Amnesty … would sound the death knell of traditional America. Itwould signify a cultural revolution, the establishment of a de factobilingual, binational Tower of Babel. It would be Mr. Obama’s mostradical — and destructive — achievement.
Amnesty is back, and with a vengeance. This was the dominant theme Iheard at this week’s annual talk-radio gabfest in Washington sponsoredby the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the country’sleading anti-amnesty organization.
“As we gather here in the nation’s capital, another illegalalien amnesty bill has been introduced in the Senate,” FAIR PresidentDan Stein said.
It is no surprise that, after passing health care “reform,”President Obama plans to move on to his next big domestic initiative:granting citizenship to more than 12 million illegal immigrants. Fordecades, Beltway and business elites have championed a policy of openborders and unlimited Third World immigration. Amnesty is simply itslogical culmination: the triumph of political and corporate interestsover patriotism.
America has endured a massive invasion of millions of illegalimmigrants. The southern border is a bleeding sore. Hospitals areoverwhelmed, forced to provide free medical care to illegals. Schoolsystems must absorb the unnecessary costs of educating the illegalimmigrants’ children. Welfare rolls are swelling with illegalimmigrants taking advantage of public assistance. Nearly one-third ofthe federal prison population is composed of illegal immigrants.Mexican cartels import drugs, crime and human trafficking. Washingtonhas lost control of the nation’s borders — and with it, our nationalsovereignty.
Moreover, the waves of illegal immigration represent anonslaught on America’s historic and cultural core. The great myth ofour time, promoted by both the multicultural left and theneoconservative right, is that the United States is a creedal nation.They argue that the country was founded upon abstract ideas embodied inthe Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and that it isunited by its commitment to universal principles such as democracy andequality. This is a historical fraud. The Founding Fathers were neitherdemocrats nor believers in egalitarianism. George Washington and ThomasJefferson were slaveholders. John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and JamesMadison deeply distrusted democracy.
“Democracy … wastes, exhausts, and murders itself,” Adams wrote. “There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
In other words, the Founding Fathers were not only republicans.They were nationalists who believed they had established a distinct andunique nation based on a common language, faith, heritage and culture.America is an outgrowth of Christianity and English civilization. Itsroots are European. The previous waves of immigrants who came to itsshores not only deliberately assimilated, but embraced a commonnational identity: They became Americans.
This is not the case with the army of illegal immigrants. Thecombination of uncontrolled immigration with multiculturalism is arecipe for balkanization — the fracturing of America along racial andethnic lines.
Already, many Hispanic radicals, including some in the advocacygroup La Raza (“the race”), are calling for the annexation of theSouthwest back into Mexico. They think amnesty will accelerate theprocess of reacquiring former Mexican territories. For them, demographyis destiny.
Large chunks of California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexicoand Florida have become Spanish-speaking enclaves. They are part of theUnited States in name only. Immigrants are no longer required to learnEnglish. The fastest-growing TV and radio stations are thosebroadcasting in Spanish. Everywhere one goes — ATMs, restaurants,state motor vehicle departments — Spanish is prevalent. Many urbanschools in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York teach bilingualism. We areno longer one people who share the same language, culture, history,customs, heroes, literature and traditions. The bonds of national unionare slowly being torn apart.
Mr. Obama already has shown he is the most leftist president inU.S. history. Not only have his statist policies and massive budgetdeficits crippled the private sector. He is erecting a corporatiststate — the amalgamation of big business, big government and big labor– that represents a clear break from capitalist individualism.
Success in his drive for government-run health care wouldtransform America into a European-style social democracy. This wouldpermanently shift the political landscape to the left, fostering aculture of dependency and entitlement.
Mr. Obama is an internationalist socialist. His ultimate goalis to erect a liberal ruling class: to forge a Democratic majoritycoalition — one that would dominate for decades. Amnesty would putmillions of illegal immigrants into the voting booths — and into thewelcoming arms of Democrats.
Amnesty also would sound the death knell of traditionalAmerica. It would signify a cultural revolution, the establishment of ade facto bilingual, binational Tower of Babel. It would be Mr. Obama’smost radical — and destructive — achievement.