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Is it about illegal immigration or keeping non-white people out?

By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.com

   October 7, 2005

 

   

 

Are there still some Americans who believe that the immigration issues as pertain to our Southern border are primarily about National Security? Or that statements calling for defending “national sovereignty” are due to fears we are losing our nation’s independence? Fortunately, evidence indicates that those of such mind are a small minority, but are capable of attracting the most media attention.

 

Unfortunately the attention the ‘national-security’ and ‘sovereignty’ advocates receive, clouds the issues, delays solutions and prolongs the agony. They hang their hat on the one fact the vast majority of Americans do agree – illegal immigration must stop.

 

Using this as their basis for their other contentions they darken the landscape with myths they wish to believe; present them as fact and where evidence does not support their “facts” they simply invent supporting data, which others in their groups use as evidence. So they feed unto themselves with nothing more than figments of their imagination based on personal prejudices and individual or organization self interests.

 

There are hidden agendas for the attacks that as the main basis have to do with the high number of brown skinned people of a different culture and language entering and living among us be they multi generation US citizens or legal residents – the paranoia that America is turning brown. And this, my friends, is racism despite denial to the contrary.

 

Mexicans and Latin Americans entering the US illegally provide the perfect cover for racist to practice their sin under the guise of “patriotism” and quest for “justice” and “adherence to law.” Illegal immigration has freed them from the otherwise political correctness and civil rights laws that would otherwise restrain their activities.

 

How else to justify American civilians prancing along the US-Mexico border armed with bats, machetes, rifles, shotguns and side arms under the guise of “protecting our border” armed only for “self defense”? In other words, if a would be gardener refuses to stop, they are open game or as one such racist asked in one of their amongst themselves training session – “Can we shoot them?”

 

And what does stopping illegal immigration today have to do with calling for the repeal of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965? Nothing, but it has a lot to do with stopping national diversity by stopping any further legal immigration from third world countries.

 

Georgie Anne Geyer, a darling columnist apostle for the whitening of America, wrote a very telling article on this subject (Immigration: The elephant in America’s room. – 10/04/05). From her article: "Before 1965, 95 percent of the new immigrants had come from Europe. After 1965, 95 percent came from the Third World,” she quoted from a speech by Steven Gillon, at the annual meeting of the anti-immigration Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which she also attended.

 

Geyer then explained in her own words, “What the bill did was to take quotas away from mostly Europeans (until then, immigrants were taken according to their percentage of the American people) and open immigration to Asia and the rest of the Third World.”

 

Geyer adds, “Dan Stein, the talented president of FAIR, turned to me and asked: "How, in the wake of the London bombings by children of immigrants, can there be no discussion of immigration in this country?... The bombings were a signal being sent to all of us that something is profoundly wrong in denigrating our heritage to the point where the children of immigrants are being raised to hate us."

 

The above is an obvious attempt at creating suspicion and fear of non-white immigrants and their children, while conveniently repressing  that in the US the only “children of immigrants” guilty of terrorism are Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, Oklahoma bombers, and Eric Rudolph, abortion clinic and Atlanta Olympics’ bomber, all white middle America members.

 

This should not be surprising as FAIR’s Stein has warned “that certain immigrant groups are engaged in ‘competitive breeding’ aimed at diminishing white power. Or how about the comment from another of FAIR’s board members, Garrett Hardin, that aiding starving Africans is counterproductive and will only “encourage population growth.”

 

It should be clearer that for some of the nation’s loudest voices, illegal immigration is not the issue - it is simply about keeping out and internally diminishing non-white people.

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Patrick Osio, Jr is Editor of HispanicVista.com (www.hispanicvista.com). Contact at: Posiojr@hispanic.sdcoxmail.com

 

(The opinions expressed by Patrick Osio, Jr. are solely his and do not necessarily reflect those of HispanicVista.com, editorial board of advisors or it’s contributing writers.)

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