The Rule Of Law? No Mas!

a wiki quote: The rule of law is the principle that governmental authority is legitimately exercised only in accordance with written, publicly disclosed laws adopted and enforced in accordance with established procedure. The principle is intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary governance.

I am not anti-immigration regrading Hispanics, or any group. The fact is, as the latest census has shown, in one-hundred or so years Hispanics are going to be the majority in America, whether one likes it, or not. Frankly, that doesn't bother me a bit. Irresponsible politicians employing racial demagoguery around the immigration reform currently being considered are actually the ones doing the greatest disservice to the very group they would purport to represent, Hispanics themselves.

Why is it that Hispanics, just as millions of others before them over the centuries, want to come to America? They want to come here because it has always been a nation of laws with a democratic form of government supported by a robust capitalist economic engine. They did and still do want to come here because America has, in great part, not been arbitrary in what laws it passes, or how they are enforced. But no mas!

Dismissing if not actually dismantling the Rule of Law to give this or that group of individuals operating outside of the law what they want from fear of being labeled a racist does nothing to sustain the very thing so many immigrants from all over the world desire to come to America to enjoy.

As a conservative, it is the fundamental principles that have made this Nation great that I want to preserve. I don't care what color we are. It has always been America's principles, not her color, or predominant Race that has made her great. And the social and political onslaught against our founding principles we've endured through some forty years of liberal creep have put those principles at risk.

In the twenty-five years since Reagan, we have only barely begun to restore objective democratic principles and values to American society as a whole. We are not talking about suddenly welcoming millions upon millions of new citizens with a deep democratic and capitalist tradition into school systems where traditional Americans values are celebrated, let alone even upheld. We would be welcoming them into a system where, today, Christopher Columbus is considered a pillaging rapist, the Founders have been reduced to fornicating slave holders like Jefferson and, culturally, all bets are off because nothing uniquely American matters anymore.

I don't oppose this amnesty because the people are brown. I oppose it because our current system is ill-prepared to help shape them into the very thing they wish to become - Americans. At least, I think that's the point, or am I not correct?

Because if this group, or that group wants to become American and America itself is not prepared to absorb and assimilate that group due to its own current political and ideological struggles, how is it that they are going to emerge as Americans at the end of the day? The fact is, they won't.

Personally, I do not advocate sending a single otherwise law-abiding, hard working illegal immigrant already here back to Mexico, or anywhere else. Gain control of our borders, assimilate the millions of mostly un-assimilated illegal aliens we currently have residing within our borders. Help them to become, develop and prosper as that which presumably they most want to be - Americans. They can become magnificent leaders for whatever number of legal immigrants one day follow in their path because, to continue to grow, America needs a managed, consistent flow of new immigration.

What America does not need right now is to be overrun by millions more of non-American illegal immigrants with no greater goal than to flee a poor and corrupt homeland simply because they wish to be somewhere else. Preserve our noble history of law, democracy and capitalism and let it become whatever color it might down the road as the result of the people who come here legitimately, compete and succeed within America as it should be.

Don't simply turn over everything we have built up and fought to maintain for hundreds of years because of some misguided sense of responsibility based upon color or race, something we can do very little about. Shore up our borders, our democratic institutions, American traditions and values and open the doors to as many legal immigrants from Mexico or anywhere else we can assimilate as that is, indeed, the American dream.

To sell it all out for some foolish notion of leftist political correctness to one group of people we once fought against to become more established is not a perpetuation of the American Dream. It will be an American nightmare and may be the beginning of the end of the American Experiment itself.

You can read much informative on going discussion on the issue here via NRO:

It’s never a good day for the White House when, at the start of his evening radio show, Mark Levin is provoked by a presidential press conference — one lauding a supposed legislative achievement — to complain on behalf of conservatives: “How about not treating us with animosity?”

 

Comments

[Kyle de Beausset]

I came across your blog through a technorati search and I was wondering if you'd be interested in a link exchange with Immigration Orange. I'm always looking for different perspectives to interact with and value all viewpoints. Email me at kyledeb at gmail dot com if you're interested.

[Bithead]

Why is it that Hispanics, just as millions of others before them over the centuries, want to come to America? They want to come here because it has always been a nation of laws with a democratic form of government supported by a robust capitalist economic engine. They did and still do want to come here because America has, in great part, not been arbitrary in what laws it passes, or how they are enforced. But no mas!

Well, I don't know if I'd put it so.
What they're coming for is the jobs to be had here. In other words, they're not looking quite so deeply as to make the connection that BECAUSE the nation is one of laws, etc, a better living is available. rather, they're here because of the dollar signs.

Which, in turn would explain why becoming actual citizens has never been much of a draw.

