The Question of Immigration

I think there are a lot of those.

My second piece for ST. 

Some Truth About Amnesty

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 

by Kung Fu Zu

In my previous piece, I laid out why amnesty would be suicide for the Republican Party. With this and future pieces, I will rebut the claims that “immigration reform,” aka “amnesty,” would be good for the country as well as the lie that Americans  demand to have the problem solved now.
 
For years, various groups have told Americans that the immediate legalization of the millions of unlawful aliens in our  country would be not only good, but vital for the future of the nation. These proponents of “immigration reform,” aka  “amnesty,” have tried to justify their radical proposals by mouthing pious platitudes such as “we need to take illegal  immigrants out of the shadows” or “we cannot have second class citizens” or “America is also responsible as we haven’t  enforced the immigration laws properly” etc, etc. ad nauseum.

If you disagree with the amnesty crowd you are subjected to a number of slurs including that of being a racist. This tactic is  commonly used by those who do not wish an honest and open discussion of the policies they support. Such ploys do not  bother me and I intend to inject some facts into the discussion.
 
Consider the above-mentioned excuses/accusations leveled by the pro-amnesty crowd:
 
“In the shadows”— Have the people who mouthed that never driven by a home improvement center, equipment rental yard,  or many other work places at seven or eight in the morning? On any given day, there are plenty of illegal aliens who are  openly looking for work. Not only do they not hide, they have become pickier about the work they will and won’t do, thus  extending their time in the light. Their children go to public schools paid for by citizens and legal residents. They don’t seem  to be hiding very well.

“Second class citizens”— They are not U.S. citizens in any sense, legal or otherwise.
 
“The American people are to blame because successive governments have refused to enforce the law of the land”— Try  that argument the next time you are stopped by a cop for speeding. “Officer, you didn’t stop the others who were speeding,  therefore you are to blame that I am speeding”. See how far that gets you.

We are told we need amnesty to stimulate the economy. But is there really a shortage of Americans for the jobs out there?  According to the Economic Policy Institute, “the number of unemployed far outstrips the available job openings in the USA  for averages of the months from December 2011 to November 2012.”
 
This only confirms what Americans already know. The country is going through a tough spell and millions of American  citizens are looking for work. What about employing more Americans? Might that stimulate the economy while helping to cut  the budget deficit, while at the same time giving millions of unemployed Americans the satisfaction of supporting  themselves and their families?

Given the present situation, what do Americans think about the effects of illegal immigration on jobs?
 
-66% vs. 22% believe that more immigrant workers would make it harder for unemployed Americans to find a job.  (National Survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, June 17, 2013)

-56% vs. 25% believe less educated workers compete with less educated American for construction, hospitality and  other service jobs. (National Survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research June 17, 2013)

-73% vs. 14% believe there are plenty of unemployed less-educated Americans to fill jobs here. (National Survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, June 17 2013)

-83% vs. 11% agree that businesses should try harder to recruit Black and Hispanic Americans, younger Americans  and Americans with disabilities before seeking new foreign workers. (National Survey conducted by Pulse Opinion  Research, June 17, 2013.)
 
When the question of policy arises, what do Americans want to be done first?
 
-84% of voters favor stricter border security to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country and fewer than 13%  oppose stricter border security. (Fox News Poll March 4, 2013)

-92% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats favor stricter border security. (Fox News Poll March 4, 2013)

-69% vs. 25% voters favor requiring completion of new border security measures before making other changes to  immigration policy. 81% of Republican, 62% of Democrats, 60% of Independents. (Fox News Poll March 4, 2013)

-58% vs. 32% of respondents favor full enforcement of border and workplace controls before considering issuing work permits to 11 million illegal aliens. (National Survey conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, June 17, 2013)

Americans’ priority seems to be pretty clear. Secure the border!! Perhaps that is something our representatives should do.

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In the intervening years, the question of unemployment has changed. This would appear to be due to the KFF fraud. Between throwing hundreds of billions at people not to work and the ensuing change of behavior therefrom, older people deciding they would retire early, excess deaths of people of working age and other factors, lower-end jobs appear to go unfilled. Flooding the country with millions of illegals is still the answer given to us by those in charge. 

