Politicians like to tell us ad nauseam that the immigration
system is broken. What exactly is broken? I asked this question recently of the
panel on immigration at CPAC 2015. It became obvious that conservatives and progressives
conflate the issue of legal immigration with the issue of illegal immigration.
One of the panelists began to show us a very complex chart of
the LEGAL immigration system and the hoops and offices that a person must
navigate in order to legally immigrate to this country. The system appeared no
different than the system in place in 1982 when I became a naturalized American
citizen. We are told that there are 4.1 million unresolved applications for
LEGAL permanent residence in the United States, some of them backlogged 15
years or more. These people want to join their families already legally in the
U.S. They are unfortunate that they cannot jump a fence, swim across a river,
or walk across the desert. They are not the chosen ones to be flown or bussed
across the border by our own government that wants to fundamentally change the
demographic makeup of our country.
What politicians and their minions talk about when they refer
to the broken immigration system, is the wait time for LEGAL immigrants. What IS
BROKEN is the fact that the government is not securing the borders, and is not
enforcing the laws already on the books in regards to ILLEGAL immigration into
our country.
Rep. Robert Pittenger of North Carolina, Chairman of the
Congressional Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare is telling us
that “Americans should prepare to protect their homes, businesses, and families
in the event of a terrorist attack or a natural disaster” in a 24-page booklet
that was just released.
Yet they are leaving our southern and northern borders
vulnerable to entry of any citizen of another country who wants amnesty. And we
are not just talking about illegal Mexicans. Border patrols have found prayer
rugs and Qurans abandoned in the desert on the southern border.
The government is bringing in refugees from countries that
hate our western culture, our legal system, and our way of life. They are
bringing in thousands of refugees each month from Somalia and Syria to resettle
them in the United States, knowing that these people are not interested in
learning our language, accepting our culture, and becoming Americans. As soon as they arrive, they become wards of the
state, and start making demands to install Shariah Law and to accommodate their
needs for madrassas schools, for exercise of their Islamic religion, and to
take down anything that is American and offensive to them: our flag, our
National Anthem, our Pledge of Allegiance, and our Christian religious symbols.
The new standards of education called Common Core, adopted
pretty much around the country, are indoctrinating our children into communism
and proselytize for Islam. It’s no news that academia has been communist for
years but lately the assault against anything American has picked up speed.
Take the case of the Irvine, University of California ban on the American flag.
It is not the work of misguided individual students; they are supported by
their professors. These are not isolated incidents. They are happening around
the country at every level of our educational system and of our government.
When I came to this country legally, I had every intention of
assimilating into the American culture, of learning the language, and becoming
a contributing member of society. I did not run to the nearest Social Security
office to sign up for benefits, to vote illegally, and to form barrios,
countries within our country, bringing with me the hellhole I escaped from.
Politicians tell us that these people come here to work; they
don’t come for the welfare or the in-state tuition. But the welfare figures and
the earned income tax credit given to newly arrived illegals are in the
billions of dollars a year and they are incontrovertible evidence that most don’t
come here to work and then return home to their countries. They are here to
stay; we are their social featherbed and financial support. The IRS tells us
that they are entitled to retroactive earned income tax credit for 2011-2013 to
the tune of $35,000 per family, even though they paid no taxes in those years
and were here illegally.
Politicians and the main stream media tell us that illegals
live in the shadows, they are euphemistically called undocumented Americans.
They don’t live in the shadows. They draw welfare, they go to the same churches
with us, they shop at the same stores, and they send their kids to the same day
care, kindergartens, and schools. On the day when SNAP and EBT are distributed,
all the cash registers at Walmart have lines of Hispanics and Middle Easterners
who do not speak a word of English, not even “thank you.”
The illegal children that arrived last year to supposedly
join their families were not all children after all , some were known-gang
members and drug dealers from Mexico, many were sick, bringing in diseases that
were formerly eradicated in the U.S. and new ones that are endemic to Central
America. Some of our children have died from the enterovirus and a mysterious
paralysis. Some adults contracted antibiotic-resistant TB. Illegals brought in
measles, scabies, Chagas disease, and lice.
