Are the Race-Baiters Traitors?

            Illegal alien advocates regularly fling the word “racist” at advocates of immigration law enforcement. Some claim that if all illegal aliens were blond blue-eyed Swedes, illegal immigration would not be an issue. That probably is true, but not for the reason they suggest. If all illegals were Swedes, we would have no trouble seeing the problems they cause and unceremoniously kick them out of the country. In this situation, no one could play the “racism” card because Swedes aren’t a protected class in the hierarchy of politically-correct victimology.

            Mexicans and other Latin Americans, however, are very much members of this class. Thus any attitude or action deemed not to be in their interests is presumed to be racism. This is so much the case that U.S. groups working on their behalf, with clear racial agendas, are deemed not to be racist, but opponents of racism. A prime case in point is the National Council of La Raza (The Race).

            The Race works tirelessly to keep our borders open and provide amnesty and other benefits for illegal aliens. It tries to pressure networks and advertisers to silence media critics of illegal immigration such as Lou Dobbs. Also, it has given money to a Latino separatist outfit called MEChA, which sports the slogan, “For those inside The Race, everything; for those outside The Race, nothing.” 

            The Race claims that it is a civil rights group, in the tradition of the black civil rights movement during the sixties. Interestingly, that movement stressed the importance of citizenship and the rule of law, i.e. all citizens have rights under the law. So how does rewarding foreigners who break our laws by giving them citizenship show any respect for citizenship or law? And if The Race has little concern about these key pillars of our country—even as it strives to build Hispanic political clout at the expense of other groups—then what is its real agenda? The answer isn’t hard to figure.

            Support for open borders, of course, is not just confined to The Race and similar ethnic/racial advocacy groups. Many other interests, including business, labor and radicals, have the same aim. And they too are quick to label anyone who disagrees with them as a “racist.” Since they are so keen to attack others’supposed motives, it is not improper to speculate on what their motives might be.

            Their low regard for the significance of American citizenship is as plain as that of The Race, and so is their indifference to our laws. All of the open border advocates refer to illegal aliens as the “undocumented.” The clear suggestion is that their lawbreaking is just something so insignificant as not having papers in order—as if their problems with documents had nothing to do with the violation of our immigration laws.

            The late Harvard historian Samuel Huntington observed that many in America’s elite classes have no fundamental loyalty to their country. He called them “transnationals,” and noted their strong preference for a borderless world. Transnational is a pleasant sounding word, but what it suggests might better be described by another word with far uglier connotations. That word is treason.