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Graphic Queen <graphicxoxoqueen@xxxhotmail.com> wrote in message news:<phg530lodvl7r7b82rk1v53opkclecd2ss@4ax.com>...
> February 16, 2004
> 
> It?s Coming?!
> 
> By Joe Guzzardi
> 
> http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/the_limit.htm
> 
> The immigration question I?m most frequently asked is: ?How will this
> all end?? 
> 
> Chillingly often, an accompanying question is: ?Will frustrated
> Americans eventually resort to random violence??
> 
> By ?this? concerned citizens mean two things: the continued and
> ever-higher levels of unchecked immigration; and the deaf ear the
> federal government turns toward impassioned pleas by Americans for
> action. 
> 
> The cry from all corners of the United States is ?Do something, do
> anything?but please stop pretending that ?this? will all work out.? 
> 
> The all-out aggressive, never-ending push by Mexico and its US-based
> lobbyists to overwhelm the cowardly federal government has, from the
> grassroots perspective, reached its absolute limit.
> 
> We?re been good guys. We play by the rules. Back in civics class, we
> learned that as part of the democratic process we should write and
> call our elected officials. 
> 
> I sent my first FAX over ten years ago. I write several hundred
> e-mails a year. 
> 
> I don?t have diddley to show for it.
> 
> My first Op-ed pleading for common sense in immigration was published
> fifteen years ago. More than 30 million immigrants have arrived during
> that decade and a half. Or is it 50 million? No one really knows.
> 
> Last month, I spoke at Barbara Coe?s California Coalition for
> Immigration Reform. The standing-room-only audience was young and old;
> black, white and Asian. And the mood was a not-so-quiet rage. If we
> hadn?t been obligated to vacate the building at 11:00PM, we?d still be
> there talking about the impact of illegal immigration on schools,
> hospitals, wages, sprawl, sanctuary cities?you name it. If any reader
> can think of an aspect of our lives that is not adversely affected by
> illegal immigration, drop me a note. (Please: no letters about the
> perceived benefits of low wages. I?m paying more for almost everything
> today than I ever have?and so are you.)
> 
> Tempers are rising. Americans don?t like being ignored. They don?t
> like having their noses rubbed in it.
> 
>  In January, President Bush re-iterated his plan for a guest worker
> program at the Americas Summit in Mexico with a beaming Vicente Fox
> looking on. (I?m still predicting that they will kiss?perhaps during
> Fox?s early March visit to Crawford.) Bush had been denounced in the
> US when he originally outlined his program. What happened? House
> Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi drafted a more egregious plan. 
> 
>  Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected California governor solely on the
> strength of the electorate?s disdain for SB 60, the driver?s license
> bill for illegal aliens. Four months later, Schwarzenegger is working
> on a new bill that will allow aliens to get licenses. 
> 
>  New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will be the Chairman of the
> Democratic National Convention. Former Chairman Fred Harris said: ?For
> millions of Americans, Bill Richardson will be the face of the
> Democratic Party ? a young, Hispanic governor and former national
> official.? Back in 1996, then Congressman Richardson said ??illegal
> and legal immigration are being unfairly attacked?We have to put aside
> party and think of ourselves as Latinos??  The Democratic Party
> considers Richardson, one of America?s great traitors, a rising star. 
> 
> 
> If we want to end the insanity, what options do we have? We can?t use
> history to guide us. The massive level of immigration that is changing
> American demographics is unparalleled in world history. 
> 
> What else is boiling over that might push otherwise peaceful beings
> too far?
> 
> Consider:
> 
>  City, state and federal governments are flat broke. Yet services to
> illegal aliens continue without even a suggestion of eliminating them.
> Nothing seems more secure than the continuation of ?entitlements? to
> illegals. Again, consider California: we are about to vote on the $15
> billion ?Economic Recovery Bond Act? issue to save the state from
> bankruptcy. Not a peep is heard about the approximately $10 billion
> spent annually on illegal aliens.  
> 
>  For those lucky enough not to have lost a job to an illegal alien, a
> visa holder or outsourcing, wages remain depressed. The race to the
> bottom of the salary barrel isn?t over yet. 
> 
>  Fox, who first butted into American immigration policy before he was
> even sworn in as Mexico?s President, is making his umpteenth trip to
> the US during the first week of March. In the first four years of
> Fox?s administration, Mexico has not made a single move to impose
> higher taxes on its wealthy citizens preferring, as always, to let
> American taxpayers foot the bill. 
> 
> 
> The above represents only the tiniest fraction of thorns in our side.
> Add to them the daily reminders that illegal immigration is the
> freight train that keeps on rolling. Nothing stops it?not 9/11, not an
> increased number of OTMs (Other than Mexican) caught at the border,
> not shoot-outs involving illegal aliens?and especially not a president
> who has made a political career out of talking, out of both sides of
> his mouth, about American safety. 
> 
> Twenty years ago, Carlos Loret de Mola, a Mexican journalist, wrote
> that the ?large migratory wave (of Mexicans) by an ant-like multitude,
> stubborn, unarmed, and carried on in the face of the best-armed nation
> on earth? will ultimately return the Southwest to ?the jurisdiction of
> Mexico without the firing of a single shot.?
> 
> I?m sure that Loret de Mola was speaking about shots fired by
> Mexicans. He assumed that American citizens are willing to remain
> completely passive while the United States becomes Mexico.
> 
> Most Americans would neither encourage nor condone violence. But our
> rulers should note: such is the state of the immigration controversy
> that the possibility of violence is being routinely discussed?albeit
> academically.
> 
> It would be a bitter irony if the provisions of the Patriot Act turned
> out to be used to suppress, not terrorists, but American patriots.
> 
> And the majority of Americans?including the VDARE.COM editorial
> collective?aren?t even against immigration or diversity. But we don?t
> like having it shoved down our throats. And therein lies the rub. 
> 
> Of course, the entire question of where ?this? will end could be
> rendered moot in a heartbeat. All that has to happen is for President
> Bush to uphold his obligation to the people of the United States and
> announce that he will, from this moment forward, enforce federal
> immigration law.
> 
> That would be the best solution of all.
> 
> Otherwise, to quote the old chestnut: ?If something cannot go on
> forever, it will stop.? 
> 
> One way or another, America?s immigration disaster will be brought to
> an end.
> 
> Joe Guzzardi [email him], an instructor in English at the Lodi Adult
> School, has been writing a weekly newspaper column since 1988. This
> column is exclusive to VDARE.COM.

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Hank