6/10/2014 - Pat Buchanan Townhall.com
For 10 days, Americans have argued over the
wisdom of trading five Taliban senior commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
President Obama handed the Taliban a
victory, critics contend, and imperiled U.S. troops in Afghanistan when the
five return to the battlefield. Moreover, he has inspired the Haqqani network
and other Islamists to capture more Americans to trade.
But which represents the greater
long-term threat to the safety and security of our people and nation: sending
those five Taliban leaders to Doha, and perhaps back to Afghanistan, or
releasing into the U.S. population last year 36,000 criminal illegal aliens
with 88,000 convictions among them?
According to a May report of the Center
for Immigration Studies, of the 36,000 criminal aliens who, while awaiting
deportation, were set free by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 193 had
been convicted of homicide, 426 of sexual assault, 303 of kidnapping, 1,075 of
aggravated assault, 1,160 for stolen vehicles, 9,187 for possession or use of
dangerous drugs, and 16,070 for driving drunk or drugged.
Those 36,000 criminal aliens are
roughly equivalent to three-and-a-half divisions of felons and social misfits
released into our midst. And this does not include the 68,000
illegal aliens against whom ICE declined to press criminal charges last year,
but turned loose.
How goes the Third World invasion of
the United States?
According to the AP, the U.S. Border
Patrol's Rio Grande Valley sector made 148,017 arrests from Oct. 1 to May 17,
while 62,876 were caught in the Tucson sector, the second-busiest crossing
point.
That is almost 211,000 illegal aliens
caught in just over half a year in just two sectors of the border. And that
figure only tells us how many were caught, not how many got in, or how many of
those caught were released and now reside among us.
Among those caught crossing into Texas
these last seven months were 47,000 unaccompanied children. Border Patrol
estimates that by Sept. 30, apprehensions of children and teenagers in this
fiscal year could reach 90,000.
According to Gov. Jan Brewer, the feds
have begun shipping illegal aliens, adults as well as children, from Texas to
Arizona, "dumping" them into her state.
"This is a humanitarian crisis and
it requires a humanitarian response," says Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski
of the surge in children from Central America across the U.S. border.
Attorney General Eric Holder has risen
to the crisis. The U.S. will now provide lawyers for children who enter
illegally, to fight their battle in U.S. courts to stay.
"We're taking this historic
step," says Holder, "to protect the rights of the most vulnerable
members of our society. How we treat those in need -- particularly young people
who are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking -- goes to the core
of who we are as a nation."
Somehow the core contention of James
Burnham's "Suicide of the West," out 50 years ago this year, comes to
mind. "Liberalism," wrote Burnham.
"is the ideology of Western suicide." America and the West must face
up to what is happening to our countries and our civilization. Or we are going
to lose them both forever.
Treating with contempt U.S. and
European laws, peoples from failed states of the Third World are steadily
filling up our countries and reducing our native-born into slowly shrinking
national majorities.
If this continues over many more
decades, Western nations as we knew them will disappear forever, and be remade
in the image of those who have newly arrived, and the countries whence they
came. When, ever, did Americans vote for this?
What would constitute a pro-American
immigration policy? A moratorium on all immigration until unemployment among
U.S. citizens falls below five percent. A 15-foot security fence from San Diego
to the
Gulf, with Border Patrol outposts every 10 miles. Fines and community
service for businessmen who hire illegal aliens.
Europe is facing the same crisis. This
past weekend, 5,200 migrants were caught on boats crossing from Africa to
Italy. Spain and Greece, too, are major crossing points from sub-Sahara Africa
and the Arab and Islamic world into the heart of Europe.
Yet as we saw in the May European parliamentary
elections, the peoples of Europe are not going quietly into that good night
that their elites have prepared for them. They want to preserve the unique
countries that they once were. Frenchmen want France to remain France, as the
Brits want to remain British.
And despite the names they are being
called, there is nothing wrong with that. As Euripides wrote, there
is no "greater grief than the loss of one native land."
The Republican establishment of Jeb
Bush, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and the Senate hierarchy is prepared to
collaborate with Barack Obama on a halt to deportations and partial amnesty.
If so, we shall find out whether the
Republican Party still has a heart and soul, or whether, in the last analysis,
it comes down to the money."
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