AUGUST 2022
WRITTEN BY LINDA S BROOKS
THOMAS JEFFERSON, 3rd US President, wrote in his essay Notes on the State of Virginia, that an immigration quota was necessary because people coming from other countries are raised based on the culture of their countrymen that are imbued in them from birth. They know nothing of the US other than we are characterized as a free county. The fact of the matter, even with a quota, people from other countries will have an impact on our nation; economically as well as politically, but if a controllable quota is established that impact can be diluted over time and they will eventually resolve themselves, happily, to how we are made a free country. Thus, to protect ourselves and freedom here, we must control the number of immigrants that may enter. Illegal immigrants following the lead of their country of origin, don’t understand this; in fact they believe we are discriminatory; not so. Its a matter of the ability of a person to absorb the politico-economic norms of a people they have never met nor have they lived by those norms in the land from which they come. In this writing I intend, not necessarily to explain US economics and political structure regarding immigration; rather to identify the possibility of consequences.
Lets begin with China who, in 2012, Declared War against the US for an offense not clearly identified in the book The Hundred-Year Marathon written by Michael Pillsbury; however it has been identified by academia as having been committed centuries ago in which the US excercised the right of self-determination to protect their countrymen and nation. This offense begins in the early period of the US when the American people, at least those in leadership, feared that too many immigrants in a short period of time would make it impossible to fulfill the vision of a free country. China’s big entry came as a response for workers to build a railroad system to the West for whom these Chinese would be contracted and brought to the US. However, it was subsequently discovered that China ’s people had an unsavory reputation all around the Orient for baring illnesses of the kind that not only made a population very ill but many would die from it. Thus, the US created a mandate thru law that these contracted Chinese would return to China when their work was completed; moreover, they were not to be allowed to commingle with American women while here and made it illegal for an American to marry with them. That’s the offense that has been cited that China feels so strongly about that they will take retribution for it by War. Did the US have the right to this ban; I say they did given the threat of disease without cure. The fact of the matter is that China is exercising their Communist right to dominate the world using this so called offense as an excuse to solve some home grown problems of their own. Does not China claim a right common to a Communist State to determine who may enter their country even to banning the bringing of a Bible? So their indignant attitude against the US is rhetoric. Another example, is France whose immigration policy was based on the tradition of the Roman military in which any person of a state conquered by Rome who joined the Roman Legion was automatically a citizen of France. Today, France is battling for its cultural life with a four million Muslim population primarily from Algeria. The impact has affected French Law where the Muslim Sharia Law is being adopted. Sharia Law is from the Middle East , a Third World region, demands the dominance of men. For instance, if a woman is raped by a man, the woman is guilty because she is the one identified with the responsibility of making sure she does nothing that would in any way tempt a man to be allured by her and if she has failed since a man was tempted by her, then she is the guilty party. Moreover, in the area of unemployment France and the growth of those living in poverty established a blame assigned to immigration , quote “2 million unemployed=2 million immigrants too many (Boyle et al. 1998, 27)” now demanding constraint thru law. One more example of the affect of high immigration policy can be found right here in the US following the 2020 Covid Epidemic in which a significant labor shortage was discovered after the lock downs were stopped with no explanation offered by the government. Instead, on examination, it points to US immigration policy that allows foreigners to live and work in the US without citizenship but can apply after three years but is not required. Consider this, with the observation that the US population living under poverty has grown to 11.4% in 2020 (census.gov) and a median poverty rate all counties of 12.8%poverty; with 10% as a norm. US policy is currently 140,000 for employment per year with 675,000 per year all total. Illegal immigrants in the US as of 2022 11.35 million with 1.13 million coming in annually (cis.org/Report/Estimating Illegal Immigration).
The point is, constraint is required to maintain equilibrium of both economics and the political basis establishing a free country with the understanding that the worst scenario can occur that immigration citizenship, having gained the ability to vote, can override the existing political consensus; something that President Bill Clinton was accused of in his second election in which all checks at the border by the FBI was dropped an incident investigated by a Congressional hearing. Thomas Jefferson was correct then and he now.
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