A Holocaust by Any Other Name

QUOTE: “If any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” 1 Timothy 5:8

The first Native Americans to gaze upon the seminal voyage of discovery to the New World could not have conceptually grasped that the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pinta held within their hulls a race of locusts whose descendance upon their world would forever purge their ancestral DNA from the cultural gene pool of the human species. Immigration to America has always been a political third-rail to which all Americans relate from divergent backgrounds based on their relationship to the process. Congress is once again considering Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and the Border Patrol is, as it always does in such times, reporting record numbers of intercepted border crossers coming to America to work illegally.

The demand for American employment has risen to such a political crescendo that Americans are teaching their children Spanish and Mandarin Chinese in the hopes that some job opportunity, ANY job opportunity, might manifest itself for the sake of their children’s independent survival. When the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, America’s knee jerk reaction was to condemn Arabs in general and Muslins in particular for the attack, but the dirty little secret that was revealed by the 9/11 Commission’s Report is that, just like the 9/11 hijackers, millions of people are coming to this country every day by invitation of the US Congress and corporate lobbyists for the purpose of keeping domestic wages low and college tuition high with a helping hand provided by the law of supply and demand: scarce jobs + abundant foreign labor = low wages; similarly, scarce college seats + abundant foreign applicants = high tuition. These equations, married to the law of averages, demonstrate that if you let 10 people into your house, at least one is bound to be a whack job, and if you let 100 people into your house, 10 of those whack jobs will be dangerous, and if you let 1,000 people into your house, 10 of those dangerous whack jobs is likely to be homicidal. This is the relationship between immigration and labor in America circa the twenty-first century.

The takeaway from 9/11 should not be that Muslims hate America and require “special processing” at American airports, but that the immigration system of this country is out of control and needs to be turned over to the control of U.S. Citizens who already have a vested interest in who competes with them for jobs and competes with their kids for a seat in an American college. The impact that immigration, both legal and illegal has on the American job market can best be illustrated using the ratio of American jobs created compared to the number of noncitizens entering the country over any given period who are eligible to work (legally or otherwise). For example, for all of 2011, the nation created about 1.9 million jobs. During that same year, 2011, 3,385,000 temporary workers and their families were admitted into the country for employment purposes. Almost 1,800,000 students were admitted into the country, many of whom were eligible to work on temporary student work visas. These student visas not only generated employment income for many of them, but their competition for scarce and increasingly more expensive seats in U.S. colleges and universities further drove up tuition expenses for native U.S. students. Furthermore, America welcomed 56,384 refugees and 24,988 foreigners were granted asylum in 2011. A total of 1,062,040 persons became Legal Permanent Residents of the United States, each one of whom are now equally eligible, arguably entitled, to an American job. In addition, a total of 694,000 persons were naturalized citizens, granting them the right to bring their family members to the U.S. and compete with Americans for any job they desire, save the U.S. Presidency, of course – the sole job in America that is protected from foreign competition by the U.S. Constitution.  

The prior statistics speak only to those people invited to come to the U.S. legally, However, illegal immigration generates its own depressive effects on American wages, particularly those of U.S. citizens without a college education. It is difficult to determine how many people come to America without permission every year, but arrests of people crossing our southern border illegally was 286,000 in 2011. However, a new radar drone, called "VADER," showed that agents are catching fewer than 50 percent of those who successfully cross the border and then disappear into the mountains, valleys and deserts. That suggests that over 500,000 people came to the United States without permission crossing the southern border in 2011 ALONE. The massive influx of immigrant labor into the United States demonstrates how favorable the job market is to foreign workers, while the recent collapse of the housing market and the epidemic of foreclosures it precipitated, coupled with wages that have failed to keep up with inflation demonstrate that the American job market has turned its focus away from hiring native workers in favor of hiring foreigners for whom a low paying job is preferable to the lower quality of life they would otherwise experience in their home countries.

The primary benefit extolled by the proponents of immigration is the sweet flower of diversity sown by the seeds of immigrants – immigration as poetry, if you will, casting Congress as the personified reincarnation of William Shakespeare. However, if Shakespeare truly were alive today and writing about contemporary America as opposed to Elizabethan Age Verona, Juliet’s lamentations would reflect that the fragrant rose which we call diversity, by any other process, would smell just as sweet without immigration, a system that has become to the indigenous American population, both native and jobless, a holocaust by any other name.

What follows is an actual word, for word transcribed conversation that I had with a taxpayer calling about an illegal immigrant who applied for a job using an ID card issued by the government of Mexico (Matricula Consular). His concern was that by hiring him he would be in legal jeopardy to the IRS. The responses I gave might seem like evasive rhetoric that deliberately avoided answering his question, but the answer is, in fact, the product of extensive training IRS employees receive on answering such questions.

TP:       Ah, yeah…I was wondering, I got this job applicant who came into my office and used a

photo ID to apply for the job using a document that he said was issued by Mexico and he said…

IRS:     The Matricula Consular?

TP:       Yes sir! That’s what he called it alright. Well, he said that he needs something called an

ITIN from y’all so he can pay taxes.

IRS:     Would you like me to go through some questions to see if he qualifies for an ITIN?

TP:       See…the thing is…he stood right there in front of me and came out and straight admitted he was in the country illegally, so I'm wondering, if I hire him, am I going to get in trouble with the IRS? 

IRS:     Sir, the IRS does not enforce immigration, we do issue ITIN’s to qualified taxpayers who

have a requirement to pay taxes.
TP:       You mean you can pay taxes even though you’re not in the country legally?

IRS:     Generally speaking sir, all income, however it is earned, has to be reported to IRS even if

it is earned through illegal means.

TP:       So this fella’ can work here and pay taxes even if he’s an illegal immigrant and the

government ain’t gonna’ do nothing about it but take their cut from him and me? Well, that’s just plain crazy!

IRS:     Sir, it sounds like you need help determining what the legal requirement is for hiring

certain non-immigrant employees. Let me give you the number to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in your area…