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Like the Cindy Sheehan situation, I've really tried to stay away from this subject. But when I saw this picture, the American flag upside down UNDER the Mexican flag, the dam broke. About the photo see: http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/mexicoflag.asp

As you know, if you have been paying attention in class, I was born and live in Texas. I've lived in many places outside of Texas but Texas is home. Being a Texan, I'm sensitive to the plight of the Mexicans crossing our borders illegally. Sensitive but not sympathetic. 

You want to live a better life? Then fight for your OWN country. Or, if you come over here, assimilate with ours. That means, learn ENGLISH. Make it your primary language at home and in public. Wave the AMERICAN flag, not the Mexican one. To a native Texan, waving the Mexican flag in our face is an insult. We have warred over the right to choose our own destiny.

Some American's delusions have reached their most ridiculous extreme in the protests by illegal aliens. It was ridiculous enough that some American's think they are entitled to things that other Americans have worked for and earned, but now America is being told that illegal aliens -- people who have no right to be here at all -- should have the rights of citizens.

Illegal aliens and their supporters claim this is a civil rights issue. Really? To me it is a desperate -- and despicable -- attempt to put a moral veneer on morally bankrupt protests. If illegal aliens have a moral claim to civil rights, then a band of burglars marching down the street protesting tough burglary laws also deserve moral respect.

It is a shameless travesty of the civil rights movement of the 60s when illegal aliens claim that theirs is the latest struggle in civil rights. This is very much like burglars claiming that having to disarm high-tech alarms and breaking through double-paned windows is the latest struggle in their line of work.

There is absolutely no moral equivalence whatsoever between the civil rights movement and the illegal alien protests of today. In the first place, that movement was the natural culmination of deeply moral arguments made over three centuries against patently immoral practices -- first slavery, and then the forced segregation of a whole race of people.

But there is nothing in our laws that bars Hispanics from coming here legally. So it is not as if our immigration laws exclude a whole race of people. In fact, the number of Hispanics admitted legally is far greater than that of any other race. For instance, in the five years from 2000 to 2004 inclusive, legal immigrants from Mexico totaled almost 900,000, while immigrants from India, the second highest, totaled almost 304,000. The trouble is that for every Mexican who comes here legally, five of his compatriots come here by simply jumping over the border.

(By the way, immigration from historically high European sources -- e.g., Germany, Ireland, and Italy -- is very low now. For instance, during the same five years, immigrants admitted from these three countries combined totaled only 57,710. So much for the liberal notion that immigration laws favor whites over nonwhites.)

The civil rights movement was launched by people who had every right to live here. After all, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and other civil rights pioneers were not foreigners. They were Americans. Just like the Irish, English, Italians, French, and others that came here, they considered America their homeland. They spoke English, and spoke to the whole country. They did not march down the street waving African, Irish, British, Italian or French flags. They did not ask for special treatment from the law -- they only asked for equal treatment under the law.

But illegal aliens have no right to live here. They entered our country by jumping a fence in the dark of night. They are marching down our streets waving Mexican flags. (Though many of them have begun carrying the Stars & Stripes in the more recent marches, they have done this only after their own organizers told them about the bad publicity generated by the Mexican flags.) As their protest speeches indicate, they take ethnic pride in speaking Spanish; thus they speak only to one another, alienating the vast majority of Americans. No matter what they say, they are not seeking equal treatment under the law -- for if that is what they sought, they would have waited for their turn in the immigration lines, as countless legal immigrants have. They are asking for special treatment from the law -- that is why they want us to just forget about their illegal arrival and change our laws to suit them.

It is a point worth repeating -- what illegal aliens demand is special rights. Perhaps the liberals who support these fraudulent protesters should read some history. Rosa Parks did not ask the bus operator to take a special route just for her; having waited in line, she only asked that she be treated the same as other passengers.

The civil rights pioneers were descendants of people who were brought here against their will. But illegal aliens are people who came here willingly -- and willingly violated our laws. Illegal aliens chose to put themselves in the illegal condition. They cannot claim to be victims when their condition is self-induced.

By insisting that every American citizen be treated the same, the Civil Rights Movement brought change that uplifted both the letter and the spirit of the law. But what illegal aliens seek is change that will corrupt and destroy the law. In fact, if they get their Third World way, America will eventually have no laws. There will only be corruption and lawlessness just like in Mexico.

Given the fraudulent attempts by illegal aliens to arrogate civil rights, it is puzzling indeed to see the conspicuous silence of major black organizations. These organizations, the putative trustees of the civil rights movement, are being spectators while the house they built is being ransacked by squatters. Their inaction is particularly confusing considering that the people who will lose the most from uncontrolled immigration will be poor, unskilled blacks. After all, a basic knowledge of economics will tell you that the presence of a vast pool of cheap alien labor will only worsen the poverty of blacks by depressing their wages.

Here is a telling example from recent days. The Washington Times reported that an Alabama employment agency sent 70 workers, predominantly black, to work for contractors involved in the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. The men were to be paid $10 per hour. But they were sent home after just two weeks -- the contractors had found Mexicans who would work for less pay. So much for the argument that Mexicans do the jobs Americans won't do.

If legalized, the ten million here could bring their relatives, and the final influx could easily reach thirty million or more.

Maybe it is appropriate that the American flag in the photo above is flying upside down. America will be in serious trouble if we legalize the law breakers here.

Thanks for spending part of your day reading about mine.

Tim "cobra74" Kenney