Our Great Illegal Immigration Mythologies. Part Three Victor Davis Hanson
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Myth #3: The Noble Illegal Immigrant
Somehow from all the photos of the thousands swarming into across the border, we have constructed the would-be illegal alien into a nobility of sorts. But well aside from the hypocrisy—we fired military personnel who chose not to be vaccinated, but welcomed in illegal aliens who have no proof of vaccination, or a negative Covid-19 test—what is noble about 1) deliberately breaking U.S. law to enter our country, 2) deliberately breaking U.S. law by residing in a country in which one has no legal authority to do so, 3) obtaining fraudulent IDs and documents to perpetuate 1) and 2)?
Moreover, what about the legal immigrant, the law-abiding individual who plays our fool by waiting years to enter our country lawfully, and is subject to all sort of intrusive audits and questioning? Is it such a noble thing to cut in front of the line and swarm the counter, while the law-abiding remains in line, assured that he will almost never be served?
So much of our media propaganda is perniciously false. We are told repeatedly aliens are starving and without food. But from photos of entrants, the chief medical worry is more likely obesity than starvation and too many cell phones rather than none at all. According to most surveys, Mexico has one of the highest obesity rates in the world. California hospitals discover that 3 out of 4 admittees are found upon admission, for any cause, to be pre-diabetic or actually suffering from diabetes. If one examines the explosion in Medicaid budgets in the border states or the inability to easily access public services, illegal immigration is often the unspoken culprit.
And is this surprising? In a post-modern society, when an entrant arrives 1) illegally, 2) without English fluency, 3) without a background check, 4) without a high-school diploma, 5) without valuable skill sets, 6) without capital, and 7) in non-diverse fashion—then what is he supposed to do for support other than crowd the entitlement offices and hope that the sympathetic staff (the greater the number of illegals the greater the budgets of these bureaucracies) of these various state and federal offices liberally dispense their largess?
The U.S. in 2019 took in one-million legal immigrants. That number almost approximated the entire yearly new immigrant populations in all countries in the world combined. Banish the notion the U.S. is nativist, racist, xenophobic or protectionist. It is instead the most welcoming nation of legal immigrants in the world and yet the greatest target of illegal immigration and the greatest target of unsubstantiated slanders and smears on matters of immigration.
In sum, cannot the corporate world, Mexico, the La Razistas, and the Democratic Party simply be content with one million legal immigrants without welcoming in another two million whom we cannot care for properly without denying our own citizens free and open access to government support?
Apparently not.
What would stop illegal immigration? One, if the Left would gain such power from open borders that it might complete a Biden or Obama agenda to such a degree that it would wreck the economy and social fabric of the nation, then no one would wish to visit this imploding nation that would resemble the paradigms of its southern neighbors.
Or, two, the Spanish-speaking population would upon gaining citizenship begin voting Republican. If that should happen, a xenophobic Left would shut the door on the southern border in a nanosecond.
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