There is big money behind the exploitation of cheap foreign labor. But it is difficult for the multi-national corporate interests who lure and exploit these foreign workers to morally justify this exploitation without the cover of ethno-centric advocacy groups which are used to silence any criticism of this new serfdom. Even though it is they who immorally encourage the separation of families, they who encourage the violation of US immigration laws, they who create the situations for un-safe working conditions and they who foster the creation of a serf class in America, they seek to portray their critics as racists, xenophobes and bigots. Unbelievably, with generous help from the main-stream media and so called charitable foundations, the very foundations funded by these same corporate interests, they have been largely successful. Up until now.
How did this situation come about? How did patriotic Americans allow their elected representatives to connive at actions which involve law-breaking on a massive scale, which threaten the interests and livelihoods of the poorest American citizens, and which, if continued, will undermine the stability and security of our country? The answer is contained in a single word: ‘racism’.
Those who defend illegal immigration shout ‘racist’ at everyone who resists them. To be called a racist today is like being called a witch in seventeenth-century Massachusetts. You are guilty as charged.
The children’s rhyme tells us that ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones. But names will never hurt me’. Alas, this isn’t true. Some names are weapons, used to destroy the opponent and to silence debate. To call someone a racist is to cast a slur on his motives and to brand him as beyond the reach of dialogue. It is a charge that few Americans will risk, and the lobbyists for illegal immigration know this.
But are ordinary American citizens racists, just because they wish to see the law upheld and their country protected from invasion? Americans have a long history of welcoming newcomers and of inviting them to share in the American dream. Every year more than a million legal immigrants enter this country, from all parts of the world, and with every kind of racial and cultural background. Americans encourage them to share our prosperity and to make their own contribution to it.
Until recently it was assumed, by the immigrants as well as by the indigenous population, that newcomers should integrate into American society. They should come to America with the intention to learn the language, to respect the customs, and to obey the law of their hosts. That way they would achieve their goal, which was to become Americans themselves, preserving the precious memories of their origin, but living on equal terms with their neighbours in the land of the free.
Americans did not require the new arrivals to be of any particular race or cultural background. All that they required was that the newcomers should come with the intention of sharing the American inheritance, not defying it. And that meant, first and foremost, that they should come here legally, and with the intention of obeying the law. And yet now, an American who protests at the presence here of people who live outside the law, is condemned as a racist, a xenophobe or a bigot.
Many of those who make this accusation are defenders of ‘multiculturalism’ — people like the bureaucrats of La Raza, for example, the organisation that lobbies on behalf of illegal immigrants of Hispanic origin, and which defends their supposed right to the benefits of American society without the costs involved in really belonging to it. And there are costs: learning the language, obeying the law, adopting the national allegiance, playing one’s part in the social and economic life of the community.
According to La Raza, the illegal aliens do not merely have a right to citizenship, and to all the educational, medical and welfare privileges of citizens; they also have a right to retain their apartness, to live in communities of their own, isolated by language and custom and retaining their ties to their country of origin. They are under no obligation to belong to the host community: on the contrary they have the right to exist within the shell of their imported culture, in a condition of permanent apartness from the way of life whose benefits they enjoy.
But why should Americans welcome this? Why should they welcome a new kind of America, in which communities live separate lives, in which there is no common allegiance, no single national feeling that binds people together in a shared obedience? Why should they welcome communities who not only establish themselves here illegally but who continue thereafter to direct their loyalties and affections beyond our borders? The lesson of history — of the Balkan states, for example — is that multicultural communities are riven by racist sentiments, and ready to dissolve at any moment into civil war. How much more likely is this when a country contains ghettoes which have grown illegally within its borders and without the consent of the hosts.
We should remind ourselves that La Raza means race, and that it is not the ordinary American but this outspoken defender of illegal immigration which sees the issue as one of ‘race’. And we should ask ourselves who is the real racist: the one who wishes to extend a welcome to legal immigrants and to integrate them into his community, or the one who comes here in defiance of the law, who looks with suspicion on American customs, and who resolves to live apart from the national way of life?
Americans have been intimidated by two decades of multicultural propaganda. They no longer see that they have as much right to their culture and their way of life as any other community, and that if people come to join them in their territory and to share the good things that Americans have established there, the newcomers must come in an attitude of respect, and not with the kind of swaggering Hispanic chauvinism that La Raza seeks to disguise as fashionable ‘multiculturalism’.
We should remind ourselves, too, of the real victims of illegal immigration, namely the indigenous poor, including those African-American communities which have only recently gained their rightful place in American society. Americans today are aware of the historical injustices suffered by their black fellow-citizens. Only a racist would wish to see African-Americans once again deprived of the opportunity to enjoy their rightful place in American society. Yet it is precisely those who cry ‘racist’ at their opponents who now wish to steal the jobs of law-abiding blacks and to hand them over at a discount to illegal immigrants.
Americans of all racial, ethnic and cultural background have always understood that our motto, E Pluribus Unum, means - from many, one. If anyone should be shunned from polite society and civil discourse, it is the spokes-persons, the political hacks and their corporate pay-masters who shout racist, racist, racist as a mantra to silence their critics. They have as much moral justification as those who burned witches in Salem or those who tortured heretics in the Inquisition.
American citizens who are legitimately concerned with the current immigration crisis and the threat to American sovereignty must be prepared to stand up against insult, slander and libel — bravely and unapologetically — in any forum, at any time. Let others shout, rant and accuse as they will. We will stand our ground.