Mexifornia: The Sequel

As we've mentioned in other posts, it seems surpassingly difficult for either of America's decaying political parties to grapple with the average American's genuine and understandable outrage over our casual treatment of the illegal alien invasion. The Democrats, of course, and their stooges in the judiciary, have been actively been encouraging this illegal infiltration as a way of bulletproofing electoral majorities by importing large numbers of foreign individuals who reflexively vote for socialists, which the Democrats by and large are. The Republicans, on the other hand, have oddly adopted largely the same tactic, idiotically imagining they can do the same thing. The result? An increasing sense of helplessness on the part of the populace which is increasingly seeing the rule of law as something that's selectively enforced by the elites against the best interests of the average American.

At this point, we're forced in today's PC environment to state categorically that HazZzMat has zero problems with LEGAL immigration. After all, Wonk's grandpap migrated LEGALLY from Europe at the beginning of the last century, and Mrs. Wonker LEGALLY emigrated from Ireland to the U.S. as a tot in the 1950s and is now a citizen. It's the ILLEGAL stuff that is sending the wrong message and, in many respects, is being used as a hideous trick by the leftists to provide themselves, as we have said, with an absolute, permanent electoral majority for the kind of socialism that all their other thuggish tactics taken together could not ensure.

As has often been the case, California was the lab for this insidious new wrinkle on the old Democratic machine's tradition of stuffing ballot boxes in largely urban jurisdictions. And the legal, fiscal, educational, and healthcare consequences of this are immense and growing, promising to put the next generation of Americans in a social straitjacket. Which, of course, is what the lefties want. Along with not having to worry about re-election ever again.

Victor Davis Hanson wrote brilliantly on this topic back in 2002, entitled "Do We Want Mexifornia?" He revisits the piece and this topic in the Winter 2007 issue of the terrific "City Journal." The reprise is entitled "Mexifornia, Five Years Later."

In it, Hanson observes the following:

The growing national discomfort over illegal immigration more than four years after “Mexifornia” first appeared in City Journal is not only apparent in the rightward shift of the debate but also in the absence of any new arguments for open borders—while the old arguments, Americans are finally concluding, really do erode the law, reward the cynical here and abroad, and needlessly divide Americans along class, political, and ethnic lines.

We agree. To gain a better understanding of this whole complex topic, we encourage you to read the whole article here.