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Posted on 09/16/2001 8:47:36 PM PDT by Francis

Immigration Policy

By John J. Abele

September 15, 2001

On January 21, 1961, a new president took the oath of office and was inaugurated. In our history this has been a routine event. This time however, there was not only a change in presidents, but the beginning of a change in our society.

John F. Kennedy quickly announced his "New Society". This was a charismatic man with a beautiful young wife. This was a generational change, the first president of the WW II generation. The new administration got off to an inauspicious start.

He was not seen as a strong president by many, and he wanted to do something to bolster his image, to make him look strong. The Cuban Bay of Pigs was the first failure. Little did Vietnam know what this new image would cost them. Meanwhile, the liberal policies started to come out. I was out of the country during this whole period, until shortly before his death, so my knowledge of this period is not very extensive. But the famous "Cuban missile crisis" was seen, heard and affected the world. From evidence that I received halfway around the world, it was clearly a fraud; it was a manufactured crisis.

When the lying and deceptions start, it becomes much easier to continue - and he did. In spite of the lessons learned the hard way in Korea, that a nation cannot be split with an arbitrary dividing line, he sent 20,000 military personnel to Vietnam to try to do just that in late November 1961.

While he tried to present himself as a macho man, his administration worked feverishly to write new laws which would change our society. A cultural revolution was begun. In a few words, the theme was that the minorities of the nation and the world would start to get special privileges, that they would go to the head of the line. It hadn't had time to really get started when he was assassinated.

We quickly learned that Lyndon B. Johnson was even more liberal than Kennedy, and, he had enough congressional service to know how to get his ideas voted into law. The immigration policies that had been in place for many years were suddenly replaced. We now started to give priority to a class of people who had little intellectually or culturally in common with our society as it existed. They had little to offer, but great needs. It isn't easy to explain, but let me try with some examples.

My wife was a visa clerk at one of our embassies. Why? Because she was available to fill a need and had the qualifications. No, she didn't need the money. After about a year she was fired, only to be replaced by a young woman who was a native of the country, and who was paid substantially less. But where did her loyalty lie? Did she do what was best for the U.S., or did she take care of friends?

A few days ago I got a letter from a friend who lives in that country, and who I have known for 50 years. Here is what he said:

"The reason why politicians in the U.S. want to import ignorant masses, is for the power of their "Vote". The Democrats pushed hard to import Negroes into the U.S. who would, by their gratefulness, never forget the Democrats and vote for them. Bush is now going for the Mexicans. Some years ago I was having a very difficult time trying to get an immigrant visa to move to the U.S. The consul whirled me in circles for two or three years. Frustrated, I finally asked why it was that I, a professional (Northwestern engineering graduate) and with my own financial resources, was being given the run around, while all around me Negro friends of mine, who were mainly laborers and laundry women got their visas in very short time. The official whom I got to know, felt sorry for me and finally told me in confidence that due to the Kennedy immigration laws, the Justice Department had given instructions to issue easily visas to minorities and ban intellectuals."

In the 1970s tens of thousands of Vietnamese were brought to the U.S. Yes, I mean brought since most did not meet our former immigration standards in any way. The liberal logic of the times was that they would be killed if they stayed, and besides, we owed them for their services. Of course that was proven to be false. While they are generally "good" people, they were not good immigrants - they did not offer the United States anything that we needed. They were typically poor and uneducated.

During that short Gulf War, Allied Forces took tens of thousands of prisoners; we saw it on live television. Some months later, President Bush brought some number of these POWs to the United States where the taxpayers will support them all of their lives. For family unity they are in turn allowed to bring to the U.S. Iraqi family members. Yes, we support them too.

For more than a decade our government has identified and publicized a list of a half dozen or so countries that we believed were engaged in the training and support of terrorists. We all know the names, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan and Pakistan. Until four days ago, the citizens of those countries were treated as honorable people by our embassies, and given visas with few restrictions. We also allocate substantial aid money to them ever year. This has clearly been insanity. We need a new restrictive policy - immediately.

In 1979 the Iranians took over our embassy in Teheran. They held some 56 Americans as prisoners for about 15 months. Naturally, we had no diplomatic relations from then on. About 1985 I learned that there were about 150,000 Iranian "students" in the United States. (My numbers are not absolutely accurate but do demonstrate the concept) If we had no diplomatic relations, how did they get a student visa - and where?

I learned that there is a system obviously set up for the benefit of the U.S. schools. A person anywhere in the world can write to any school and ask for admission. When they send the appropriate amount of money, the school sends them a certificate of admission. The "student" then takes this to any U.S. consulate where they get a visa, essentially with no questions asked. The visa is normally for up to four years, and when they get to the U.S. they have no responsibility to ever go near the school; they can go anywhere and do anything they choose; there are no checks. How many Iranian "students" do you think ever went to school and then returned to Iran? Where are these illegal aliens now?

Today I have heard that there are some 50,000 Iraqi "students" in the U.S., and it seems logical that this is essentially true. How many of these "students" are actually attending school and will return to Iraq upon completion of their studies? How does the United States benefit?

In the mid-1980s the U.S. was engaged in a "war on drugs" and Vice President George H.W. Bush was directly involved in this war. One of the methods that Colombia used at the time to get cocaine to the U.S. market was by "mules", indigenous people, some of whom swallowed an unbelievable amount in condoms. But all of them needed a visa, and any casual observer could see when they applied that they did not earn enough money for a vacation in the U.S. But the policy obviously was to give a visa to anyone who applied.

The Department of State has had a "watchlist" for many years, purportedly a list of people who are undesirable and should be denied a visa. I know from personal experience that mercenaries, terrorists and serious criminals have been given visas, some of whom were on the list, and others not. Surely this is idiocy. Citizens of nations who have been designated as sponsoring terrorism should get few visas, if any.

Examples of our distorted policies abound, but from the above examples, the concept is clear. There are an unknown number of aliens all over the U.S., living in unknown places and doing unknown things. Perhaps the great majority will never leave the U.S. and our immigration policies permit this.

Last, but certainly not least, is the invasion by Mexicans across our Southern border. Just this month President Vicente Fox told the world of his desire for an open border between the U.S. and Mexico, and he said it should be done this year. How many people am I talking about? Well, nobody knows, but somewhere between 6 and 12 million are currently here illegally. Consider what President Fox is saying to his people. 'Emigrate. I cannot offer you a reasonable standard of living, so go to the U.S. where you will live the good life.' Unique in the history of the world.

The most interesting thing about this movement is especially ironic to me this week. When I travel by air I am asked for, and must produce, photo ID before I get a ticket. It doesn't take an astute observer to see that I am a white male, with a pink face and thin white hair, in my 80th year, and a most unlikely prospect as either an illegal alien or a terrorist. But, I know, and frequently read about young Mexicans who cross illegally into the U.S. in San Diego County, get to Airport in San Diego or Los Angeles - somehow, buy a ticket and fly across the country - unchallenged and unmolested by such technicalities as producing a photo ID. This is an example of diversity in the era of permissiveness that started in the 1960s.

Diversity has become paramount in our society today. Academics and politicians tell us at every opportunity about the great benefits of this diversity to our nation. I expect that all of this is going to suffer a quick reversal as people recognize it is a false god.

I would like to turn back the calendar to the days when President Truman walked the streets of New York and Washington accompanied by one (1) Secret Service agent. A war on terrorism requires some major changes in immigration policies, that are already long overdue.

Camelot died on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, quickly and unexpectedly. There were only a few mourners, mainly the closest relatives. A new era has begun.

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