My guest column today on the Southern Political Report, an Insider Advantage publication. Mr. Tom Baxter editor.
My column below, in response to Mr. Baxter’s column of January 27, 2008: “Nashville vote indicates immigration issues have cooled” HERE [1]
We thank Mr. Baxter for the space. My original column on Southern Poitical Report HERE [2]
Nashville vote indicates immigration issues have cooled? “Absurdo” says Georgia immigration activist
January 29, 2009
D.A. King
“If Washington still wants to “do something” about immigration, we propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders.” The Wall Street Journal, July 3, 1984
The premise that the recent win for the well-funded open borders crowd in defeating the Nashville charter amendment making English the official language of government there somehow means that “the immigration issue has cooled” is, well… absurdo.
While in temporarily diminished numbers, illegal aliens are still flowing across our southern border. U.S. Border Patrol Agents are still risking their lives [3] to protect us. Criminal employers are still rewarding the wage thieves and our tax dollars are still going to subsidize these victims of geography.
And we are doing it in two languages.
The huge majority of the American people are still outraged over it – even while being told that taxes, soaring unemployment, the American health care crisis, the declining quality of our educational system and the growing disrespect for the rule of law are totally unrelated to the fact that there are about twenty million mostly low-skilled aliens depressing the American Dream in unpunished violation of American law.
What has changed is the fact that — ever-hopeful we will forget about it — the mainstream media has put the issue on the back burner.
While it is certainly true that the two presidential candidates were in agreement on repeating the failed amnesty of 1986, the assumption that they didn’t talk about it is equally incorrect.
Just not so much in Inglés.
During the campaign, they both talked about it mucho – but mostly in the Spanish language media.
In the native language of the majority of the illegal aliens, Obama repeatedly made the promise to attempt a do-over of the ’86 amnesty in his first year in office. McCain raised the ante on Univision, a Spanish language television network. He said he would present it to Congress “on my first day.”
Which is why many conservatives went fishing on Election Day, including this one.
Two candidates for president each making two sets of promises in two different languages. The common and desperate message from each: “voto para mí.”
Despite the huge amount of money spent to dispel the truth [4], the Nashville amendment didn’t tell anyone what language to speak. The goal was to designate a common, unifying and official language (English!) in which to operate the city government and excluded any federally mandated requirements.
When falling back on the tired and false rendition of “we are a nation of immigrants and must cater to all languages in the name of diversity,” we should all take note that such an amendment was unimaginable and unnecessary just twenty years ago.
Illegal immigration likely had nothing to do with that change…si?
We all remember taking our drivers license test in Chinese, Italian, Celtic and Dutch. Correcto?
People who don’t study the illegal immigration crisis seldom understand that the coalition of big business, the radical big ethnic lobby, big religion and big media will do and say anything [5]to advance the cause of the free flow of people and massive immigration, legal or illegal.
Open borders is the final goal and the “follow the money’ rule will never be so obvious.
Honesto.
D.A. King is a community organizer and president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to open borders and a bilingual America. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org