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Amnesty / Immigration Surge Bill: The Regime Against The Nation

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Last week, in one of the great uprisings of modern politics, Middle
America rose up and body-slammed the national establishment.

The Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal
aliens, and for the businesses that have hired them - a bill backed by
La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Wall Street Journal and
The Washington Post - went down to crushing defeat.

Majority Leader Harry Reid fell 15 votes short (45 to 50) of shutting
off debate. Like the rout of the Dubai ports deal, the victory was
achieved by a firestorm of public protest, reflected in millions of
phone calls and e-mails, and citizens marching to town meetings.

The capital's capitulation to the country was unprecedented and
astonishing. Not two weeks earlier, the amnesty provision of the bill
had been supported by more than 60 senators.

But opponents of this bill, which would reward mass criminality with
mass amnesty and eventual U.S. citizenship, ought not rest.

For President Bush is coming back to resuscitate the monster, and this
bill has more support in the Senate than the 45 votes it got Thursday.
Some Republicans and Democrats who voted not to shut off debate are
privately committed to amnesty, if they can be given political cover
and face-saving amendments to take home.

Sen. John Kyl is not necessarily wrong when he says,

"All we have to do on the Republican side is sit down with those who
have amendments, get those amendments in a reasonable package, not too
many, but enough so all of the members can say they had their chance."

Kyl reads his party right. For the GOP is the political instrument of
K Street and Corporate America-the folks who fund the party and
finance the campaigns. And the No. 1 issue of Corporate America is
Bush-Kennedy-McCain. For not only does it give blanket amnesty to
businesses for hiring illegals, it legalizes the illegals and ensures
Corporate America an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor.

The fundamental reason this bill is not dead is that its authors and
backers will never quit. For this legislation is part of a larger
agenda of a large slice of America's economic and political elite.

What is that agenda?

They have a vision of a world where not only capital and goods but
people move freely across borders. Indeed, borders disappear. It is a
vision of a "deep integration" of the United States, Canada and Mexico
in a North American Union, modeled on the European Union and tied
together by super-highways and railroads, where crossing from Mexico
into the United States would be as easy as crossing from Virginia into
Maryland. It is about the merger of nations into larger transnational
entitles and, ultimately, global governance.

This immigration bill is but a piece of a great global project already
far advanced. In 1993, a majority of Americans opposed the NAFTA trade
deal with Mexico because they did not believe the propaganda and
feared that, as Henry Kissinger said, it represented the architecture
of a new world order.

More than a dozen years have elapsed. And the results? Contrary to the
promises, our trade surplus with Mexico did not grow. It vanished. In
13 years, we have run $500 billion in trade deficits with Mexico. Last
year's $60 billion was the largest ever. Mexico now exports more cars,
trucks and auto parts to the United States than we export to the
world.

What NAFTA did was enable U.S. companies to close their plants here,
fire their American workers, and move their factories and jobs to
Mexico, while Mexico continued to export its poor to the United
States.

What is the hidden agenda of the global companies, which evolved out
of what were once great American companies?

They want a limitless supply of low-wage immigrant labor and an end to
penalties for hiring illegals. They want the freedom to shut factories
here and move them to nations where wages are low, benefits
nonexistent and regulations lax. They want to be able to move products
back to the United States free of charge. They want to be rid of their
American workers, but keep their American consumers.

They want to be able to go out to Asia and hire bright kids and bring
them to the United States to replace middle-aged U.S. workers who cost
too much. They want to be able to outsource their white-collar jobs to
India at a fraction of the wages they pay Americans.

It is about globalism - and about greed. And, as the Bible says, love
of money is the root of all evil. But they have a problem. The nation
has begun to awaken to the reality that the vision of the global
corporation and the transnational elite cannot be realized without the
death of the American republic. And so they are in a fight that is
long overdue.

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America needs a populist movement.

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