The Same Sane Thoughts On Immigration

[NOTE: This was originally posted in 2018 in English Swill.]  

ENGLISH SWILL 

... Wordsmithery at the Bottom of the Barrel by Roy Santonil

"DREAMING OF THE LAST AMNESTY"

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 

You may call me lazy.

You would be wrong, and you wouldn't be alone. I know too many people who mistake my efficiency for laziness.  Nowadays, I don't care what you think, as long as you didn't SNEAK into my country against the law. 

This is not xenophobia.

 

This is self-defense in the face of your lawless aggression, you jerks.

From American Greatness, I've condensed a written piece by Victor Davis Hanson entitled "Mythologies of Illegal Immigration." 

 

Professor Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was Professor of Classics at Fresno State University, and is currently the Martin and Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution. He has been a Visiting Professor at Hillsdale College since 2004 and in 2007, Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. 

 

Hanson is also a farmer, growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California, and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars – How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won (Basic Books). 

This topic of immigration hits hard because my family and I are DOCUMENTED. If you know me from my Obama-era blog, there is nothing to see here.  Move on, unless you are prepared to learn why the "Dream Act" amnesty is just plain wrong.  I thought we killed in in 2010, but the damn thing keeps re-spawning like a hydra.

The last big immigration law was the Simpson-Mazolli Bill of 1986.  Since then, we've gone from under 3 million to nearly 20 million illegal entries into our country. 

 

YOU REALLY ARE DREAMING if you think that past efforts to give amnesty to illegals in the 1980's has solved any problems, especially when you look at the illegal invasion that is going on now, and has gone on since.  Hopefully, 1986 was THE LAST Amnesty.

 What is my immigration dream?  

 

NEVER AGAIN.  

 

It's 2018, and I'm free to tell the world (who cares?) what I think.  As a free citizen, you are free to not have to give a shit about shithole countries.  As a spiritual believer, my duty is God, family, and country.  Take care of my real brothers, not faceless thugs or pathetic protesters.  Defend yourself.  So simple.  No guilt trip about poor unfortunate souls being manipulated for swamp creatures and Masonic lodges.

Retweet if you agree. That was a joke. Lighten up.

Keep dreaming, you jerks -- not about your liberal virtue signalling for the lawless hordes, but keep dreaming about a REAL "land of the free" and a REAL "home of the brave." 

 

FOR NOW . . . HAVE SOME MIND-BENDING EXCERPTS ~~ 

HAVE SOME ENGLISH SWILL:

 

THE MYTHOLOGIES OF  ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

["... It’s a tiresome ploy by the Democrats, abetted by their allies in the media, using deceptive language to paint a false picture that blurs the distinction between legal and illegal, citizen and foreigner, justice and injustice...."]

["... Enough obfuscation. Here are some of the most pernicious myths of illegal immigration, debunked.... "]

MYTH #1 - The System is “Broken”

["Broken for whom exactly? Not for Mexico and Latin America. Together they garner $50 billion in annual remittances...."]

[... The immigration system is also clearly not broken for the Democratic Party. It has turned California blue. It soon will do the same to Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, and someday may flip Arizona and Texas....]

[Open borders have ensured the hiring of industrious workers at cheap wages while passing on the accruing health, educational, legal, and criminal justice costs to the taxpayer. The present system is “working” well enough for this crowd; its possible replacement instead would be defined as “broken.”...."]

[... In sum, the system is working for everyone. It is broken only for the naïfs who worry over the long-term consequences of rendering the law null and void, and of ceding our culture to arriving populations for the most part not yet accustomed to the habits that sustain personal and political freedom..."

MYTH #2 - But the “Dreamers”!

 ["There are 700,000-800,000 DACA recipients, though no one knows the exact numbers. Nor is there a clear definition of who constitutes the population of the “Dreamers,” other than arriving into the United States illegally as a minor. It is an ossified concept, one frozen in amber, given that the average age of a so-called “Dreamer” around 25. When a Dreamer reaches 40, is he still defined as a Dreamer? Or have his “dreams” already come true?

College graduation and military service are often referenced as DACA talking points. In truth, some studies suggest that just one in 20 dreamers graduated from college. One in a 1,000 has served in the military. So far, about eight times more Dreamers have not graduated from high school than have graduated from college.

Dreamers represent less than 10 percent of all illegal aliens residing in the United States. They are also a fraction of the ignored millions of foreign students from all over the world who seek, often in vain, to study in the United States or are skilled applicants for green cards. Such depressing statistics about DACA might not matter—if supporters of open borders did not always cite incomplete or misleading data."]

