Pete Borden: Illegal an adjective, not a race
by Pete Borden
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June 29, 2011 12:00 AM | 2279 views | 9 9 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend | print
“We’re going to take over all the political institutions in California. In five years the Hispanics are going to be the majority population of this state. California is going to become a Hispanic state and if anyone doesn’t like it they should leave. They ought to go back to Europe.”

That statement is one of several similarly worded, and equally threatening, responses to a column by Mr. D.A. King, published on June 17.

Does it sound like the cries of ordinary, working-class people trying to improve life for their families, or is it the battle cry of an organized effort to take something that belongs to someone else?

I doubt we have 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants (depending upon whose estimates you choose) solely because of an influx of common people seeking work. When one reads the propaganda issued by the National Coun-cil of La Raza, it is obvious there is a deeper reason, one which involves the illegal, but peaceful, invasion and sei-zure of control of parts of the United States.

It is frustrating that we still have large sectors of the populace who refuse to accept the evidence in front of them. Our religious and social organizations, which, in the name of humanity, attempt to spoon feed us the concept of compassion for lawbreakers and intruders, constitute a real threat to our awareness of a clear and present danger.

Add to those, the corps of scaremongers raising the cry of skyrocketing prices and billions of dollars in crops rot-ting in the field, if laws on immigration are actually enforced, and it makes for some convincing, but ill-conceived and totally false, justification for allowing the lawbreaking to continue.

For these people, the propaganda machine is working. They are convinced that we cannot survive without the il-legal immigrants. They are convinced that the sheer magnitude of the numbers renders the question of deportation unrealistic. Not true. Presidents Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower all deported large numbers of illegal aliens, caus-ing many others to leave voluntarily.

Several days before Mr. King’s article, there appeared an article, written by West Georgia University Professor, Dr. Krystal Perkins, which was a textbook example of a totally false premise, being promoted by otherwise intelli-gent people. They are convinced, and seek to convince us, that the issue is similar to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

Ironically, her column came out at the same time as a news story of the theft of computers from KSU by an illegal immigrant in the employ of the university. That employment itself is a clear violation of the law.

These educationally elite individuals, apparently, cannot distinguish between a thief and victim. The Civil Rights Movement and the illegal immigration problem bear no similarity and are as different as day and night. There is not a tinge of a basis for drawing a parallel.

The former was the struggle by United States citizens whose ancestors were brought here against their will (“vic-tims”). Their fight was to ultimately gain affirmation of the rights of which they had systematically been deprived.

The illegal immigration problem concerns an invasion by foreign nationals (“thieves”) who came here of their own free will, and in violation of the law, and who are systematically depriving United States citizens of their rights, their jobs, their social services and their economy.

Those who try to characterize opposition to illegal immigration as a racial prejudice issue and characterize it as “hate mongering” are equally as misled and ill-informed. It is not “racism”, nor is it “hate”, to insist upon enforce-ment of the law. “Illegal” is an adjective and “illegally” is an adverb. Neither are associated with race, or hate.

Citizens and legal immigrants, across all race and ethnic lines, have been hurt, socially, educationally and eco-nomically by these illegal aliens. We owe their cause no support, sympathy or understanding.

The groundswell of citizen outcry for protection of our jobs, our, families and our futures is unmistakable. The tough immigration laws enacted by the states of Arizona, Georgia and Alabama, coupled with the fact that 18 other states are working on similar laws, are indicators that the American people are cognizant of the severity of this prob-lem, and are demanding that government address it in the strongest terms possible.

I am not sure what these laws are called in other states, but, in Georgia and in Cobb County, HB 87, E-Verify, 287(g) and Sheriff Neil Warren are merely our way of saying “Stop, Thief!"

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anonymous
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July 01, 2011
Very good, Mr. Borden. I appreciate that thru all of your well known xenophobic, racist, intolerant, bigoted, hating ways...you still hit the nail on the head every time. :)

Thanks!
anonymous
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July 01, 2011
--- I-2-patriot wrote on Wednesday, Jun 29 at 06:47 PM » ... The problem with the term is that what constitutes legality is under constant redefinition. ---

I-2-patriot, not really. Although what actions/characteristics/features/attributes place a person/action into the realm of illegality is evaluated/re-evaluated on a case-by-case basis...different facts can lead to different conclusions.
Steve Rhinehart
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June 30, 2011
to 1-2-Patriot. You sure know how to mix apples and oranges. First, babies born out of wedlock are still illegitimate, regardless of the fact that Holywood seems to be producing them in bunches.

