Amnesty’s cost more than rule of law

By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, May 24, 2006

“… We are as American as anyone else… but we won’t give up our language or culture.”
Hector Flores, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens [ LULAC] commenting on ‘Mexican – Americans’.

“I think this amendment is racist” ( Note from D.A – see Plan de Aztlan here)
U. S. Senate minority leader Harry Reid, objecting to an amendment in the Senate last week to make English the “national language” in the United States.

If you ask Americans what they think the official language in the United States is, many will reply something like “English, of course”.

The United States has no official language. It never has.

It should.

As the Senate debates another amnesty for illegal aliens – and their criminal employers – other issues besides that annoying rule of law are surfacing.

Like language and culture.

Having intimidated into silence a large number of Americans on the reality that millions of people are living and working in our nation illegally, the illegal alien lobby is ready, willing – and with the help of leftist American “journalists” – quite able to label anyone who suggests that English be the common language that binds our very diverse nation together…a “racist”.

We should all remember this: In any language, silence is consent.

On the topic of illegal immigration, many oh -so- noble newspaper editors will point to the “last great wave of immigration” and dutifully lecture that today’s illegal immigration crisis is “no different than when the Polish, Irish or Italians came to our shores”.

We all remember when we were required to “press one” to speak, Polish, Celtic or Italian on the telephone…right? We all remember the resentful illegal aliens from those countries marching in the streets of America demanding amnesty, citizenship and the “right” to continue to change our nation into an image of the one they left…right?

We all remember studying in multi-lingual schools. None of us can forget the Greek language ballots of past elections…right?

Hector Flores defiant words should not be forgotten. Neither should U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s.

While the motivation of each may be different, the harm they do to the American rule of law, culture and tradition is the same.

Elected officials like Reid are simply doing what they are told by their “cheap labor” addicted campaign donors. Follow the money.

Identity based “civil rights” organizations like LULAC, The National Council of La Raza [in English? – “The Race”] and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund [MALDEF] – are aimed at the ongoing creation of what University of California ethnic studies professor “and immigration -rights activist” Armando Navarro calls the “nation within a nation as the community that we are”.

Note to Navarro & Co; We honor real “immigrants” here, it is the illegal aliens that concern us. “Immigrants” do not require amnesty. They came here lawfully.

English as a “national language” does not fit in with the “nation with in a nation” agenda.

Navarro is author of the book “Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan”.

What is Aztlan? The territory “stolen” from Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War. That would include California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico… USA.

There is considerably more being decided in Congress than whether or not we capitulate and award American citizenship to who ever can steal that privilege.

We are watching our elected leaders make a decision on whether we will be allowed to have borders, what it means to be an American and what manner of nation we will pass on.

It is not un-American to have a “national language” [not many have the courage to suggest an “official” language]. It is not “racist” to demand that our borders be defended and to stand up and insist that the law be equally applied – even for someone here illegally from Mexico.

Mexico does have an official language. It does defend its borders…with its military. It is a felony to enter Mexico or work there illegally and it deports more people annually than we do.

We should be asking ourselves why we don’t see angry mass demonstrations in that sovereign nation…and how we allowed ourselves to get to the point that they are now familiar here.

We should be asking if another amnesty would cost us more even more than our rule of law.