Thread: Immigration, yes! Colonization, no!

Immigration, yes! Colonization, no!

Posted: April 4, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

When people come from abroad to make a new home for themselves, and they are committed to the goal of becoming part of our nation – that's immigration. When they come to exploit economic opportunities while proudly flaunting their determination to continue in their allegiance to a foreign flag – that's colonization.

During the Los Angeles march, large numbers of foreigners marched proudly under the flag of a foreign country, to demand the right to live in the United States. They claim that the issue is immigration. But by their own actions, they reveal what is in fact a determined effort to force Americans to accept large foreign colonies in our midst, and to pay handsomely for the privilege of doing so. We have both the right and the moral obligation to say no.

Obviously our political leaders do not understand the real nature of the issue. In his radio address, President Bush told us that his guest-worker program is not intended to lead to citizenship for the illegal aliens in our midst. He actually seems to believe this is a point in its favor. At the same time, he and others like him want us to believe that the latest so-called immigration bill is somehow in line with the great tradition of immigration that literally created the American people. This is a lie.

In the past, the large majority of people coming to America from abroad came here to become part of the nation. They brought habits, customs and creeds that enriched the panoply of our emerging national identity, but they also accepted the challenge of becoming an integral part of it. Citizenship is the proper fruit of that kind of immigration, and that's what makes it good for America.

Accepting the presence of large numbers of people who maintain their allegiance to a foreign flag, a foreign language and a foreign culture – and who mean to claim many of the benefits but none of the responsibilities of citizenship – is a departure from the tradition that built this nation, and the culmination of inept policies that will end in its dissolution.
Given the destructive consequence of allowing such colonization, it is especially dismaying to see supposed moral leaders demanding that we accept it. I must assume that Cardinal Mahoney means well when he encourages people to violate laws intended to enforce our immigration policies. I'm sure he honestly believes that it is morally right to help individuals in need regardless of their immigration status.

But as a Catholic leader, I must question his willingness to abandon the wisdom of Catholic moral tradition, which has always cautioned against the impetuous inclination to do good for particular individuals while bringing on greater evils for society as whole. This wisdom has been at the heart of the reasoning derived from the just war doctrine that requires, for example, opposing zealots who justify killing abortion doctors on the plea that they are saving the life of an innocent child. Their particular act saves some innocents, but at the great risk of civil violence and war that will plunge the whole society into destructive evils that endanger all its members.

True moral responsibility requires that we compare the good we may do by violating the immigration laws with the harm that will result from destroying our capacity to enforce immigration rules and regulations. Will the absence of immigration controls (in effect, open borders) lead to greater evils than the effort to enforce them?

As we ponder the response we should consider the spectacle of the major cities in many countries around the world, where the pressure of uncontrolled migration from rural to urban areas has led to excessive burdens on their infrastructure, and the development of enormous slums riddled with disease and poverty. The United States is, as it were, the urban capital of the world. Uncontrolled migration from the global hinterland will result in pressures upon our economic, social and political infrastructure that will degrade both our material well being and the always fragile fabric of our national identity.
The result will be greater poverty, greater social friction and unrest, and sharper, more irreconcilable differences in our political life. The latter will be especially true if we have permitted large communities of non-citizen workers to become a permanent feature of our national life. This would be a population of people who pay taxes and yet, as non-citizens, have no say in the political process that determines their ultimate
disposition. "No taxation without representation" was the early battle-cry of political justice in America, and it still indicates the truth that representative government is part of the natural birthright of all human beings. It makes no sense to adopt policies that encourage the permanent existence of a large, disenfranchised population in our midst.
All this suggests that immigration control is prudent and necessary for the common good of the country. Moral reasoning that ignores the common good is in fact not moral at all. Cardinal Mahoney and other Catholic leaders should revisit and ponder this principle of the Catholic moral tradition. If immigration control serves the common good, then effective immigration laws are appropriate and morally obligatory.
Thomas Aquinas rightly points out that law without enforcement is no law at all. Therefore, effective immigration law means effective enforcement of the laws. When Cardinal Mahoney encourages citizens to ignore the laws, and thus undermine their effectiveness, he encourages them to take particular actions that, by contributing to the overall collapse of the economic, social and political infrastructure, will result in far greater misery and suffering than they purport to alleviate.
This is irresponsible, immoral and contrary to the rational requirements of Christian conscience. Christ exemplifies the truth that, for the sake of the whole, even innocent individuals ought to be willing to sacrifice themselves. Encouraging illegal immigrants to seek their own advantage by a route that undermines the common good thus represents a corruption of their respect for the principle that ought to govern their Christian consciences.
It is both unfair and dishonest to react to this analysis as if it represents some willingness to slam the door of opportunity in the face of the hopes and aspirations of less fortunate people around the world. On the contrary, the effort to develop and enforce responsible immigration policies aims to assure that the invitation to hope is not extended in ways that destroy its fulfillment. It is also intended to make sure that our policies do not aid and abet the tendency of some foreign elites to enrich themselves at the expense of their people, and then escape accountability for their viciousness by pushing the victims across the border into the United States. Is it morally right to facilitate the corruption and greed of these self-serving exploiters?
I believe that immigration in the true sense is good for America. This would mean policies aimed at assuring that by and large the people who come to America come with the intention of becoming full and responsible citizens of the republic. It also means discouraging any who think they have the right to establish foreign enclaves in our midst, in order to gain economic advantages for themselves without fully committing to help us build this free society.

