That American have less to be thankful for this Thanksgiving was a thought that came to my mind as I was reading Ruben Navarrett’s recent propaganda piece title “Honesty in the Immigration Debate.” Navarrett begins by saying “Bill Richardson rocks.” Well of course he does. Richardson is a Hispanic and one of Mexico’s key allies in its invasion of America.
Navarrett suggests that Richardson is auditioning for a vice presidential nomination and recognizes that “the audition is going well.” If Richardson is successful, America will be only one heartbeat from becoming a Hispanic nation. Thus Navarrett’s excitement is understandable. Imagine President Richardson vetoing every bill that he considers anti-immigrant. And imagine all the federal judges and thousands of other appointees having Spanish surnames.
Navarrett thought it was terrific how Richardson characterized as dysfunctional the porous border with Mexico, the bottleneck immigration program, the U.S. Congress’ inept handling of immigration, and the political discussion of illegal immigration. Most Americans would agree and believe the solution would be to shut down the border altogether, but that would require bringing home U.S. troops so they could protect the home front. Of course, that is not what Navarrett has in mind, which is to have no border at all with Mexico.
He criticizes Americans for “falling into old habits and repeating familiar depiction of immigrants—legal or illegal—as inferior to natives, defective in their culture, slow to assimilate, prone to criminal activity, and devoid of any positive values. However, the 1996 National Youth Gang Survey revealed that Hispanics make up the largest portion of gang membership—44 percent. The high school drop-out rate for Hispanics 45 percent. Concerning sexually transmitted disease the National Library for Medicine said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that in 1991 the rates of reported congenital syphilis cases among Hispanics were substantially above the national average for non-Hispanic whites as were rates of primary and secondary syphilis. Finally, one report warned that while overall illegal drug use among U.S. teens was down, Hispanic teens' use of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine outpaced use by their white and black peers. In other words, by allowing the Hispanic invasion, American is importing the problems associated with third-world nations.
These are just some of the inconvenient truths that one can find about Hispanics living in America (and the news south of the border, which Navarrette also ignores, is not any brighter). Why the blinders? Because Navarrette is a Hispanic rhetorician whose job it is to pangloss the effects of Hispanic immigrants upon American society. But these problems are not the key issue for millions of Americans. The Hispanicization of American’s communities is. In other words, most Americans do not what America transformed into Amerxico, regardless of how attractive Hispanic culture might be to Navarrette and Richardson.
And why is it that Canadians are not invading America? Because Canadians have not created a dysfunctional society. The unpleasant fact here is that there is a fundamental difference between Canadian and Mexican cultures.
Navarrett says “Amen” to Richardson’s saying, “We should stop demonizing immigrants.” Well of course Richardson and Navarrett would believe this: they are Hispanics. But from the perspective of Americans, the Hispanic invasion is a threat to America in the same way demons were thought to be a threat to individuals. Remember Rosemary’s Baby? Well, that is what is happening to America: it is being possessed by an alien culture. It is the act of possessing and transforming that is demonic, not necessarily the people themselves (though Hispanic drug cartels and street gangs look pretty demonic).
Navarrett applauds Gov. Schwarzenegger’s saying that Americans should channel “their anger over illegal immigration toward the federal government and not toward immigrants.” But this is a red herring argument designed to distract from the main issue: that Hispanics have illegally invaded America and have become the seeds of a multitude of social, economic, and cultural problems in this country. As far as the federal government is concerned, the U.S. government is already an object of Americans’ fear and loathing.
Finally, Navarrett accuses those who are critical of immigrants as being racist. He does this by saying that the critics’ defending themselves will tell you that their “angst” is caused only by those who enter the country illegally, not by immigrants who enter the county legally. He calls this defense a “lovely sound bite.”
Angst is a form of fear, and what Americans fear is the loss of their homeland, which is what Mexico and many Mexican organizations have in mind for much of the United States. It has already occurred in many parts of the country. Recently, a friend told me he went into a Wal-Mart in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and everyone was speaking Spanish. It was as if he were in Mexico. He joked that they would have to provide him with a translator in order to check out. So yes, Americans would also object to tens of millions of immigrants legally entering their country—because legal or illegal, mass immigration will mean the destruction of the integrity of American culture. And when that occurs, Hispanics living in America will still have their national homes, such as Mexico; it will be Americans who be homeless.
So Americans have less to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. They have an economy running on four flat tires (public and private debt, a dollar on life-supports, the price of oil approaching $100 a barrel, and a collapsed housing market); they are fighting and losing wars at home and abroad; like Othello, they have squandered their reputation abroad (being seen as both evil and ridiculous); their politicians have become America’s firing squad; and their nation is being eroded by immigrants, so that by the end of the century their grandchildren will be aliens in what was once their homeland (and Thanksgiving dinner will consist of enchiladas, tacos, tamales, and sopaipillas, eaten in celebration of the birth of the new Hispanic Nation). Bon Appétit!