Second, the definition of "illegal" has not changed. Only people's attitudes about it. Illegal means against the law. It always has and it still does. Laws may change, but they still define legality.

And your example of a "woman's place" is involved with social mores, not the law.

There are no inconsistencies as to what is legal and what is illegal.

Blase' attitude, like the one you exhibit here, are, to a great extent, part of the reason we now have ll million ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in this country.

I suggest you get your head out in the sunshine and really look at what is happening to our country.

Try to be a part of the solution, not part of the problem.
I-2-patriot
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June 29, 2011
I seem to recall that we once called children born out of wedlock "illegitimate" or, in other words, illegal in some sense. The problem with the term is that what constitutes legality is under constant redefinition. What forces a notion to be redefined over time is social change, thus a "woman's place" is now everywhere a man is and a lunch counter in the U.S. accommodates anyone who can pay, with Jim Crow long-buried. It would be much more productive to pressure Congress for federal laws to protect and stabilize our borders and come up with logical, consistent rules to determine who is "legal" and who is not. That would be a game changer. Hurling shallow warnings about dangers real or imagined does nothing.
John Bowman
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June 29, 2011
Good article and comments, the National Council of La Raza is based upon the book "La Raza Cosmica" (The Cosmic Race) written by a Mexican politician and "intellectual". It is very racist against non-Latinos, and lays out how Latinos are a superior fifth "cosmic" race created from mixing of the older existing four races, and how their cosmic race will take over the world. They are not much different than the Nazi Party.
acme company
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June 29, 2011
Sadly, as one of the lone voices in the wilderness, I have been warning any and all who will listen about the clear and present danger to America by these uninvited border crashers since the late 1970's. I, mistakenly, thought the worst that could happen would be the loss of California and the other southwestern states, but now I fear for the whole nation since the invaders are rooted in every state of the union. Is it too late to recover our nation? I wonder.
misterbill
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June 29, 2011
Another excellent article Pete. HFHagan and PatH have already described some of the rebuttals and where they will come from.

The whole situation is dangerous and cannot end well.American rule of law is laughed at by illegal immigrants and Mexico,in particular. We are seen as people who are fat,soft and lazy. That is because it is true.

In my circle of neighbors there are few who see the danger. There are some who pay lip service to it, but as soon as they can save money by having their roofs replaced or their yards mowed by illegals, all principles go out the door.

The invasion is too large to be handled by the federal government without the use of assistance by the states. The severe cost of illegal immigration can be easily found on the internet in valid sites such as Heritage, FAIRUS and many others.

I could continue on, but Pete, per usual, has done a fine job above. This cannot continue. There may be violence because the federal government will not uphold the laws of the United States.
HFHagan
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June 29, 2011
Excellent, Pete. Well put, as usual.

Unfortunately, an all too large continent of the citizenry, I have found, do not read very thoroughly, and have limited capacities for grasping and holding thoughts. Perhaps that's one reason newspapers are becoming ever thinner.

But the overarching problem with illegal immigration, as with many other problems facing the US, is that our opponents are very well organized, while we are not. Far and away most Americans champion the Rule of Law, without which there is disorder. But the Ruling Elites, about whom most Americans know little, want this enormous underclass of Hispanics to be totally free to enter and squat here. They are, in effect, quasi slaves. But they also are a huge bloc of Democratic voters.

So unless we organize ourselves against the traitors, we don't stand much of a chance.

Now if all those illegal hordes were lawyers, you can bet the judges would sing a different tune.

Pat H
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June 29, 2011
Excellent article Mr. Borden. Now come the illegal and unlawful loving crazies - Pellegrino, Gonzalez and their Communist supporters to lecture us on xenophobia and hate speech. The only opinion that is not hate speech is theirs, which actually is laced with racism and hate.

If illegal aliens want to be considered a civil rights issue, they are protesting in the wrong country. The black civil rights movement occurred here and took courage and strength of character. None of those qualities can be attributed to the illegal aliens here who refuse to obey any of our laws.
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