In a Word? “Crimmigration”
This illegal immigration thing is really getting tiring, isn’t it? First, I don’t appreciate deception, and there’s plenty of that to go around. Second, I don’t appreciate prostitution, and that’s exactly what many politicians on both sides of the aisle have become: prostitutes. Remember, a prostitute doesn’t have to stand on a street corner; a prostitute is one who sells out on basic principles in order to achieve some gain. In the case of the streetwalker, there is a sale of personal morality (and other things as well) for the sake of making a buck. In the case of politicians, it’s the sale of Constitutional law for the sake of pandering to voters, in this particular case, to gain the votes of Hispanics. Third, I’m really getting frosted by the arrogance of some of these protests. Ann Coulter, love her or hate her, hits it pretty well on target in her latest editorial piece:
Excerpts:
On CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Monday, Dobbs was interviewing Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association about his demand for “full immediate, unconditional legalization for all persons currently in the United States.”
Dobbs posed this innocuous question about Lopez’s planned boycott, “You’re talking about a boycott of all illegal aliens in this country?”
Lopez exploded: “Well, first off, I refute your terminology. You don’t say ‘kike,’ ‘patty,’ ‘WOP,’ OK. You don’t say “nigger”! … You’re using language that’s offensive to me and offensive to my people! … You pollute the air every day, Dobbs. … That language is offensive, it’s derogatory, it’s denigrating, and don’t use that terminology to me again, referring to my people!”
‘Scuse me? What’s offensive there, Senor Lopez? “Illegal” is simply the truth; those 11 million people (many, but not all from Mexico) who are here…illegally…are thus…illegal (duh). Maybe the term “alien” sounds too much like the dude who infested Sigourney Weaver’s innards; fine. I can go for a change; how about “criminal immigration”—which is exactly what it is, or the shortened version to refer to folks who willfully disregard the laws of our country: “crimmigrants“. That, Mr. Lopez, is an accurate description—and we’ll thank you to save your faux moral indignation for something worthwhile.
Read the rest of Ann’s examples, and the general deal that chaps me is the arrogance that has become pretty obvious. Look, there are procedures through which a person can go to receive citizenship in this country. If you don’t like those mechanisms, there are other mechanisms through which the laws can be changed. Instead of marching up and down our streets and acting as though crimmigrants are entitled to things to which they are categorically not entitled, work to change the laws. Instead of flying into spasms of comedic “moral outrage”, make a reasonable case for some type of immigration reform that doesn’t make a mockery of the rule of law in this country. The Civil Rights movement stood on legitimate moral ground. Elements of the “gay rights” movement (and I say this at the risk of alienating—oops, there’s that “alien” word again!—some of my conservative friends) have moral legitimacy to them. I’ll even concede that there might be some legitimate arguments to be made on the side of crimmigrants. But excuse me, I’ll not feel guilty for insisting that the laws of our country be obeyed; that legal processes be employed for changing those laws if they need changing; that our leadership respond in such a way as to do what is right instead of what is merely politically expedient or what they feel they need to do in order to pander to voters; that the voices of those who have gone through legal channels to gain citizenship not be excluded from the debate, nor the voices of those who continue to go through those channels and yet await their citizenship. They understand the things that have made this country great far better than do those who indignantly protest and demand “rights” from a nation whose laws they flouted in order to wind up on our soil in the first place…
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One Response to “In a Word? “Crimmigration””
I don’t normally like Ann Coulter (her comments that “priests who molest boys have everything to do with homosesuality” really kinda irked me), but she’s dead-on here. I couldn’t agree more. I don’t care what your skin color is; there are more than 50,000 illegal IRISH immigrants here in America, and while I’m as Irish as I can be, it makes me mad that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has the gall to try to sidestep American laws concerning immigration to avoid having those illegals deported.
My ancestors didn’t come here on what most would consider slave ships; they came here in “coffin ships.” That’s what we call them to this day. In the mid-1800′s, during An Gorta Mor (“The Great Famine” in English) my family was starving, poor, and fighting disease. They were on the verge of being thrown off of their own land by a wealthy British “landowner” who had no rights to the property anyway, who merely usurped the authority because his government had more power. They gave up what little they had to get on a boat with hundreds of the same people from Eire to come to America for the better life that had been denied them by British bigots–a life that included being allowed to speak in our own native language, GaelÃge, sing our songs, tell our stories, and believe the way we chose to believe (Catholicism, too, was barred by the British). When they got here, it wasn’t the land of promise they’d dreamed of, but they made the best of it–and they did it LEGALLY. With business owners hanging signs that said “NO IRISH ALLOWED” and refusing to hire them, our people built the first ghettos in America. But eventually, we earned the respect we longed for and we helped build America as it is today. We didn’t sneak in through the back door and it is an insult to the memories of ALL of the immigrants from that time–European, Asian, Mexican, Russian, all of them–to come to this country illegally and then to expect that you’ll be allowed to stay.
In Mexico, you cannot wave a foreign flag or speak a foreign language if you plan to stay; foreigners must speak Spanish, cannot own waterfront property, and unless you can invest with 40,000 times the minimum daily wage you’re not allowed to invest. Foreigners are also not allowed to vote, protest, march, or recieve any form of government handout. If you’re not a highly skilled worker, you can’t be in the country–and if you’re found in the country and you’re not up to snuff, you go straight home (after spending time in a jail that will not feed you, clothe you, or give you electricity or running water and anything you do have is confiscated by crooked cops). So what on Earth makes Mexicans think they have any right to come to the country that my starving great-grandparents helped build and demand that I give them what they want?
I tell you what: when road signs here are printed in GaelÃge and the country apologizes to my family for how we were treated, an apology we have never expected nor have we asked for, then I’ll allow other nationalities to whine and moan about how put-upon they are. LEGAL immigrants built this country. So don’t ballyhoo to me about how unfair things are for you.
Hey, Byron–do we actually agree on something?!?
Mel ~ Apr 15, 2006 at 7:30 pm