The Bush Plantation doesn’t exploit Africans
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By Tony Dolz, National Security Analyst
www.dolz.com
President Bush is making the same immoral economic argument for cheap alien labor that pre Civil War southern plantation owners made to justify slavery.
America is a beacon of Democracy and the most fertile ground for the entrepreneurial spirit the world has known. Spirituality, individualism, enterprise, an unequaled work-ethic, a passion for education, philanthropy, patriotism are among the characteristics that have made us a powerhouse in every realm. America has also dabbled in the dark side. America’s least proud moments are driven by global flagless rapacious exploitative forces whose avarice is absent of heart or soul; and petty domestic profiteers blinded by raw greed. One million Americans paid with their lives to morally set the country on the right path during the Civil War. How many millions more have suffered and lost their lives to war at the hands of conniving profiteers it is hard to estimates. History is about to repeat itself.
President Bush has just concluded a tour of countries south of our borders whose governments are among the largest beneficiaries of supplying America’s most debilitating addictions: cheap docile labor and narcotics. Mexico, our neighbor to the South relies on our purposely unenforced borders to flood our country with their country’s most lucrative export: narcotics. A $140 billion bustling narcotics trade with Mexico has a devastating impact on United States productivity. A massive trade in narcotics brings with it crime, healthcare costs, law enforcement costs, personal suffering and the destruction of the family and its impact on children. Our neighbors to the south benefit by making their rich get richer through the trickle-down effect of billions of dollars in human and drug trafficking. Our neighbors to the south could not be happier that President Bush is under the powerful influence of American profiteer’s dependence on our open borders to supply cheap labor. The border that Bush refused to protect leaves huge holes for illegal laborers, drugs and potential terrorists to bust into our homes and our work places. Do we want another catastrophe like the World Trade Towers attack? According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center, 97% of 20 million or so illegal aliens in our country DO NOT work in agriculture and instead take jobs previously done for “living wages” by Americans like you and me. 97% of illegal aliens are now employed in construction, manufacturing, meat packing, restaurant industry, hospitality industry, administrative work, sales and domestic jobs. The illegal aliens encroachment into new industries is only inevitable as the desire of the profiteers to drive down wages continues unabated. According to the U.S. Labor Department, in the 1980’s American workers in the meat packing industry earned approximately $19 per hour. The illegal alien depressed wages of today’s meat packing workers is approximately $9 per hour. What does it take to see that if 10 desperate Illegal Aliens are available for a job that an American worker was previously doing, that wages will drop? Are there not up to 10 million unemployed Americans today? Aren’t many of the chronically unemployed African-Americans and first generation immigrants? President Bush and his “American worker lynchman”, Senator Ted Kennedy, do not believe the American worker is smart enough to see who the enemy is. Just imagine, President Bush is so far out of touch with public sentiment against amnesty and anti-labor “guest worker programs” that he has to ally himself with none other than the architect of the massive 3.5 million illegal alien amnesty of 1986, Senator Ted Kennedy. I understand President Bush’s choice completely, when seeking the most experienced Senator on matters of “amnesty” and skirting responsibility for a serious crime, there is no better than Senator Ted Kennedy.
America’s current guest worker program is “America’s open borders policy” which by wink, wink, not enforcing the law has delivered 20 million willing cheap docile workers to the mandibles of scofflaw profiteering employers. Border security is zealously resisted by President Bush and many elected representatives at the service of illegal alien employers. Illegal Alien employers under the banner of the “Essential Workers Immigration Coalition” and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are truly scared about mainstream America’s growing demand for border security and the enforcement of existing immigration laws. This fear is what is driving President Bush’s efforts to grant amnesty to the 20 million illegal alien workers that are in the workforce already. The profiteer’s worse fear is that if illegal aliens are deported or leave on their own in mass, that they would be forced to hire American for living wages and provide them with work accident insurance, health insurance and compliance with work safety regulations. Illegal Alien employers are the “dark angels” of our economy; they provide corrupting political contributions and inducements to many of our elected representatives and at the same time saddle the tax-payer with massive costs; and our society with painful and in some cases irrevocable social harm.
There are many who have made a business of the illegal alien invasion. A GAO report on the inability of the Immigration Department to manage the Bush proposed amnesty and guest worker program fully documented the immense illicit profits made by law firms feeding off the government’s failure to enforce the law LINK: http://www.dolz.com/gao.html. Catholic Charities, headed by the notorious pedophile apologist and defender, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, racks in 60% of its revenues from government grants to help indigent people, largely illegal aliens. Most school districts in the nation get a large portion of their revenues from the number of students that they serve. School Administrations could care less that it cost the tax-payers from $11,000 to $18,000 per head to educate illegal alien children (and $ billions annually to provide them with healthcare), so long as they get their cut. The louder the squeals and rants from the open-borders advocates, the more likely that they are feeding at the trove of the illegal alien invasion.
