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?”