MYTH #3 - Weaponizing the Language

[Most of the vocabulary surrounding illegal immigration is both politicized and weaponized—as we have seen with “Dreamers.”]

[Illegal immigration is conflated with legal immigration in order to smear critics with charges of biases against the “other” rather than of simply expressing concerns over legality and sovereignty."...]

[“Sanctuary cities” are not “sanctuaries” in the manner we think of a cathedral in a Victor Hugo novel. They are nullification centers [bold added] where foreign nationals who have broken laws are not subject to full enforcement of immigration laws, due entirely to political considerations."]

[...“Undocumented immigrant” suggests that the problem is a matter of forgetting to bring legal documents, rather than a decision to ignore the need for legal authorization....]

[...“Diversity” is often associated with illegal immigration. In fact, the majority of illegal immigrants come from Latin American and Mexico. They are hardly diverse. Real diversity would be re-calibrating immigration to be legal, meritocratic, and aimed at roughly equal representation from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe—and thus politically unpredictable.]

MYTH #4 - Political Epithets: Racism and Xenophobia

[The cargo of illiberal accusations is likewise constructed, given the United States is the most pro-Latino country in the world, Mexico included. Half of all immigrants, both legal and illegal, come either from Mexico or Latin America—a sort of inverse racism that assumes illegal Spanish-speaking immigrants are intrinsically more deserving of U.S. residence than legal immigration applicants from Uganda, South Korea, or Ukraine....] 

[What is also not diverse is Mexico and Latin America....] 

[... Strange, too, are the outward theatrics and themes of illegal alien activism—the frequent waving of Mexican flags, the often loud criticism of a generous host country, the usual demands made upon a foreign nation—mysteriously coupled with the overwhelming desire of millions to enter or remain in the supposedly demonic United States. Waving a flag of a country that one does not wish to return to while shunning the flag of a country in which one very much wishes to reside is incoherent....] 

MYTH #5 - Is America Great or Not?

[The entire image of the United States has been smeared in most discussions of illegal immigration....] 
 
[... But who are the arbiters of American ethics? Vicente Fox? MS-13 gang-bangers? Those whose first act [emphasis added] in entering America was to break its laws?]

[... Millions are fleeing paradigms that they apparently judged as wanting, either politically, economically, or socially, or all that and more. Why, then, would foreign nationals have ceased romanticizing their new generous hosts upon their arrival and begun idealizing, instead, their rejected birthplace? And if these are their true feelings on the matter, why did they leave?...]

[... [T]here rarely is expressed any formal analysis of why one wishes to enter the United States and leave one’s home country.]

The question is not just mindless American boosterism. In the past, immigrants accepted that they had left Ireland, Italy, or Poland because habits, customs, and government in their home countries were deemed wanting and unworkable, and therefore it was necessary to embrace their antitheses in the United States. It would have made no sense to flee from Italy and expect to live life in America on the premises that an Italian lived in Italy. Immigration, again brutally or not, is a complex two-step hard bargain that succeeds only when one accepts his chosen country—and de facto rejects the collective protocols of his birthplace.

[Why do these mythologies abound? Largely because Americans, the hosts, either cannot anymore even define their own civilization to would-be immigrants, or are so intimidated that they are terrified to even try.]

2025 Update: We're trying now.

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"Aspen + These Days" from CAPTURED ANGEL (1975)

So I did it.

Here's the full cover version of the song, with both parts.

[These Days] includes me trying to sing, as well as the lyrics

Also, the YouTube channel will be under a pseudonym >>> Clarence Quemuel -- long story.

Don't be cruel.

 

YouTube is hassling me about copyrights and whatnot.

We'll see how long this lasts.

 © 2025 Roy B. Santonill

House Philosophy

OPENING SCENE: A patient is lying unconscious in a hospital ICU. The camera pans down to follow the plastic tubing from his catheter, flowing and bubbling bodiliy fluids into a plastic tank.

DR.HOUSE: "The drug addict . . . is peeing blood."

CUT SCENE: A med school class where Dr. House is lecturing. He looks at a handful of yellow crayons, chooses one and begins coloring in a coloring book.

DR.HOUSE: "How do they teach you to tell someone that they're dying?"

(Blank looks from students wearing white coats.)

 DR.HOUSE: "It's kinda like teaching architects how to explain why their building fell down."

(Continues coloring book)

"Do you role play at stuff?"