President Bush, during the last days of his Latin American tour this week, said that he aimed to pass his "comprehensive" amnesty bill by August. In another address in Mexico, Bush told Mexican President Felipe Calderon that "My pledge to you and your government, but more important to the people of Mexico, is I'll work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform." The latter phrase is what Bush has consistently used to describe amnesty. Source: CNN (3/13/07); The Associated Press (3/13/07). He also pledged to do all he could to ensure the migration of Mexican workers that wished to work in the United States. He assured us listening to him in the United States (perhaps tongue in cheek) that “Family Values” such as violating our borders, committing document and tax fraud, stealing services that they are not entitled to from the American tax-payers and occupying up to 28% of our federal jail cells and in some cases a greater percent of our state penitentiaries accommodations, do not stop at the Rio Grande. What family (tongue in cheek) would not like to teach those values to our children? President Bush did not mention on this trip how a massive invasion of up to 20 million poor, illiterate and countless carriers of up to now vanished hideous diseases has enriched our culture and economy in addition to enriching the coffers of the profiteers. In other words President Bush wants an open border with Mexico, whether it is an illegal open border or legal open border, but an open border it must be. President Bush arrogance has no limit. His administration knows that the 2006 Senate amnesty bill was defeated before the election; that on a national poll, when people were given a clear choice between the House of Representatives bill for border security and current immigration law enforcement and the Senate amnesty and guest worker program, that the House bill won hands down. The President knows that in a triumph of bi-partisanship, Democrat and Republicans passed a bill for a 700 mile fence to be built at our southern border. The President signed the law, but he has refused to fund it! In spite of the opposition from Democrats, Republicans and certainly the American people to amnesty and guest worker programs, acting like an autocratic pre-civil war southern plantation owner, he has pledged to a foreign government that he does not care, that he is “pledged” to continue pushing for the guaranteed “migration” of cheap Mexican workers to the United States.
For those readers that doubt President Bush’s arrogant pursuit of the globalization of cheap labor, at the expense of American sovereignty and the American worker, are invited to visit the following websites. There is a plan in motion to erase America’s border and create an open-border North American Union in the pattern of the European Union and make it easy and legal to flood the United States 70 million Mexican workers.
LINKS here: (1) http://www.freedom.org/naugreen2/player.html (2) http://www.rangemagazine.com/specialreports/07-sp-north-american-union.pdf; (3) http://www.vivelecanada.ca/staticpages/index.php/20060830133702539 4) http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070110/phw026.html?.v (5) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyUkwW7z7Lc&mode=related&search= (6) VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T74VA3xU0EA&mode=related&search=
Why are these south of the border governments so eager to provide cheap docile illegal labor to the United States? Examine Mexico for a possible answer. Mexico’s largest legal source of foreign revenue is oil at 11.2 billion dollars in 2006 (a figure that has been declining since its peak in 2001). Oil revenue is taxed at 60% and makes up 32% of the Mexican federal budget. Compare that to the corrupting influence of $140 billion in narco-trafficking at our “open” southern border, $10 billion in human trafficking and $23 billion in foreign remittances by illegal Mexican aliens working in the United States. Illegal sources of income far outweigh legal foreign revenue sources for Mexico. Massive income from illegal activity is the cause of corruption at every level of government in Mexico and corruption of our United States elected officials and law enforcement. To preserve the integrity of our representative form of government we must secure our border and put a stop to the monumental corruption of drug and human trafficking. The Mexican government and the governments of Central America countries and Brazil are totally invested in maintaining the current corrupt open borders. Why? Foreign remittances from illegal aliens in the United States amount to between 10% and 20% of the total national budget of some countries, such as El Salvador. The amount of foreign remittances to Central American countries have doubled and tripled since 2001 which is evidence of our government’s unwillingness to secure our borders and stem the flow of illegal aliens.
