By Selwyn Duke

It’s hard to think of a battle that has been won by being defensive.
You may be most skilled at blocking and slipping punches, but if that
is all you do, sooner or later your opponent will land a few and enjoy
victory.  This occurs to me as I watch the latest amnesty battle.

As you may know, the DREAM Act — the latest Scamnesty scheme —  is
being debated in Congress at this moment.  And it may be the Mexican
dream, but it’s our nightmare.  But that isn’t what I want to address
today. 

We may defeat this proposal as we did the last, but so what? 

Are you surprised?  Do I sound overly cavalier or a tad defeatist?  Here is my point: Until we transform this debate and talk about the
true remedy for our problem — namely, halting legal immigration — we will labor in vain. 

As I have said before, illegal immigration isn’t the problem, but merely an exacerbation
of the problem.  As long as we perpetuate our current immigration
scheme — a formula dictating that 85 percent of immigrants will hail
from the Third World and Asia — the demographic revolution we have
witnessed will continue, attended by descent into Third World status. 

This is the third rail of the American immigration debate, the
emperor-has-no-clothes-issue, the untouchable element.  It gets at a
truth that no one even dares contemplate because, by golly, we’re a
nation of immigrants.  That is what we’re told and it’s not to
be questioned; it is dogma.  Why, I can almost hear Zero Mostel
bellowing "Tradition!"

Then again, I can also hear that apocryphal saying: "The definition of
insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a
different result." 

Advocating a moratorium on legal immigration would be a return to sanity that could turn the tide. We would finally be taking the
offense and proposing a change in the traditionalist direction, as
opposed to making proactivity the province of the left.  We would
finally be pushing back, demanding some of the adversary’s territory
instead of just defending ours.  Of course, we do have one other choice.

Certain defeat.

We may end this bad DREAM, but the left will be back, maybe in a few
months, maybe in a year.  And then they will return again and again and
again and again; they will continue to make their proposals and
propagandize, cajole and coerce, until one of their nail-in-the-coffin
laws passes.  It’s not a matter of if, only when; one of those big
punches will eventually land.  This is the consequence of being
defensive.

Thus, proposing the elimination of immigration is not only the right
thing, it’s the only thing.  The present course of action guarantees
eventual defeat, as the traditionalist side gets worn down through
constant attack and people become acclimated to the idea of
scamnesty-by-another-name.  But if we finally start making the
proposals — if we finally say to the left, "No!  You no longer drive
the agenda, we have a say now" — we’ll be pushing back.  Then, at
worst, maybe we will, to use apropos terminology, be in a Mexican
stand-off.  And then perhaps, just possibly, we will have the time to
alter the American consciousness and muster up the popular will to save
our republic.

It’s push back or be pushed around.

End immigration now, before it ends us.