In resurrecting the so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill, President Bush and the Senate’s leadership have extended a giant middle finger to the American people. Bringing the bill back demonstrates - along with the unguarded remarks of Senators Trent Lott and Lindsey Graham- the contempt that the Washington establishment holds for the views of the public and, particularly, the conservation base of the Republican party.

There is nothing good about this immigration bill, unless one’s objective is to bankrupt the nation, award criminality, sacrifice internal security, dilute national cohesion, devalue American citizenship, create a serf class, advance socialism, destabilize the political environment of the American Southwest, and make a mockery of the concept of national sovereignty. Otherwise it’s a great bill.

The Heritage Foundation estimates that the increased cost to the American taxpayer should the immigration bill become law at 2.5 trillion dollars. This is probably a conservative estimate. And who is supposed to pay this incredible sum? Why, you and me of course.

What kind of insanity awards law breaking? The immigration bill will grant amnesty to people who entered this country illegally. People who have committed identity theft. People who have failed to pay taxes. Crimes which would land you or me behind bars. If this bill becomes law, an illegal immigrant can receive a provisional "Z-visa" which can be renewed forever. Presto, the illegal becomes legal, can get a social security card, and entre’ to all government benefits. What a deal!

Our government is the ultimate teacher. If it teaches that its laws can be violated without penalty or the violations will even be rewarded, then it should not expect its citizens to respect the laws or the government. Such a government is on the road to collapse.

The porous border invites terrorists to enter the country as sleepers, awaiting only the signal to murder and maim. I have gone a long way with President Bush, but on the question of securing the nation’s borders he has violated his oath of office by purposely ignored the invasion of masses over the Mexican border. The primary duty of the chief executive is to protect the nation from foreign invasion and if President Bush deserves impeachment on any ground, it is because he has acquiesced in the mass influx of foreign nationals and refused to enforce the immigration laws of the United States to repel them from the nation.

One would think that the political elites who are so intent on ramming this bill down the throats of the American people would at least remember a little history or take note of the problems the importation of an alien population has on the host countries in Europe. The Hispanic populations flowing into the United States are unlike previous immigrations, in that they are not interested in assimilating into the American culture but are solely migrating to find employment. Their hearts remain in their home country. In fact, no small number of them consider the Southwest United States to be their country, and consider U.S. sovereignty over the area to be somehow illegitimate. How can it possibly be wise to allow an alien population which feels it has a historical claim to the land to settle the area en masse? Possession, the old saw goes, is nine-tenths of the law and if the Hispanic population is allowed to progressively increase over the southwest the day will come that the new majority exercises de facto, if not de jure, sovereignty over the area, where the laws of the United States no longer apply.

What of the morality of importing a servant population to perform, as the president never tires of stating, "jobs Americans won’t do?" Besides being inaccurate, the statement implies that this group of human beings is suitable only as drones performing the most menial and thankless of tasks to sustain our advanced society. In other contexts this insult would most certainly bring down the wrath of the multi-culturalists and civil rights advocates on the head of anyone so insensitive as to utter the expression. Yet this declaration is offered in support of the bill, as if it is normal and understood that the United States economy requires a peasant underclass to survive. So much of the American dream of upward mobility! The idea that there are jobs Americans won’t do, or that the American economy needs a permanent underclass, are canards, false arguments at war with our history and the shared aspirations of our society. The economy does not an underclass of serfs in order to prosper. That contention confuses the desire of business for cheap labor with the needs of the economy.

The class of people coming here are accustomed to socialist governments, which intrude heavily into the market place with regulation and taxation. They come from governments whose officals and the judges are more often corrupt, the honest ones often murdered. Obedience to the law is not emphasized and may be fatal. The host population of the country both reflects and inculcates this corruption into its businesses and private institutions. How can we not expect that these attitudes and habits of doing business will not travel with the people who have grown up with them? Particularly when these same people wish to retain their culture and have no desire to assimilate into the Anglo culture of the United States.

Is the United States a nation or merely a land mass? A nation is a distinct, organic entity, with a unique culture and particular set of shared values. It may have many subsets: ethnic, religious, etc., but all are part of the whole. The immigration bill treats the United States as a sort of supra-national business concern, providing legitimacy and international cover for the commercial activities of multinational corporations who happen to have evolved first here, and desire a continuing cheap labor force which can be used up and discarded, just as one discards a paper or plastic cup. The American people, our history, culture, faith, and hopes for the future for ourselves and our progeny, are considered by the political and commercial elites of our nation as obstacles to the internationalization of commerce and the transnational interchange of goods, services, and people. These things are to be cast aside and forgotten in the brave new world envisioned by these elites, where brown skinned grunts collect the trash, mow the lawns, cook the food and nurse the young, while elites jet about the planet as "Masters of the Universe."

The comprehensive immigration reform bill must be defeated not merely to preserve American sovereignty and security. It must be defeated to preserve American dignity; it must be defeated to vindicate the faith that government rests on the consent of the governed and is not the mask of an oligarchy to whom you and I, as well as the illegal immigrant, are mere ciphers to be discarded once our utility is exhausted.

This immigration bill is a betrayal of everything that Americans hold dear. If it passes historians will one day look back on the day it went into effect as the beginning of the end of the American republic.