Whirlwind Or Cancer? Immigration Continues Out Of Control.

Ignore the Rule of Law long
enough and guess what? 
You

reap the whirlwind! 
What is the whirlwind? 
A rapidly rotating, generally vertical column
of air, such as a tornado, dust devil, or
waterspout. 
It is a natural phenomenon, an act of nature.

So how can one compare a whirlwind
to a series of human events? 
You can`t except in metaphor. And now there are
plenty of metaphors around. 
Human errors which create conditions that lead to
cataclysms, such as the

Crash of 1929 or the

present financial collapse, which

some think will be later dubbed the Crash of 2008. 
Ignoring basic rules and practices, allowing

extreme financial shenanigans, ignoring

common sense and letting greed and indifference
overmaster the Rule of Law has brought our entire nation
and in fact
many countries worldwide into circumstances of huge
stress and disorder which may not subside for years to
come.

But adding to the disarray extant
now are other factors which have, like a slow-developing
cancer, will suddenly add to the mix of treatments
necessary to solve our national crisis. These include

environmental concerns, infrastructure needs, energy
shortages, etc.

And, of course, the

post-1965 immigration disaster, which has, like the
financial crisis, been perpetrated and promoted by the
business community for the same reason–plain old
fashioned greed–allowed by our elected Federal officials
for the same reasons.

So the immigration invasion is more
like a cancer than a whirlwind, but

equally deadly as it advances to its present level.

Perfect example,

Maryland, which according to a Saturday, March 9
Washington Post
article is "the
last holdout east of the Colorado Rockies in the
nationwide effort to tighten rules on how states issue
driver`s licenses" allowing this state to "become a
magnet for illegal immigrants from Georgia to
Delaware seeking driving privileges". [Easy-to-Get
Licenses Expose Md. to Fraud,

By Lisa Rein and N.C. Aizenman]

Here we are, losing over 600,000
jobs a months since late last year, our industries are
in fearful shape, and our government is bailing out
banks and car
companies with a level of largesse never seen in
human history, and this simple, solvable matter of
identifying who is here legally and who is not, has been
a dangling disaster for years, perhaps really since that
faulty immigration law

was enacted in 1965.

It`s all piled up, folks. 
The immigration invasion, the financial fiasco,
the bad stuff about global warming and the underlying
menace of growing 
numbers of angry, hungry people, who now number
nearly 7 billion on a planet which
is
fit for less than half that number.

So why worry about Maryland?  
Well, the claim has been made that

Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the crime problems in

NYC by arresting

minor offenders, who often were criminals of a
higher order. 
Whether this is true or not, it suggests that we
have to start somewhere.

Who is culpable? 
Good question. 
All who allowed this cancer to reach its present
proportions:
multinational corporations,

ethnic and

ideological advocacy groups, pliant Federal
Administrations, and the
ever
uncritical Main Stream Media. 
But more to the point, now for the future, the
real blame will properly shift to those who, knowing
full well the extent of the crisis, will do nothing
about it.

That clearly brings us to the
gaping continuing failure of the present Congress,
enjoying the apparent tacit approval of the new
Administration: Their unwillingness,

most recently in the US Senate, to extend

E-verify, which studies show

works 99.4% of the time. 
Any business hiring a new employee can access a
central DHS computer and thus find out, usually in 2
minutes, whether that person is here legally or
illegally.

Failing to make a start to this
growing cancer of excess people remains inexcusable.

Then there is the legacy of

refugees, prompted by a world at war. 
Why must we be the drop off point for such
masses?

As the
NY Times story
of March 29, 2009 (Foreign
Ways and War Scars Test Hospital by Denise
Grady) reports,
"The influx from Somalia has been especially large. A
million people fled the country when civil war broke
out. Many spent years in squalid, disease-ridden refugee
camps or

shantytowns in Ethiopia or Kenya."

These are Muslims of the most
conservative type, the kind who end up as

terrorist recruits.

"The lucky ones, granted

refugee status, started arriving in the United
States in the mid-1990s. Many were relocated to

Minneapolis by the State Department because of the
city`s strong social services and its many civic groups
that help newcomers. There are an estimated 35,000 to
40,000 Somalis in Minnesota,

most in Minneapolis, more than in any other American
city. But the exact number is not known because refugees
are not tracked when they move from state to state. Some
officials and Somalis themselves think the figure is
much higher than the state estimates, perhaps even
double.

Hennepin County Medical Center, a sprawling complex in downtown
Minneapolis near the Metrodome, offers an extraordinary
vantage point on the ways immigrants are testing the
American medical establishment. The new arrivals—many
fleeing repression, war, genocide or grinding
poverty—bring

distinctive patterns of illness and injury and
cultural beliefs about life, death, sickness and health.

In a city where
Swedes and Norwegians once had separate hospitals,
Hennepin
spends $3 million a year on interpreters fluent in
50 languages to communicate effectively with its
foreign-born patients."

Have we lost our minds? 
No, just control of immigration—which can easily
be regained.

Donald A. Collins [email
him], is a freelance writer living in Washington DC and a former long time member of the board of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. His views are his own.