Citizens and Invaders

Author Linda Brady Traynham

Let me start by stating that many of our finest citizens settled in the territories when the US flag didn’t have many stars at all, and I have no objection whatsoever to the color of the skin of anyone who genuinely wants to be a law-abiding, self-supporting United States citizen, other than green, perhaps.  I find it sadly ironic that in general it is white conservatives who judge others by the content of their characters and not the pigmentation of their integuments.

Citizenship demands certain characteristics, behaviors, and qualifications, and it makes no more sense to demand that those who managed to stroll across our borders be handed the rights of citizens–and more–than to demand that I adopt and send to college any burgler I catch rifling my house.  Citizen law-breakers have been given “rights” that the Constitution never intended, such as an attorney paid for by my tax money.  The right to remain silent, certainly; that’s part of the fifth amendment.  It should be obvious to all, including the Supreme Court, that alien criminals are entitled to none of the protections granted citizens, and that the concept of “anchor babies” is flawed because it contravenes the notion that law-breakers must not benefit from their crimes.  Invaders are not “entitled” to “free” food, housing, medical care, education, exemption from having insurance on their automobiles, SS cards/benefits, or anything else.  At most they are entitled to relatively gentle handling when tossed back over the borders from whence they came, and if it were up to me they would be scanned biometrically at the very least and branded “IA” on their left hands as well by choice.  Anyone who does not want such things to happen has only to obey the laws.  I obey a great many laws I disapprove of, so why shouldn’t they?  Will the world be a better place if the rest of us emulate their example and simply do as we please?  Will we be coddled and rewarded?  Somehow I doubt that I will!

The brouhaha in Arizona is exceptionally ridiculous.  How can the Federal Government possibly sue a state over legislation which says that Federal laws must be upheld?  Fairly easily in the Obama Nation, of course, which does not make it rational.  Our citizens oppose “illegal immigration” by an overwhelming proportion; Statists approve similarly because illegals require ever more tax money to support, vote (not legally) for higher taxes and more giveaways, and dilute our national character.  As early as 1790 James Madison emphasized that immigrants who were not able to incorporate themselves into our society should be excluded–as they should.

Our cities now are thronged with those who dress, speak, and behave in ways that show at a glance where they were born, and it sure wasn’t Kansas.  I am offended by this.  If men want to wear baggy white pants and dusters and caps or turbans that’s fine with me…so long as they do it in India, Pakistan, and similar places where such is considered normal attire, or are tourists.  I feel the same way about females in saris and burkas.

Alexander Hamilton recognized that ”The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”  If two of the most influential of the founding fathers could see such things, why cannot those screaming for amnesty, blanket citizenship for those who share none of the attributes Hamilton wrote of in 1802, and even those with nothing but misplaced kindness in their hearts see that nothing will destroy our country more surely than the Balkanization which the Statists have pushed deliberately for over a quarter of a century?  Long gone is the proud ideal of the melting pot, the belief that one couldbecome a citizen of a nation, sharing beliefs and stable rules of law?  Now we are told that our strength lies in “diversity,” not unity.  No, indeed our differences do not make us a greater nation, they make us a country of factions edging closer to violence, as is always the case when those sharing a land do not share a common heritage, common goals, and common beliefs.

Hamilton is not a great favorite of mine, but his warnings at times are very true at times, such as that the current course is “…likely to compromise the interests of our own country in favor of another. The permanent effect of such a policy will be, that in times of great public danger there will be always a numerous body of men, of whom there may be just grounds of distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader.”  Not only in their hearts, but in their behavior and the money received in the USA which is sent lavishly to other countries do those who are our “guests” (whether we wish them to be so or not) demonstrate that they are not candidates for citizenship.  They are here to take, to spurn our ways, to make it impossible to “…(preserve) a national spirit and a national character.”  They do so without grace or gratitude, with dishonesty, treachery, and violence.

Legally, perhaps, Nidal Hussein was a citizen of the United States.  He had sworn allegiance to our Constitution and our laws, but he held his faith above all that day he began shooting unarmed soldiers and medical staff in Ft. Hood.  The increasing blue blemish on the southern borders of our political map represent not true conviction in the greatness of American ideals, but a determination to take what is ours because we are too weak to defend it.  Those who come seek only to take and have nothing but contempt for our ways, our language, and the notion of renouncing citizenship in their own countries.  Certainly there are those who come here legally and work to become Americans, but this becomes harder as they are drawn into enclaves by choice, seeking what is comfortable in the sights and sounds of their native lands.  My nail artist has lived in the US for nearly eighteen years, but his English is limited to “You pick co-rore.”  “You rike shorter?”  “You rike frow-er?” and telling customers how much they owe.

He secludes himself with his family and countrymen, eating the same food he grew up with.  His children do not speak English.  He does at least support himself, but in no way could he be described as a citizen.  His dream was to come to America, get “rich” and return to Thailand.  He, at least, does no harm–at present.  How will he act when business becomes far worse than it is now?  He has no other skills.  His boss said to me (in broken English) “In my country they cut off you arm for gold like that,” referring to my wedding rings and a bracelet.  He wasn’t joking.

We cannot continue to tolerate the influx of gangs, drug cartels, and those whose goal is to live on welfare.  We dare not tolerate those whose religion demands that they slay infidels, and regards us as infidels.  We cannot survive by yielding to those who demand we adopt the laws of other nations, including those who mutiliate their children and have “honor” killings.  If they want that sort of honor, let them return to the Middle East where they can be ruled as they are accustomed to being.

A big problem with Americans is that we have always been too generous, too kind, too quick to forgive, and too understanding.  If we do not yank ourself out of our Nineteen Fifties and “Happy Days” view of the world and rein in both the excesses of government at all levels and the destruction of our core beliefs and freedoms America will not exist for many more decades.  It is already so alien that I can scarcely recognize remnants of the wonderful land I grew up in seventy years ago.

Have visitors no rights?  Of course they do.  They have the right to be polite and to be allowed to live in peace so long as they are here legally and abide by our laws.  Those who infiltrate under cover of darkness to loot have no such rights.

The Federal Government has no right to defy laws passed by individual states, and appears more ludicrous than usual attempting to strike down laws that reproduce those already passed in Congress in every way.

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