Mexican Flu

Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg compares the illegal alien flap with the War on Drugs.

Although he makes some good points, his comparison is ultimately incorrect; drugs are a commodity, desired by a segment of the population. They don`t hang around and reproduce. When they are gone they have to be replenished, or the user has to do without. It`s much more accurate to compare illegals to undesirable organisms; nobody has a problem with the government trying to stop the importation of cattle infected with mad cow disease, or live chickens with Avian flu. Why? Because, unlike other commodities, the microorganisms infecting these creatures don`t just disappear. They can infect others, and perhaps destroy an entire industry. Would anyone resist a quarantine if the Avian flu turned into a human pandemic?

That is, unfortunately, what illegal immigration will become-a pandemic of humans. It is an alien culture overruning our own. It will lead to the demise of our society and way of life if it continues unabated. Fortunately, people are easiier to deal with than microorganisms in some ways; they can be seen, they can be reasoned with, etc. Stopping the flow of aliens into the country is possible if we simply decide to do it. If America would just say no.

Too many have bought into the rhetoric that we cannot stop this, when in fact we haven`t tried. I don`t think Mr. Goldberg`s analogy is helpful, either, since there are many who have seen the failure of the war on drugs. Again, drugs are not people. They are easy to conceal, easy to transport, do not require food and water, do not directly consume social services, do not require employment, etc. There are a great many threads which bind a person to the surrounding world-threads which can be followed. Stopping the flow of illegal drugs into America bears only a superficial resemblence to stopping illegal aliens. They both come out of Mexico, and both are beneficial to Mexico at our expense.

We all should Just Say No.