President Bush hails from Texas where in the 1950’s corrupt agricultural interests once nearly collapsed fair trade in cotton in the United States by driving cost down to 50% of the national average by employing cheap desperate Mexican labor. Not satisfied with just paying cheap wages without safety protections or worker benefits to the Mexican citizens, they mistreated and cheated them as well. When Mexico protested the work conditions of Mexican nationals under the “Brazero Program” (bringing it to a halt) the greedy powerful Texas growers forced the Federal Government to stop securing our border and thereby the Texas workforce was flooded with Mexican illegal aliens. Does the sound familiar? After millions of illegal aliens invaded Texas and began to spill into other southwestern states, the Federal Government was forced to react and expel the illegal aliens in the mid 1950’s. There is something in the soul of President Bush that makes him identify with the Texas profiteers from the 40’s and 50’s which used their considerable influence to force the Federal Government to forgo border security for their self-centered interest. President Bush fails to see the unfairness to the American worker and the evil of the Texas cotton grower’s moral debacle from his father’s generation.
The Texas cotton growers caused both a security and moral problem for the United States. I quote below a report on the Texas growers corrupting influence on our government as it is documented in the library of the University of Austin in Texas, “Operation Wetback”.
UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN REPORT, OPERATION WETBACK : “ Operation Wetback was a repatriation project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove illegal Mexican immigrants ("wetbacks") from the Southwest. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the majority of migrant workers who crossed the border illegally did not have adequate protection against exploitation by American farmers. As a result of the Good Neighbor Policy, Mexico and the United States began negotiating an accord to protect the rights of Mexican agricultural workers. Continuing discussions and modifications of the agreement were so successful that the Congress chose to formalize the "temporary" program into the Bracero program, qv authorized by Public Law 78. In the early 1940s, while the program was being viewed as a success in both countries, Mexico excluded Texas from the labor-exchange program on the grounds of widespread violation of contracts, discrimination against migrant workers, and such violations of their civil rights as perfunctory arrests for petty causes. Oblivious to the Mexican charges, some grower organizations in Texas continued to hire illegal Mexican workers and violate such mandates of PL 78 as the requirement to provide workers transportation costs from and to Mexico, fair and lawful wages, housing, and health services. World War II qv and the postwar period exacerbated the Mexican exodus to the United States, as the demand for cheap agricultural laborers increased. Graft and corruption on both sides of the border enriched many Mexican officials as well as unethical "coyote" freelancers in the United States who promised contracts in Texas for the unsuspecting Bracero. Studies conducted over a period of several years indicate that the Bracero program increased the number of illegal aliens in Texas and the rest of the country. Because of the low wages paid to legal, contracted braceros, many of them skipped out on their contracts either to return home or to work elsewhere for better wages as wetbacks.
Increasing grievances from various Mexican officials in the United States and Mexico prompted the Mexican government to rescind the bracero agreement and cease the export of Mexican workers. The United States Immigration Service, under pressure from various agricultural groups, retaliated against Mexico in 1951 by allowing thousands of illegals to cross the border, arresting them, and turning them over to the Texas Employment Commission, qv which delivered them to work for various grower groups in Texas and elsewhere. Over the long term, this action by the federal government, in violation of immigration laws and the agreement with Mexico, caused new problems for Texas. Between 1944 and 1954, "the decade of the wetback," the number of illegal aliens coming from Mexico increased by 6,000 percent. It is estimated that in 1954 before Operation Wetback got under way, more than a million workers had crossed the Rio Grande illegally. Cheap labor displaced native agricultural workers, and increased violation of labor laws and discrimination encouraged criminality, disease, and illiteracy. According to a study conducted in 1950 by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas, the Rio Grande valley qv cotton growers were paying approximately half of the wages paid elsewhere in Texas. In 1953 a McAllen newspaper clamored for justice in view of continuing criminal activities by wetbacks.
The resulting Operation Wetback, a national reaction against illegal immigration, began in Texas in mid-July 1954. Headed by the commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Gen. Joseph May Swing, the United States Border Patrol aided by municipal, county, state, and federal authorities, as well as the military, began a quasimilitary operation of search and seizure of all illegal immigrants. Fanning out from the lower Rio Grande valley, Operation Wetback moved northward. Illegal aliens were repatriated initially through Presidio because the Mexican city across the border, Ojinaga, had rail connections to the interior of Mexico by which workers could be quickly moved on to Durango. A major concern of the operation was to discourage reentry by moving the workers far into the interior. Others were to be sent through El Paso. On July 15, the first day of the operation, 4,800 aliens were apprehended. Thereafter the daily totals dwindled to an average of about 1,100 a day. The forces used by the government were actually relatively small, perhaps no more than 700 men, but were exaggerated by border patrol officials who hoped to scare illegal workers into flight back to Mexico. Valley newspapers also exaggerated the size of the government forces for their own purposes: generally unfavorable editorials attacked the Border Patrol as an invading army seeking to deprive Valley farmers of their inexpensive labor force. While the numbers of deportees remained relatively high, the illegals were transported across the border on trucks and buses. As the pace of the operation slowed, deportation by sea began on the Emancipation, which ferried wetbacks from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, and on other ships. Ships were a preferred mode of transport because they carried the illegal workers farther away from the border than did buses, trucks, or trains. The boat lift continued until the drowning of seven deportees who jumped ship from the Mercurio provoked a mutiny and led to a public outcry against the practice in Mexico. Other aliens, particularly those apprehended in the Midwest states, were flown to Brownsville and sent into Mexico from there. The operation trailed off in the fall of 1954 as INS funding began to run out.