STUDENT: "Yeah. One of us gives the bad news, and one of us gets the bad news."

DR.HOUSE: "What do you have to do to get an A in - You're Dying 101? Do they grade you on gentleness and supportiveness? Is there a scale for measuring compassion?"

(Changes crayons)

" This buddy of mine . . . I gotta give him ten bucks every time someone says thank you. Imagine that. This guy's so good, people thank him for telling them they're dying. 

(Looks at crayon, exchanges it for another)

"It's brown . . . I don't get thanked that often."

CUT SCENE: House is standing at the patient's bedside.

DR.HOUSE: "You're dying."

(Patient shows concerned look)

DR.HOUSE: "In a few hours. There's nothing we can do except deal with the pain."

PATIENT: "Well, I need to go home."

DR.HOUSE: "You're not going home."

PATIENT: "But my dog . . . what will happen to my dog?"

CUT SCENE: Two Drs. Wilson and Cameron are doing an MRI.

DR.CAMERON: "Her neck looks clean . . . no adenoma."

CUT SCENE: Back to the classroom.

STUDENT: "Wait, wait, wait . . . the guy's dying and all he cares about is his dog?"

DR.HOUSE: "Any of you guys go the dog route in your . . . improv sessions?"

(Another student gives a quizzical look)

DR.HOUSE: "It's a basic truth of the human condition . . . that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The hard thing about telling someone they're dying is that . . . it tends to focus their prioritites. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. WHAT THEY'RE WILLING TO LIE FOR. 

 

Three years of law school, five years of government work, five years of corporate work, twenty years of self-employment, and the good doctor summarized it all in a YT video. You do know the character is based on detective Sherlock Holmes, don't you?

YOU'RE WELCOME.

I'd love to elaborate, but I have a lot of catching up to do, and a BIG trip to take this November. We're out of the golf headcovers game, so it's an economic reboot.

Also, I have a new handle on X : @Musical_Jurist ... 

[**NOTE** -- as of 4/1/2025 my X handle is : @Popeyes_Tattoo]

[**ADDENDUM TO NOTE** -- as of 10/2/2025 my X handle is : @ClarenceQ_Music]

Stay tuned, fellow boomers, millenials, and genners X-Y-Z.

No joke. We've only just begun.

Mandalas, Mandela, and Ugly Americans

Start here.

Some of us boomers who studied Psychology should easily recall a towering figure from this discipline, a German academic named Carl Gustav Jung. I always thought Jung's work was best understood in the context of his older contemporary, Sigmund Freud.  Where the more celebrated Freud is recognized as the foundational thinker in the area of psychoanalysis, Jung's legacy is somewhat broader, and in my opinion, more far-reaching than Freud's in that it has had substantial impact on other fields besides psychiatry, such as anthropology, archaeology, literature, and my major field of study, philosophy.

This is a MANDALA.

It's been six months since I've shared this internet space with -- well, nobody in particular and everybody in general -- and you -- out there in the inter-webs.  There's one question a writer should always be able to answer ... who is your audience?

Be patient. I'll get to "Mandela and the Ugly American in a second." 

Just to recap, since I posted "No Mercy" we have experienced, inter alia, a Congressional re-boot and the restoration of vertical Federalism under the Dobbs case. Your representatives in Washington D.C. have sent $65 BILLION to a TV comedian in the Ukraine (with potentially another $50B en route). We have seen interest rates continue to rise, and we watched the Houston Cheaters win the World Series.

And the world has not yet come to an end. 

Apocalypse Never. 

So much for history as we knew it. 

In this day and age, within the technological "woo," you are best served by relying on your own capacity for critical thought. Blindly following "the latest thing," is surely the road to ruin. 

As Bernie Mac prefaced his wisdom, "Listen, America." Matthew 7:14

Don't listen to corporate media bullshit. Buy Virtue. Buy Quality. Buy Truth.

Then sell, sell, sell.

***

Back to Carl Jung and Mandalas. 

Here is a crash course on the topic of Mandalas, if you can spare the Time. 

As retired boomers, the internet doesn't matter in our world. Speed kills. We nurture our Time.

To us, social media is "actually talking to someone -- in real life."

So what I have found most compelling about Jung's work was the particular importance he placed on the"mandalas" (see above image), those intricate spell-binding seals, sort of artistic runes containing subconscious expressions reflective of an inner, dare I say, autistic, reality. Jung did some profound research involving the role of mandalas, and, don't get me wrong, I'm no expert in psychoanalysis, but his writings reveal the huge importance of human symbology, and understanding mandalas has expanded my consciousness about how we humans need to express ourselves, somehow, anyhow, including that side of ourselves that everyone else sees, but we cannot.

