The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave

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Today is Boycott for Immigration Day. As usual, politics and race have taken the important points of the issue and tossed them aside. Who gives a tortilla about whether or not somebody wants to sing the National Anthem in Spanish? So freaking what?

Here's The Great Plotnik's take on the issue.

There are millions of starving people around the world, many of whom see America as their only chance for survival. The problem is most of these people are brown and uneducated. We prefer white, Protestant starving people with advanced degrees, but there aren't nearly enough to go around.

Do we want our inner cities to be over-run with illegals? No. We have our own ex-slaves for that.

Do we want our schools to be over-run with illegals? No, unless they promise to stay out of private schools in Orinda.

Do we want our hospitals to be over-run by illegals, having babies and getting sick and all that nasty stuff? No. We're not going to supply Health Care to our own people, so we're damned if we're going to give it to Mexicans.

But The Great Plotnik is no fan of an endless stream of illegals from any damned place. People from Someplace Else are always the enemies of people from Right Here -- until they get integrated into society. Then they immediately become the staunchest defenders of Right Here.

If you employ them, they will come. And you will employ them, if you can pay them less and watch them work harder. It's how we built the railroad. It's the American Way.

You're eating Chinese food tonight because of that railroad.

Guess what: everybody suffers. Get over it. Immigrants are going to come to America because it's the greatest place in the world to live, whether you despise George Bush, as anyone with a brain larger than a split pea would, or whether you don't. Build a high wall, they'll tunnel under it or climb over it. That's what you do when you have no other choice.

So find a way to make them legal. Tighten up our borders. Once you do that, those new citizens become the army who fights to keep the others out and works to keep your food cheap and your streets cleaned.

Their grandchildren may become the Mayor of your city or the President of your University or Secretary of State. That's the way it works in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.