[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 16, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E320]
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                  AN INFORMAL TREATISE ON IMMIGRATION

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 16, 2016

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to interact with some of the 
brightest students in the 22nd Congressional District who serve on my 
Congressional Youth Advisory Council. I have gained much by listening 
to the high school students who are the future of this great nation. 
They provide important insight from across the political spectrum that 
sheds a light on the concerns of our younger constituents. Giving voice 
to their priorities will hopefully instill a better sense of the 
importance of being an active participant in the political process. 
Many of the students have written short essays on a variety of topics 
and I am pleased to share them with my House colleagues.
  Conor Devlin attends Thompkins School in Katy, Texas. The essay topic 
is: An Informal Treatise on Immigration.

       Something that has been plaguing my mind, most of western 
     Europe, and this presidential cycle, is immigration. 
     Initially, let me delineate ``refugees'' and economic 
     migrants because many people, especially the authoritarian 
     left, like to use a sweeping generalization and label them 
     all refugees when they are clearly not. Refugees are people 
     who are forced to leave their country due to war, extreme 
     persecution and natural disasters. An excellent example would 
     be the Kurds in northern Iraq, who are currently in battle 
     with the Turks, ISIS, and Russia, and the middle eastern 
     Christians who are being executed and forcibly converted by 
     ISIS and Islamic regimes. These people are the embodiment of 
     refugees; the Kurds are fleeing from war and persecution and 
     the Christians are fleeing from extreme persecution and 
     discrimination. On the other hand we have the economic 
     migrants who are abandoning their countries and arriving at 
     the border of Europe by the thousands. These, predominately 
     male muslims, have no desire to assimilate into Europe 
     despite what many of Europe's leaders may think, and they 
     simply arrive wanting to receive benefits and free money from 
     the European governments who seem all so willing to give 
     them.
       The issue stems from the seemingly unwillingness on behalf 
     of many leaders in the EU who simply do not want to be 
     branded as racists for proposing the idea that introducing a 
     population of people who are antagonistic and loathe the 
     European culture could possibly be a bad idea. The word 
     racism thus becomes the metaphorical boogeyman who all 
     politicians seek to avoid as the ruinous label will 
     practically cut short their career. With this in mind it is 
     easily understandable why so many people seem to reject 
     common sense when dealing with a crisis of such a scale as 
     this. If they speak out they will be silenced and utterly 
     destroyed by their supposed friends and their own media. An 
     atmosphere of fear has allowed the migrant crisis to take 
     hold of all of Europe and install a brand new culture of 
     violence and danger--something not yet witnessed in the 
     largely peaceful and safe continent.
       Another reason the crisis is still occurring is due to 
     politicians enthrallment with the idea of cultural 
     relativism. Cultural relativism is the idea that all cultures 
     are seemingly equal ergo importing all of these middle 
     eastern men will have no negative effects on society because 
     their culture, where women are gang raped beaten and killed, 
     where gays are killed, and where followers of other religions 
     are persecuted, is seemingly equal to egalitarian free 
     western culture. But it is not, their culture is degenerate 
     and incompatible with western culture.
       Censorship and cultural relativism are leading the way to a 
     disastrous future in Europe and in order to see what lies 
     ahead for the US one would need to simply gaze across the 
     pond at our embattled allies.

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