Victim: The Nation

By: Mark Cromer
Victims of Illegal Immigration – A Collection of Essays
Hat Tip: Dick Manasseri

The long hollowing out of America’s once-mighty manufacturing base, which effectively ended the generational tradition of sons following their fathers into jobs that provided a secure paycheck and a pension, has been followed by the in-sourcing of waves of cheap, illegal labor to replace American workers, and, in doing so, suppress wages and benefits.

To the black citizens in south Los Angeles who have watched as their jobs, schools, and communities have been overrun with illegal immigrants, there is a bitter irony in lofty progressive cant about justice for illegal immigrants, even as blacks find themselves again being pushed to the back of the economic bus.

Political gains by blacks in Southern California, that were secured over many decades of struggle, now face their own twilight as the sweeping demographic shift eventually eliminates black voting power in communities across the southland.

Two or three generations deeper into this crisis, the real question will be what citizenship will be worth. What cherished hallmarks will the designation “American” hold?

Like the microcosm of Southern California, it will be a nation that is brimming with people struggling to survive, and yet with even less of a cohesive sense of a national identity – of just what an American is – than at any other time in the country’s history. The meaning of American will simply be whatever one wishes it to be. Instead of a bedrock sense of ideals and values, it will be malleable, transitory, written in chalk.

Ironically, far from bringing more people closer to the “American Dream” (that once-perennial hope which defined a country and provided more opportunity for its citizens than any other nation on earth), it will now be further away than ever before for most of its people.

California’s grim fate should serve as a warning for the rest of the nation. There are towns, counties, and states that are experiencing, like California did in the late 1980s and early 1990s, exploding populations of illegal immigrants that are reshaping their communities, their culture, and their quality of life at a pace and on a scale that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.

In places like Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and Georgia, the future is being decided today.

If American citizens cannot muster the political will to act decisively to preserve their overarching culture and the quality of life that was passed along to them after so much sacrifice across the 20th Century, then they will find themselves in the same terminal condition that California is in today – an inglorious ending for a nation whose lamps once burned so brightly with promise.

Mark Cromer is a widely-published journalist. This was excerpted from “California Twilight: A Native Bears Witness to the End of the Golden State,” www.noozhawk.com.

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  1. it gets more brazen by the day. So much for ‘representative government’. Who pays for these clowns to show up in Washington ? Mark Zuckerberg maybe ? They sure have a lot of money for people who are supposedly fleeing poverty. Maybe George Will is sending them money ? Maybe Glenn Beck ?
    ENOUGH of the Anchor Babies
    ENOUGH of Sanctuary Cities
    ENOUGH of Zuckerberg’s lies
    ENOUGH of stupid little stories on NPR, NY Times, Bloomberg News and others about “the children”. Did you ever notice that they NEVER link immigration to any problems – such as the South Bronx burning down ? Compare pictures of the South Bronx with pictures of Dresden. Not much difference.
    The amnesty crowd thinks we haven’t figured out what is going on.
    Their Spin Machine is certainly well funded and coordinated.

    Pelosi needs to be HOUNDED OUT OF OFFICE. What a lying creep.
    These clowns are orchestrating a TROJAN HORSE to admit millions of illegals. Plus – they let this economic mess drag on and on and on, and they pile on more expenses – like
    we get to pay for our own destruction.
    Meanwhile their lapdogs at NPR play heart rending stories – which is what they always do for their propaganda. You can hear expert 21st century propaganda all the time.

    maybe the House needs to start some serious de-funding, and Americans at the State level need to counteract this power grabbing. Get ready to invalidate some Presidential Directives.
    And hammer the Media creeps who are pushing for this AMNESTY rubbish.

    Looks like a useful book – thanks.

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