Probably never before in history has a great nation had such a precisely defined moment of reference in setting about the monumental task of redefining itself.
That moment occurred at 8:42 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, when a U.S. passenger plane was deliberately flown by terrorists into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Stunned at first, the American public reacted with justifiable rage that converted almost immediately into a wave of patriotism not seen in 60 years. More than three decades of intimidation with respect to showing our love and respect for America were shed. Flag flying was in—flag burning was out!
Americans were thinking about America again. Attention turned almost immediately to our policies on immigration.
The Twin Tower terrorists for the most part were admitted to the United States legally, becoming illegal aliens only on the expiration of their visas. The U.S. had no follow-up policy to check on expiring visas. It is estimated some 6 million illegal aliens reside in the United States today. Some 500,000 of these could be considered unfriendly, to say the least. America had become an immigration sieve.
An enormous Trojan horse had been forced past U.S. authorities and enemies from within America were attacking.
No longer could Americans expect to have an enemy knock down the front door to gain entrance. America discovered the enemy was already in the house. America’s real immigration problems began with the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act sponsored and floor managed by Sen. Ted Kennedy. In spite of Sen. Kennedy’s assurances that immigration levels would remain the same and the ethnic mix in America would be unchanged, the reverse is true.
Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York, at a Senate Hearing on the immigration bill, gave this assessment: the Asian immigration figure “would be approximately 5,000, Mr. Chairman, after which immigration from that source would virtually disappear.”
He was horribly wrong.
Critics of the Immigration Act of 1965, as usual, were dismissed as racists and we can expect today to be labeled racist for reporting as we are.
The highly respected National Geographic magazine issue of September 2001 reveals the startling figures that in 1998, 660,477 immigrants to the United States were given U.S. citizenship.
Of those, 158,118 were Asian; 219,922, Hispanic. From the former Soviet Union, there were 27,466; Canada was limited to 10,190, and the United Kingdom, our most steadfast ally, was limited to a pitiful 9,018. Nigeria trailed with 4,831. The remaining immigrants were from 191 other nations. In the 1951-1960 period, Asians immigrating to the United States numbered 153,249. By comparison, in the 1981-’90 period, the number had increased to 2,738,157.
In the 139-year period from 1821 to 1960, a total of 1,275,185 Asians were naturalized. In just 34 years, 1961 to 1995, an astounding total of 6,326,253 Asians were naturalized, an increase of 500 percent.
National Geographic reports that a full third of our population growth today are immigrants, principally Asians and Hispanics, and by the year 2050, the percentage of white population, as they designate it, will be reduced from today’s 68 percent to 52 percent of the total population, with Hispanics having the larger portion of minorities. It is predicted by other sources that the white population will be a minority well before 2075.
If America as we know it is to survive for our children and grandchildren, it must be redefined.
As a start, drastic measures will have to be taken to correct the dramatic imbalance that is developing as a result of our immigration policies. Such measures have been taken in past years.
Scientific American reports “from the founding of the Republic to the mid-1920s (1924 to be exact), U.S. immigration was largely unrestricted, but shortly thereafter Congress passed legislation severely limiting entry from all regions except northwestern Europe.” Or note, restrictions in the Immigration Act of 1924 were the provisions that 50 percent of those admitted to citizenship were required to have advanced degrees in education and the balance for the most part to possess skills. This legislation held practically intact until the floodgates of legal and illegal immigration were opened by the Immigration Act of 1965. In 1995, 82 percent of legal immigrants were admitted simply because they had a relative in America. Less than four percent of those admitted were skilled.
None other than former Sen. Eugene McCarthy wrote the foreword to the book The Immigration Invasion by Wayne Lutton and John Tanton. This book proclaims among other things that “the Third World influx (of immigrants) offers to swamp out not just the United States but Europe as well.”
A changed immigration policy is paramount. The opportunity for another rebirth of patriotism may not happen in time to redefine America as we have known it. History tells us that a nation ruled by the two equally dominate influences, the culture of Eastern civilization and the culture of Western civilization will be a house divided.
America will crumble into civil war without the presence of western civilization and America culture firmly at the helm.
This first century of the 2000 millennium could end with a separation of peoples into nothing more than warring tribes and dictatorships with the resulting destruction of lives, properties and liberties. We need only to look to Central and South America, Africa and Asia.
Multi-culturism will have prevailed.
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