The Great American Giveaway and Travis Barrett’s Novels GRINGO and STRANGERS
Recently I read an article about how Cuban immigrants are taking a new route to the U.S. Because of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which gives them the ability to become permanent residents if they reach U.S. soil. So instead of trying to make it by boat, they enter Mexico, head to the U.S. border, and then ask for political asylum, which they will automatically get. Of course, the immigrants are financed by Cubans living in Miami.
It seems the Great American Giveaway is the giving away of America to aliens by the rich and powerful on both the left and right. Jimmy Carter is a good example of the Democrats’ giving away what does not belong to them but to the American people. Remember when President Jimmy Carter welcomed thousands of Cuban immigrants, many of them criminals and insane, during the Great Cuban Exodus of 1980? And the “wet foot, dry foot" policy was adopted by the Clinton Administration, and when Hillary gets in it will be the “any alien foot welcome policy.” Of course, the Republicans are no better, such as President Bush’s desire to give amnesty to all the millions of illegals in the country, because U.S. businesses are willing to give away America little by little when it is profitable to do so.
It seems that Americans have been abandoned, and by the end of this century the old America will be no more, as it is no more already in many parts of the country, such as Miami and L.A. As other peoples throughout the world struggle to preserve or long to have a territorial home, such as the Iraqi Curds and the Palestinians, Americans are allowing the giving away of their cultural home. Of course, the aliens see it differently, just as the poor thief tells himself he has a right to steal the rich man’s property. (However, Barrett explains that what the aliens are doing to Americans, Americans did to the Indians. He also explains that it is because such behavior is rooted in our evolutionary makeup, that no solution seems possible, since laws (moral or otherwise) and civilization do not seem to work. The only thing that seems to work is big guns at the border, bigger guns than what the invaders have, which the Iraqis lacked when the Americans arrived.)
In the end America will lose the war in Iraq, but that loss will seem insignificant to America’s losing the war against the millions of aliens who have been, are presently, and will continue invading her (legally as in the case of the Cubans or illegally as in the case of the Mexican). American will lose because Americans never really put up a fight. For most Americans today it will not matter too much, but I believe it will matter greatly to their children and grandchildren. Today, it means, for example, that programs like the SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) will require American taxpayers to spend billions of dollars for the health of millions of children of legal and illegal immigrants. By the end of the century it will mean that Americans will have become the aliens and will be living in a new America in which their voice will be one minority voice among a chorus of alien voices.
Travis Barrett’s two novels, STRANGERS and GRINGO, give a frightening and pessimistic look at the problem of illegal immigration (for Americans, not for the invaders). He seems to believe the battle has already been lost because Americans pretty much surrendered from the very beginning because, apparently, they didn’t think the country was worth fighting for. If you want a reassuring examination of the problem of illegal immigrations, don’t read Barrett’s novels. In fact, that seems to be the way most Americans deal with problems today: by looking the other way and hoping everything will work out in their favor, like the war in Iraq.
