As President
Bush's poll numbers drop dramatically
even among his base, the question most
frequently asked by angry Republicans
is, why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly
rejecting the advice of his supporters
even though that advice is consistent
with the thunderous message from public
opinion surveys? The reliable
Rasmussen survey,
for example, reports that by a 63
percent to 19 percent margin, voters
want legislation that controls the
borders before trying to change the
status of illegal aliens.
Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger encapsuled the typical
reaction to Bush's televised speech: "I
have not heard the president say that
our objective is to secure the borders
no matter what it takes. That's what I
want to hear."
Bush's dogmatic
statement that we can't stop aliens from
illegally entering our country unless
legislation is packaged "together" with
a guest-worker program is a non
sequitur, nonsense, and untrue. So what
gives?
Grassroots
Republicans are speculating about
explanations for Bush's behavior: (a)
Bush prides himself on being a man of
his word and he gave his word to Vicente
Fox that he would never stop the
migration of Mexicans into the United
States; (b) Bush made a faustian bargain
with the big-money guys who raised more
political money in 2000 than all other
Republicans combined in order to
nominate and elect him president; (c)
Bush is a globalist at heart and wants
to carry out his father's oft-repeated
ambition of a "new world order"; (d)
Bush meant what he said, at Waco in
March 2005, when he announced his plan
to convert the United States into a
"Security and Prosperity Partnership of
North America" by erasing our borders
with Canada and Mexico.
Bush's
guest-worker proposal would turn the
United States into a boarding house for
the world's poor, enable employers to
import an unlimited number of "willing
workers" at foreign wage-levels, and
wipe out what's left of the American
middle class.
Bush lives in a
House well protected by a fence and
security guards (and he associates with
rich people who live in gated
communities). Yet for five years he has
refused to protect the property and
children of ordinary Arizona citizens
from trespassers and criminals.
Much attention
has been paid to Bush's proposal to
legalize the illegals currently in the
United States (estimated at 10 to 20
million). Despite his denial of the A
word, friends and foes alike recognize
this as amnesty.
However,
amnesty for 10 to 20 million is almost a
drop in the bucket compared to the
mammoth legalization of immigrants
hiding under the deceitful words
"temporary" and "guest-worker." Those
words are lies because the workers are
not temporary and not guests.
We are indebted
to the Heritage Foundation for its
stunning report
proving that the so-called 614-page
"compromise"
bill
just passed by the Senate is a stealth
open borders bill that would import into
our country permanently and put on the
path to citizenship at least 66 million
people, with the actual number rising to
at least twice that number when they
bring in their relatives. Every category
of legal immigration will be quadrupled
or quintupled, and the racket called
family chain migration will be
dramatically expanded.
The so-called
temporary workers in their fourth year
will get the right to remain in the
United States permanently if they have
learned English OR are enrolled in an
English class, and after five years will
get the right to become a U.S. citizen
who can vote in U.S. elections. At the
same time, the guest worker's spouse and
children, without any numeric limits,
will get legal permanent residence and
citizenship.
After the
so-called temporaries and their spouses
become citizens, they acquire the right
to bring in their parents as permanent
residents on the path to citizenship.
Siblings and adult children and their
families will be given preference in
future admissions.
In the words of
the author of the Heritage report,
Robert Rector, this is "the most
monumental bill ever considered" and its
mindboggling costs would be the
largest-ever expansion of taxpayer-paid
social benefits. Adding these millions
to Medicaid, and adding their parents to
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
benefits, will become staggering
entitlement costs.
The Senate bill
would make 25 percent of our population
foreign born within 20 years (most of
them high school dropouts), and the
United States as we know it would no
longer exist. It is impossible in so
short a time to assimilate a hundred
million people whose native culture does
not respect the Rule of Law,
self-government, private property, or
the sanctity of contracts, and where
they are accustomed to an economy based
on bribery and controlled by a small,
rich ruling class that keeps most of the
people in dire poverty.