'Can the Amnesty Juggernaut Be Stopped?'
By Christopher Adamo (03/22/07)
For those who accept the "wisdom" from inside the Beltway, amnesty for the
twelve million or more illegal aliens presently in our homeland is
inevitable. In the U.S. Senate, both parties have seemed intent on a repeat
of last year's amnesty bill, while the White House, remaining stubbornly
oblivious to the anger generated among its most loyal base, remains fixed on
an agenda of placating the Mexican government and selling out the American
people on this issue.
Yet despite incessant reporting of this supposed “done deal,” some very
encouraging signs from the heartland attest to the fact that the debate is
far from over.
Out on the campaign trail, ordinary citizens who recognize their country’s
future as a far loftier goal than the acquisition of cheap labor (among
Republicans) or cheap votes (the real motivation of the Democrats), are
forcefully conveying to the slate of presidential hopefuls that they
consider amnesty for illegals to be nothing less than a betrayal of the
country.
In Iowa, a pivotal state in the upcoming presidential race, none other than
Senator John McCain (R.-AZ) received such fierce backlash to his past
open-borders advocacy that he has actually begun to retreat, at least in
words, from his former stance. Other candidates, such as Senator Sam
Brownback (R.-KS), have been subjected to every bit as intense and
unwavering anger and resentment from the grassroots over the illegal
immigration/amnesty controversy.
Clearly, this is not the time for real conservatives, real patriots, and
real Americans to lose heart. If anything, the upcoming presidential
campaign season could provide a respite from any consideration of amnesty.
At most, it may delay this catastrophic wound against the nation’s
sovereignty and integrity until that time when a president might take office
who regards them as sufficiently important to fight to protect them.
Contrary to any sketchy or incomplete “polling data” suggesting otherwise,
the American people are highly unified in their opposition to the massive
current presence of illegal aliens in their midst. Neither do they embrace
amnesty in any form, since it would only serve to embolden the invaders with
a legitimized status, thus giving them even more clout in their encroachment
on the American culture.
Furthermore, were the pollsters to more accurately present the issue as one
of an unchecked and continued influx of illegals, the polling results would
be more lopsided still. Ultimately, the real goal of the open borders crowd
is to keep the invaders coming. Only by so doing can they assure a situation
which maintains downward pressure on wages. In the process, America
increasingly suffers the ravages of “multiculturalism” from a dispassionate
and often hostile foreign subculture,
So in order to claim that the illegal invasion is just another one of those
“divisive and polarizing” issues on which the American people hold no clear
consensus, pollsters, pundits, and political insiders relentlessly
characterize the mass incursion as being somehow beneficial to the American
economy, proof of the virtues of the American “melting pot,” and the
embodiment of “compassion and tolerance.” Yet, as the GOP hopefuls learned
in Iowa, those at the grassroots have bought into none of this drivel.
Nor can McCain or any of the other Republican candidates expect to receive
cover from the symbolic “border security” measures incorporated into last
year’s bill. Having been sold out one-too-many times by their elected
officials on this issue, Americans are not about to accept the “fig leaf”
solution of granting amnesty once again (it has been tried before) even if
accompanied by glowing promises of a subsequent border security crackdown.
In a pattern of Washington duplicity that should not surprise anyone, no
real attempt was made to correct the underlying problems since
“Simpson-Mazzoli,” the first amnesty charade, was passed in 1986. Thus, the
only result of the measure has been a fivefold increase in the scale of the
invasion.
Worse yet, the economic, social, and political forces that perpetrated the
previous amnesty measure during the Reagan Administration have only become
more pronounced, and more devoid of any moral or patriotic influence in the
intervening decades since the previous “fix” was implemented.
Seeing their country reap the social and cultural and economic devastation
that ensued, most Americans will flatly reject any compromise measures until
after they are confident that the border has indeed been secured, and that
those presently in the country are increasingly subject to the laws by which
the rest of the nation must abide.
Contrary to the incessant contentions of the liberal punditry and Democrat
mouthpieces up on Capitol Hill, last year’s elections were not a referendum
on the Iraq War. Nor is the currently beleaguered state of the Bush
Administration an indication that the nation has turned its back on
conservatism.
Rather, both represent the vulnerability of the GOP as a result of its
disillusioned conservative base. The Democrats’ fabricated “scandal of the
day,” whether the supposed “failure in Iraq” or the vastly overblown
Gonzales controversy, can only dominate in the void left from Republican
abandonment of conservative principle. And no issue goes to the heart of
conservative disenfranchisement, as does illegal immigration
It is incumbent on the conservative grassroots across America to continue
voicing its sentiments in unambiguous terms. The events in Iowa, and
throughout heartland America, represent a clear message, which GOP insiders
had better recognize and heed. If they refuse to do so, and foolishly press
forward with their amnesty plan, much worse awaits them on Election Day in
2008.
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