Thread: The Modern American Immigrant

The Modern American Immigrant

I am an American and a descendent of immigrants as are most Americans. Even Native Americans immigrated to this country long before others sought out this new world, so my observations are far from being anti immigration.

Immigrants built this country and this country’s need for newly arriving skilled and unskilled immigrants is an important ingredient for U.S. industries to continue to flourish with this new work force while at the same time helping to lift these current and newly arriving Americans to a better life. When my parents came to America, they envisioned this land as a new start. They gave up their previous nationality, struggled to learn a new language, and even fought foreign powers that threatened to take this new nation from them. Sometimes the nations they fought were the very nations they left behind in favor of this new land they now called home. This commitment by immigrants and the struggles they overcame to become a part of this country showed proudly as they stood and took an oath of allegiance in the language of America. This willingness to obey our laws and adopt this nation’s values in becoming Americans is what built this nation and made us what we are today. This commitment, fortitude, and perseverance, however, now appears to have been replaced by a lawless invasion of America by those who do not want to become a part of this nation, but who want to take a piece of this nation without the commitments shown by those who came legally before them and who obey and respect our laws. This lawless invasion is not for the bettering of our country but rather for the individuals’ immediate personal gains. This is raping our society of the social services that were put in place to assist "Americans" and those who are working to achieve that title by standing in the long line, obeying our laws, learning our language, and committing them selves to becoming American.

We are creating a new version of Modern American Immigrant as a result of our elected politicians’ unwillingness to address this invasion, and their unwillingness to prosecute those that support it for their own personal gains. The new version of immigrant does not come here via traditional means, does not abide by our laws, does not struggle to absorb American cultures and traditions, and does not participate in supporting those services which our parents and their parents put in place to help new Americans and those Americans who had fallen on hard times. These immigrants take the services without contributing to them while our retired Americans, who fought our wars and contributed to this system by working hard and paying taxes, now struggle to eat and afford medication in their older years as these services are consumed by those who do not contribute to them. These proud Americans wait in line behind the Modern American Immigrant for services that they have bought and paid for repeatedly during their working lives. They watch as hospital emergency rooms shut their doors, as our states can no longer support the burden of those who do not contribute to these services.

The Modern American Immigrant is here to create a foreign culture within America while maintaining their allegiances and roots in the foreign countries that they fled as a result of government corruption and economic hardship. This same government, while not providing any services to persons who are in their country illegally, simultaneously condemns the U.S. when any attempt is made to limit services for persons in our country who are here illegally. It is hypocrisy at its best.

These Modern American Immigrants come to the U.S. stating they take jobs "which Americans won't do". I contend that the majority of these jobs are those that would have traditionally been the stepping-stones for new "Americans" and are the jobs that our young sons and daughters would have done and could still do. This fallacy that immigrants are here to do the job that know one else will do was created to support a position that is not based in fact. The reason that our young people will no longer do those jobs is primarily because those jobs are no longer available to them as a result of the low cost illegal workforce available to fill those jobs. I would rather pay more to have my car washed knowing that my action is supporting a growing American economy and an “American” while he/she works their way through our schools. Knowing that some portion of this cost was going to support our social services and programs, as this “American” works for a better life is what helped to build America in the first place. Seeing this money making a greedy employer rich while creating a new working class poor to further burden society doesn’t help foster a strong economic reality for our present work force. Working at the car wash was once one of those jobs American youths were attracted to while now it is associated with "illegal alien work" further alienating this type of work from young Americans. There are jobs in this country that should be made available to legal non Americans but this should be done while they obey our laws and enter this country legally--showing they are not destined to end up in our prisons once they arrive in the U.S.

I am sure now that I am labeled a racist and am portrayed as having a hatred of immigrants or other cultures as I join those who speak out to put an end to "illegal immigration". This is the favorite retort of those who wish to ignore the breaking of our laws when it comes to supporting their favorite culture, or cause. The need to get away from a corrupt government and to better the life for one and one’s family is admirable, but this should not be done on the backs of Americans and in the face of those who have struggled for years to make this country their home by learning our language and legally applying for citizenship. What are we telling these people who have strived for so long to achieve citizenship legally when we reward the person who runs across the border by immediately giving everything to them that the LEGAL immigrants have worked so hard to achieve? We, as a country, cannot afford the double standard of treating equally those who enter the country legally and who work for what services they receive with those who enter illegally and who do not contribute to the services they feel entitled to receive.

I as one American working since my 15th birthday and paying to support our systems and government does not think we are following a good track in maintaining what America was built on. The continuing shifting of any discussion on illegal immigration to a hatred of immigrants is nothing more than a scare tactic to be used against politicians more in fear of their jobs than in support of their country. This is just another sign of the invasion of America.

Chris Rhine
Son of Immigrant Americans






This quote from Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.davidstuff.com/incorrect/buchanan22.htm
Patrick J. Buchanan
August 11, 2004
Nationwide, the Justice Department says about 40,000 illegal aliens are being held in the federal prison system, about 25 percent of the prison population. They are the fastest-growing segment. ...
Even if the higher estimates of the number of illegal aliens here are correct, 14 million, that is less than 5 percent of U.S. population. Yet, illegal aliens are 25 percent of the federal prison population. Clearly, from these numbers, criminals are hugely over-represented among the 8 million to 14 million illegals in the United States and the hundreds of thousands who breach our southern border every year.

This quote by By Frosty Wooldridge
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty66.htm
July 18, 2005
NewsWithViews.com
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicides which total 1,500 target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all felony warrants at 17,000 last year were for illegal aliens. A California Department of Justice study reported that the gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia on complex drug distribution, extortion, drive by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in LA County.

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