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Can 500,000 Illegal Immigrants be Wrong?

The culture that brings people to America is the culture that’s destroying America; the culture of now-cheaper-faster and everything-must-go. Not America the civil society; not America the grand democratic experiment.

Yes, I know, only a great many of the protesters were/are illegal.

Tens to hundreds of thousands of people in major cities, taking to the streets.

But why?

I can’t figure it out from the protests. What are people protesting? What are they asking for?

The right to be legal citizens, regardless of current status (visa, illegal, what-have-you)?

What are the conditions being sought? And for whom?

• Citizenship for illegal workers? If so, how many days, weeks, months or years of labor equal citizenship?

• In what cities/states?

• For those who have family members here? If so, who and how many?

What about people who have been working on and waiting for legal citizenship for four (five, six, seven, eight or more) years? Are they now pushed behind the illegals in line?

What’s the plan? If you come here illegally, and work for some crass individual or corporation who hires you cheap, works you hard, and doesn’t give a damn about your rights, then, what, you should then be a full citizen of the country?

Is that it? If so, you might have my sympathy, but you don’t have my vote. (Attention Congressional Jerk-offs!)

Do the illegals who want to be paid more or provided more rights and services for their illegal work also want to be taxed more, and to pay into social services?

Because I don’t hear anyone begging to be allowed to pay into the system (broken as it may be).

I hear people saying they’re owed something. And I can’t figure out what that is.

Are we supposed to suddenly not be in favor of any nation-hood?

How would that work?

Should we all emigrate wherever we’d like, and use the social services of whatever country we enter, without paying into the system, without being able to speak the language?

People who are here illegally have good reasons to want to be here. Many do learn English, to some degree or another, after awhile. But it’s not required.

Why is that?

Holland requires it – you want to go Dutch, you learn Dutch.

But not here – we don’t require immigrants to learn English. I think that’s a mistake, personally, for a variety of reasons. The first and most personal is, I like English.

I also study and speak other languages, with great pleasure. I enjoy visiting and talking with people from other places. I’d even consider living overseas, but I’d be sure to speak the local language first, as good communication is the heart and soul of civil life.

Every culture has a primary language. Ours is English. But we don’t ask people who immigrate to be able to communicate in it.

Why? Are we so ashamed of it? Do we think so little of our culture? Maybe we do.

Clearly, for those who want to come to America, language and cultural history isn’t what draws them.

The culture that brings people to America is the culture that’s destroying America; the culture of now-cheaper-faster and everything-must-go. Not America the civil society; not America the grand democratic experiment.

But America-for-sale. America-the-bought-and-sold. America-the-franchised (and its ruling nation-states of WalMart, Archer Daniels Midland, and McDonalds.)

That’s the America we’re selling to the world, and that’s why people come – to have more, more easily than they did at home.

And you can’t blame them for that. That’s what we’ve sold as the American dream. Not language, not culture, not a civil society. But all-you-can-eat, make or buy.

So it’s personal. I’m not personally interested in supporting that America. I’m interested in America, the civil nation of families and individuals; not the nation of wage-slaves.

Bring Us Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Huddled Masses

I’m not talking about turning away people who are here to escape political persecution; Let me say that again: Welcoming people into a greater sense of freedom is what America is (or should be) for.

But the protests aren’t for that – they’re for ‘more buck for the bang.’ Better pay and better treatment than people find in their own, extremely troubled countries.

Why don’t citizens of Mexico fight President Fox for better pay? Because they don’t have to, because our corporations put a welcome mat facing south, to anyone who cares to cross the threshold.

And guess who’s joining the protest? The same mega-corporations – McDonalds, Tyson, Perdue – who are happy to pay an illegal less than they would US citizens for the same work.

Same goes for Vonage, AT&T, NetZero, Toshiba, among many others, who are farming phone bank jobs to Bangalore, India and the Phillipines, because it’s cheaper – because they don’t have to pay people here a living wage.

Yes, markets shift and grow, and I expect that there’s little anyone can do about that. But it’s not good for the already failing integrity of the nation.

What’s the upshot of “amnesty” for illegals?

A guest-worker program equals the whoring our nation, our people, and the people of the third world into a non-stop gristmill of cheap-labor and cut-throat mercenary capitalism.

It’s anti-person and anti-society, but it’s pro-corporation. And until corporations are governed by strictly enforced civil laws (they are ‘persons’, after all), that’s a bad, bad thing for the country.