As I have said before, if the USA required all new citizens to renounce their previous citizenship we could quickly see who wanted to be an American and who just wanted to profit off of America. 

As I've often noted, I will live to see the day when I look out across Puget Sound and see columns of smoke rising from Seattle. Luckily I cannot see as far as France.

And the problem is not that they are "unassimilated." The problems is that they are Muslim. The solution is to forcibly send them, and the politicians and the people who voted for these politicians, back to where they came from. France could become a sparsely-populated place for a while but it would be for the best.

There are only a few solutions to the question of illegals flooding our cities.

The Occam's razor solution, "The simplest possible is generally the best". Send them home and close the border.  A solution we have been advocating for many years.

Every other solution involves the use of massive force, either against illegals or the countries on our borders. while I personally would have no problem squaring off against the cartels, Mexico just might object to a division of Marines killing everyone with a gun in Northern Mexico and making the Rio Grande the most dangerous border in the world. Any solution that includes making illegals, legal is unacceptable and politicians who suggest it need to be removed from office. 

Why do you think they are doing this?

Chicago paying illegals $9000 for rent

Heh, I could use some help.

Note that some people/businesses are making big money on this. You can be sure that these are money-washing schemes with a big % going back to the pols, one way or the other.

That guy is an idiot. You are not.



Call it the corporatist mentality. Or Homo Enonomicus. Or fly-over country. Or "the deplorables." One thing for sure...you're right again! We are not Americans. We are mere consumers. Quite remarkable to see such an unselfconscious example of that.

I can't get this idea out of my mind. I'm definitely not feelin' groovy.

What does it mean to be a citizen of America? Does that concept still have significant meaning? After all, the young skulls full of mush are now taught to be "citizens of the world." And I'm not saying that having due respect for, and sympathy with, other cultures is a bad thing. But too often we know (we know...few others do) that "citizen of the world" is the stand-in for "I hate my own country."

So I'm listening yesterday to what was apparently a flop of an album called "Wednesday Morning" which was S&G's first album. It's somewhat of an interesting story. The song, "The Sound of Silence," began to get some airplay on the east coast months after the album had tanked. It was also propelled by heavy airplay in Cocoa Beach, Florida, by the yutes during spring break.

Producer Tom Wilson, behind the backs of S&G, remixed the song and made it rockier. It became a yuge hit. But Simon wasn't aware of it at first. The first album, having been a flop, he went to England for some reason. And he picked up a copy there of Billboard and saw that "Sound of Silence" was in the hot 100. It went on to become #1 in America. The rest is history, as they say.

Oddly, much like that song played by the hippie dude on the stairway in Animal House that is so annoyingly folk that Belushi grabs the guitar from the guy and smashes it against the wall – breathe – The Sound of Silence was also briefly considered a joke of a song that brought on guffaws from people when they heard it.

So, what is the song about? Well, opinions vary. Simon liked to play and write in the darkness (with the water tap turned on). "Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again." That's probably where that came from. Garfunkel summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly intentionally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."

Okay. Maybe. But the alienated, bleak aspects of the following lyrics grabbed me:



Whatever Simon intended, I think he was decades ahead of his time in painting a picture of the bleak, meaningless, shallow, materialist lifestyle which would soon come to define America...even as yutes gobbled up music from these very same people and thus furthered the corporatist/materialist way of life.

People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. All bathed in the artificial neon light. It all just seemed to fit this subject.

Perhaps you are right. That's a good observation.

I think we've run into a case of the Artlerian Circle. That is the theoretical construct whereby "What goes around comes around." Things move so far in one direction that they wrap around and become another thing.

We note (here...and very few other places) how the loosey-goosey, let-it-all-hang-out, do-your-own-thing generations spawned an authoritarianism in the West that the baddy Nixon types could only dream of (if they did dream of such things...and it seems unlikely).

So in this search for "freedom," it became not freedom, per say, but freedom-from an unlimited list of bugaboos that we are dealing with now – including the horrible burden of having been born a binary boy or girl. And arguably the most repressed, authoritarian, and just plain unhappy generations we see now were the result of that Atlerian Circle having come round.

Hello darkness by old friend, indeed. I'll wait for The Master to weigh in on this circular bit of reasoning by me and see what he thinks.