Ok, this is further progression of my blog posts that started with Mark Steyn’s Book, America Alone’s review on my blog, which as you may already know (or can know looking at the recent posts) led to further discussion/debate on Muslims, Immigration, Xenophobia and the so called conservative writers, politicians who are shouting ”deport all the illegal immigrant now!!!” slogans.
I also happened to see a detailed interview with Michele Malkin on C-Span, conducted by Brian Lamb. Of course, the basic points she raises are valid. Criminals (Immigrants or American born citizens) must not have the freedom to roam the streets so they can commit their horrible crimes. But Michele Malkin just like her brother in brain & spirit, Mark Steyn and other little xenophobic cry babies in Western Europe seem to link all things bad and criminal with immigrants, legal or illegal. So, Michele Malkin goes on and on and yet…. on about MUSLIM immigrants. Mark Steyn’s book too is also all about how Muslim immigrants are taking over the West.
But Immigration, especially into USA is hardly of made up of predominantly Muslim origins. Mexicans by far form the one big gigantic tide of immigration into America. I just read an amazing article, ”A Blended People”>> (CLICK HERE)<< from The Economist. This short article- which taught me more about Mexican immigration into America than anything I ever set my eyes upon- is a book review of ”Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America”
After reading that article, I indeed realize that the biggest immigration wave into America has always been the Mexican one and will always will be by the sheer design of God’s geography (It should serve as a lesson and an epiphany for Republican Jesus people). Latinos are the second largest racial/ethnic group in USA today, nudging Afro-Americans to the third place in 2001 for the first time in American history. Most of the Latinos now are well Americanized or at least well settled American citizens. This is the single most powerful phenomenon changing the American landscape for good or as some might grumble, bad.
Scram the Swiss Cheese– The most important point is that Immigration is America’s destiny and will always remain so. Immigration is America’s power, Immigration is America’s soul, Immigration is American history and is America’s future. This is what sets America apart from the rest of the ”immigrant countries” (with Possible exceptions of Canada and Australia) who are tiny ethnic countries and get jolted by waves of migrants, leading to mass xenophobic hysteria. This mass hysteria- much exploited by sad little political parties who have nothing original or useful to talk about- produces Michele Malkin like stupid myopic vision. I was reading another Economist article that noted how in Switzerland ***The incident happened in Italy as the comment below notes,” >>Click Here<< for related story, this was a factual error made by several related articles opened in tens of tabs of my browser, but the argument stands, unaltered, read my response to the comment below*** when a Romanian gypsy raped and murdered a Swiss (read Italian) woman the Swiss (read Italian) masses demanded deportation of all Romanians from Switzerland (read Italy). I mean, crime is bad but irrational panic is well, irrational. ***Further Note: I have just discovered how that factual mistake was made, I was actually reading this article as well ”Fear of foreigners- Denmark and the far right” (CLICK HERE). In this article there is a passing mention of the rise of anti-immigration right wing parties in other parts of Europe. Switzerland gets a special mention, and so does Italy in the very next paragraph. As I mentioned, my point really was how right wing elements exploit a situation and this is very much same all over Western Europe today from Denmark, Switzerland, Austria to Italy. In any case, if my remarks on Switzerland’s xenophobia sounded very unwarranted, here is what the above on Danish elections article (dated November 17) says about modern Switzerland:
“Europe is still in a paroxysm of anti-immigration anxiety, if not downright hostility. Last month the Swiss People’s Party won the best result of any Swiss party since 1919, with a hateful campaign that included a poster of several white sheep kicking a black sheep off a field made of a Swiss flag. It also produced a video (“Heaven or Hell”) contrasting typical Swiss scenes with others of violence, drug use and foreigners. The party’s leader has promised referendums on deporting foreigners if they commit crimes (even juveniles, and the criminal’s families might be thrown out too), as well as a ban on building mosque minarets.”
Now, Let’s say if that rape was committed by a French Swiss in Switzerland, would there be calls for kicking out all French Swiss to France? Are there no rapists, drug dealers among the Swiss (or Italians for that matter) nationals? Or they’re all busy making Swiss Cheese, Cuckoo Clocks and providing secret banking for the Billions of $$$$$$$$ of the most corrupt third world leaders who are also mass embezzlers, murders, rapists, genocidal demons. How come for years and years Swiss nation’s morality and conscience never told them to ask their politicians and government to stop providing secret banking facilities for blood money from the third world? Once again, maybe the Swiss were too busy making cheese. Swiss hypocrisy is indeed much loftier than their Alps…
But America is different from these pathetic little socialist countries most of whom were happy to colonize the third world for loot when they got a chance but now want to shut their doors on the ”third world immigrants”. In contrast America still is a free world, the land of opportunity where Individual is the king. America is the new world. America absorbs new imagination, new blood and turns it into Americana.
