D.A. King: When it comes to immigration, U.S. has no need to apologize

by D.A. King
Columnist

The Marietta Daily Journal

July 20, 2011

A major obstacle to average Americans’ ability to gain a real understanding of the immigration issue is the policy of many in the media to offer “news” that mostly promotes and encourages the anti-enforcement agenda.

While many individuals the press refers to as “immigrant rights activists” bemoan the fact that we even have immigration laws and label them “unfair, racist and xenophobic” the fact is the USA takes in more than one million legal immigrants each year – more than any nation on the planet. We have nothing to apologize for.

Here is a quick look at what the ethnic hustlers who strive for open borders tell us is the “broken immigration system.” They may have an unintended point.

The No. 1 region of origin of legal American immigration? Africa. No. 2? Asia.

Here it must be noted – again – that the federal definition of “immigrant” is a person who enters the United States lawfully with the intention of permanent residence – or an alien who has been granted “Lawful Permanent Residence.” A status documented by what is commonly known as a “Green Card.” Temporary workers are not immigrants. Foreigners who escape capture while sneaking into our country illegally are certainly not immigrants either.

The No. 1 country of origin for legal immigrants? Mexico, sending about twice as many (139,120) as No. 2, the People’s Republic of China, at 70,863.

The latest DHS annual immigration flow report entitled “U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2010” also tells us that No. 3 on the list is the nation of India. Then the Philippines followed by the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Vietnam, Haiti, Colombia, South Korea, Iraq (19,855) and Jamaica.

Next, after El Salvador, come Pakistan, Bangladesh (14,819), Ethiopia, Peru, Iran (14,182) and Nigeria.

Coming in at No. 20 on the list (which totals 1,042,625 immigrants for 2010) is Canada (13,328), with “all other countries” listed last and as a group sending just 359,055 people to be future American voters. This category includes the countries from which the pre-1965 “old America” was largely populated. You know, Poland, Sweden, Italy, England, Norway, Ireland, Greece, Germany, France, out-of-fashion places like that.

The 1965 Immigration Reform Act was the beginning of America’s current mass immigration disorder. Before then, America was a low-immigration nation under laws written in 1924 and altered in 1952. As a result, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many mostly European (uh-oh!) immigrant ethnic groups assimilated into a common national culture. One that proudly – and logically – worked toward use of a common language… English.

The very educational material contained in the DHS flow report is not considered “newsworthy” by most editors and producers.

Why do you think that is? The prediction is that our children will have to deal with a national population of nearly half-a-billion people by 2050. English is now an optional language in the United States.

Whether you approve or disapprove of the current system, who do you suppose made the immigration decision about which – and how many – “new Americans” we import each year? Do you remember ever being asked about it? Can you recall a national discussion about the source or size of America’s future population?

Me neither. But a warning: Even bringing this important topic up will be met with swift and certain attempts at public punishment.

Prepare for the mindless “but we are a nation of immigrants” goop and try to forget that we are actually a nation of laws. And that literally billions of people in the world want to live here. And that unless we want to become a Balkanized, mirror image of the nations they desperately flee, we can’t allow all potential immigrants to migrate here.

Which brings us to the reason we have, and must enforce, our borders and immigration laws: To at least regulate the number of people who come to live here. And honor and protect the real immigrants who obeyed the rules. Not to mention our resources, that famous American culture, the English language and national sovereignty.

Another report from the DHS, “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2010” gives us official information on from where illegal immigration comes. Number one nation on the list? Mexico. Then El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, the Philippines, India, Ecuador, Brazil, Korea, China and last “all other countries.”

You may have seen some of these “victims” marching on the Capitol angrily demanding an end to any enforcement of our immigration laws.

“Broken immigration system” indeed. Si?

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. On the Web: www.TheDustinInman Society.org
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