{"id":22939,"date":"2020-05-09T06:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22939"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:59:51","slug":"mass-immigration-advocacy-workers-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/05\/09\/mass-immigration-advocacy-workers-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"NILC\u2019s \u201cImmigrants Are Essential\u201d Campaign Misleads and Trivializes Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) \u2013 an organization claiming to fight for the interests of \u201cimmigrants\u201d \u2013 has been conducting a propaganda campaign<\/a> titled \u201cImmigrants Are Essential.\u201d As the campaign\u2019s very name suggests, the purpose is to persuade Americans about the essential nature of the foreign-born in the midst of the current public health crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that so many other leftist organizations and politicians have sought to cynically exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to further<\/a> their pro-illegal-alien, pro-open-borders agenda, why focus specifically on NILC\u2019s<\/a> recent pleadings? One reason is quite simply that the American public \u2013 currently preoccupied weathering the coronavirus storm \u2013 deserves to know what the pro-illegal-alien lobby is up to, and the stubborn persistence with which it is pursuing its harmful agenda. Another reason is that NILC\u2019s narrative \u2013 obscured by a seemingly non-offensive, non-controversial slogan \u2013 is misleading and trivializes the role of native-born Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndishonesty of NILC\u2019s spin lies in the fact that it conflates legal immigrants\nwith illegal aliens, including DACA recipients. In other words, in the\norganization\u2019s worldview any foreign-born individual \u2013 regardless of whether\nthey are legally authorized to be here \u2013 is an \u201cimmigrant,\u201d and, of course,\n\u201cessential.\u201d To many legal <\/em>immigrants\n\u2013 including this author \u2013 such moral equivalency is not only frustrating, but\nalso offensive. Why? Because it implies that all their efforts \u2013 including\nfollowing U.S. laws, jumping through all the hoops, filling out all the\nnecessary paperwork, paying all necessary fees, and waiting in line \u2013 are\nequivalent to someone violating U.S. laws by sneaking across the border or\noverstaying their visa. Treating the difference between legal immigration and\nillegal migration as irrelevant, or at best a minor technicality, also betrays\na disregard for the rule of law which can also be disturbing to those\nimmigrants who left their homelands precisely because of the arbitrary and\nselective application of laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By emphasizing its \u201cimmigrants are essential\u201d slogan, NILC also seems to be ignoring and downplaying so many native-born Americans who have proven themselves essential in the current health crisis. This reflects a larger prejudice shared by much of the pro-mass-migration lobby, which appears to view native-born Americans as some kind of grey, dull mass of incompetent simpletons incapable of maintaining a complex and sophisticated modern society. Given that 86 percent<\/a> of the country\u2019s population (as of 2017) consists of the native-born, one wonders how the United States functions at all? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this\nis to disparage immigrants in any way. The point is that \u201cessential\u201d workers\nduring the coronavirus crisis are both native-born Americans and immigrants.\nThe \u201cessentiality\u201d of one\u2019s function in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic\nis not determined by one\u2019s place of birth. Many native-born Americans are on\nthe front lines doing jobs that are considered highly essential, while\nundoubtedly many foreign-born are working in jobs deemed non-essential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If NILC and\nother pro-illegal-alien advocates want to argue that exceptions should be made\nfor certain illegal aliens performing \u201cessential\u201d work, then they should\nclarify and say so. Instead, they appear to be utilizing a subset of the\nforeign-born population \u2013 essential personnel in the context of COVID-19 \u2013 as a\nTrojan Horse to promote some version of blanket amnesty and normalize illegal\npresence in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) \u2013 an organization claiming to fight for the interests of \u201cimmigrants\u201d \u2013 has been conducting a propaganda campaign titled \u201cImmigrants Are Essential.\u201d As the campaign\u2019s very name suggests, the purpose is to persuade Americans about the essential nature of the foreign-born in the midst of the current public health<\/p>\n

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