Mark Andrew Dwyer -- THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE (3)

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Originally published in the January 25,2004 issue of the

THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE (3)
A Critique of President Bush's `New Temporary Worker Program' Proposal

Part I of this article is available here.
Part II of this article is available here.

Posted January 27, 2004

This article is the third (and last) part of my critical comments on Mr. Bush's `New Temporary Worker Program' proposal (see [1] for a complete transcript). The first part, Introduction, outlined the major flaws and misconceptions of the proposal. The second part, The Critique, contained detailed comments made on the transcript of Mr. Bush's speech that justified in detail a grade "F" that I gave him for his proposal. The third part (current), Conclusions, indicates some of the most serious implications of Mr. Bush's proposal as well as fundamental issues that he hasn't addressed in his speech.

PART III: Conclusions

It must have been clear for an observant reader, familiar with the subject of illegal "immigration", that Bush's "temporary worker program" proposal, filled with euphemistic rhetoric, lacks coherence and perspective, and is based on repeated myths, half-truths, hearsay, and misconceptions, rather than on documented facts and on fair analysis of feasible solutions and their impact on lives of American people. Its tautological rationale (like the migrants' "search for better lives", or their "love of family") points out to common attributes of 95% of world population, including those who are our sworn enemies, and can hardly be conceived as valid justification to further weaken the existing mechanisms of national self-preservation and survival. The proposal, when seen in the context of President Bush's recent trip to Mexico and his "immigration talks" with Mexican Presidente Fox, doesn't testify well about Mr. Bush's qualifications for the country's top executive job he holds. Indeed, Mr. Bush is emerging from this controversy as a mediocre leader with no great vision or sense of priority, a poor negotiator, and an unwilling defender of American nation and its border.

Mr. Bush is not only not on the top of things, but is clearly unaware of what's going on and what are the consequences of his regrettable proposal. His administration is already impotent with enforcing the current laws but he wants us to believe that things will improve dramatically once millions more of "temporary workers" (a.k.a. "migrants") are brought from Mexico and other Third World countries to America. He paints a rosy picture of the benefits (mostly for those who profit from foreign "cheap" labor and for the "migrants" themselves) while completely ignoring the proposal's costs and its severely negative effects on American society.

Like a bad war plan, the proposal he presented earlier this month, and referred to in his "State of the Union Address" (see [7]), has no valid objectives (except for such flimsy excuses as "respect" for the uninvited "guests" and providing some employers with unlimited supply of "cheap" labor), nor has it any indication of how can we figure out that we've got enough of what we asked for once we did. (If it's never too much of a "good thing" then why not bring right away all 3.5 billions of world's poor into America?) Like in a one-way dead-end street, there is no outline of any exit strategy from the open ended "temporary" program, either. And that in itself is a proven way of inviting monstrous disaster that may put a heavy toll on this nation like the Vietnam War did.

Some of the likely consequences of Bush's proposal are grave, indeed. Particularly frightening is a perspective of what a free flow of lowly skilled but highly rebellious labor from Mexico and other Latin American countries, notorious for Marxist revolutionary movements, may bring to America. In addition to creation of a new class of peasantry that this country never had, it may result in a mass importation of new proletariat that is not likely to accept its lower class status as a political reality and will demand some kind of "redistribution of wealth", instead. Needless to say, a series of social disturbances that shook the political structures of mid-18th century Europe and led to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 was a direct result of an emergence of free movement of labor orchestrated by those who desperately wanted to profit from exploiting it. Sounds familiar? It does to me. Just look below, what's happening in Mexico today. For you will, most likely, see it in America tomorrow.

(Source: Fox News)

Here are some fairly basic questions that Mr. Bush's proposal did not address. (It is not to say that answering any of these would make the proposal any better; to the contrary, truthful and complete answers to these questions are very likely to reveal the devastating effects the "temporary worker program" will have on working Americans and their living standards.)

1. What is the likely cost of welfare, unemployment benefits, and "free" public services (education, health care, subsidized housing, incarceration of criminals) expended on "temporary workers" and their families, and who is going to pay for it?

2. What are the health risks for Americans that result from a high volume of unchecked travel of (tens of) millions of "temporary workers" back and forth between their native countries and America, and how the government is prepared to cope with these risks?

3. What is the impact of mass influx of low wage workers with much below average tax paying potential on the taxes paid by the Americans, and how an increased demand for more schools, more roads, more hospitals, more police, more jails, and more immigration bureaucracy will affect it (the taxes paid, that is)?

