Nancy Thomson

Government officials as well as labor intensive businesses extol the values of immigration, while major news media echoes their sentiment. Private membership and grassroots groups share the burden of trying to educate the public about the true effects of immigration. Both political parties pander, make laws, and supply tax funds to legal and illegal advocate organizations.

Thus from the start, the scales are greatly tipped in favor of the immigration forces.

Behind closed doors without public debate Congress conducts the business of increasing immigrant rights while eliminating the rights of citizens.

Americans for Immigration Control (AIC) in Virginia has composed a fact sheet enumerating the problems caused by the massive flow of foreign people into this country. As stated in this publication, President Johnson, in 1965, signed the "Immigration Reform Act." This changed the traditional immigration policy into a liberal easy-access program that has resulted in millions of legal and illegal immigrants entering this country. (1)

Some of the following attest to changes that have resulted due to the revision in immigration laws:

1. By virtue of the new ethnic balance, in 50 years those descended from European ancestry will comprise less than half the population, and English no longer recognized as the predominant language.
2. Cost of services for legal and illegal immigrants is $68 billion per year.
3. Bilingual education costs 90% more per immigrant family. Los Angeles has an immediate requirement for 85 new schools to house immigrant students. After these schools are built, 85 more schools will be needed. Santa Ana and Anaheim are facing the same need for more facilities due to the influx of immigrant children. Hundreds of private homes and apartments will be confiscated under eminent domain law to provide land for these schools.
4. English no longer is required for driver's licenses, ballots for voting, and as AIC reminds us, citizenship classes are now offered in foreign languages.
5. Foreigners, 400,000 of them, collect social security and benefits without ever having been employed in the U.S. Immigrants receive Medicaid aid 64% more than native Americans. A doctor called me upset that immigrants are bringing their elderly parents (straight from a foreign country) to get free medical care.
6. America's founding fathers and their accomplishments are being replaced with foreign history emphasizing a different heritage while downgrading anything American.
7. A large number of immigrants are involved in crime, 25% are in federal prisons. In heavily areas of immigrant concentration, 12% of the felonies, 25% of burglaries, and 34% of the auto thefts are crimes committed by illegal aliens.
8. Non-citizens receive almost $7 billion a year in benefits, 75% getting food stamps, medical and housing assistance. (2)

Costs aside, there are more serious matters where immigration is changing our nation. In the last election an incumbent Superior Court judge, Ronald C. Kline, charged with child pornography and molestation was running for re-election. Both the English speaking print and TV media provided extensive coverage of the judge's legal problems. In the English speaking areas, he received only 5 to 7% of the vote. In non-English speaking cities from 50 to 67.4% voted for the incumbent. Neither the Hispanic La Opinion (the largest Spanish language paper in California) nor the Santa Ana Miniondas covered the case. Hispanic media concentrated on the governor's campaign, the airport issue and Latino candidates. "We tend to rely on the Anglo media on these things, and decided not to publish until the case was resolved." (3)

Asian media didn't report Kline's contest "because he wasn't Asian." The India Journal didn't mention Judge Kline because "in India they are afraid of judges who might bring them in on contempt charges." In downtown Santa Ana, which is about 70% Hispanic, more people voted for Kline than anyplace in Orange County. (4)

As the English speaking population numbers decrease, ethnic groups will be battling to elect people from their groups. We have already been presented with the two main political parties trying to out promise each other in placating Latino voters. President Bush now gives his weekly Saturday address in Spanish and English. In Texas, Democrat candidates for governor debated in Spanish.

This bodes trouble for the continuation of the U.S. Republic. Ethnic groups aren't geared toward anything but establishing a power base along with loyalty for their own kind. Mass immigration has resulted in retention of alien cultures and concepts of government.

American culture as defined by the founders of The Republic won't endure unless we defeat foreign Tower of Babel politics encroachment on our society. The paramount challenge lies in alerting people to the conflict.

References:

1. Immigration Fact Sheet, Americans for Immigration Control Inc., PO Box 1845, Merrifield Va. 22116-8045. Phone, 540-468-2023.
2. Op. cit.
3. Hardesty, Greg; Aguilera, Elizabeth, News awareness played key part in Kline vote, The Orange County Register, 3/11/02.
4. Op. cit.