Immigrants Should Become An Asset Not A Liability

Have you ever heard of "El Plan de Aztlan, first adopted by National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in Denver, Colorado, March 1969?

The plan presented for the first time a clear statement of the growing nationalist consciousness of the Chicano people. It raised the concept of Aztlan,* a Chicano nation, and the need for Chicano control of the Chicano community. Referring to the Democratic and Republican parties as "the same animal with two heads that feed from the same trough," the plan pointed out that to achieve the goal of self-determination, would require an independent political party with Raza nationalism as its "common denominator."

Essentially the plan is to use demographics and acquired political power to return to Mexico the land area conquered and then purchased more than 150 years ago.

There are several now mainstream politicians that present or former members of this group, one being the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa.

With all the discontent and headlines about our border problems, the the only surprise for most readers is to learn that there is an actual plan of conquest by stealth.

Another big surprise is who is alleged to be complicit by inaction. This might explain the pitiful funding for the Border Patrol and why there are so few to patrol an enormous border. This might explain why there are only 19,000 spaces to house the 100,000 entrants that ARE CAUGHT daily crossing the borders. The other 81,000 must be released for lack of space and are directed "to return in one month for a hearing." Eighty-seven percent DON'T COMPLY with this directive.

Pretty soon we won't have to go to Mexico to go to Mexico. For those of us in the eastern part of the United States, we will only have to drive west, and for those of us living in the West, well, you will have merged as forty percent of Mexicans want to come to the United States and more than twenty million are here already.

"They come here to work." Well, yes, they do. Their willingness to take jobs at bargain prices drives down wages for Americans in their homeland. Their non-English speaking children overcrowd the schools, forcing teachers to spend an inordinate amount of time teaching them English, or they demand, and have received bi-lingual education as well as other services in languages other than English.

Diseases formerly found only South of the border or in other third world countries are taking hold in the U.S. for entrants slipping through are coming from all over the world. The sick entrants can get health care at taxpayers' expense and pregnant entrants routinely give birth to "new citizens" that may or not remain in the U.S.

Children that remain are allowed to be used for asylum or citizenship purposes for their parents and other family members. Those that return to and grow up in their home countries often return to demand their rights and privileges as citizens without ever acquiring the spirit of citizenship that imbues those that are raised here. Thus they have affection for nor desire to protect or improve the country, only to use its services and resources.

The screening process should be important, but it isn't as the courts rather than the INS have taken over the responsibility of who, after slipping in, remains in the United States. How can entrants be screened if they come in through the windows rather than the doors? Under the present policy, why would anyone bother to the process of getting a visa and waiting years on a list to be vetted?

Shouldn't immigrants be welcomed? After all we are a nation of immigrants? They should come as invited guests until they can prove they will be an asset to the United States much in the same manner we invite guests into our homes and disallow any that can not assimilate or be gracious enough to reward our hospitality with diligence, loyalty, and good citizenship.