Who Are The Masters?

Would you be surprised to learn that more than 500,000 babies will be born in the United States this year to illegal aliens? In the big picture, that is approximately 15 percent of all births in the United States. What would you estimate the cost will be to the American taxpayer? Using 'opportunity cost' as a measurement concept, what could all of that taxpayer money have otherwise purchased, billions and billions of dollars, if it were not lavishly spent on illegal aliens (not United States citizens and in most cases people who are clearly un-American) and their social benefits? Then there is the question, "Why was the money spent that way?"

Media accounts are rife with stories of human traffickers operating a thriving business bringing pregnant women from all over the world into the United States just in time to give birth and claim American citizenship and social benefits. All those babies, called “anchor babies,” can immediately claim American birthright citizenship, the result of which is that their mothers and other relatives immediately sign up for a vast stream of taxpayer benefits and send for even more relatives in other countries (chain migration).

An estimated 20-30 million persons now live in the United States illegally, most receiving multiple forms of social benefits funded by taxpayers. Some estimates reach a staggering 40 million. Our federal and state governments don't know for sure how many illegal aliens are receiving economic subsidies, or what numbers of illegal aliens are receiving multiple subsidies using multiple forms of fraudulent identification.

It is worse than a racket and the whole mess is the direct responsibility of our Congressmen. And it continues! Why Americans allow this to continue is beyond comprehension. If Senator John McCain were confronted, he would quickly try to tell you that a number of bills are before Congress to solve some of the problems. He would blame partisan politics for the fact that nothing is being done. Senator McCain's answer should beg the question, “What has Congress, and John McCain in particular, been doing for the last 20 years?” Yes, he has been in Congress that long and is one of the primary architects of the crisis our nation now faces.

Clearly, our Congress led by John McCain and Ted Kennedy has failed intentionally to do its duty to protect American citizenship, national sovereignty, and taxpayers, and worse, failed miserably in upholding their own citizenship, regardless of their hollow protestations.

Just how bad is it (to the extent that we are willing to believe government figures)? In 2001, the United States reportedly admitted 1,064,318 immigrants - enough people to create a major city the size of Chicago. One can only guess at the numbers for last year, including both immigrants and illegal alien migrants.

Why are immigration numbers so high? One of the principal reasons is "chain migration," created by Congress in 1965, where once a migrant becomes a legal immigrant, he can then sponsor several other immigrants for admission, each of whom themselves sponsor several others, and so on. Naturally, chain migration drives immigration numbers up - way up. Chain migration has been allowed to happen because current U.S. immigration policy is based on the principle of a broadly defined concept of “family reunification,” i.e., immigrants are able to sponsor their relatives back home to be admitted as legal immigrants here in the United States. In other words, most illegal alien migrants are admitted and reclassified as legal immigrants simply because they have a relative here who sponsors them, not because of what they might be able to contribute in skills, education, culture or work ethic to our society.

Under the chain policy described above, immigration numbers will never stop rising - never. That fact is a mathematical certainty. Under the "immediate relatives" category, the parents, spouse, and children of a U.S. citizen are admitted without limit. In 2001, 36 years after chain migration began, the number of immediate relatives admitted (not immigrants) was approximately 676,000. Last year it was over one million.

Since most immigration categories have a statutory limit in the law to the number of people who can be admitted each year, immigrants' relatives back home in theory must wait for years to be admitted. Over three million aliens have been told they are "eligible to immigrate" but have to wait. Many of them do not, figuring that, since they are eligible anyway, they should not have to wait for the U.S. government to get around to doing the paperwork. In this way, chain migration and the expectations it produces, increases illegal migration.

Unfortunately, the problem will continue to get worse. Conveniently ignored by the media, and intentionally ignored by the authors and sponsors of immigration reform bills in Congress (Senator John McCain for example), is that the illegal aliens given amnesty by Congress in 1986, 21 years ago, are now fueling naturalization in record numbers. As these former illegal aliens become naturalized citizens, ALL of their immediate relatives in the known universe, and relatives they never knew they had, suddenly qualify to come immediately to the United States, and each starts a new migration chain of their own.

One wonders - are Congressmen, Governors and State Legislators really willling to sell American citizenship, and their own birthright, and give away the wealth of American citizens? Are they willing to abandon United States sovereignty to illegal aliens in exchange for campaign contributions and fraudulent votes? The bitter truth is that any politician who advocates illegal alien amnesty is willing to do just that. What about an entire pollitical party that advocates open borders and minimal national security?

It comes down to this - any political party, and any member of a political party, Republican and Democrat alike, who endorses illegal alien amnesty and open borders is defiantly telling all American citizens, right in our face, that they are willing to sell American citizens into the service of illegal aliens via income redistribution. Such seritude amounts to nothing less than modern slavery, slavery to illegal aliens and other minorities who seek to be served by taxpayers rather than assimilate and participate as fellow Americans. Not only are income taxes taken to provide an enviable lifestyle and medical care by world standards to those who have not earned it, huge staffs have been employed in administrative agencies to wait solely on the needs of these people. In other words, the world has been turned upside down. The top 50% of wage earners pay the income taxes, and in doing so, serve their masters. Who are the masters? First and foremost, members of Congress. Secondly, their designated minority communities and special interest groups that form the coalition to keep them in positions of power so that they can continue to access taxpayer funding. The producers - the taxpayers - have become the slaves. And that is what amnesty for illegal aliens is all about - extending the slavery of the producers to ever greater depths and the power of Congress to ever greater heights.

Red State Patriot

Commentary by David R.: One ill conceived government program begets another. Remove the United States Supreme Court case "Goldberg v. Kelly", which made social welfare programs "entitlements" rather than "charity", and you collapse the illegal immigrant problem. With that gone, state governments can completely deny any benefits to the undocumented, and if they aren't subsidized with schooling, health care, housing, or other programs, the earned income will not be sufficient to draw them here. If there is no draw, they won't come, and nobody will have to surrender any liberties, Mexican or American.

Commentary by Tom D.: The site contains some good information. I too am thoroughly disgusted about illegal immigration in this country. Note that I said "illegal immigration". My wife, who is English, is a card carrying "green card" holder and we went through the process to bring her legally into the country. This included a thorough background investigation, mental exam, physical exam, and personal interview at the US Embassy Councilate's Office. Additionally, I had to guarantee fiscally responsibility by showing I had the income and assets available so she would not become a "burden" on the country. It infuraties me to no end that anyone that can walk, swim, or jump can enter the US illegally, take root here, and then receive the free benefits such as health care, education, social services programs, food stamps/programs, etc., that we end up supporting them with. It has gotten so bad here in Chandler that we are seriously thinking of leaving AZ for a non-border state.

Posted March 16, 2007 03:59 PM
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