Does Illegal Immigration Equal Breaking and Entering?
Danacasso wrote this in response to a forwarded email that claimed it was a letter written by a woman and was published in an editorial column. The forward compared immigrants entering American from Mexico without legal permission to someone breaking into an American's house. It said in both cases the person entered illegally, but said because they were helping (cleaning and such), they must be allowed to stay. My own thoughts are that entering public America (which Mexican citizens can do legally--they just can't stay for years without permission) and breaking into a private residence are not all the same thing. But Danacasso brings out some excellent points that go well beyond the breakdown of an analogy.
-- Alden Loveshade
Just some thoughts.
So, now an analogy of breaking and entering is being used. It could have been clever but this particular author simply isn't.
But, let's look at a few things.
Whose house was broken into in the first place?
Last I recall, much of the Americas were already well populated before we whites got here. We're pretty much the original illegal immigrants to America.
Of course, there used to be this thing that humans used to do for thousands of years, before the first civilizations. They wandered into new lands. Sometimes someone else was already there. Other times not.
After the civilizations began to grow, so did this practice. Nations would send masses of their own citizens with the government's blessing or curse to new lands and they would call it "colonization" or "empire-building." After the founding of the United States, a new term was coined in their place: "Manifest Destiny." Others use more direct words, like "invasion" and "conquest". In fact, you could say that Iraq is such a case.
Today, the country that usually draws the most flack for illegal immigration is Mexico, a country that existed before the United States, but how soon we forget that Mexico once included Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California until we forcibly took those lands in the 1846-8 Mexican War, a war that General and President Ulysses S. Grant himself called "unjust" and he fought in that war.
After the U.S. annexed Texas from Mexico in 1845, Mexico felt that it had to go to war.
And there's plenty of documentation that President James Polk, having failed to buy the other parts of Mexico so that he could expand our territory, engineered the war by goading the Mexicans into attacking us in so that we could "retaliate" and go to war to achieve his goals.
Think about it. Is it any surprise that the highest concentrations of Hispanics in our country live in areas that were once originally and properly part of Mexico?
Interesting. On the night of August 31-September 1, 1939, German convicts, disguised as Polish soldiers, attacked a German radio station on the Polish-German border and killed the station manager, making it look like Polish aggression against Germany. Then, German soldiers arrived and killed the convicts. When the daylight came, World War Two was underway.
And what about the Native Americans? We "broke into their houses." In fact, in many cases, we drove them right out. We even took away their languages and forced them to learn ours. (Listen to the song "Indian Reservation"-Took away our native tongue/And taught their English to our young.) We rounded them up and put them on reservations to that they could "continue to live their traditional way of life."
But the lands that we set aside for reservations usually were piss-poor for hunting, fishing, farming, etc. Did we force them to give us some of their wealth? Yes, we most certainly did. Usually after we killed large numbers of them off. What if they asked us to leave? Didn't work. What if they put up a fight and tried to drive us off the land? Well, they pretty much did try and failed.
Interestingly, there was one man who admired America for the way it disposed of the Native American tribes. He wrote a book which very briefly mentions it in glowing praise. The book was originally a flop but is now globally notorious.
Incredibly, this man appears to have written a second manuscript as a sequel but it has never been published. It doesn't even appear to have a title. It's sitting in an archive in another country, virtually unheard of and almost totally forgotten. But, in it, this man changed his views of the U.S. He foresaw a war with America because it had many immigrants and a powerful industrial capacity that he felt his nation would eventually have to compete with for resources.
In this second, "lost" manuscript, he details out what he felt he needed to do and, in the end, he made much of it really happen.
What was the name of the original book? Mein Kampf. What was the name of this man who so admired America's racial and immigration policies and then turned against us? Adolf Hitler.
But then, this is a Web forward, so anyone could have written it, not some civic-minded housewife who wrote to her paper. I wonder if she really exists.
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Well, well, well. Happy 60th, Roswell, New Mexico. For true believers, yours was the definitive UFO incident.