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The present political power brokers in Washington will likely deliver something touted as immigration reform to the American people in 2007. Whatever President George Bush and Speaker Nancy Pelosi come up with, I can practically guarantee you that it will further the globalist agenda against individual liberty and the middle class, which has been shrinking in the US since the late 60s.

History is replete with ancient aristocratic to modern industrial elites governing the masses to their own material advantage. Material advantage includes wealth, power and high status. The increasingly unequal distribution of wealth evidenced by almost all US economic statistics reveals the outcome desired by the modern globalist elite for the US and the world: most of the wealth in their pockets and the masses deceived into thinking they control the government through free elections and that one day they too shall be lifted to the illusory levels of manufactured prosperity enjoyed by the US and Western Europe.

See these articles:
Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer
A recent study reveals a widening gap between the world's rich and poor.

In fact, the richest two percent of adults control more than half of the world's household wealth.

In 2000, the wealthiest one percent of the world's adults owned 40 percent of its assets. The richest ten percent of adults controlled 85 percent of global wealth, according to a recent study by the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki.

Another lie is that making immigration legal will result in the acculturation of Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants into US culture. This is very unlikely given the close proximity of Mexico to the United States and the reach of modern technology.

Ernest Zedillo wrote an editorial in Forbes about illegal immigration that frankly admitted some of the real problems that come with its illegality. The following comments are true in that regard, but they beg the questions about the ultimate cultural relationship between the American Gringos and the Hispanic migrants and deny the true negative impact on the capacity of existing American poor to enter the middle class "American Dream." For example, he does not mention The Mexican Dual Nationality Program.

Because of the conditions under which they work and live here, many of them find it difficult to assimilate economically and culturally and are at risk of becoming an underclass and source of social conflict.

Changing U.S. demographics imply that the total number of native-born workers age 25 to 54 won't grow between 2000 and 2020, and that those workers will be, on average, more educated every year and therefore less likely to accept unskilled jobs. Filling such jobs, however, is crucial to the U.S. economy's functioning and growth.

If the migrant workers needed by the American economy were allowed to enter legally through an orderly process of increased quotas--for temporary and permanent migration--practically all of the negative aspects associated with the immigration of low-skilled labor would cease. Legality would enhance the contribution of migrant workers to the U.S. economy and provide for their paying their fair share to the tax and Social Security systems. It would also facilitate their cultural and civic integration. Quoted from Migranomics Instead of Walls

A number of writers on political and social issues have commented at length on these issues. A couple of them that I have read with interest are Pat Buchanan and Frosty Wooldridge. While one never agrees with everything that another may say or write, I highly recommend reading what these gentlemen have to say as they raise serious issues that are generally not even discussed. [If you want to buy their books, please do so through the Faith in the Future Amazon Store. Thanks!]

I thought that Frosty's 21st Century Paul Revere Ride was both imaginative and seriously relevant in its intent, so I wrote a poem about it modeled after Longfellow's famous verses. Americans are asleep in their affluent busy-ness as to what is happening to themselves and their country. They need to wake up, but they still haven't. You can read Frosty's articles recounting his should be famous ride at his archive of articles. There are many more to read there, too.

What I have not seen written anywhere are the spiritual implications of poor immigration policy. To me, it is all the bi-product of our advancing materialist nightmare called Globalism. Its goal is to crush individuality and spiritual enlightenment. Here is an excerpt from my unfolding book, In Search of Spirituality.

Global Materialism Distorts Individual Identity Development
This is another way of saying that the super culture of global materialism distorts and oppresses true spirituality. The first way that Globalism crushes spirituality is through the spread of the American and Western culture of secular humanism with its materialist form of spirituality that so confuses the search for true spirituality. According to humanism, spirituality is a matter of individual emotional and psychological need (a crutch) without reference to any absolute or ultimate reality. The influence of this perspective extends into every corner of the world through mass media using multiple formats to communicate the humanistic artificial reality in one underlying message: the only reality is what can be examined and explained by science according to institutionally accepted facts and theories. I discuss the consequences of materialism's impact in many places.

Here I want to briefly relate how modern Globalism's values and strategies hearken back to Alexander's more openly stated objectives for his new world order of Hellenism. To me, the ultimate form of discrimination is to eliminate racial and/or ethnic distinctions because it takes away from who each person is as an individual. Please remember that the perspective of my discussion here is societal or systemic and not individual. I do not view individual decisions to marry and rear children of mixed ethnic or racial heritage as inherently unspiritual or wrong on the basis of that aspect of a marital choice alone. Depending on the persons and situation, a decision to marry and raise children of a mixed heritage may the best spiritual decision to make.

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Christopher J. Patton is the president of Faith in the Future Foundation and is an evangelist with the International Ministerial Fellowship. Formerly a biblical archaeologist, he holds a Masters in Archaeology of the Land of Israel from the Hebrew (more...)

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