Uncle Sam Strikes Back

The people of Arizona last week took a giant step to preserve the Union passing a long over due law to curb illegal immigration by the Mexican hordes. The new law makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. Immigrants unable to produce documents showing they are allowed to be in the U.S. could be arrested, jailed for up to six months and fined $2,500.

For over 30 years the US federal government has dithered, failing to control massive invasions by Mexicans across the US southwestern borders. President Reagan passed an absurd law to staunch the flow by legalizing those already in the US. That failed to the extent that now there are an estimated 20 million illegals in the US. If you do not believe it, look out your window.

GW Bush tried again to find a legal path to make the illegals legal; Ted Kennedy (RIP) and Bomb Bomb McCain spear headed the failed effort in congress. Now with nearly 10% unemployment in the US, Bush's plea that the Mexicans do work others in the US will not, appears even more moronic. More accurately, Mexicans do work for less and under poorer working conditions than others. And that is the exploitive basis for globalization and agreements such as NAFTA.

President Obama has attacked the Arizona law despite the fact he stood by and watched the invasion and just pontificated... There are roughly 460,000 illegal Mexicans in Arizona. Whether they are hard working and work cheap has nothing to do with the more important fact: they have broken the law to achieve this distinction. Other pervasive Mexican lawlessness in the state prompted the new Arizona law to control the illegals.

There will be court challenges to the law when it is implemented about 90 days from now, in August. The Mexican lobbyist groups in USA have already begun mass protest demonstrations; if they participate in these in Arizona after August, suggest they carry their of papers authorizing them to be in the US, or it is fines and the slammer – into the waiting arms of Sheriff Arpaio with his pink, striped prison outfits.

Black groups are joining the Mexican and Latino protests. It is a mistake as illegals take Black jobs and this will sharpen the Black racial conflicts over illegal immigration. Blacks have major problems on Chicago streets. Solving these should take priority rather than joining united fronts that do not affect them directly; on the contrary, this creates friction that will work long term to the Blacks disadvantage.

The critics of the law claim it prompts profiling. They are probably right, but the test is how many legals are minimally inconvenienced for the common good of law and order; and, curbing the exploitation of state welfare, medical services and educational facilities by free-loading illegal aliens.

There has been a parade of policies that attacks the cohesiveness of the US nation state. Most obvious is the participation in global organizations: World Trade Organization, NAFTA, other regional economic agreements, monetary policy with China and the self-destructive helplessness to reject Israeli influence in US policy formulation. Anchor babies, dual citizenship, and failure to defend borders all auger toward this disintegration.

If the illegals do not like the Arizona law, they can move to south of the Rio Grande River. The US rejects the anarchy associated with their presence. Hopefully other states will follow Arizona's example. Colonel Robert E Bartos USA Ret.