On September 9, 2016, a few weeks prior to that years Presidential election, I added a post to this site called “Bringing There Here”.  The text of that post is below.

A popular political pundit has come up with an interesting concept. Has our current “open borders” immigration policy had an unintended effect? Are all the illegal aliens who have streamed across our southern border since the Reagan “Amnesty”, created by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, merely bringing the problems they were escaping from in their native countries to our country? In other words, are they bringing “there” here?

In many, if not most cases, these people come from the low end of the socio-economic system in the land of their birth. They are poorly educated, and bring few useful skills to our country.  As such, in some cases they tend to take the lower end jobs that would otherwise be occupied by our least educated and skilled citizens. What happens to those people? Two words, poverty and welfare.

Unfortunately the illegals are also taking higher paying jobs, mainly in the building trades. Because they frequently work “off the books” they are paid less than the going rate. This tends to suppress wages for legal workers as well. It’s all a case of supply and demand. Many areas of our cities have become “barrios” where little English is spoken and even the signs are mainly in Spanish. Walking through these areas you might think you’ve been magically transported south of our border!

There is one other fact that the promoters of “comprehensive immigration reform” would prefer not be discussed. The issue of the number of criminals who have come here from Mexico and Central America during the past  30 years. Our country has been inundated by a flood of drugs flowing across the border between Mexico and our country. The latest in this scourge is heroin, and it is killing people on a daily basis in America. These drugs are manufactured and distributed by the various drug cartels which are allowed to operate with relative impunity south of the border. Those cartels then transport them here, and vicious Hispanic gangs like MS-13 distribute and market the poison to our citizens.

If we fail to round up and deport all criminal illegal aliens from our country we will pay a fearful price in the end. I would far prefer we bring “here” to “there” than vice versa.

So, here we are, five and a half years later, and the same questions exist.  One thing is for certain, they indeed ARE bringing all the problems they thought to escape from in their native lands into this country.  In the process, they are making life harder for our poor and shrinking middle class by competing for benefits and keeping wages artificially low.  It’s all a case of supply and demand.  More workers available to be hired means lower wages the employer has to pay.

There is one thing even more important.  The value of the American VOTE is marginalized with every new immigrant, legal or illegal who enters this country and is allowed to vote.  What we must all understand is that we are no longer replacing our population due to birth rate and immigration, we are INCREASING it, and there is a finite number of people this country can accommodate before the standard of living for the common citizen begins to erode.  All politicians, Democrat and Republican, are aware of that fact, but many, including some Republicans and virtually all Democrats don’t care.

This is purely a game of POWER.  If the majority of illegal immigrants who enter our country and eventually are granted citizenship vote for the Democratic Party, they will remain in power forever, and that is their goal.  Whether the country is harmed by their actions is immaterial.  Maintaining political power isn’t just the most important thing to Democrats, it’s the ONLY thing.  So while a majority of African-Americans seem to be focused on the bogeyman of “White Supremacy”, what they really should fear is being replaced as the most important Democrat voting block by the illegal Hispanics who are surging across our southern border in ever increasing numbers.  As their political power grows, that of the black population inevitably decreases.  It’s as simple as that.  One morning, they’ll wake up and discover that “there” IS “here”, and it’s here to stay.