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    A 'plantation' immigration bill (Opinion)

    http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/153416.html

    A 'plantation' immigration bill
    By James P. Pinkerton -
    April 12, 2007

    All questions about immigration are questions of political and economic power. Specifically, which group in America has the political power to open or close the border -- thereby gaining economic advantage? So today, who stands to win, and who stands to lose, from President Bush's renewed effort to enact "comprehensive immigration reform"? Let's look at the record.

    Bush traveled Monday to Yuma, Ariz., to talk tough on border security. He had to talk tough. Since 9/11, immigration advocates have conceded that an unguarded border is risky.

    So open-borderers have moved to a fallback plan: Instead of expanded illegal immigration, they're pushing expanded legal immigration, in which terrorists, at least, are screened out. Thus, we have the STRIVE Act, another of those bills seeking to sell itself through a clever acronym: STRIVE stands for "Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy." Sounds pretty good, huh? Yet, if you were to read through its 700 pages, you'd see that it represents one group's attempt to manipulate the system against another group -- and also against the national interest. Do you think the working class in America has it too good? Do you want to make sure that you always have the option of replacing your current workers -- the ones who do your meatpacking, or landscaping, or household toiling -- with even hungrier workers? And do you not care about crime and social chaos, as long as they happen in someone else's neighborhood? Or perhaps disuniting the whole United States, after you're dead? Then STRIVE is for you.

    Immigration has always been political -- and controversial. In the past, factory owners wanted cheap labor, and they got it. Thanks to Ellis Island, there was always another wave of immigrants who would work cheap and break strikes. But at least those immigrants were legal citizens; they were free to negotiate their own wages as best they could, and they were free to travel out West in search of a better deal.

    Yet, in an earlier era, some owners had come up with a "better" idea -- they didn't want free labor; they wanted slave labor. So, in the South, plantation owners brought in Africans "to do jobs that Americans wouldn't do." It was a good plan for the slaveocrats, if you didn't mind a little blood and brutality.

    And, oh, by the way, slavery brought with it a civil war that nearly destroyed America in the 19th century, as well as leaving a tragically stubborn racial divide that lingers into the 21st century.

    Now, we have neo-plantation owners, inheritors of the "Gone With the Wind" class, seeking to set national policy. Perhaps, in their greed and shortsightedness, those who depend on non-free labor -- slaves back then, illegals and "guest workers" today -- are so blindly eager for short-term profit they are willing to saddle the rest of the country with long-term problems of multiculturalism and balkanization, made all the worse by welfare-state dependency.

    Exploitative employers brought the whirlwind to this country once, and now they want to do it again.

    And Bush is the champion of this neo-plantation crowd. The STRIVE bill speaks for them and their economic interests. The last thing that agribusiness owners want to do is pay the sort of wages that would attract free-born American workers. Nor do they want to invest in the labor-saving technology that would eliminate the need for a huge low-skilled work force.

    But, interestingly, STRIVE is also liked by those who figure it's a fraud. Pro-multicultural immigration advocates know that all the bill's complicated provisions can never be enforced, that its measures will be loopholed to shreds by bureaucrats and clever lawyers. And so, they hope, STRIVE will stumble into amnesty.

    But first STRIVE will trample on the American Dream, the idea that people come here to be full participants in our national life -- all free, all equal, all citizens.

    About the writer:
    James P. Pinkerton is a columnist for Newsday. His e-mail address is pinkerto@ix.netcom.com.

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    I think the STRIVE Act should really be called the:
    Speedy Territorial Reconquista and Invading Victory for our Enemies Act.
    [b][i][size=117]"Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die. Through love of having children, we are going to take over.â€

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