The New Slaves—Basics of Illegal Alienhood
There is no country on the face of the earth that doesn’t have an illegal alien problem.
No matter how impoverished and miserable life may be in a poor nation, someone is standing on one of its borders seeing greener grass on the other side of that imaginary line.
Refugees are not illegal aliens. A refugee is fleeing from darkness to live in the light at any cost. Illegal aliens leave behind life in the light expecting a big payoff in return for years spent hiding in darkness.
Some countries treat illegal entry as a far more serious crime than the United States has. Until very recently Mexico had draconian jail terms for illegal aliens. U.S. citizens who entered Mexico to work generally could not get jobs and could be jailed for trying. Illegals entering Mexico from Central America were either tortured, raped or slaughtered or received prison terms. Only recently has Mexico lightened up a little on the required prison sentences for Americans, presumably because Americans complained of Mexican hypocrisy.
Even in the Soviet Union—the ultimate police state—people went where they had no official permission to be and plopped themselves down, defying authorities to play the ultimate in hide-and-seek.
EU countries have major problems with growing illegal alien populations and resulting culture clashes.
Canada controls who can get the scarce jobs in Canada. Customs agents grill arriving Americans about their reasons for entering Canada. I once had to go to Canada for a business meeting and almost didn’t get admitted because I said honestly that I was going to talk to the people in my employer’s Toronto office.
Being an illegal alien has never really been treated like a serious crime in the United States. However, one cannot live an undocumented life in any country without committing other crimes. Even in a free country, daily life requires valid identification. For example, most illegal aliens drive but cannot get legal driving licenses. If someone drives a car without a valid driving license, that is one kind of crime. If someone buys a counterfeit driver’s license, that would be another kind of crime. If someone adopts another person’s identity to get documentation, that’s an even more serious crime since that destroys the life of the person whose identity is stolen.
Driving without car insurance is also a crime. Not paying income tax is a crime. Not paying hospital bills is a crime. Turning homes zoned for single-family occupancy into boarding houses is a crime and blights a neighborhood.
When you are living under-the-table, anyone can force you into even more serious crime with threats of revealing your presence to ICE. For example, after establishing themselves in America, illegal aliens are pressured to become involved in smuggling more people into the country. From what I’ve seen, they don’t feel they have right to say no.
And then there are drugs. My illegal alien neighbors get regular visits from a trio of teeny tiny women in colorful native costumes carrying heavily swaddled brick-shaped babies in their shawls. Jump to your own conclusions. I have.
Now people are talking about a new round of amnesty for illegal aliens.
I know people who took American citizenship under the last amnesty. They didn’t do it because they loved America or wanted citizenship. One woman repeatedly told me that if she got hit by a car while still in America, her cousins had been instructed to ship her body home to be buried. She said, “I don’t even want to be buried in this shitty country.”
The vast majority of illegal aliens jumped through hoops to become citizens with the last amnesty because they wanted to be allowed to work in America without hassles, not because they wanted citizenship.
I am certain that if all illegal aliens now in the country were offered a choice between jumping hurdles to attain citizenship or just signing up for renewable long-term work visas, at least 75% would grab the work visas without hesitation. Our economy is their get-rich-quick scheme.
These are not people with impulse-control issues who saw something they wanted and couldn’t wait in line for their turn. On the contrary, these are people who have invested the greater part of their youth for the years at the end of their lives. They want to retire relatively young and rich. That’s their conscious goal and one they can and will articulate to anyone willing to listen. They can attain that goal by sending money home to buy land and rental property. For the majority of them, their presence here is a sacrifice they are making now for their future. If they remain here for their entire lives, it is because they couldn’t resist having lives while they wait for their real life to begin and so became trapped here, ensnared by commitments they hadn't intended to make.
The real question is, what’s in it for us? It is our country and our economy. What about our dreams and goals? What about our futures and our fortunes? What about the welfare of our children and our aging Baby Boomers? What’s in it for us?
No matter how impoverished and miserable life may be in a poor nation, someone is standing on one of its borders seeing greener grass on the other side of that imaginary line.
Refugees are not illegal aliens. A refugee is fleeing from darkness to live in the light at any cost. Illegal aliens leave behind life in the light expecting a big payoff in return for years spent hiding in darkness.
Some countries treat illegal entry as a far more serious crime than the United States has. Until very recently Mexico had draconian jail terms for illegal aliens. U.S. citizens who entered Mexico to work generally could not get jobs and could be jailed for trying. Illegals entering Mexico from Central America were either tortured, raped or slaughtered or received prison terms. Only recently has Mexico lightened up a little on the required prison sentences for Americans, presumably because Americans complained of Mexican hypocrisy.
Even in the Soviet Union—the ultimate police state—people went where they had no official permission to be and plopped themselves down, defying authorities to play the ultimate in hide-and-seek.
EU countries have major problems with growing illegal alien populations and resulting culture clashes.
Canada controls who can get the scarce jobs in Canada. Customs agents grill arriving Americans about their reasons for entering Canada. I once had to go to Canada for a business meeting and almost didn’t get admitted because I said honestly that I was going to talk to the people in my employer’s Toronto office.
Being an illegal alien has never really been treated like a serious crime in the United States. However, one cannot live an undocumented life in any country without committing other crimes. Even in a free country, daily life requires valid identification. For example, most illegal aliens drive but cannot get legal driving licenses. If someone drives a car without a valid driving license, that is one kind of crime. If someone buys a counterfeit driver’s license, that would be another kind of crime. If someone adopts another person’s identity to get documentation, that’s an even more serious crime since that destroys the life of the person whose identity is stolen.
Driving without car insurance is also a crime. Not paying income tax is a crime. Not paying hospital bills is a crime. Turning homes zoned for single-family occupancy into boarding houses is a crime and blights a neighborhood.
When you are living under-the-table, anyone can force you into even more serious crime with threats of revealing your presence to ICE. For example, after establishing themselves in America, illegal aliens are pressured to become involved in smuggling more people into the country. From what I’ve seen, they don’t feel they have right to say no.
And then there are drugs. My illegal alien neighbors get regular visits from a trio of teeny tiny women in colorful native costumes carrying heavily swaddled brick-shaped babies in their shawls. Jump to your own conclusions. I have.
Now people are talking about a new round of amnesty for illegal aliens.
I know people who took American citizenship under the last amnesty. They didn’t do it because they loved America or wanted citizenship. One woman repeatedly told me that if she got hit by a car while still in America, her cousins had been instructed to ship her body home to be buried. She said, “I don’t even want to be buried in this shitty country.”
The vast majority of illegal aliens jumped through hoops to become citizens with the last amnesty because they wanted to be allowed to work in America without hassles, not because they wanted citizenship.
I am certain that if all illegal aliens now in the country were offered a choice between jumping hurdles to attain citizenship or just signing up for renewable long-term work visas, at least 75% would grab the work visas without hesitation. Our economy is their get-rich-quick scheme.
These are not people with impulse-control issues who saw something they wanted and couldn’t wait in line for their turn. On the contrary, these are people who have invested the greater part of their youth for the years at the end of their lives. They want to retire relatively young and rich. That’s their conscious goal and one they can and will articulate to anyone willing to listen. They can attain that goal by sending money home to buy land and rental property. For the majority of them, their presence here is a sacrifice they are making now for their future. If they remain here for their entire lives, it is because they couldn’t resist having lives while they wait for their real life to begin and so became trapped here, ensnared by commitments they hadn't intended to make.
The real question is, what’s in it for us? It is our country and our economy. What about our dreams and goals? What about our futures and our fortunes? What about the welfare of our children and our aging Baby Boomers? What’s in it for us?
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