A Sincere Cry For Unity Not Amnesty

Immigration:   It Comes Down To This


Do we want to continue being the U. S. of A?

Gene Guyant, Chief Patrol Agent {Ret}, U.S. Border Patrol and Founding Member of NAFBPO

Nations are independent entities created, united and held together by common and predominant ethnic, language, social and legal structures. That accounts for the unique individuality and the differences from one to another between, for example, Paraguay, Uzbekistan, Finland, and Namibia.

History teaches us (or should do so) that discord and instability arise when nations lose those common bond elements. To prevent that, nations have borders to identify and control those specific areas where their laws apply and where their sovereignty prevails, thus preventing the dilution or even worse, the loss, of those common bond elements that hold them together.

We all know that for nearly the last half century, that is, from 1965, when the last major amendment to our immigration laws was passed, our country has literally experienced a peacetime invasion by citizens of other countries and that we, as a nation, have not responded in a manner designed to protect and preserve our country’s national identity.

The results are such that, for instance, a Spanish language national TV network was just reported to have had a larger TV audience this season among youths than its major English language network competitors. And the accepted realization and consensus is that there is somewhere around one dozen million foreigners who have managed to violate our federal immigration laws by either crossing our borders illegally or by violating the conditions of their temporary admission. Those millions continue to do so by remaining illegally in our country.

This scenario would be different if their numbers consisted of an even variety of countries of origin. Instead, geography and our own inertness has brought about a number of activist groups dedicated solely to the cause of peoples from south of our border. Too many of them concentrate on keeping and fostering their own socio-cultural ties and norms rather than those we have in our nation, and they strive for regulatory and political changes to benefit their particular ethnic group regardless of the effect on the nation’s political structure.

Thus, the current sad example of members of Congress present at street demonstrations urging Congress to disregard our own laws and to allow those millions to reside with us. What other country in the world would allow its own legislators to demand that its own laws should be disregarded? What will the future bring to our nation when those common bonds of socio-ethnic, language, and legal bonds are smothered and are no longer the glue that holds us together?

We owe it to our own descendants to preserve our national identity and not to surrender to those who would make a mockery of the law by allowing these millions, and certainly many more future millions, to suddenly become legal residents. That will certainly continue to create a dis-united United States of America, one at odds with its own self and with partition and social discord in its future.