Immigration, yes; colonization, no. The first prerequisite of any immigration policy, however, is to regain full control of the borders of the United States. Currently proposed legislation falls far short of what is needed to achieve this goal. Until and unless our political leaders put in place the tools and forces needed to achieve this control, responsible and moral Americans ought to oppose any measures that would signal our acceptance of the de facto colonization of our country.
President Bush's guest-worker proposal is such a measure. It may serve short-sighted business interests intent on cheapening the cost of labor in our economy; it may serve the corrupt interest of Mexican and other foreign elites seeking to relieve the pressure created by their own policies of greedy exploitation. But it does not serve the common good. Such service demands policies that give preference in immigration not just to workers seeking jobs and money, but to those who seek liberty and the responsibilities of citizenship.

ALAN KEYES

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49580

This has all gone way to far, the only alternative now is to reverse some of the damage first by deporting and lowering our population so we can drive wages back up and restore benefits, I believe one day all the corporations that have moved to 3rd world countries will live to regreat it. As we deport, unrest will start in all of those countries and these corporations will be caught right in the middle and it will be well deserved!!

WE MUST STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION, we also must get Mexico out of American Politics!



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Even if they all left, they would not have to be replaced. It would hurt some greedy corporations who make money off of productions and cheap labor. We would be right back to where we were before there were 12 million here. The corporation would not have to supply the necessasry goods for the 12 million and the demand would go down and the need for more workers would not be needed. 12 million here means more goods are needed to meet their needs to survive. They create the jobs and the needs for more goods. They rent, buy cars, go to school, use medical faculities,etc.
The more that come, they more goods are needed and more workers are need to meet their demands.
Our economy will not collapse.

Originally Posted by dyehard39

Even if they all left, they would not have to be replaced. It would hurt some greedy corporations who make money off of productions and cheap labor. We would be right back to where we were before there were 12 million here.

Don't expect the greedy corporations, or pickup landscaping crews either, to replace their illegal alien cheap labor with American citizens at the prevailing wage. Those jobs may simply disappear, especially if there are competitors who still provide illegal alien cheap labor.

A job for an illegal alien at $50 a day in cash (unreported) may not exist for American citizens, who require $5.85 an hour minimum wage, plus unemployment insurance, the employer's social security contribution, and bookkeeping costs for "on-the-books" workers.

My neighbors will attest that I have often left the leaves on the ground when the laborer at the door wants more than I can afford to rake them up . . . not to mention the times that I have been escorted to the door when I told a prospective employer my salary requirements.

What an excellent post Dyehard.If we do not stop the colonization now in 10 years just imagine what a nightmare it will be for us,the longer our electeds take to solve this problem the worse it will be.

It also means discouraging any who think they have the right to establish foreign enclaves in our midst, in order to gain economic advantages for themselves without fully committing to help us build this free society.

I am definately seeing this. Illegal businesses operating for just "their" people while breaking alot of laws along the way. They don't seem to mind because their people won't report them and they pretty much make it where no-one else is welcome. Can't do business with them because you don't speak the same language and hire only "their" people for any potential employment. It's like they have their own secret little society going on......just solely for their benefit. Special church services, special grocery stores with no desire what-so-ever to include anyone else.

It's not enough to move into an area.....it's no time to where other people are literally being run out of their town....

I've gone in areas to where even typical chains....Subway, etc. are forced to close and all the space is solely for Spanish businesses, for Spanish people, and no one else is even wanted to do business. There's no one speaking English....won't even help you.

Schools etc......all across the board. It's like they want to take all benefits from the rest of us and then just save the rest for just their people.

Crazybird- quote"It's like they want to take all benefits from the rest of us and then just save the rest for just their people"end quote.
Isn't that laraza's motto-"For those in the race everything,for those outside the race nothing" but remember they're not the racists we supposedly are.