Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polsonn  Red Bluff Daily News   7/14/2015

     Dumping ground or shining hill

The gates to get into America have always been wide but not wide open. The word “gate” implies, by definition, that there is a fence or wall that separates our space, land or territory from that of another nation, whose inhabitants may approach and seek entrance. The words on the bronze plaque mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, encompass the dual themes of 1) welcoming immigrants and 2) enshrining freedom and liberty as the beacons of hope to those immigrants.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” It is, after all, the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Immigration; the gift from France was not endowed with a connection to immigrants until Ms. Lazarus was convinced to write her sonnet to convey the sentiments of liberty to those approaching New York’s harbor.

Only a fool would not acknowledge that liberty can be corrupted into licentiousness; and freedom, as I pointed out last week, can be misused to cause harm to others. Fools abound however and, through either subtlety or brashness, they implement and support immigration policies that encourage the very things that any sober, thoughtful American would reject vociferously.

Foolishness, even viciousness, rears up to castigate anyone having the courage to point out how an open gate to America has become an open border over which masses of lawless, often malignant, people flood our land. America has been and remains welcoming to those aspiring to better their lives through industrious labor or ingenious invention, while adhering to the laws and principles enshrined from our Founding. With a world of nationalities and cultures to pick from, with a multitude of talents and capabilities to gather from, and with our inherent preference for those sharing our exceptional American values and ethos—why has our immigration system become diverted and perverted from such goals?

Just consider the hysterical reactions, for instance, that emanated from the usual leftist/progressive political and media sources over Ann Coulter’s book, “Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.” There followed shortly the grand parade of condemnation over Donald Trump’s honest, though brash and intemperate, observations on the state of illegal immigration in America.

The senseless and abominable murder of Kate Steinle (whose name should be better known than Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown or any other phony example of racist police/white violence), is only the latest and most visible example of inexcusable violent crime inflicted on our fellow Americans by illegal aliens. While the trend goes back at least as long as there have been liberal-led enclaves known as “sanctuary cities” (Center for Immigration Studies: over 200 cities, counties and states), the epidemic of illegal predation upon other immigrants and citizens has exploded under Emperor Obama’s unconstitutional immigration lawlessness. Bill O’Reilly summed it thusly: “Kate Steinle is collateral damage of insane far-left politics.”

In “None dare say it—except Ann Coulter” (posted at donpolson.blogspot.com, June 9), Phyllis Schlafly writes: “It’s aptly titled (‘Adios, America!’); she makes the case that it is goodbye to the America we know and love if we don’t stop diluting our population with people who don’t love America, don’t respect our Constitution and laws, don’t even speak our language and commit all sorts of unspeakable crimes…Ann Coulter gives hundreds of specific examples of major crimes committed by illegal immigrants and, in particular, crimes against very young women and girls.

“She shows the devious ways the media conceal the fact that these horrendous crimes are committed by illegals whom our government shouldn’t have let into our country.” Not only are nationalities covered up but also the depravity of these horrific crimes. I know from news stories covered on Cal Hunter’s Morning Show, it is a thinly veiled theme that crimes involving Hispanic perpetrators often involve “Mexican nationals” and, almost as often, avoid being reported as such. From Redding to Red Bluff to Willows, Tehama County and far beyond, what’s happening in American cities and across our land is, sadly, occurring in plain sight.

I could provide gruesome crime details as illustration, but I refer you to “Mexican Elites Secretly Agree With Donald Trump,” at TheDailyBeast.com, 6/29/15. “They’re hating on him now, but the fact is, when they’re just among themselves, Mexico’s elites roundly agree with The Donald on Mexican immigrants.” To summarize: Mexico’s political, economic and cultural elites will, among themselves and in hushed tones, openly admit their condescension and disregard for those that “can’t make it” in the rigged, unequal and anti-egalitarian economic mess of Mexico.

They acknowledge that, without the $20+ billions of dollars annually sent from Mexicans in America, their economy would be as bad as Greece’s. It is not unlike the flood of Cubans in 1980, known as the Mariel boatlift, wherein Fidel Castro unloaded 125,000 of what he considered to be the losers of Cuba, including many thousands of criminals emptied from prisons. Many certainly made well of themselves as good Americans; however, our nation should not have a de facto policy of refusing to consider which people and nationalities are the best fit for a free, lawful and abundant United States of America.

(To be continued next week)