Another traitor (also no surprise)

Robert Novak writes:

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, while probing for the compromise’s weak spots in Senate debate Tuesday, warned of “cultural” change resulting from a flood of low-income immigrants. That recalls the 1911 report of the U.S. Immigration Commission (headed by an old-fashioned Republican conservative, Sen. William P. Dillingham of Vermont) asserting that the “proportion of the more serious crimes of homicide, blackmail and robbery … is greater among the foreign born,” who also refuse to learn the English language.

In reading part of Dillingham’s report into the Senate record, Graham declared that these immigrants who were “ruining America” fathered the “greatest generation.” That immigrant wave included my grandfather, a Russian Imperial army veteran working on the John Deere tractor assembly line in Moline, Ill., as an unskilled, undocumented alien who could not speak English. Refuting Dillingham, he was an American patriot proud of a son who fought with the U.S. infantry through Africa and Italy in World War II.

Got that? Novak’s real message is that people such as himself who are children of illegal aliens are morally obligated to support illegal immigration. But on that basis, when the children of the tens of millions of illegal aliens whom this bill legalizes grow up, what kind of citizens will they be? Novak is so blinded by his own filiopietism to his illegal immigrant father that he fails to realize the truth he’s just told us: that this bill would create a vast population of U.S. citizens who will despise the laws and sovereignty of the United States, just as Novak himself does.

Is that too harsh a statement, given how Novak speaks proudly of his service in World War II? No, it is not, because anyone who supports this bill despises the laws and sovereignty of the United States.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 24, 2007 02:13 PM | Send