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September 27, 2009

Taking Sides Paper

            I am not worried at all that Patrick Buchanan is right. Every mass immigration into America has had the same fears that Patrick has displayed toward the Mexicans entering our borders. America promotes a history based on accepting immigrants into America and they say that is what makes America strong, but our history of treatment of immigrants has never been accepting. Patrick Buchanan is a Republican and I have never known a Republican to ever be right on anything they are mostly white racist males that only want to reverse any kind of progress America has made in its history. Their entire goal is to end any government oversight and to allow discrimination to be openly accepted once again. They also want to create a Christian nation and force the beliefs on those who do not already follow them. I firmly believe the people that consider themselves conservative are a threat to American freedom. Patrick in his paper describes a brief history of America and Mexico and uses this history as a reason why Mexican immigrants are a threat to America. If Mexican-American history creates a valid reason for ending immigration of the Mexican population into America then the same could be said of the people of the United Kingdom. Our history with the U.K. was that they refused to give us our freedom as a sovereign nation which forced us into a war where they invaded our shores. Then after we won that war in 1812 the British used their superior navy to impede our trade with France, which lead to the war of 1812 in which the British invaded parts of the United States.

I pose the question that if Buchanan is right that Mexican immigration is a threat to our cultural integrity what right do we have to even oppose this invasion and forced conversion into the Mexican culture? The European influence that is so prevalent here in the United States is the effect of our invasion and forced conversion of the indigenous population of the American continent. The Native Americans were forced off their land and had their culture destroyed by us. This is a fact that cannot be denied so why is it right for us to destroy a groups way of life, but the idea of another group coming in and changing or destroying our way of life is somehow wrong?

Immigration is not a threat to American people I know this to be true because of my service in the United States Marine Corps. Many of the people I served with were either a first or second generation of an immigrant family. There were many Mexican immigrants that I lived and worked with for four years. These men and women went over to Iraq and Afghanistan when their country asked them too. Despite the view or usefulness of these wars these immigrants or children of immigrants volunteered to put their lives on the line for America. If Mexican immigrants are a threat to America why are they joining the military? Also Patrick Buchanan makes a claim that immigrants do not benefit the economy. Using my experience of my fellow Marines that are Mexican immigrants I see something very different because they are working collecting an income and paying taxes. Even if there are high numbers of immigrants on welfare their future generations would be able to work and pay taxes and contribute to our economy much more than their parents were able to.