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Do we really need them?
The so-called “Day without an Immigrant,” and the arrival of illegal aliens as a political presence in this country that it seems to betoken, are, the Houston Chronicle keeps gleefully telling us, driven by demographic changes. How those liberals love to appeal to some supposedly unstoppable historical process that makes their desired end—in this case, the end of America—inevitable. And therefore the only thing for the rest of us to do is yield to it.
Meanwhile, correctly naming this revolutionary manifestation a Day without an Illegal Immigrant, Rep. Tom Tancredo writing at National Review Online asks a refreshingly politically incorrect question: what would happen if illegal aliens really did disappear for one day? The answers—massive drops in crime, in youth gangs, in prison populations, in DUI arrests, in the use of emergency rooms, in school enrollments, in the number of people without medical insurance, in the number of births in California subsidized by the state, in taxes paid to support public services—are stunning. Tancredo gets to the point as only a genuinely non-liberal thinker can do. The illegals with their one-day strike think we need them. Well, that only seems to be true because of certain habits that certain sectors of the U.S. economy have developed. In fact we don’t need them. And not only do we not need them, they are a terrible liability to us. And therefore their theme of a day without an (illegal) immigrant may get many of us to start thinking for the first time: Hey, how about a country without an illegal immigrant? Email entry |