The frog in the water. A cautionary tale.

Americans who are used to abundance are seemingly impervious to minute erosions of their national sovereignty. From one day to another our abundance of freedom, material wealth, and cultural cohesion is relatively unchanged.

In his post, LomaAlta makes a compelling argument for the need to prevent illegal immigration:

America is at grave risk and its survival as a nation is not at all certain. Our illegal immigrants now amount to somewhere between 5% and 10% of our population. At what critical percentage is the damage done and the country lost? No one knows what this critical percentage is but we do know it exists and that we are approaching it by welcoming a million or more invaders every year.

The image of the frog placed in pot of cold water with a fire underneath it should be uppermost in our minds. For a while, a gradual increase in the temperature of the water will be comfortable, even welcome.

However, even if the temperature only increases by one-half a degree every hour, the consequences are eventually no less fatal.

A rather interesting IMAX movie feature showing the earth from various Space Shuttle missions made an interesting point about burning and cutting in the Amazon rain forest. The film had the integrity to say that the consequences were not capable of being predicted scientifically BUT it also observed that the world is engaging in a giant uncontrolled experiment in allowing the destruction of the rain forest.

The merits of Amazonian deforestation are for others to debate but the concept is a useful one for purposes of thinking about illegal immigration. We in the U.S. are similarly engaged in a giant uncontrolled experiment that involves allowing huge numbers of foreigners to come to the U.S. without any vetting for disease, likelihood of becoming a public charge, criminal record, subversive intent, or willingness wholeheartedly to adhere to American political, legal and social norms.

An utter moral failure of our political class has allowed the crisis to reach the proportions that it has. Maybe we should also think of the ancient adage -- selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage.

"We Are Approaching a Critical Point." By LomaAlta <-- American Daughter.

ADDENDUM:

One of the most serious challenges to democracy in the 21st century is the unprecedented pressure from migration, and the fact that certain groups can decide to permanently change the entire demographic make-up of a country without public debate and without public consent, by simply refraining from upholding its borders. It has been called “the greatest demographic experiment ever forced onto a people politically.”

"From Citizen to Subject — The Rule of Experts and the Rise of Transnational Anti-Democrats." By Fjordman at Gates of Vienna, 7/23/06 (emphasis added).