A double blow against open borders and globalism?
Roy Beck of NumbersUSA sent out an e-mail yesterday that read in part:
DEAR FRIENDS OF REDUCED IMMIGRATION,
The U.S. House of Representatives passed three more bills today that would bring about moderate increases in enforcement against illegal immigration.
It is all part of an ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT strategy that avoids both mass deportations and mass amnesty. The idea is to make life less and less comfortable for illegal aliens so they will voluntarily deport themselves….
Pres. Bush said this week he will sign the bills if they come to him—even though he would prefer that they included massive new foreign worker programs and some kind of legalization for illegal aliens already here.
I wrote to Roy:
For Jorge W. Busherón to sign an enforcement-only bill building a border fence would be an extraordinary defeat for him. Remember, his administration is also pushing the nation-crushing, Orwellian-named, North American Security and Prosperity Zone, the aim of which is to create a common security perimeter around the three nations of North America while opening their internal borders to each other. That appears to be a major reason he has had not cared a fig for enforcement. He’s committed to eliminating borders, not beefing them up. If this bill passes and he signs, it could signify a historic reversal of both globalism and open-borders.
He replied:
Good point. Even 700 miles of double fence running through the middle of his North American Union would be a bit embarrassing, wouldn’t it?
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Stephen T. writes:
Roy Beck says, “Even 700 miles of double fence running through the middle of his North American Union would be a bit embarrassing, wouldn’t it?”
I don’t know whether we will get a wall, a fence or a series of towers (built by Boeing) but I know it’s impossible to overestimate the importance of some sort of concrete, physical demarcation which states boldly, “This is America” (and further implies, “NOT MEXICO.”) Mexicans have to be able to see it and touch it; hoping they will respect the border as an abstract philosophical concept— or some high-tech zone of unseen sensors—without an intimidating physical representation looming before their eyes shows a basic misunderstanding of Mestizo culture.
Laws which are merely written in a book, or “generally accepted,” or drawn on some map—but not physically represented and enforced in the material world some way—simply do not register with Mestizos. They are singular in their natural facility for, and comfort level with, violating such laws in a wholesale fashion. For them, this is not a dark, malevolent act, but usually accomplished with a good-natured grin and a casual shrug of the shoulders. After all, if no one’s looking, and there’s no physical barrier to inhibit you, then what’s LAW got to do with it?
Mexicans not only feel emboldened and entitled to enter the country by the lack of a physical representation of an American border, they feel comforted in remaining unassimilated after they have done so: there is no clear representation of them departing their own culture, no line has been crossed, no old ways need be left behind nor new ones adopted.
Since Mexico demarcates and controls its own borders strictly, *that* line (the line of Mexican sovereignty and culture) is by contrast all the more vividly engraved in the Mexican mind and honored. However, as long as the American border remains only a vague, symbolic concept, not enforced by any physical barrier that Mexicans can reach out and touch and RESPECT, it’s an exercise in futility. Remote controlled aerial drones buzzing three thousand feet above an unmarked, unfortified “honor system” border might deter Norwegian day-hikers who take a wrong turn into Sweden, but they will never keep Mestizo Mexicans out of the United States.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 22, 2006 12:16 PM | Send