4. How will the increase of border traffic that results from the "temporary worker program" and "legalization" of eight to 11 millions of illegal aliens contribute to current crime rates (remember that 25% of federal inmates are foreign born, and so seems a vast majority of street gang members caught in commission of violent acts; there are estimated Latino 600 gangs in L.A. County alone), illegal drugs proliferation, infiltration of America by foreign organized crime and the terrorists? (See [8] for a chilly account of the illegal "immigrant" crime and impotence of the law enforcement to deal with it.)

5. What is the number of the workers that the economy actually needs, why the American born population does not meet these needs, and what is the maximum (never mind optimum) number of aliens this country can accept given the limitations of current infrastructure, water and power supply, waste management capabilities, and environmental constrains? (For those unfamiliar with the subject, an article [9] describes how Orange County is running out of space to dump trash and how it affects the residents that find themselves living in proximity of humongous and growing landfills.)

(Source: [9])

6. What will be the environmental impact of displacing (tens of) millions of "temporary" workers from countries of low per capita consumption and, therefore, low pollution (like Mexico) to a country of highest levels of per capita consumption and, therefore, high pollution (America) and how it will affect the world's emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that may have a detrimental ecological effects?

7. What will happen to the second generation of (tens of) millions of "temporary workers" that maintain the fertility rates about twice the national average, with their soaring high school dropout rates and alarming crime rates? Will they be awarded an automatic citizenship? (I guess so.) Will they create a new permanent underclass or they will be awarded some kind of "affirmative action" push upward that will further erode American academic and hiring standards as well as white collar job productivity while creating even bigger demand for low-end jobs that only foreign labor can satisfy? (An attempt of an answer to this question and explain the mechanism of self-propelled immigration may be found in [10].)

8. Will the increased immigration levels of uneducated workers with no verifiable talents or skills further dumb American nation down and lower national IQ (as indicated in [11], pages 341 and 360-361)?

9. Will "temporary workers" have the same constitutional rights as Americans enjoy now? Will they have the right to organize (against American status quo, I suppose), the right to arm themselves (to better protect themselves for possible deportation), to sue for millions in punitive damages, or even to vote in elections? (For those who think that the "immigrant voting" concern is far fetched, see [12]).

10. How will this dramatic increase of lawful residents of Mexican ancestry, taking into account their proverbial reluctance to assimilate, their strong national and political ties with Mexico and its nationalist organizations, and their historic contempt of American authority over the Southwest, will increase the already visible pressure to yield to their political demands of open borders, bi-lingual system, representation of Mexicans in American government, and even the "liberation" of Southwestern United States?

11. And finally, how the dramatically understaffed and underfunded Immigration authorities that are unable to enforce the American border (see [13] for a most recent example) and the current immigration laws are going to deal with an increased workload that results from the "temporary workers program", "legalization" of millions of illegal aliens, and a steep hike in border traffic?

Many Americans called on Mr. Bush to withdraw or modify his de facto amnesty proposal (see [14]). But whether he yields to the demands of his constituency or not, the damage to this nation has already been done. Under the pressure of Mexican "peaceful" invaders (some call them "migrants"), he blinked and they saw it. Now, knowing that he is on their side, they are going to pressure more than ever; in fact, the illegal traffic through the border has already increased (see [15]) as a result of the de facto amnesty promise hidden in Bush's "temporary worker program" proposal. I am afraid that this damage may have been intentional. After Mr. Bush blinked it may be really difficult to stop people from coming, never mind deporting them, and he knows about it damn well.

Remember this when you will be headed to the polls this coming November.

REFERENCES

[1] "President Bush Proposes New Temporary Worker Program: Remarks by the President on Immigration Policy"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/.html

[2] "Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/transcripts/bushtext_012803.html

[3] "Polls"

http://americanpatrol.com/POLLS/Polls.html

[4] "Yes We Can't"

http://www.billoreilly.com/currentarticle

[5] "Census: Hispanic dropout rate soars"

http://www.theindependent.com/stories/101102/new_dropout11.shtml

[6] R. Lynn and T. Vanhanen: "IQ and the Wealth of Nations", Praeger Publishers, 2002

[7] State of the Union Address 2004 (prepared text)

http://americanpatrol.com/BUSH/SOTU-PrepText040120.html

[8] The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html

[9] A scrap over trash

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/section.do?section=LOCAL

[10] The Vicious Circle of Mass Immigration

http://americanpatrol.com/GUESTCOLUMNS/DWYER/ImmigViciousCirc030623.html

[11] Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, "The Bell Curve", Simon and Shuster, 2nd Edition, 1996.

[12] UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Calls for Examining New Policies to Include 4.6 Million Noncitizens in the Voting Process

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=4797&menu=morenews

[13] Catch and Release: DPS nabs pot, cocaine, meth -- and illegal aliens

http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=80770

[14] Conservatives question Bush immigrant plan

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=-5564r

[15] Bush Plan a Magnet

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n23magnet.html

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