Not Interested?

The interest rate chart picture above is a sort of mandala. According to Jung, mandalas are fundamental expressions of the human psyche, heavy-handed efforts to "square the circle."

Now here's the twist: This essay is actually about "Mandela."   

He is dead, isn't he?

Now, we boomers know a world without Wikipedia. Still, I should address the origins of the so-called "Mandela Effect." It purportedly began in 2009, when an enterprising writer named Fiona Broome had a specific recollection that Nelson Mandela's funeral took place in 1990.  It turned out that he was not yet dead, and would not die until 2013. 

 Broome defines this as modern phenomenon as follows:    

The Mandela Effect is when people clearly recall and event in history -- something very specific -- but historical records show that something else happened.

That's all it is.

Just a very clear memory a person has, but it doesn't match historical records.

She elaborates that there is no one-size-fits-all explanation for it, but there are widespread instances where people remember things that, if you delve further, records reveal they are false memories.

Here's my point, (because brevity is the soul of wit, I'll keep it short, so you can go back to decorating your cubicle, or selling stuff, or beta-testing software, or fixing your boss's spreadsheets, or whatever variant of data-mining it is that passes for corporate work nowadays):

    "THE UGLY AMERICAN" WAS ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS.

Yes, the pejorative stereotype, "Ugly American," mistakenly depicts us as exhibiting loud, arrogant, demeaning, thoughtless, ignorant, and ethnocentric behavior, mainly abroad, but also at home. 

Although the term is usually associated with or applied to travelers and tourists, it also applies to U.S. corporate businesses in the international arena. 

The term originated in popular culture from the 1958 novel by Eugene Burdick, a decorated Navy Lieutenant Commander, PhD., Social Scientist, and Southern California surfer

The book is about a U.S. diplomatic worker, a plain-spoken, humble man named Homer Atkins, who is sent to the fictional Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan, to assist and advise with engineering projects. Over the course of his experience, it is Homer, the ugly American, who is the heroic figure. He, along with Col. Edwin B. Hillandale are the lone forces for good. They are the fiew who try and expose America's misplaced priorities, her entrenched interests, as well as the incompetent arrogance and corruption of her diplomatic corps.

The only characters facing these challenges, the only ones perceived by the locals as truly working for the good of the Sarkhan (loosely analogous to Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese or Filipino) people are, in fact, Homer Atkins and Col. Hillandale. That unattractive American engineer was the only decent, effective, positive element of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia during those Cold War years, according to the novel. He built water pumps for the locals, he was kind, learned the language, and in general, was portrayed as a humble, serious person.

Perhaps it is a stretch to say usage of the term "ugly American" a Mandela Effect. 

Perhaps it is less a false memory, than a false agenda.

Still, prevailing usage of "the ugly American" is pejorative. I can say, having actually read the book, that the so-called "ugly" lead character, Homer Atkins, was seen by the (ahem) "Sarkhan" people as a decent, sincere, thoughtful American, who, despite his outward appearance, worked to expose and overcome the many corrupt institutions, bureaucratic obstacles and foreign policy blunders of the time.

Just to complete the picture, we should know the President Eisenhower, a Republican demi-god, is rumored to have labeled Burdick's book "sickening." JFK, on the other hand, was impressed enough to send a copy to each of his Senate colleagues. The Ugly American is a classic that needs review in these troubled times, as poignant and incisive a work about American culture as that of Harriet Beecher Stowe or Upton Sinclair. 

As we taxpayers recklessly support Khazarian thugs to further NATO's obsolete aspirations and cover-up Defense Department biological weapons laboratories (not a "debunked" assertion). As with Vietnam, or Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, we propagandize the masses to maintain control of resources and massive money laundering/human trafficking operations, to keep the world under the Central Banking (ergo, Vatican) enslavement rituals. Remember TRUE history, and be wary of the Mandela Effect.

And as for ugly (read: deplorable) Americans, know that the book is always better than the movie.

Endless LIES.

Endless WARS.

Endless INFLATION.

Endless 'PRINTING'.

Endless OPPRESSION.

Endless SUBJUGATION.

Endless SURVEILLANCE.

Q: What will put an end to the endless?

May I suggest, Ugly Americans?

 

    © 2022 Roy B. Santonil