Ruben Navarrette Jr. said in a recent San Diego Union-Tribune column that San Diego is America’s most flammable region. That is certainly true in more ways than one. He also said that the city is “one of the most desirable and livable cities in the country.” But though that may be true for the growing Latino population, it is less true for the Americans living in San Diego, because though the fires are out San Diegans are still very much threatened by the fires of illegal immigration.
An American Halloween nightmare is having hundreds of Latino children knocking at the door and saying TREAT AND TRICK, and never seeing a single American child because their parents have either moved out of the city for greener, albeit dwindling, American pastures or have kept their children inside their grated homes for protection in what has become a alien and hostile neighborhood. The fact is, traditional American communities become barrios once illegal Hispanic immigrants move in, and barrios become infested with criminal activity, especially that caused by Hispanic street gangs. Just ask the black Americans who live in the community where 14-year-old Cheryl Green was murdered by a Hispanic gang member. (Travis Barrett’s novel GRINGO is dedicated to Cheryl.)
Even Navarrette, a true friend of and propagandist for illegal immigrants (he doesn’t believe local police should enforce immigration laws), acknowledges in his column that illegal Mexican immigrants are “suspected” of being out during the fires tricking the good citizens at Qualcomm Stadium by treating themselves to truckloads of relief supplies. Navarrette calls it a “despicable act,” but the illegal act that brought them into the country in the first place is an understandable illegal act of desperation that should receive the forgiveness of amnesty.
What this way of thinking overlooks is the connection between the crimes committed by illegal immigrants and their children and the crime of illegally entering the United States in the first place. Were the illegal aliens not in the U.S., they could not commit crimes in the U.S. And let’s face it, breaking the law is nothing new among illegal Hispanics immigrants, who break the law when they invade America (by land and sea), use forged papers to get jobs, drive without a license or with an illegal license, and so on and on.
For illegal immigrants, crime does pay, but Americans foot the bill in the form of taxes, medical costs (such as the $45,000 to $500,000 for each of the 11 illegal aliens in UCSD burn units?), criminalized communities, deteriorating social services (schools, hospitals, etc.), lower wages, and deadly diseases (for example, the two following news items: “HIV likely entered the United States through a single infected immigrant from Haiti, scientists said Monday” and “Several infectious diseases that are rare in the native US population occur often in the Latin American population”).
Why is it that illegal immigration has not been attacked with the same vigor as the fires were? The damage that illegal aliens are doing and will continue to do to America is far more severe. Americans who lost their homes to the fire can rebuild, but once American communities have been taken over by illegal aliens, they are lost forever. Mexicans living in America will soon celebrate the Day of the Dead. I expect that the Day of the Dead could become a national Latino holiday celebrating the demise of the old America and the rise of the new Hispanic Nation.
In his book STRANGERS, Travis Barrett describes an American family who suffers a house-jacking by illegal aliens. As they flee what was once their community, but now belonging to the invaders, the father is shocked to discover a Day-of-the-Dead photo in which his family have become skeletons. The story may seem far-fetched, but if cities did not have million-dollar graffiti removal programs, it would become frighteningly clear just how many American communities have become gang infested barrios. In fact, I suggest that the graffiti be left as a warning sign indicating the alien transformation that is rapidly occurring in the United States, a transformation that is not so unlike what is seen in zombie movies. Suddenly, one’s neighbors have become aggressive strangers.
I expect that by the end of this century, Americans will have become ghosts, like today’s Native Americans, haunting a nation that was once theirs. Then Halloween will be really scary and the Day of the Dead will be a celebration of America’s demise. Happy Halloween!
