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Protect U.S. from Illegal Immigrants -- Or Immigrants from U.S. Values?

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Protect U.S. from Illegal Immigrants -- Or Immigrants from U.S. Values?
by Mike Thompson
Posted Apr 7, 2005


Sickened by the collapse of our border with Mexico, which for years has been trampled into sandy insignificance by hordes of illegal immigrants, most Americans today robustly cheer the news that their fellow citizens in Arizona are blowing the whistle on international outlaws who have no respect for U.S. rules and sovereignty.

The so-called Minuteman Project privately and peacefully is dispatching fed-up, volunteer gringos to 1) patrol the 23 miles of border in San Pedro Valley, 2) spot any crossing violators, and 3) alert federal agents that our immigration laws are in the process of being broken. Although there is an additional 2,000 miles of border to worry about, the Arizona segment poses the greatest threat to U.S. security, because last year alone 51% of all illegals nabbed by the Border Patrol crossed into the USA via that particular state.

The chilling effect of Americans beginning to take the law, even partially, into their own hands has provoked Mexican President Vicente Fox to leave his hen house long enough to cackle "fowl"!--uh, foul! He threatens legal action against the migrant-hunting "vigilantes." This, in turn, inspired Colorado's pro-border Congressman Tom Tancredo to tell the 21st Century Minutemen, "You are not vigilantes. You are heroes, in my book."

Meantime, in Miami, a continent away and a world apart, the problem with unrestricted immigration since 1958 BC (Before Castro) makes the Arizona border problem look in comparison like a New Hampshire summer picnic experiencing a few ants. Called "The Magic City" by its early 20th Century promoters, Miami, after the last 25 years of tsunami-like immigration (overwhelmingly from Latin America, followed by Haiti), has replaced the adjective Magic with Tragic and acquired unique status on several counts. A recent Brookings Institution study of U.S. Census Bureau data reveals the following:

Miami possesses the highest percentage of foreign-born residents of any major city in the United States; simply put, 60% of Miamians were born in another country (in neighboring Hialeah, the figure is 72%). In no other great U.S. urban center (even ultra-diverse Los Angeles) are the foreign-born a majority. During the 1990s, 160,000 mostly non-Hispanic whites abandoned Greater Miami, while a relative handful of "Anglos" moved in from other parts of the country. (Since the 1960 census, Greater Miami's non-Hispanic whites have dropped from 80% to barely 25% of the population.)

Miami is the poorest major city in the U.S. Median household income is $23,483, barely half of the national figure ($41,994).

Miami is the least college-educated big city in the U.S. Only 16% of its adults hold a degree, compared with a 30% average for America's 100 major cities.

Who presided over the slide of a subtropical, metropolitan paradise into an impoverished, undereducated Tower of Babel? Jorge Mas Canosa quickly comes to mind, the pompous exile leader described liberally, but not lovingly, by The Miami Herald as "the next Cuban dictator," a powerful man who greased both Democrat and Republican palms in Washington and even gave political advice to Boris Yeltsin in Moscow. Before recently leaving Earth in order to tell God how to run the universe, Señor Mas Canosa crowed to an audience of his admirers: "We drove the Americans out of Miami!"

The organization created by Jorge Mas Canosa (and bequeathed to his son, Jorge II) is still kicking and now claims it wants to help the stubborn Anglo fools not driven out of town. The Cuban American National Foundation this week began airing condescending "public-service," English-language commercials on Miami's NBC television station to teach the barely tolerated English-speaking remnants of the local populace how to cope with their personal finances! CANF's brassy TV lesson for us poor Anglos (whose median household income actually is $20,000 higher than Latinos' income) is--and I am not making this up--to "save at least $1 a day, and at the end of the year you will have $360."

I shall not quibble with this truncated, bizarre version of the Gregorian calendar. If King Jorge II and his court jesters count only 360 days in a year, that is OK with me. But five bucks is five bucks! In accepting the premise of CANF's act of chutzpah, I shall save a dollar a day--according, however, to my calendar. That will give me $365 (not $360) in the piggy bank by this time next year. According to Southwest Airlines, it will be enough to fly both my wife and me to Arizona, economy class . . . and one way.

Mr. Thompson is the past chairman of the Florida Conservative Union.

I have news for you Mr. Thompson. It might not be better in Arizona.

and I am not making this up--to "save at least $1 a day, and at the end of the year you will have $360."

This shows you what type of rocket scientists these guys are.

Yo Teddy, see what you want to have??????????

I'm not up to date on crime statistics but the last I heard, Dallas had the highest crime rate. We don't know how much of the rate was committed by illegal aliens because the cops can't ask and the illegal aliens don't tell. Anyone know?