Why Amnesty Passes By Summer 2009 (Part I of II)

By Xelan Bonn

March 10, 2008

It’s not important that less than 20% of the US population supports the breaking of the rule-of-law or wants to encourage open borders and illegal immigration, or aid in the creation of the North American Union (NAU). It is not important that post-election, the majority-vote Congress and the White House will be pro-amnesty and finally empowered to do their corporate corrupter’s bidding with vote superiority—even though it is against the majority-will of the people of whom they are meant to represent. It is not important that thousands of Latino organizers are going door to door across the nation in order to rally 12-20 million illegal aliens to come out in support of unconstitutional amnesty legislation on the horizon. It is not important that key members in Congress and the Dem party are planning for a major all-out amnesty push in early 2009, just after the elections have secured their offices and they will have nothing left to fear from vote-power. No, all of those things are formidable but they will not be the reason why amnesty will most likely pass into law—the important reason—the anti-illegal immigration/open borders/NAU crowd will be helping too!

Last year S.B. 1639 was narrowly defeated when the entire anti-crowd of activists leaders and their supporters (less than 2 million in grand total) came out and assailed Congress with angry faxes, letters, phone calls, and even a few personal lobbying visits. Several nonprofit and grass rooter groups, and hundreds of smaller groups, participated in getting the word out, which in turned got the public involved. It was a unified activist community defense, and according to NumbersUSA it was defense number 53 in a long list of attempts stretching back to 2001. What it was not, and what did not follow it, was a “unified offense”—an attack against the opposition at a critically weak time when an offensive strategy could have prevailed.

To date, the anti-crowd of activist has not formulated one offensive strategy or proposal. It has been void of true leadership. Those groups that are mainstream and well funded who have been fighting illegal immigration in great defense, when pressed to put on an offense, have flatly refused. Others with less resources have been left to fend for themselves, and as time progressed, what was once a unified front has now been disassembled into a teaming pool of infighting amateur political strategist all struggling to find a solution and a way through the unorganized quagmire so that they might be potent again.

Meanwhile, the opposition has had time to rally much larger forces and resources toward advancing their final victory.

Just after the last major amnesty defeat, Senator Kennedy and others said that they would try again and again until successful. Of course, it didn’t matter to them that the public didn’t want an amnesty, this group of elites were used to having their way and would not be stopped.

Behind the scenes, lobbying efforts began in earnest almost immediately by many of the leading drivers of amnesty, which were two fold. On the one hand, major corporate interests that want to exploit illegal or cheap labor or who promote a North American Union (NAU) were sounding off with their political bribes. On the other hand, socio-ethnocentric groups like La Raza, etc., most of whom are backed by anti-American socialist or pro-NAU groups like billionaire George Soros, Ford Foundation, and others, were all pressing their demands.

Even several leading members of Congress began educating other Congressional members that those voters who had called in to frighten the amnesty votes away in the last hours of S.B. 1639 were merely a fringe element and did not represent true America—next time, they said, hold your ground and don’t be concerned, you’re jobs are safe. And many in Congress have agreed to follow this strategy in the next major amnesty attempt. Translation: instead of 2 million voters to defeat the next amnesty, as many as 12 to 15 million or more will be needed—all pressuring Congress in union.

Amnesty attempt number 54 recently took place using unethical Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as the lead hit woman—for she thought voters’ attentions would be turned toward the elections and they would not see a backdoor visa-amnesty slipped by. She was proven wrong and the test balloon her group sent up achieved its ultimate goal, which was to drain-off more of the valuable resources of the activist community of defenders even if the public was not asleep.

Unfortunately, amnesty will come back 100 times more, if it must, in order to win, for the effort is well funded from on-high. Several mega transnational corporations have dumped funding into pro-amnesty group coffers toward progressing their group’s goals of creating a North American Union while tens of major domestic corporations have also shoveled money toward securing their cheap illegal labor from south of the border. The estimated war chest now exceeds some $50 million and will likely expand to well over $250 million before the war is over, according to some estimates. To round off the pro-amnesty group’s power and funding, they also have over 12-20 million illegal aliens on their side as well as about 30% of the Hispanic community.

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The next amnesty push is scheduled for this summer but the all-out major attack is expected  sometime in early Spring 09 when the White House will have a new pro-amnesty president and both houses of Congress will have vote-majority resting with the Dem party, (which is, or course, on record as being pro-amnesty even though most Dem voters are not).

Let’s recap the pro-amnesty group’s strengths: pro-amnesty president and Congress by 2009, an estimated $50-$250 million war chest, 12-20 million illegal aliens, perhaps as many as 10 million Hispanics voters aligned with Mexico, and a strategic plan of attack and well oiled organization like La Raza all ready to go. Now let’s look at the anti-illegal immigration activist community.

First, it is a widely scattered community. Over 98% of the better known anti-crowd activist groups are actually not activist or grass roots groups but fall into one of three categories: 1) news and commentary reporting via the Net, 2) research, 3) lobbying. A small percent do some combination of all three.

What is missing from nearly all groups is an item known as “grass roots organizing” or “community mobilization.” Less than 5% of the entire anti-activist crowd fall into this critical category.

While some in group #2 and #3 conduct business the traditional way, just like standard establishment-based organizations, they are not true grass roots groups. They do try to rally the public from the safety of their offices via the Internet, but getting out on the ground with operations and organizing and getting people energized and mobilized is what grass roots is about—and it’s not what they do. This job has largely been left to scattered local level and state level activist groups (most who suffer from a lack of funding or unifying strategy). 

And then there is the lesser-known groups of small organizations and individual activists, all of whom play an important role in spreading the political action word of the day. This group is equally critical to the first group in that the first group generally lacks the major funding that would allow them to disseminate their information directly to the public, for their memberships and resources are limited, so they get a much need boost from the latter activist segment.

Currently, both of these groups now look like the mildly feuding Hatfields and McCoys rather than a cohesive and unified purpose powerhouse. Without true leadership in their midst, they all wander in their own direction, unable to put on a cohesive organization or front that can meet the upcoming challenge.

To date, the anti-crowd activist community has only come together a few times and in strictly a defensive mode to defeat bills such as SB 1639. They have never mounted an offensive action toward achieving a victory—that is, they have never formulated and pushed their own bill into Congress and rallied the public to mobilize in support of their efforts (like the opposition has done).

At best, with all anti-crowd independent groups and their funding combined, they have less than $5 million in their collective coffers and perhaps no more than 2 million activists and support members, no bill proposals, and no strategic plans to ensure a win (with one exception, which we’ll get to momentarily), and no grass roots skills and leadership able to mobilize the public and affect a countering defense—let alone ensure an offensive attack and win. Their forces and resources are scattered and not in agreement, and all appear unable to unify for their own common good.

When we examine all the cards on the table, it is clear to see that the pro-amnesty crowd is holding all the aces, power, money, and strategy and cohesive organization and leadership capabilities. It is clear to see that an amnesty will likely be achieved by the summer of 2009. However, this is one last ray of hope, which will explore in Part II.

Read Part II 

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