Close the Golden Door!

This Post ran first in October, 2005.





Is it time to close the Golden Door and out lady Liberty’s Torch? I think it is… at least for a time.

The US is being overrun with immigrants, legal and illegal. So many are coming in that we can no longer keep up with them… and as a result, we haven’t a clue who is here… and what their intentions are.

We are losing our country. Three immigrants babies are born for every baby born to a US Citizen. See what I mean? See how the numbers are against us? Those babies, born of immigrant parents, become an American citizen at the moment of birth. In a few years, that same young American citizen can sponsor other members of his, or her, family and bring them to live in the US as well.

Something has to be done… and quickly.

We need to shut down legal immigration for a few years… a moratorium on immigration, if you will. That will allow us to catch our national breath. And then we need to close, and seal, the southern, and northern, borders of the US.

Just recently two more Iraqis were captured attempting to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States. For the two caught… how many got through?

A country must be able to control its borders, or it is doomed. Sorry to say, I do not see the will in our elected officials, including the President, to take the nations security seriously and close and seal those borders.

Please don’t tell me it can’t be done. It can be done. But, one thing is missing. The political will to do it. This is another point at which the governed and the governors differ in the US.

The American people would like to preserve their identity and their national security. Unfortunately, our legislators seem interested only in securing more and more power for themselves… and if that means allowing illegal and legal, immigrants into this country in hopes of persuading them to align themselves with their political party, then so be it. (And there, in a nutshell, is the problem.)

When the 2008 Presidential campaigns swing into high gear, next year, I’d like to see this problem front and center on the list of things the candidates need to address and actually do something about! I doubt it will be on that list, but if we push long enough, and loud enough, we will, at some point, get their attention.

Until we are ready to colonize the stars we are going to have to make a home for ourselves here… on this planet. As in 15th, and 16th, century Europe, many of us are ready to pull out and go establish ourselves another society. We haven’t the means, yet. But in the future we will, and the stars will really be our homes.

“Longstreet”