Enablers are all around us, helping irresponsible illegals evade the consequences of their actions. Years ago,
when I had friends with serious substance abuse problems
(mostly alcoholism), I became aware of Alcoholics
Anonymous, an organization which has helped many with
addiction problems. While I did not entirely
endorse their creed and method of treatment, I learned some
interesting things from AA. There is a
type of person which many alcoholics have in their lives
called an "enabler." An
Enabler is someone who
makes it possible for the alcoholic to go on drinking
without experiencing the negative consequences
of his actions. The Enabler is almost always a loved
one, whether a spouse or a biological relative. The Enabler makes excuses for the alcoholic, and
helps him cover up his behavior. She phones in to
work and tells them that he is "sick" when he really
has a horrific hangover and is spending most of his
time vomiting with his head over the porcelain
bowl. She tells the kids that daddy's
not well, he just
had an accident, when he comes home so drunk that he
falls down and pees his pants. When the alcoholic
behaves badly in public, the Enabler tells others that
she's just "under a lot of stress."
An Enabler goes
around the house putting away liquor bottles,
helping the secret drinker stay secret.
The Enabler
forgives the alcoholic most of her indiscretions
while enabling her to engage in even more
outrageous behavior. In other
words, Enablers help alcoholics to avoid, for a period of
time, taking responsibility for the natural
consequences of their own actions.
Enablers serve as a
buffer between the alcoholic and the outside world;
they keep alcoholics from falling in the gutter,
which AA claims is the eventual result of the "disease"
they call alcoholism. According to AA, many, if not
most, alcoholics have to literally end up in the gutter,
to have their lives become a complete disaster,
before they are willing to stop drinking and make
substantial changes. There are many
Enablers among us. Some masquerade as do-gooders,
and think they are helping the "less fortunate." The Enablers among us love to help those poor,
down-trodden huddled masses of the third world impoverished
yearning to breathe free and to achieve the American
dream, whether by hook or by crook.
They help illegal
aliens who have broken our laws by trespassing
into our country! Whether the
Enablers are county health workers, policemen,
churches providing sanctuary, welfare case workers
helping illegals sign up for welfare, La Raza, MALDEF, or
your neighbor who hires Jose to do his gardening,
they are sticking a knife in the back of every American
Citizen, for they are enabling illegal aliens to
avoid the negative consequences of being illegally
present in the United States. Without a support
network and willing employers, illegal aliens would not
survive in the United States, and they would go back to
their native countries. Without the
help of Enablers,
it would no longer PAY to be in the U.S. At what point does
such help cease to become "enabling"
and become aiding and abetting? America
is so overrun
with illegal aliens that they are like an every-day
disease that has become an epidemic.
And with Enablers
like Christian Peacemakers, No More Deaths, and
Humane Borders, just to name a few, and the
laissez-faire interior enforcement policy of ICE, an
illegal is virtually assured that he will be able to stay
in the United States as long as he wants. The Enablers
ensure than an illegal alien will not have to face
up to the consequences of his actions; the cop who
lets someone he KNOWS is illegal get off with a
citation for a traffic offense, rather than a jailing, is
equally guilty of Enabling. Look at
these paraphrased
excerpts of the Federal Immigration and Nationality
Act Section 8 USC 1324 (a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
of 1996: State and local law
enforcement officials have the general power to investigate
and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes
without prior INS knowledge or approval, as
long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is "no extant federal limitation" on this
authority. The 1996 immigration control
legislation passed by Congress was intended to
encourage states and local agencies to
participate in the process of enforcing
federal immigration laws. Immigration officers and
local law enforcement officers may detain an
individual for a brief warrant-less interrogation
where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that
the individual is illegally present in the
U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable
suspicion include evasive, nervous or erratic behavior,
dress or speech indicating foreign
citizenship, and presence in an area known to contain a
concentration of illegal aliens. This section
encourages local law enforcement to work with federal
CBP and ICE in apprehending illegal aliens! Any law enforcement officer who is still following
