Haiti Quake Used To Justify Illegal Immigration

by
Dr. Frederick Meekins
Fellow Of Worldview Studies
The Issachar Institute For The Study Of Apologetics & Policy

Rush Limbaugh has been criticized for raising the issue of

whether or not Haitians will be subjected to the same
kinds of limitations on assistance to be imposed on
Americans such as the proposed healthcare review boards
popularly referred to as "death panels" because of the
powers these regulatory bodies would be granted to deny
life-saving treatment to those deemed of marginal
socioeconomic utility by government bureaucrats.

Why isn’t this question raised by the broadcaster

considered a valid concern?

If the first purpose of the United States government is to

provide for the general welfare of its citizens however one
might decide to define the scope of that notion, shouldn’t
foreigners irrespective of the desperation of their
circumstances be subject to at least the same rigors?

While the victims of the earthquake in Haiti deserve

sympathy and charity, engaged patriots must not allow
elites to use this tragedy as an excuse to blunt the
discerning criticism of good citizenship.

Some might respond that many of the victims of this

cataclysm are innocent children. And that is true enough.

It is one thing to allow passage for a given number of

youngsters who have caretakers and provision eagerly
awaiting their arrival. It is quite another to grant charity
willy-nilly without question.

The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration

Services announced that up to 200,000 undocumented
Haitian immigrants would be granted Temporary
Protected Status upon application approval. According to
the Miami Herald, temporary protected status is reserved
for undocumented migrants displaced by natural disasters,
armed conflicts or other emergencies; and Haitians
seeking this authorization must prove they were in the
United States prior to the day the quake struck.

In other words, the privilege to remain here is being

extended to those that shouldn’t even be here in the first
place. And, though they might have family on the island
impacted by the quake, since those applying for this status
were here in America at the time, they themselves suffered
no physical injury or dislocation.

Since those here improperly are in violation of the law,

Americans must naturally question the character of these
migrants to begin with. However, it is doubtful frontline
immigration personnel will be given the time necessary to
make the proper assessments since pressure is being
applied to officials to make urgent, expedited decisions.
Thus, in all the administrative confusion, in all likelihood
our government will end up extending the blessing of its
approval to be here to a number of shady characters most
upstanding Americans would not otherwise want to be
around. The tolerancemongers among the readership will
no doubt fly into their usual histrionics about how dare
anyone say such a thing.

However, if these individuals are possessed of such a

stellar character that they make Mother Teresa look like a
Hooter’s girl, perhaps those wanting the Haitian illegals to
remain here will permit the Haitians to housesit for the
duration of the work permit (after the expiration of which
these migrants are not going to leave anyway and anyone
that claims otherwise is so bereft of commonsense that
they’d take their brain out their brain and play with it if
they had one). Better yet, if these new arrivals are good
enough to roam freely about American streets, perhaps
some should without benefit of background checks be
appointed to watch the Obama children. Frankly then, if
these Haitians aren't good enough to be around the
Obama's, then we definitely don't need them around the
rest of us.

This attempt at immigration reform has the added caveat

attached that, if you are not for it, you are opposed to
assisting the adorable Haitian whelps trapped under slabs
of concrete. The effort is also couched in the usual terms
that everybody benefits when illegals are brought out into
the open economy. But is that really so?

For if the Haitian illegals are made legal, won't that

require employers to pay at least minimum wage once
these workers are on the books? And if that is the case,
what incentive then does a business have to hire a Haitian
rather than an individual of a more traditional American
background or from an immigrant culture less prone to
tropical proclivities of indolence and shiftlessness such as
showing up at work late without much concern for
temporal precision.

Obama's Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel is credited with

saying that the government should never let a good crisis
go to waste. By this, the False Prophet to Obama's Beast
means that as many tragedies and misfortunes as possible
should be used to accrue power to the state irrespective of
whether or not the proposal under consideration is
actually going to alleviate the problem in the long run.
Thus, the first thing the discerning citizen should yell is
“STOP” or at least “SLOW DOWN” whenever a
politician of any party insists that a new program must be
created or any additional money must be spent at this
instance.