Between the phony hand-wringing of mainstream respectable Chamber of Commerce Republicans and the smirky shrugging of Democrats, noone in our ruling class -- I don’t call them leaders because they aren’t leading anywhere, but merely driving the world over a cliff -- seems inclined to do much in the way of solving the immigration problem. This is because although many Americans find themselves competing, either directly for jobs, or struggling against the downward pressure on wages and the upward pressure on rents and other costs that more people inevitably and necessarily bring, businesses don’t see these as a problem at all, and Democrats see immigrants, especially uneducated, unskilled migrants as future Democrats dependent on the scraps the rulers deign to throw them.
Donald Trump tried to stem the tide of invasion, but in many ways it was defensive, because he was pretty much alone in the effort. The McCarthy-Cheney-McConnell faction was lukewarm at best to efforts, and Democratically-appointed, as opposed to democratically-appointed, judges set obstacles at every turn to even modest efforts at sending law-breaking migrants, by definition criminals, back to where they came from, or at least somewhere other than here. Sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, and churches, and subsidized charities and NGOs nullified Federal law and enforcement.
When the Republicans take back Congress in January 2023 after November midterm elections (please God?), and hopefully take the White House back after November 2024, what will we do about the millions and millions of invaders living amongst us, sucking perhaps more than ten percent of the lifeblood and oxygen out of American life, consuming increasingly scarce and expensive food, fuel, medical services, classroom seats, and every other resource without any right to it at all?
Complete the wall? Have you heard the one about the horse and closing the gate? Shrug some more? Change the subject?
So, is it too soon to talk about deportation? I can hear the shrieking now. These people contribute too much to our country, with their diversity and hard work and taxes. Uh, no. They don’t. Upwards of seventy percent of immigrants receive government money of some sort or another.
We would hear the absurd reference to Emma Lazarus and her syrupy poem (“The New Colossus”) about the tired and huddled masses, as if the fact that it is affixed to the pedestal of The Statue of Liberty makes it immigration policy. It wasn’t installed until 1903, twenty years after her death, seventeen years after the statue’s dedication. By the way, Lazarus wrote the poem three years before the statue was even dedicated.
We would hear that such action is unprecedented. Not true. It is also true that history is more than an archive of the last 24 hours of Tik-Tok.
In the 1880’s, the country deported Chinese. In the nineteen teens, twenties, and thirties, at least a million Mexicans were deported, and sometimes, shamefully, Americans of Mexican descent. Between 1953 and 1954, during Operation Wetback (named with a certain clarity, and insensitivity), perhaps another million Mexicans were deported. So there is precedence.
Critics will point out the ugly aspects of the nativist past, such as Know Nothings, the KKK (another Democrat terror group, kind of like Antifa and BLM). A failure to address the specter is an invitation to racial division. Thanks, Democrats. You started it. You always start it, you racist bleeps, party of slavery and Jim Crow.
Even the sainted Cesar Chavez, who has dozens of streets and schools named for him, and even holidays, as co-founder of the National Farm Workers union, had his goons beat up “wetbacks” (his term, not mine) at the border to keep illegals from sabotaging his union efforts.
How could we do that? How about giving everyone who doesn’t belong here notice of an amnesty period, not to stay, but to go, or face felony charges? Oh, and bust the heads of those who interfere.
In order to up-this-unscrew, it will require someone with brass tender parts. Or we can keep proceeding along the road to oblivion. Don’t expect any help from Wal-Mart, Amazon, and the rest of the billionaire aristocracy and their vassals.
You said it brother.