Feder's Welcome-Mat Mentality
By James T. Moore (01/22/07)
A while back, Don Feder, a Boston Herald columnist, coined the phrase, and I love it. I’m also lifting it, because I can’t think of any other words that better describe what we are allowing to happen to America down Mexico way.
As Feder’s report informed us, eleven Mexicans died while trying to cross over into Arizona. Now, wetbacks sashaying across the border and into the United States, though intolerable, is no longer big news these days. Except for this: the families of these 11 deceased amigos sued the U.S. Department of Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the tidy sum of $41 million dollars. Not pesos, dollars. The charge? Those U.S. government agencies have a duty to provide water for aliens in transit.
Of course, if we hadn’t shut down the busier points of entry, these illegals wouldn’t have had to traipse through the semi-barren land with their tongues hanging out. Which is taken to mean that the “deaths in the desert” was our fault, so we should have to pay the piper. For what? No camels?
According to Feder, the U.S. should also provide our uninvited guests with “food, shelter, comfortable walking shoes, and sunscreen”-—beach umbrellas would also be a nice touch, I submit.
And what was the premise upon which A. James Clark, attorney for the families, based his case? “Everyone has a God-given right to live here, and we are obliged to facilitate their passage.” But don’t American taxpayers also have a “God-given right” not to pick up the tab for this alien invasion of our sovereign nation?
This is the “welcome-mat mentality” pervading the country which I spoke about in loving terms up top. But that’s only part of the welcome mat. There’s more.
“When California revolted against the alien deluge,” said Feder, “and passed Proposition 187 (cutting off most public benefits to border-jumpers), a federal court said, in effect, that taxpayers have no right to protect their wallets from alien pickpockets.” No right? Whose money is it anyway?
Anyone who thought the Bush administration might, sooner or later, reassert national sovereignty here should be vastly disappointed and outraged. Now hear this: Americans should also be vastly bitter, angered, and geared up for action against this illegal encroachment on our nation and socialist demands on our tax dollars.
Thanks to this adminstration’s out-of-control, mass-immigration non-policy, we have less and less to say about our own country. Including, for God’s sake, our language: in Orange County, home of Disneyland, where of all places, a majority speaks a language other than English at home.
And this intolerable situation, believe it or not, is a product of “careful” planning, not on one side, but on BOTH sides of the border. Doesn’t that have a fish smell?
If you doubt any of this, consider what former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, had to say: “I have proudly proclaimed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders, and that Mexican migrants are an important-—a very important-—part of this.”
We better put a brake on this “very important” Ole! business, or pretty soon we’ll have to be bilingual to order take-out; and then, only tamales, tacos, and tortillas will be on the menu.
James T. Moore
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