Guest Column
What’s more important than learning English?
- The villain of the story should not get away with bloody murder
- By Rami Schwartz
- Failure to implement the above will only increase tensions among an increasingly disenchanted American People who don’t know who their President and senators work for, they or the illegal aliens.
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- Rami Schwartz rami@mexico.com
President Bush insists, illegal aliens should be given an amnesty. Of course, he doesn’t call it an amnesty because according to him, an amnesty would be to grant them citizenship automatically and he is proposing some filters like paying a fine, some back taxes, having a job and learn English. But he doesn’t even mention the most important part, be bound by the rule of law.
The American people must understand that most of the illegal immigrants, at least those from Mexico and Central America, have no idea what it means to obey the laws, to be bound by them, to be a subject of the rule of law and accept it humbly. At least those who grew in Mexico have a great discontent to the rule of law and millions have proved it, by entering illegally the United States.
If the new law has any loophole, Mexicans will exploit it to the max. And some organizations in the United States know that, such as the Heritage Foundation, who forecasted that every Mexican that is allowed to stay and obtain legal status in the United States would introduce between 3 and 5 relatives to the United States if given the chance to do so.
The law approved by the senate is obscure on this, but it’s safe to assume that any amnesty will give the new citizens all rights under the law and one of them rights is the right to “unify” their families. Husbands will be able to bring their wives, children, mother, father, brothers, any “first degree” relative. Perhaps not with a permanent visa, but they will introduce them as tourists and jest as they broke the law by entering or staying illegally in the US, they will encourage their relatives to do the same.
They will crowd anyone they can into their homes and will be happy to do so, since in Mexico they also grew in families of 10, 15 members, and they will endure any adversity because in Mexico they grew surrounded by poverty and ignorance. Their philosophy of life couldn’t be more different than the American, and they will reproduce at 2X or 3X the rate of any other ethnic group in the United States.
Therefore, it is much more important to know the US law, to have a US education, to mingle with US idiosyncrasy than just learn English, pay some back taxes, have a job or paying a fine. In other words, besides all the conditions being imposed on the illegal aliens in order to obtain amnesty and citizenship, they should all perform some sort of social work or mandatory enrolment in a program capable of teaching Mexicans to obey and accept the rule of law, something they never learned at home or school, if they even had a home or attended school, because no immigrant to the United States is less educated than the Mexican.
The Mexican Government and Fox are obviously lobbing the hell out of the reform approved by Congress because their ultimate bet is that they can send up to ¼ of Mexico’s population to the United States because the depressed Mexican economy and the corrupt Mexican government have no use for so many Mexicans, that according to the last census, now approach 103 million.
In the 2000 census, Mexico’s population was 97.5 millions and all estimates indicated that by 2005, Mexico’s population should have been 108 million. But the final numbers came out last week and to everyone’s surprise, population reached only 103 million. This means that half of Mexico’s population growth in the past five years ended in the United States.
Another thing that the Senate and Bush omitted is to force Mexico to cooperate with the United States if it wants it to keep absorbing ½ of the country’s population growth. For instance, the Mexican government should issue certificates of no criminal record to everyone applying for citizenship in the United States, because there are many criminals who were granted amnesty from overcrowded Mexican jails that are nowhere to be found in Mexico and are probably in the United States. Every year Mexican authorities let go over 10,000 criminals that are in the can for relatively minor delinquency and are let go because Mexican jails are overcrowded. Many of them ended paying smugglers and are now working in the United States. The Mexican government should assume full responsibility for them.
Also, fines paid by the illegal immigrants to access the amnesty program should be matched, dollar by dollar, by the Mexican government. The United States will have to create a whole new bureaucracy, not only for those who will receive amnesty, but also for their relatives and for the massive temporary worker program the Senate and Bush want to implement. Mexico should pay for it. Besides, all the Mexicans moving to the United States will require schools, hospitals, roads, infrastructure, etc., things that Mexico should have built for them had they’d been here. It’s fair that the money the Mexican government will save on their exiles be used to provide for them in their new country.
To summarize, the reform proposed by Bush and the Senate are incomplete because it fails to contemplate three things:
1) Mexicans are not law obeying citizens and more important than learning English, paying fines or back taxes, its that they respect the laws.
2) In order to pay their dues to the US and the American people, and in order to gain respect for their new country, they should perform mandatory social work.
3) The Mexican government should not get away with bloody murder, it should help pay for all the problems it has created, and since the US will have to create a whole new beaurocracy and invest billions in new infrastructure, the Mexican government should pay for it.
4) The US cannot allow Fox to do what Castro did in the early 1980, shit all over the US by sending abroad thousands of criminals. Every new immigrant should have a certificate of “good behavior” issued by the Mexican Government and any hostile act should be his entire responsibility.
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