[old trooper]

They respect NO LAWS and are here for the DOLLARS. Period!

This Bill is a bad joke on America.

I wish that they would all camp out in Hyannis Port,outside Ted Kennedy`s house.

If they respected LAWS, they would have applied for VISAS and waited in line, like hundreds of Thousands are doing right now. No Bill at ALL and Enforcement of Current Settled Law beats the pants off this POS.

[seekeronos]

It is not about black, white, yellow or brown; it is about what is the end result of having this "multi-culti" brew where the dominant cultural frame of reference that has framed much of America's existence, that is, Judeo-Christian, primarily English, but somewhat more generally northern European culture.

Some folks will read that (somewhat correctly) as "white" culture. Sorry, but that's the truth. We are built upon the labours of white Anglos that framed that Jeffersonian/Madisonian federal republic we all know as the United States of America.

This is not to say that Blacks, Asians, Latinos, or First Nations peoples cannot or have not made contributions to that whole which is the American Culture, but the foundations are those of a bunch of Englishmen that had some great ideas.

I'm all for mixing and melting and someday seeing us as one nation of Americans who are mostly light-coffee coloured with wavy brownish hair, with the same basic identity and heritage from England as we have enjoyed thus far.

BUT, the road to such a place must be controlled so as not to ruin our grandchildren's inheritance. Unleashing a torrent of Latinos and not changing our policies to check the millions of anchor babies being born on US soil every year is a recipe for ruin: pockets of unassimilateable Latinos with a patronista culture that will breed tyrants and an entrenched culture of patron-rulers that will be the death of the Jeffersonian model we love.

[old trooper]

Kennedy`s grandchildren have a off shore inheritance.

Your Point?

[seekeronos]

I don't know from Kennedy or his grandchildren. I'm sure they've got everything all figured out.

As for me, I'd prefer not to have to worry about my son or my (presumed, future) grandchildren having to eke out a third world existence in the ruined shell of what used to be the USA. Maybe they will be speaking some sort of vernacular Spanglish by then, but if we don't put a stop on the revolving door immigration policy we have, it won't be good for the rest of us non-Kennedy elites.

[old trooper]

Understood. I have two three year old grand daughters. Their future was placed at risk by this recent treason by Kennedy & Company and the most spineless President since Jimmy Carter.

Dark days ahead.

[Leatherneck]

Instead of enforcing welfare to Americans only, securing the border, and fining employers for hiring illegal aliens, they may be given forgivness. I e-mailed a few Senators yesterday.

Just to cover the bases, I continue to go to the gym, and I keep my weapons clean. It appears our jails are full of third world turds, and no telling how many are driving around drunk.

[BobInStamford]

Well, I see that the flatearthers are up in arms about this immigration bill - that can only mean that it is a good thing. Looks like we're turning the corner!

[seekeronos]

Totally unrelated, but I just thought of the best possible punishment for those five wretched animals that murdered Channon Christian and Chris Newsome:

Chain them together in a deep pit WITH HairyBobInStamford - with nothing between them but one rusty, tetanus-infected screwdriver. Cover up the pit, and then come back in 20 days or so. Those six problems will have taken care of themselves by then.

[BobInStamford]

Shouldn't you be speaking in tongues, brave Christian soldier? Thank you and Jerry Falwell for your service.

[seekeronos]

Nah. I believe that "speaking in Tongues" is way past its use-by date.

That was a spiritual gift intended for the "apostolic age" before the New Testament was completed.

Speaking of which, you'd do well to pick up a Bible and read it, especially Romans 1:18-32, Romans 3:23, and Romans 10:13.

Even you can be saved, Bob. Jesus died for your sins as well as mine.

[Cindi]

AMEN!

[Leatherneck]

BobInStamford, You think we are turning the corner with immigration? How so?

Bob, you seem to write stuff just to be hateful. I don't think the earth is flat, I just think those who brake the law should be treated as such.

Are you hoping for a one world government, and the taking away of borders? Any hot chicks around you in Iceland today?

[Fred Beloit]

Well, that's what the BoobinBridgeport does, leather. He writes stuff just to be hateful. We all have our little foibles.

[Paul]

This statement needs a little context. You said:

"As a conservative, it is the fundamental principles that have made this Nation great that I want to preserve."

While I applaud your championing of the rule of law, and I agree with you in this case, I'd say your discovery of what makes America great is too little and too late. You might have placed a value on the rule of law, say, before you voted in an administration that is more hostile to that concept than any preceding it.

What we're left with is the fact that you only value the rule of law when it applies to immigrants. But I'm here to tell you, it's also good applied on Americans and even the president. If you can't agree with something as basic as that, then you have no right calling yourself a conservative.