It is difficult to estimate the number of illegal aliens forced to leave by the operation. The INS claimed as many as 1,300,000, though the number officially apprehended did not come anywhere near this total. The INS estimate rested on the claim that most aliens, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the operation. The San Antonio district, which included all of Texas outside of El Paso and the Trans-Pecos, qv had officially apprehended slightly more than 80,000 aliens, and local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000 to 700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began. Many commentators have considered these figure to be exaggerated. Various groups opposed any form of temporary labor in the United States. The American G.I. Forum, qv for instance, by and large had little or no sympathy for the man who crossed the border illegally. Apparently the Texas State Federation of Labor qv supported the G.I. Forum's position. Eventually the two organizations coproduced a study entitled What Price Wetbacks?, which concluded that illegal aliens in United States agriculture damaged the health of the American people, that illegals displaced American workers, that they harmed the retailers of McAllen, and that the open-border policy of the American government posed a threat to the security of the United States. Critics of Operation Wetback considered it xenophobic and heartless.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carl Allsup, The American G.I. Forum: Origins and Evolution (University of Texas Center for Mexican American Studies Monograph 6, Austin, 1982). Arnoldo De León, Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History (Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1993). Juan Ramon Garcia, Operation Wetback: The Mass Deportation of Mexican Undocumented Workers in 1954 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980). Eleanor M. Hadley, "A Critical Analysis of the Wetback Problem," Law and Contemporary Problems 21 (Spring 1956). Saturday Evening Post, July 27, 1946. Julian Samora, Los Mojados: The Wetback Story (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971).
Fred L. Koestler ”
CONCLUSION: If you are an American that has had enough, there is much that you can do, but unfortunately we are running out of time. You can join or as a minimum contribute to the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps (www.minutemanHQ.com). You can also take action at the websites for Numbers USA (www.numbersUSA.com) and the Federation of American Immigration Reform (www.fairus.com). You are encouraged to directly contact your Senators and Congressman.
I live in the 30 th Congressional District which covers Los Angeles, California. The long serving Congressman is Henry Waxman. Henry Waxman has an abysmally bad record on border security and immigration law enforcement. In the 30 years that Henry Waxman has been in the House of Representatives, up to 20 million illegal aliens have invaded our country. 24% of the country’s illegal aliens call California home; and of those, an astronomical number of them live in Los Angeles County – where Henry Waxman has failed to represent us! According to the Center for Immigration Studies and other studies, illegal aliens cost California taxpayers $10.5 billion in direct costs annually and billions more in indirect costs and harm to the environment. To rub salt on the wound, Henry Waxman supports Ted Kennedy’s amnesty and guest worker programs which will bring more aliens into our community. The time is up for Henry Waxman. My name is Tony dolz and I am now a candidate for the 30 th Congressional District. I know what to do about border security and the enforcement of current immigration law. WEB LINK here: www.dolz.com With the support and financial contributions of many Americans in the Los Angeles area we will retire Henry Waxman, secure our borders; enforce existing immigration laws, stop the erasure of our borders through the establishment of the North American Union; stop the expenditure of $10.5 billion tax dollars on services to illegal aliens and stop the harm of over-population and crowding on our environment.
President Bush, in the name of the American people and the wellbeing and stability of our nation, I ask that you heed the wishes of the citizens of this nation. Take seriously your duties under our constitution to defend our borders as the first line of defense to protect the sovereignty of our nation. Take the moral high road. Put aside the economic argument for cheap docile workers that once lead our nation into the justification of slavery in the darkest period of our history. Take seriously the law abiding citizens and legal immigrants of this nation and its native labor force when it reminds you that although our enemies are powerful and influential, that we are many. We love our heritage and our country. Americans believe that our nation is defined by our borders and the laws that we are entitled to enforce within them. Do not underestimate your countrymen and our willingness to fight; we have cut our teeth in 230 years fighting to be a free people.