US Immigration, NOT!

By historical accident, the founding fathers of the US Constitution included 28 words on immigration with a specific intent that has been mutilated in wrongful interpretations over the last century as to rob our country of control over its borders:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

It’s the Fourteenth Amendment approved after the Civil War in an attempt to stop Southern states denying their newly freed slaves the full rights of citizens, according to Peter Brimelow, author of the book “Alien Nation”.

Brimelow says that the wording is rather general as to allow interpretation of such constitutional amendment to mean “birth” as a guarantee for automatic US Citizenship. It’s become the tool for two-thirds of births in Los Angeles County of babies born to illegal immigrants. Here in the islands more than 50 percent of births at
CHC are of non-indigenous parents though legally situated. It seems a tool to overstay when such birthright citizenship doesn’t legally guarantee that parents can stay here beyond the expiration of their work contracts.

“This ‘birthright citizenship’ us by no means the rule among industrialized countries. Even if you are born in a manger, the Japanese, French and Germans say in effect, that still doesn’t make you a bale of hay. The British used to have birthright citizenship, but in 1983, they restricted it–requiring for example that one parent be a legal resident–because of problems caused by immigration”.

How unfortunate that fellow Americans have no say in the matter of “birthright citizenship”. Our country has basically “lost control of its borders–in every sense. A series of institutional accidents, of which birthright citizenship is just one, has essentially robbed Americans of the power to determine who, and how many, can enter the national family, make claims on it…and exert power over it”.

“The heart of the problem: immigration”.

This “birthright citizenship” has become a tool for “overstayers” convinced that a baby in arms guarantees them permanent residency here. Wrong! It isn’t a sure ticket for staying in the islands, illegally. It’s the kid who’s born a US Citizen and not the parents. Therefore, upon expiration of your contracts you must return home. At age 18, the kid can decide his fate.

Border crossing has seen a new form: climbing on boats and hope to land in US soil to secure political asylum. In recent months we’ve seen illegal boat people who were duped that the NMI is the springboard to political freedom only to find out that it isn’t so. Most have been repatriated by US INS. This is the beauty of our having control over immigration.

If we follow the dictum under Interior’s plan on federal takeover of immigration (an unnecessary agenda though the quiet key to closing down the apparel industry here), not only would the NMI see a complete economic meltdown; but such an ill-conceived agenda would also instantly change the political rights of the indigenous people by the granting of US Citizenship to guest workers who comprise more than half the total population.

It is an apparent scheme to ensure that the indigenous people become minorities in their own homeland, a plan that would eventually lead to replicating the Fiji Experience of constant unrest and strife between the indigenous Fijians against Indians who were brought to that island nation to work on the sugar cane fields. There was coup that gave indigenous Fijians effective control over the affairs of their local government. This year’s election, however, returned another Fijian Indian to the helm though it isn’t as easily embraced by the indigenous Fijians.

It’s inconceivable how the Fourteenth Amendment has been interpreted in umpteen ways to suit the needs of constitutional legal eagles. It is obvious that this institutional accident is the very culprit of the mess in US immigration: loss of border control and the obvious powerlessness of citizens to determine who joins the national family. Keep it on that side of the Pacific and leave control over this issue in the hands of the local government here. Si Yuus Maase`!