation rates and the highest rates of
sexually transmitted diseases, all of which, researchers
say, are linked to higher birthrates."
As the story explains, "The area is filled with
Latino farm workers, along with large clusters of
Hmong and Lao immigrants from Southeast Asia. Many
of these households cling to
cultural traditions where girls of 15 or 16 are
considered marriageable," according to a local state
health worker.
And you thought immigrants
assimilate to American cultural traditions, as the
Open Borders lobby keeps telling us to think.
In California`s 16th District, the Public
Health Institute found that the "the 2000 birthrate
for teenage mothers between the ages of 15 and 19 was
94.8 births per 1,000, compared with the state and
national rate of 48.5 per 1,000." The teenage
birthrate in Namibia and Haiti in 1995 was 81 per 1,000
and in Cambodia, 71 per 1,000.
"The
Public Health Institute report put the annual costs
– including lost income, productivity and medical care –
of teen births in California at $3.3 billion,"
including $192 million for that one district.
It would be comforting to think that what`s happening
in California—and eventually in the rest of the country
as the alien hordes swarm over our borders after the
amnesty the White House and Mr. McCain are booming—is
merely the
Third Worldization of America.
But, as these statistics suggest, in some respects
the Third World—Haiti, Namibia, Cambodia—is well ahead
of us.
Once Secretary Powell`s "precious Mexican
population" has engulfed all that remains of the
United States, high teenage birthrates,
poverty, ignorance, and
disease will be what remains.
And don`t expect the constitutional government that
is part of the American and Western heritage to last
long either.
Professional politicians like Sen. McCain won`t have
to worry about such pesky distractions as angry
constituents.
It will never occur to the masses of uneducated,
impoverished, and diseased proletarians the precious
immigrants are breeding to question what their new
padrones tell them to do and think.
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[Sam Francis [email
him] is a nationally syndicated columnist. A selection
of his columns,
America Extinguished: Mass Immigration And The
Disintegration Of American Culture, is now available
from
Americans For Immigration Control.]


