Illegal immigration no accident

July 14, 2013

Immigration reform fight continues

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a hypocrite is a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. Frankly, the current immigration reform debate proves our elected from both sides are all a bunch of hypocrites!

Our elected all perform a partisan dance around immigration reform while pretending to be doing their constituent's bidding. The truth is the Democrats simply favor immediate reform because they know future citizenship for these millions, who were allowed to enter our country illegally, will favor their party. The Republicans, who were equally culpable for their entry, reading the same tea leaves, are just as determined to delay the process as much as possible.

To have any doubts about whether or not these millions of immigrants were allowed to enter our nation on purpose...would be both naive and wrong. It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) who once said, "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned".

During the past half century every developed nation in the world, including the U.S., has been experiencing drastically reduced birth rates for its native citizens of close to one birth per couple. Experts all say a culture cannot survive long term once the birth rate drops below two per couple.

In recognition of these trends, leaders of all of these countries, except the U.S. and Japan, developed legal worker permit programs to attract the labor force they knew would be needed to pay taxes required to support their future aging population.

Japan has long avoided any type of immigration, and as a result, many economists believe they are simply doomed to fail as a culture.

In the European nations, the main labor pool available for their legal immigration programs came from Muslim countries. Even though it did provide the labor pool and taxes needed, it has resulted in some very serious cultural integration challenges.

Our leaders decided to purposefully allow illegal immigration instead of issuing legal work permits. Why? Perhaps our leaders decided it would be too expensive to set up another bureaucracy (Hah!) to manage legal worker permits? More likely, they collectively looked back at the prior decades of allowed illegal immigration and decided we already had a proven, inexpensive, and workable immigrant worker system in place. And, after all, they could always later declare amnesty as had previously been done in 1986.

Whatever the reasons were for our leaders choosing to embrace illegal immigration...be assured as FDR made clear...it sure didn't happen by accident.

I once met an economist who had been a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors under Presidents Bush I and Clinton. He told me he had personally participated in discussions at the highest levels in both administrations in which allowing illegal immigration was openly supported. After observing my mouth hanging wide open in disbelief, he finally asked me this question, "do you really believe the most powerful military force in the world could not protect our borders against invasion by unarmed peasants if we really wanted to?".

He also told me it wasn't the initial immigrants we were most interested in...it was their next couple of generations needed to pay the bills for our boomer's retirements.

Over the past three years, I have repeated this accusation to some very intelligent people...including a few D.C. insiders. Not one disagreed.

I'm terribly bothered that those we elect to protect our nation's best interests, while fully knowing these facts, continue to play us as complete fools by ignoring both party's previous culpability, and instead shape the current debate in order to further divide our nation in order to maintain their parties' political power.

Even worse is the on-going tragedy of these millions of immigrants and their families who have been forced to live under the dark shadows of constantly being threatened with deportation. I have often wondered how many of us, had we been born in such poverty, with no hope for our family's future, wouldn't have done exactly what they did? After all, our leaders made sure the borders were mostly unprotected, and those who proceeded them had eventually been offered the opportunity for full citizenship.

Interestingly, most of us are actually descendants of earlier generations who came to this land of promise for these exact reasons.

It was likely the easily predictable behavior of these mainly Christian immigrants with strong family values, which our leaders counted on when they purposefully decided to allow them to enter the U.S. through the back door.

History has proven our elected will choose expediency over legality nearly every single time. Heck, maybe we shouldn't blame our elected for lying to us, after all, if they dared tell us the truth we would have--oh yeah--we would have done nothing!

We certainly should focus on the word "illegal". However, I think we need to more appropriately attach that word to the generations of our elected who were the real perpetrators. I believe the appropriate charge would be criminal entrapment.

Remember...nothing political happens by accident!

These are my opinions. What do you think?

Mike Tower