Illegals Threaten Survival of U.S.
“Less than 2 percent of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29 percent are on welfare”
By Pat Boone
It’s hard to believe that we enlightened, practical, eyes-wide-open Americans are living in a fable, a virtual fairy tale — but more and more evidence is making the case that we are.
The “fairy tale” I refer to is actually a witty satire written by the brilliant author/politician Jonathan Swift in 1726. Because it was such an entertaining piece, it became a famous children’s story; but that was not the original intention of the author. Swift himself said “The chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is, to vex the world rather than divert it.”
That is, he wanted to focus his society on its folly. And that he did, eloquently. But little could he have imagined how accurately he would picture our society in America today. It’s startling. It’s disheartening. And it’s threatening to our very survival.
Remember? In Swift’s satire, a traveler named Gulliver finds himself in Lilliput, surrounded by a race of people universally 1/12 his size. Though he wishes them no harm, and in fact is quite friendly toward the little people, his size intimidates them. So they conspire to get him drunk and lying on the ground — at which time they crawl all over him, staking him to the ground with countless little ropes. And when he comes to, he’s helpless.
You may not yet get the connection. But here are recent facts, revealed by none other than the Los Angeles Times, the truth teller in one of America’s unofficial “sanctuary cities” for illegal aliens.
- 40 percent of all workers in L.A. County (10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
- 95 percent of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
- 75 percent of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
- Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
- Nearly 35 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
- Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
- The FBI estimates half of all gang members in Los Angeles to be illegal aliens from south of the border.
- Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
- 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
- Of 10.2 million people in L.A. County, 5.1 million speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
All these alarming facts have been duly reported by the newspaper that favors current sanctuary-promoting Mayor Villaraigosa and makes sure that anti-immigration enforcement demonstrations featuring angry shouts in Spanish and under Mexican flags — in American streets and parks — get ample coverage. So don’t doubt the figures.
Add to those some more recent stats:
- Less than 2 percent of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29 percent are on welfare.
- Over 70 percent of the United States’ annual population growth (and over 90 percent of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.
- 29 percent of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
Are you beginning to see why I can’t get the story of Gulliver out of my mind?
Do you not see America as the benign giant up north that fails to defend its own borders or enforce its own laws, that looks the other way while some of its own citizens actually encourage the influx of illegals to do low-paying jobs, thinking it won’t matter seriously, and simply feeling compassion toward poor Latinos who seek a better life?
Can’t we Americans, uniquely generous and welcoming and compassionate toward those less fortunate, see that our generosity is being horribly abused, that our economy is being overwhelmed, that whatever benefits might have derived from crop pickers and day laborers and kitchen workers have long since been washed away by an avalanche of the illiterate, the unskilled, the dependent, and the even the violent and criminal?