This is what I have learned from years of reading and listening to people’s personal experiences. When people go to Canada, Australia, UK, Sweden, New Zealand (I live here and know it very well) etc. they form a multi- cultural environs, clusters, groups, ethnic schools for their children, ethnic food stores, they desperately plant the seeds of their own language, culture amidst their progeny. AND before people from these aforementioned ”immigrant countries” start smiling and say, Yeah that’s right, we’re multi-cultural, let me tell you, IT IS SAD. Nothing is more depressing and puke inducing that ” LEGAL Immigrants” coming into a new country, LEGALLY and try to form foreign cultural, culinary, lingual, social ghettos completely insulated and protected from everything that belongs to their new ”home”. I often hear stories how these ”immigrants” are homesick and nostalgic about their homeland even after years of legally living, working, earning money in the new country. Their eyes fill with tears and heart with pain to remember their mother country or fatherland. Why o Why then they just can’t go back?? What stops them? It’s the MONEY right? But I am definitely digressing so I will save it for another time.
In contrast, the immigrants to America are most likely to get Americanized, thanks in large part to American capitalism, strong emphasis on individualism and little dependence on social security (which exists in other Western countries like a crippling disease and addiction that even immigrants often get so dependent on) For these reasons, immigrants to America have to fight (work) for survival and personal gains. Sure they may get into extreme consumerism and all too but eventually they end up shaking off their cultural, language baggage because America rubs off on you too fast once you’ve reached its shores. This is the reason that even Latinos’ kids shed the language of the countries of their origin and speak English as their first, if not their only language. Not so with other ”multi-cultural” countries. I have noticed that the 2nd and sometimes even 3rd generation immigrants retaining their tribal ties as evident in many European countries, Germany (The Turks) UK and even in Canada and Australia, NZ too.
Let’s end this post with Illegal Immigration. It’s easy for people like Michele Malkin to scream at the ”illegals” because she happened to be the kid of parents who came to America ”legally”. I’m sure Filipinos immigrants do form huge number of ”illegals” all over the world, including the US. The truth is ”legal” immigration is simply impossible to match the real human impulse to migrate to other lands for better life. Most people won’t wait for years for their applications to be accepted (or rejected after years of ”being processed”) Vikings never applied for Visas, if you reflect on it. Even during the age of colonialism European traders never applied for business visas or competed with each other as per the principles of free and fair trade. They brought military, guns and canons with them. They slaughtered everyone who did not give them entry or visa. Today’s illegal immigrants seem much more civilized to me, they meekly enter a rich country and work their butt off for years in modern day slavery mode without any rights or protections or security available to native nationals.
And there will always be unskilled migrants who WILL NEVER be able to migrate legally. BUT THEY ARE NEEDED. Legal immigration proponents say, ”only skilled migrants” are needed in America. They all forget in the old times most migrants (their own forefathers) who came from Europe to North America were mostly unskilled immigrants. They sailed to North America from Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Poland and every other God-forsaken land in Europe. But now people would say, ”The times are different today. We need only skilled immigrants” But this is not so. Middle class Americans may not like poor ”wetbacks” but the economy and businesses need them for their very survival as another Economist article >>>>>‘‘Illegal but Useful- Where would Arkansas be without immigrants?’<<<<<reports.
Tons of such examples can be drawn from several different American states. For these very reasons, I personally support amnesty to long settled immigrants. Because they’ve certainly not been here for years by stealing food, raping women, mugging people on the streets. They’ve survived and supported their families by very hard work, working very long hours and doing the most needed rugged jobs that Americans won’t do. And in so doing these immigrants have proved their mettle and usefulness to the American society, economy and Americana. They deserve amnesty and so do their children most of whom were born in America.
In the end, it’s all about human survival on both ends of the immigration bridge regardless of crying foul and playing the blame games on TV shows.
Links to interesting further readings **Added on 24th of November**
1.) **CLICK HERE TO READ** The Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein, ”My taco with Tancredo– The anti-immigration candidate is all for assimilation, but he sure loves authentic Mexican food.”
2.) **CLICK HERE TO READ** The recent New York Times editorial on America’s immigration crisis, ” The Immigration Wilderness”.