Special Order 40, which prohibits local law enforcement
from taking any substantive efforts against
illegal aliens, is guilty of aiding and abetting
illegals. I wonder, do
those who Enable (aid, abet, and harbor) illegal aliens
know that not all of them are "poor?" For example,
many illegals now pay smugglers between $1,500-$2,500
to get them across the border. I don't know about
you, but it hurts me greatly to get up a few hundred
dollars just for car repairs, and sometimes I'm
not sure if I can pay rent when my car is
broken. Where do "poor"
people get over $1,000 to pay a
smuggler? Who did they rob? Middle Eastern men are known to
pay $50,000 to be smuggled into this country, and
anyone who has that kind of money isn't going to be
working as a common laborer. In spite of
the dangers, we are a nation of Enablers. It started
with discouraging people to take responsibility
for their own actions, with liberals encouraging
the lesser-fortunate to blame society, circumstances,
their parents, etc., for the consequences
of their own actions. Somehow or another, they
went bad because "we" failed them. We forced them
to take drugs, we forced them to be self-destructive,
and we forced them to be violent. It wasn't
their fault, cry the Enablers. The Enablers
(usually liberals), can feel superior to those whom
they serve, and the high they get from helping those
"less fortunate" can become an end in itself. They feel so noble and good, they want to do it again and
again! Yet do they live among those
whom they
serve? I don't see any Caucasian
liberals living in the
barrios. No, they don't want to
associate with the riff-raff
that they serve when they are off-duty--they all live in
the hills, or in gated communities, where there is
perfect homogeneity. And so it is in
Mexico, where the
Castilian descendants of the Conquistadors, like Vicente
Fox, live in walled-in splendor, while the
darker-skinned majority of natives and Mestizos live in abject
poverty. Where are the social workers in
Mexico? There are
whole industries built around the concept of Enabling:
grant-writing, NGO's (non-governmental organizations),
the non-profit sector, "public" healthcare,
gimmicks to get more government handouts, survey-taking,
phony results reports, all run by endless
paperwork. We, as a society, have been
taken over by the
Enablers. Acting as an Enabler has
become the drug of
choice for liberal do-gooders. Once a person has an
Enabler going to bat for him, he need never take
responsibility for himself and his own actions. The people who
staff the illegal alien aid stations think they are
helping poor people who are desperate and
needy. I wonder if they know they are
committing felonies? Again, from the Federal Immigration and Nationality
Act: It is a violation of law for
any person to conceal, harbor, or shield from
detection in any place, including any building or
means of transportation, any alien who is in the United
States in violation of law. Harboring means any conduct that tends to substantially facilitate an
alien to remain in the U.S. illegally. The sheltering need not be clandestine, and harboring
covers aliens arrested outdoors, as well as in a
building. This provision includes harboring an alien
who entered the U.S. legally, but has since lost
his legal status. Convictions
for aiding, abetting, or conspiracy to commit alien
smuggling or harboring, carry penalties of up to a maximum
of 5, 10, and 20 years to life in prison if
someone was hurt or killed. Conspiracy
to commit the
crimes of sheltering, harboring, or employing
illegal aliens is a separate federal offense punishable by
a fine of up to $10,000 or five years imprisonment. Sentences for each count may run consecutively
rather than concurrently. Why aren't our
federal officials arresting these people for
harboring and sheltering? Some of them actually
transport the illegals to Tucson and give them shelter
in their homes or churches. [See the article here
called "No Illegal Alien Left Behind"]. Doesn't that
meet the definition of aiding/abetting/harboring? No, instead the OBL (Open Borders Lobby)
bleats about the aliens' "civil rights,"
not OURS, and local law enforcement, with few exceptions,
dances to their tune, deterring honest American
citizens from trying to keep their country safe from
invaders. I propose a
new name for the Open Borders Lobby.
I'm going to start
calling them the HABEs. That's short for Harboring-Aiding-aBetting-Enablers. That's exactly what
they are: Harboring-Aiding-aBetting-Enablers. That applies to everyone in
the immigration industry who is working to enable illegal
aliens to stay in the United States. I have a
question for the HABEs: if you love
these illegal aliens
so much, why don't you go to THEIR countries, and
use your business skills to help them survive, and
even thrive, in their native land? I know why. It might inconvenience the HABEs. They'd rather turn
America upside-down than risk a bout of diarrhea in a
third world country. |