In New Hampshire there are some schools were 82 different
languages are spoken. How do you
accommodate so many different children who do not speak English and have no
relatives, and still maintain a semblance of normalcy in schools where scores
are now plummeting? How do you maintain
standards of excellence without dragging down American students?
Churches took them in with open arms because they received
millions of dollars in grants to do so from the federal government. It was not
just the Christian thing to do; it was a money-making machine. The children
were injected into small communities around the country, mostly without the
knowledge of the population. Talk about forced colonization!
Many of these illegal immigrants come from dictatorships of
communism, socialism, or totalitarianism. They don’t know what a democracy is,
don’t care, and will not understand it. Many are illiterate in their own
languages. Democracy for them is welfare from the government. Their trust and
belief system are in BIG government. Capitalism and self-reliance are foreign
concepts to them. Piracy, theft, cheating, stealing, bartering to survive, and
a poor work ethic are the norm.
I remember the feelings of elation when I arrived in New
York. I deplaned and I breathed freedom into my lungs. I knew, if I worked
hard, I could be anything I wanted to be because I had freedom of opportunity,
not guaranteed welfare. I did not expect anybody to support me and I did not expect
others to translate everything for me into my language while I lazily pretended
that I was too dumb to learn.
I still had a tremendous fear of the police state I escaped
from and cringed every time someone knocked on the door and my heart pounded
when I saw a policeman. Under communism, they were there to harass and to
control us. We were always guilty no matter what.
Thirty-seven years later, I find myself more each day
reliving the former communist country I fled in 1978. We now live in a
neo-communism of sorts where the police state is everywhere, surveillance is
more sophisticated and intrusive than the Soviets would have ever thought of;
there is no need to place a spy on each street or stairwell in every block of
apartments who registered the comings and goings of residents. There is no need
to wiretap someone’s phone or home.
Now we have electronic surveillance that is neatly stored by
NSA in Utah. If we don’t make it easy for them via Facebook and other social
media, they now have installed smart grids, smart meters, smart appliances that
communicate with the mother ship everything we do in our own homes under the
guise of convenience, saving the planet from manufactured and imagined global
warming, and saving us money. They are spying on us without a warrant not just
with drones and cameras at every intersection, but with our TVs, our laptops, our
GPS devices, our car computers, and even medical tags and I.D. tags embedded
under your skin.
The immigrants of today are a total different breed from the
immigrants of 37 years ago. They are here to demographically alter the makeup
of our society in order to “fundamentally change” who we are as a nation, just
like we were promised by our president five days before Inauguration. He has
been mystifyingly successful beyond anybody’s imagination.
The 30-50 million illegals that were amnestied by both
parties in Congress will change America into a borderless country with no
identity, no sense of real history, no traditions, no pride, a hodge-podge of
global citizens of various ethnic backgrounds and multi-cultures who have no
allegiance to the Founding Fathers, to the Constitution, and to the citizens
before us who have sacrificed themselves and built this country with their treasure,
sweat, tears, and blood.
If you want to know what America will look like ten or twenty
years from now, look at Sweden, Paris, London, Marseille, Belgium and other
countries where senescent populations are replaced by fertile Middle Eastern
and African populations. Europeans and now Americans are not having enough
babies, instead are strolling dogs and cats. This fundamental change was
brought by decades of progressive indoctrination in schools and universities
that have destroyed the fabric of many societies with their preaching of
communism, tolerance, diversity, multi-culturalism, and immorality.
For the last seven years, we have gone daily and weekly from
one manufactured crisis to another, where a misperceived social injustice had
to be redressed by creating more and more bureaucracies that we will never be
able to undo. We have become the most racially divided that this country has
ever been, thanks to the current administration.
We have witnessed the creation of the progressive thought
police and intolerance, labeling everyone with whom they disagree as bigots,
racists, homophobes, Islamophobes, and domestic terrorists. We have also
witnessed the government’s social engineering in action and takeover of the main
stream media, of morality, marriage, education, finance, banking, housing, car
manufacturing, health care, of millions of acres of arable land and parks, of
the military, the Internet, privacy, nutrition, free speech, free assembly, of religion,
and pretty soon the last bastions – the state police and the personal freedom
to bear arms. It is déjà vu for me but it is communism on steroids.
Copyright: ILEANA
JOHNSON 2015