The Gloves Are Off, Part One - Illegal Immigration

If anyone would like to know why I am actually in favor of illegal immigration, it's because I can't stand the people who hate it. Yes, you read that correctly. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I have very simple life philosophies, such as pacifism, symbiosis, existentialism, etc. However, simple does not mean weak or dumb, it just means not complex in any way. It has lead to knowledge of self and the opening of my spiritual eyes to the divine human existence. It allows me to find amusement in veiled racism and bigotry such as the legislation being proposed (and passed) by anti-immigrant Klan members.

"Ah, gee whiz, they are taking jobs from Americans". That's funny; I don't know anyone who would do the type of work an immigrant can get. "They are driving up the cost of health care." Oh Really? Then why are pharmaceutical companies thriving in the midst of recession? It makes an even stronger argument for Universal Health Care. These people are making YOUR food, cutting YOUR lawns, doing YOUR laundry and you have the temerity to deny them basic human rights? Just where would that authority come from? If Canadians or Europeans were coming in "illegally" not one of you racist hypocrites would say a damn thing. Fortunately, Canadians have better sense and Europeans would not want to take a step down culturally and socially to come and live here. Chip-on-your-shoulder or not, that is how the world views the US. And they are exactly right.

But all that is irrelevant, because the reason for illegal immigration is also very simple. The corporations that control the US government (yes, you read that correctly also) through policies such as NAFTA and covert military operations in South and Central America have forced abject poverty upon a society that was already crippled by two decades of ethnic cleansing via Reaganomics. NAFTA forced Mexican farmers into bankruptcy and starvation with no other choice than to cross the border in search of salve-wage labor jobs. Military invasions (in the form of a coup) of Central America and Venezuela (which failed miserably) have created a system of refugees pouring into the US because they remained loyal to the fascist US-sponsored puppet regimes. Let us also not forget 20 years of CIA drug trafficking, Iran-Contra and "conservative" trade legislation that send all uneducated Americans jobs to China. Americans always want the problem solved without ever trying to come up with a solution. That should not come as a shock to anyone. It's been this way from the beginning. The import of nearly 100 million slaves (only about 2 out of 10 survived the journey) the holocaust of the Native Americans, The Mexican war (because we wanted to take Texas and California), the Spanish-American war (to take Puerto-Rico, Guam and the Philippines) and so on and so forth leading up to the invasion of Afghanistan to reclaim the poppy-fields for the heroin trade and the invasion of Iraq for oil.

When do we pick up the check for all the blood that has been spilled? When does the rest of the world stop paying the tab? We are living in a fantasy world. Americans believe we are masters of the universe when in fact we are nothing more than domesticated pets. Our leash is the monetary system and our master is the television. We sit-up, lie-down, roll-over and bark on command, with absolutely no desire to change anything about our society or the reigning system of oppression. I hope this essay was offensive to you. That was the intent. You have taken part in making this bed. It's time that you lie down in it.