Source: CNN

Ruben Navarrette is nice enough to provide us with yet another peek inside the mind of an open borders lunatic. He also on a more than consistent basis elucidates the folly of allowing unlimited immigration without assimilation…

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — This week marks the first anniversary of a series of major demonstrations over immigration reform. And while an entire year has gone by, Americans really haven’t learned that much about the subject matter.

For instance, some immigration restrictionists are still playing pretend. They are still insisting that the only thing that people are concerned about is illegal immigration and that, with regard to legal immigration, America is as welcoming as ever.

What? Maybe that’s true … if we agree that — despite the brochure — America has never really welcomed immigrants, even the legal kind.

Those who insist otherwise point out that the United States takes in about 2 million legal immigrants annually.

Big deal. In a country of 300 million people that bills itself as the land of immigrants, taking in less than 1 percent of your population in legal immigrants is nothing to brag about.

Yet the ultimate irony is that the “nation of immigrants” meme was started by, wait for it, immigrants, such as the Yugoslav born journalist Louis Adamic. I know, you’re stunned senseless. And why? Take a minute, think about it, I believe the technical term is ‘to hijack.’

Which leads us inexorably to the big questions that Ruby’s piece leaves me with, who controls America’s immigration policy, who comes, who does it benefit, and why?

Because you see, if they still taught logic at Hahvard Senor Navarrette might possibly understand that there is a substantial difference in both type and quantity between earlier levels of immigration (which those at the time thought too high) and adding an endless two million a year.

Let’s return to those vexing questions. What is the ideal number of immigrants America should take in every year, and why? Who selects the immigrants and using what criteria? Are there any cultures that should not gain entry? Can everyone in every culture be Americanized? Who benefits from adding two million! people a year into our national home? The current residents, how?

And most of all, should recent immigrants be trusted with driving policy which they so nakedly benefit from?

As we enter into another “Amnesty Season” these are the questions we should be asking our elected weaselsnakes at every level of governance.

Here are my thoughts on the issue.

I’ve always been partial to the analogy of a house, which by happy coincidence I think has the added benefits of being easy to understand and factual. Who should decide who lives in your house? The long time residents or those who have just arrived? Could you not find yourself in a position, if you just handed the keys over to strangers, where you found yourself locked out of your own house?

It’s not hard to imagine.

Let’s talk a little turkey. What Rubin is talking about is an endless increase from one country and one region. Mexico. So let’s talk about Mexico, tell me about Mexico’s vibrant economy. How about her respect for the rule of law? Politics?

There is no magic in the soil, when Mexican pedophiles cross the Rio Grande they are not transfixed by the spirit of George Washington. Rather they remove a little of the spirit of George Washington and displace just a jot of our cultural heritage.

It is a cheap cop out to talk about modern treaties and such to explain Mexico’s pathology, yet Mexico has been dysfunctional for decades, what’s the excuse then? Which is not to say that many Mexican immigrants have not done amazingly well in this country.

What’s their secret? Assimilation. What’s required for assimilation? Lower numbers. That’s it, we’ve gone through this pattern before so we have historical precedent to observe and every time the numbers go down the level of assimilation rises correspondingly. When the numbers go up the level of assimilation drops dramatically.

Immigrant wages also follow the same pattern.

So who should immigration levels favor? There is one fundamental truth of immigration, it has attached itself to every immigration debate this country has ever held, and also every time, been soundly ignored.

Consider this speech from Booker T Washington delivered in 1985 entitled “Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are.“

A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: “Water, water. We die of thirst.” The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A second time, the signal, “Water, send us water!” went up from the distressed vessel. And was answered: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” A third and fourth signal for water was answered: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of preservating friendly relations with the southern white man who is their next door neighbor, I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down, making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded.

To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted, I would repeat what I have said to my own race: “Cast down your bucket where you are.”

Before the Civil Rights movement even began, when immigration was finally restricted by both fiat and war, black folks began moving out of poverty and into the middle class in astonishing numbers. Yet in our day, after the passage of the 1965 immigration bill and the evils of the welfare state, Booker T would recognize many of the evils of his own age. Black men are being driven out of the work force by those who are not even citizens.

So what is my answer to the immigration question? I’ll let Booker T handle the light stuff…

To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted, I would repeat what I have said to my own race: “Cast down your bucket where you are.”

H/T immigration watchdog

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