When I was 19 years old I packed up all my belongings and left New Jersey for Los Angeles. The only work experience I had was working in a grocery store and as a bus boy. It was 1989 and the economy was entering into a long slump that would eventually cause President Bush his job. I held four jobs while I lived and went to college in LA. I worked at Au Bon Pain as a busboy, at Cafe 50’s as a waiter, at a deli in Westwood called Breadstiks, and at a retail store at the Santa Monica Mall. But to land those four jobs I had to apply to over a thousand classified ads.

The types of jobs I was qualified for were being taken by Mexicans, and Central and South Americans. But I learned an important lesson. I was a lousy employee. My first priority was my studies, my second was meeting girls and hanging out with my friends. The Mexicans, Guatemalans, and Brazilians I worked with had no higher priority than work. And they worked hard. They taught me what little I know about having a work ethic. As for the employers, they saw it too, and they vastly preferred to hire hispanics because they were more reliable, had better retention, they didn’t complain, and they worked hard. In my experience, they didn’t pay them any less.

But apparently Pat Buchanan thinks the nation is imperiled by hard-working immigrants (and believe me, the legality of their immigration is a secondary issue for Pat):

A president like Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Army to the border years ago. And if Fox did not cooperate, T.R. would have gone on to Mexico City. Nor would Ike, who deported all illegal aliens in 1953, have stood still for this being done to the country he had defended in war.

What are these Bush Republicans afraid of? Dirty looks from the help at the country club?

:::flip:::

Pat goes on to say:

The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo — separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America — is on the table.

Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees — health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons — onto taxpayers.

And, finally, Pat proposes an extreme remedy:

Twice, Bush has taken an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion.”

Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion.

Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against “invasion.”

It may be the only way left to get his attention, before the border vanishes and our beloved country dissolves into MexAmerica, what T.R. called a “polyglot boarding house for the world.”

There are legitimate concerns about illegal immigration. It is a difficult issue to tackle, both politically and pragmatically. But Buchanan’s racism is so obvious that it overwhelms any legitimate points he might have.

At this point, I don’t think Buchanan should be employed by any cable news channels, and I don’t think he should be invited to be a guest either. He is just a flat-out racist.

It’s good to know that the set of people calling for impeachment is broadening. But his rationale for impeachment is grotesque.

We need to have a dialogue in this country about the effect of illegal immigration on wages, the health care system, and the education system. But Pat Buchanan’s demagoguery should not be a part of that conversation.

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