Vicente Fox,
president of Mexico, has asked for green cards for three or four million
(what's a million, more or less?) illegals in the United States. This would
allow them legal residence in this country and, according to some,
eventually lead to full citizenship. His justification: for all the
contributions that Mexicans have made to American culture. DUH!!!! That
flies in the face of the shouts of Mexicans at a recent parade in Chicago
where the marchers waved Mexican flags and chanted, "Fox is our
president!"
There is a distinct American culture and those who come here legally or
illegally must agree to be assimilated in that culture. When they refuse and
set up their own customs and attitudes that conflict with ours, then they
are approaching us not as friends approaching friends, but as enemies who
want to impose their way of life on us. The abuse of our largesse by going
on the dole and, like parasites, sucking our blood (tax dollars) to benefit
themselves is galling, to say the least. And the crime rate! How many
Mexican criminals, guilty of everything including murder have committed
their crimes here and then escaped back to Mexico to avoid American justice?
There are many fine Mexican people; good, hardworking people who came here
both legally and illegally. There are those who want to become Americanized
and want to enrich our culture. But the recent influx of illegals does not
belong in that category. They want the traditions and customs of their
homeland to be practiced here.
We are subsidizing them with the opportunity to work , and we selfishly pay
them substandard wages, thus eliminating those low level jobs from our own
population. The business people who are doing this are the real culprits.
You cannot blame people for trying to better themselves. As long as we offer
low wages and hire undocumented workers, we will have this dilemma. One
factor in correcting the situation would be stiff penalties for any
businesses that hire undocumented workers. Teams of employers or government
personnel should be set up at the border to document and certify the aliens
for short periods of work in the US. But not residence. Teams of carefully
screened workers could then be hired by US firms to work here and to save
money or send it back to Mexico. Why should we give them green cards? We
already have enough people here who need them without giving them to
citizens of a foreign power.
Vicente Fox is a good man and he is trying to do well for the people who
elected him. However, his reasoning that we owe these illegals resident
status in our country is wrong. The contributions of the illegals to our
culture are miniscule at best. The only solution is to require businesses to
hire only documented workers with severe penalties imposed if they cheat, as
mentioned above. Such documented workers would be very welcome and would
indeed contribute. Their undocumented counterparts would soon be trekking
back to Mexico where they belong. And we would have control our borders
again. We would be a sovereign nation again! Bush, with his evident
friendship with Vicente Fox, should not let friendship get in the way of the
good of the country. Amnesty is an anathema to any form of logic to enrich
and preserve our country.