By DEXTER DUGGAN
Rather reminiscent of Spanish explorers long ago seeking a fabled Fountain of Youth in Florida, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said his expansive immigration policies would deliver youth and dynamism to energize the United States’ economy. For Bush, the already generous legal immigration policies here aren’t enough to refresh the U.S.
When Bush spoke on April 30 at a forum put on by National Review magazine, he didn’t say this youth and dynamism currently are in suspended animation off on another planet, waiting for a scientist somehow to awaken them and fly them here. Instead, they’re already throbbing away south of the U.S. border, just waiting for permission to cross the line.
Wait a minute. If a mass dose of youthfulness is so helpful for our future, why has it not already helped the countries where the youth and vitality currently reside? If their native lands are in sad economic shape, they must address their own problem.
Have people failed to do so because political and religious leaders on both sides of the border tell them that the only effort worth making is to sneak into the already-developed U.S.; and so they save up to pay a smuggler instead of building and investing in native-land enterprises?
Have corrupt Latino oligarchs held them down? Then the oligarchs are glad to see them flee, rather than having the youthfulness and vitality stand up and fight for Latino futures.
When Mexican Catholics confronted a government persecuting their faith nearly a century ago, they had to take up arms in rebellion at home so church bells could ring again. And although we hear of the power of the rosary in the 16th century to protect Christian Europe from Muslim forces, there still was a bloody, victorious battle waged at Lepanto, not angels just strewing lilies.
Meanwhile, with millions of youthful immigrants already in a bustling shadow economy in the U.S., where are Bush’s promised results of economic vitality through new arrivals?
What right does the U.S. have to drain off the future of other nations by taking more of their young people? If this unbalances their populations, abandoning older people back home, past the peak of their productivity, will the new arrivals be sending billions of dollars in remittances back there to help? This already is a well-known phenomenon, and does not help enliven a deadened U.S. economy.
Chilean native Luz Fuenzalida, now a U.S. citizen, has told The Wanderer of Latino villages and wives left man-less and pleading for their return. And of men who come here to start new families with other women, even though they’re still married back home. This is not family friendly.
What justice is there in luring people to come live in a taxpayer-financed U.S. welfare state instead of reforming their own lands?
If they can’t make a positive economic difference at home where they already know the language, the culture, the social signals, and have close-by family support, how can they jump-start our foreign economy in short order simply by coming here as young pawns of the powerful?
How about our casting off the blight of Planned Parenthood and letting the U.S. produce its own young people and future? Or dare Bush not offend his anti-natal globalist friends, whose plainly stated interest is to submerge borders and shuttle labor and goods around in a “North American Partnership” that politicians contrive while concealed from public inspection?
Globalist manipulators like the Council on Foreign Relations brag to their own members and allies about their clout and effectiveness. Yet they can’t stand exposure in the daylight.
With such cronies already weighing on his back, you’d think Bush would be reluctant to try to claim the presidency after his own father and brother seriously damaged the GOP. Or are we to think Jeb has new magic that his own immediate family so badly failed to produce?
I liked Jeb a lot a long time ago. I didn’t leave him. He left us conservatives for the globalists.
Rather than Jeb Bush asserting how to turn massive illegal immigration into magic prosperity for the U.S. while ditching the native lands, he should recall Pope Benedict XVI as the Pope flew to the U.S. in 2008.
Benedict, who knew about mass movement and war in Europe, said the “fundamental solution” for illegal immigration here would be “that there is no longer any need to immigrate, that there are sufficient opportunities for work and a sufficient social fabric that no one any longer feels the need to immigrate. We all have to work for this objective, that social development is sufficient so that citizens are able to contribute to their own future.”
The Pope responded this meaningful way when a reporter futilely attempted to have him condemn, in the reporter’s own deceptive words, “a growing ‘anti-immigrant’ movement in America” and into “invit[ing] the United States to welcome immigrants well, many of whom are Catholic.”
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