The Truth about Immigration
by Mickey Z.
 Everything negative you've heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off another nation's resources doesn't go far enough in explaining the gravity of this ongoing crisis.
Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists.
If you don't believe me, just ask any sweatshop worker in, say, Vietnam...
The perfidious colonizers I refer to, of course, are the
insatiable transnational corporations setting up camp all across the
Third World. Whether it be Nike, The Gap, Wal-Mart, or any other
taxpayer-subsidized bloodsucker, these crafty illegal aliens can't be
stopped by constructing a mere wall. They travel with impunity...on the
wings of government subvention and cunning, relentless propaganda.
Thanks to decades of conditioning, even the victims of these soulless
migrants will voluntarily pay for the right to wear a shirt bearing
their corporate logo.
One would not be engaging in hyperbole
to characterize these illegal invaders as "terrorists." Forget
color-coded alerts, staged arrests, and manufactured scares. Put aside
those times you were forced to remove your shoes at the airport. As
defined at Dictionary.com, "an overwhelming feeling of fear and
anxiety" and/or an "intense, overpowering fear" characterize brand of
the terror I speak of.
While the corporate media obscures the
real terror and trains its focus on the latest battle between Dubya and
Osama (or the current villain of the day), the primary conflict on the
planet remains unchanged: globalization from above vs. globalization
from below.
"Immigrants" like the World Trade Organization,
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and transnational corporations
are elements of a mutant form of remote control imperialism. The United
States doesn't always have to send armies into other countries. It
sends in Disney and McDonalds with the (usually) unspoken threat of
military force backing them up.
Globalization is not
intrinsically a bad idea. Mutually beneficial global ties can be
essential. As Michael Albert of Z Net has articulated, the goal should
be to globalize equity not poverty, solidarity not anti-sociality,
diversity not conformity, democracy not subordination, and ecological
balance not suicidal rapaciousness. Novelist/activist Arundhati Roy
adds: "In the present circumstances, I'd say that the only thing worth
globalizing is dissent."
But perhaps Groucho said it best in Monkey Business: "There's my argument: restrict immigration."
Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
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