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I'm a big fan of clarity, which is probably the element most lacking in this debate over mass and illegal immigration. If our ancestors could witness it, they'd think it was some bizarre case study in how not to govern the nation and the liberty for which they pined and bled and died.

Here are a couple of fantastic quotes from two equally important op-eds I found today:

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Bush's Immigration Defeatism

Bush’s failings at the border mirror his failings in Iraq. In both places, he underestimated the need for security and order and has undertaken a push for them only belatedly. In both places, he was motivated by a good-hearted belief in the essential fungibility of people. He thought that Iraqis naturally would have the same desires as Westerners; and on the border, he assumes that Mexicans are seamlessly interchangeable with Americans, since they seek employment here. In Iraq, he has tried to compensate for his mistakes. On the border, he seems hopeless.

Those who hold that there is any form of ethics, morality or human good in promoting "the fungibility of people" are probably the most evil people around these days. Lowering humanity to commodity status is a very subtle evil; there is little that would torture me more than having to associate with people who have no qualms that their path to enrichment subjugates the most vulnerable and helpless while displacing those just marginally less vulnerable and helpless.

And while I'm on the topic of subjugation...

An immigration bill for 'plantation owners' - Newsday.com

Now, we have neo-plantation owners, inheritors of the "Gone With the Wind" class, seeking to set national policy. Perhaps, in their greed and shortsightedness, those who depend on non-free labor - slaves back then, illegals and "guest workers" today - are so blindly eager for short-term profit they are willing to saddle the rest of the country with long-term problems of multiculturalism and balkanization, made all the worse by welfare-state dependency. Exploitative employers brought the whirlwind to this country once, and now they want to do it again.

Let me reiterate a portion of the immediately previous post:

How many American children must have their lives permanently altered for the worse before their plight starts to matter to those who misplace their compassion only with interlopers while ignoring the needs and futures of our native sons and daughters?

I rue the repurcussions of our having huge, slave-labor-class diasporas living adjacent to our neighborhoods when the next serious economic downturn happens or when the next inevitable well-coordinated attack comes courtesy "the religion of peace" and requires both our unified diligence and ability to communicate with each other clearly. We now have huge resident masses of other-tongued, foreign-allegiant peasants who think that and behave as if the United States exists solely for their convenience. Is it reasonable to think they will be easily pacified when their jobs, their access to the government teat and our tolerance for anyone lurking in the shadows disappears due to calamity?

I'm afraid it's going to get really, really ugly if we don't remove them fairly, incrementally, and soon.

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