The world did not end on May 1st. Are you surprised? For those with short memories, May 1 was when the old Soviet Union’s communist leaders paraded their military hardware through the streets of Moscow. This May Day parade served two functions. First, it showed the perpetually sacrificing population of Russia and its involuntary suburbs in Eastern Europe what all their economic hardship had purchased. Second, it showed the West how big and important the communists were to the world – because they had nukes. In other words, it gave the communists legitimacy.
But to return to America’s day without illegals, I say “blessed relief!” So should the Los Angeles Unified School District, which – with its illegals problem – is unified in only one thing, and that’s failure. According to an article in the Economist (“The Mayor Takes Charge,” April 29, 2006, page 31), Harvard’s Civil Rights Project found that only 45 percent of Los Angeles students who started 9th grade ever graduated from 12th grade. But “for Latino students, who make up three-quarters of the student body, the rate was a mere 39 percent.” The article relates that at Wilson Senior High, a blue-collar school, “93 percent (of the students) are Latino, 5 percent Asian, and just over 1 percent Black.” Three quarters of the students qualify for taxpayer-supported “free” meals, and “English is often an unknown language.”
Rumor has it that unlike sympathetic employers who shut down their businesses for May Day, the federal prison system did not release the 20 percent of its inmates who are incarcerated for serious crimes and just happen to be illegal immigrants so they could be “included” in the May Day celebration of lawlessness. But then maybe the federal prison system is where these “sympathetic” employers belong? I know I’m tired of paying taxes to support the social services, education and “free” health care for their cheap labor.
Isn’t it the owners and managers of these businesses who pocket the difference when they pay an artificially-depressed wage to people with no legal right to be here? Since they’ve reaped the benefit, perhaps they should be held liable for the social service costs, school costs and health-care costs consumed by their illegal employees?
Perhaps these employers should be joined in federal prison by the politicians who continue to resist a photo identification for voting, so they can be re-elected by illegals living and buying houses in their districts? The payoff for re-election always seems to be to plunder the taxpayers for ever more services (read: bribes) for their illegally resident constituents. How much money would the Los Angeles Unified School District have to educate legal citizens if the illegally-resident immigrants who are being fed at taxpayer expense and who have zero English abilities were not living here? What about class sizes? What about teacher satisfaction? What about our future?
It seems to be a characteristic of human nature that once we’ve taken something that doesn’t belong to us – whether it be material property, the right to live and work in this country, or even someone’s life – we seek to justify our behavior. Theodore Dalrymple, the British prison psychiatrist, deals with this in his marvelous book “Life at the Bottom.” When asked, “Why did you do it?” murderers assigned to his care most commonly responded, “I don’t know, doctor. The knife just went in.” (What makes his book marvelous is the way he debunks this claim and shows the entire British social-service bureaucracy as aiding and abetting the murderer’s view of himself as the innocent victim.)
As the May Day celebration of lawlessness showed, there are lots of people who took something of great value from the rest of us – our identity as Americans – and now think they are the victims, because they “don’t get no respect.”
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