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Wisdom Quotes (Why immigration requires control.)
2009 Video of Chuck Schumer Just DESTROYED Democrats’ Credibility on Border Wall
...Chuck Schumer in 2009:
-Americans don't like illegal immigration
-"Illegal immigration is wrong"
-People illegally in the U.S. are "illegal aliens," not "undocumented"
-Border fence made the southern border "far more secure...created a significant barrier to illegal immigration"
...He continued: “People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the United States legally. Any immigration solution must recognize that we must do as much as we can to gain operational control of our borders as soon as possible.”
...But here’s the kicker: Schumer also said the construction of a border wall represented a “significant barrier to illegal immigration.”
...“The American people need to know that, because of our efforts in Congress, our border is far more secure today than it was when we began debating comprehensive immigration reform in 2005,” Schumer said. He added: “This progress includes … construction of 630 miles of border fence that create a significant barrier to illegal immigration on our southern land border.”
The Bible
and borders - By Bryan Fischer ...Acts 17:26: "And he made
from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth,
having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling
place..."
...The bulk of the second half of Joshua is a record of the promised land being divided up among the 12 tribes. What is striking is how thorough and detailed the description of each tribal boundary is. In Joshua 15 the word "boundary" is found no less than 15 times in describing the perimeter of Judah.
...In a largely forgotten passage, Numbers 20:14-21, we read that Moses sought permission from the king of Edom to cross his border and pass through his land. When permission was refused, Moses didn't force his way in; he respected the king's decision and went around Edom to the East. Moses couched his original request this way: "Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well...we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory." The king's response? "You shall not pass through."
Moses tries a second time to secure an entrance visa. "We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more." The king of Edom was utterly impervious to this plea for so much as a tourist visa. "You shall not pass through."
How did Moses react to this denial of permission to immigrate into and through the sovereign territory of another nation? Did he barge ahead anyway? Try to sneak in under cover of darkness? Did he launch a military strike to secure passage? Nope. "Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him."
The lesson? Each nation's sovereignty is marked by its boundary, and each nation has the moral right to decide who will be given permission to enter its sovereign territory. Moses recognized this, and so should we. The only exception is under circumstances of a just war. Bottom line: borders are biblical, and are there by God's sovereign design. And they are to be respected by everyone.
Illegal Immigration: It's About Power - By Tucker Carlson -
...After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown opposed
letting Vietnamese refugees into California on the grounds that the state
already had enough poor people. As he put it at the time, “There is something a
little strange about saying, ‘Let’s bring in 500,000 more people’ when we can’t
take care of the one million Californians out of work.” First term Senator Joe
Biden of Delaware agreed; he introduced federal legislation to curb the arrival
of the Vietnamese.
...Two decades later, leading Democrats were still wary of mass
immigration, especially illegal immigration. As Bill Clinton put it in the 1995
State of the Union address, “…Americans… are rightly disturbed by the large
numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might
otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use
impose burdens on our taxpayers.” No prominent Democrat would say anything like
that today without being denounced as a racist. Clinton got a standing ovation.
...As late as 2006, there were still liberals who cared about the
economic effects of immigration, legal or illegal. “Immigration reduces the
wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants,” explained economist Paul
Krugman in the New York Times. “…We’ll need to reduce the inflow of low-skilled
immigrants. Mainly, that means better controls on illegal immigration.” That
same year, Senator Hillary Clinton voted for a fence on the Mexican border. So
did Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and 23 other Senate Democrats.
...So, what changed? Not the economics of it. The law of supply and
demand remained in effect. It’s not a coincidence
that as illegal immigration surged, wages for American workers stagnated. What
changed is that Democrats stopped caring about those workers. About the middle
class, really. Why? Here’s the answer, in four simple facts.
1. According to a recent study from Yale, there are at least 22
million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
2. Democrats plan to give all of them citizenship. Read the Democrats’ 2016
party platform.
3. Studies show the overwhelming majority of first-time immigrant voters vote
Democrat.
4. The biggest landslide in American presidential history was only 17 million
votes.
The payoff for Democrats: permanent electoral majority for the foreseeable
future. In a word: power. That’s the point, no matter what they tell you;
American workers be damned.
Yes,
Unvetted Illegal Caravans Threaten Public Health - By Michelle
Malkin - ...I find it especially bizarre that some of the same outspoken, big
government advocates for vaccinating every American citizen, young or old,
against every possible condition, from the flu to chickenpox to HPV, are the
same types now howling over the commonsense idea that we should protect
ourselves from foreign diseases.
..Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control, not Fox News or the
Trump White House or any other evil conservatives, reports that “most experts
agree that testing for TB, hepatitis B, and HIV should be performed for most new
arrivals to the United States. Clinicians should also make a habit of ensuring
that this screening has been done for every new non-US-born patient they see,
regardless of time since the person’s arrival.”
Actual public health experts across the Southwest have reported
rises in drug-resistant TB and dengue fever. In June, Australian public health
researchers reported that “scabies, long considered a disease of the past in the
developed world, is making its way back.” The scientists pointed to mass global
migration as a leading factor, noting scabies outbreaks among refugees to the
European Union and along America’s southern border.
And in Germany, federal epidemiologists reported that since opening
the floodgates to migrants in 2015, data show “increased incidences in Germany
of adenoviral conjunctivitis, botulism, chicken pox, cholera, cryptosporidiosis,
dengue fever, echinococcosis, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, giardiasis, haemophilus
influenza, Hantavirus, hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, HIV/AIDS, leprosy,
louse-borne relapsing fever, malaria, measles, meningococcal disease,
meningoencephalitis, mumps, paratyphoid, rubella, shigellosis, syphilis,
toxoplasmosis, trichinellosis, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhus and whooping
cough.”
“Build a wall.”
(Charles Krauthammer for PragerU) Democrats dismiss the idea as
wasteful, crude, and even racist. But in the real world, it’s the necessary
first step to solving America’s illegal immigration problem. In this new video,
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer explains why building a
wall, while not the entire solution, must be done before we can talk about
anything else. Click
here
to watch the video.
Transcript: Every sensible immigration policy has two
objectives: 1) to regain control of our borders so that we decide who enters;
and 2) to find a humane way to deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants who
now live among us. Start with the second. For both practical and moral reasons,
America cannot and will not and should not expel 11 million people. That
leaves us with two choices: ignore them or figure out a way to legalize them.
Ignoring them hasn’t worked. But there is also a huge problem with legalization:
it creates an irresistible incentive for new illegal immigrants to come.
We say, of course, that this will be the very last, very final,
never-again, we're-not-kidding-this-time amnesty. And everyone knows it's phony.
That’s what was said in 1986, when we passed the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration
reform. It turned out to be the largest legalization program in American history
-- nearly 3 million people got permanent residency. There was no enforcement. We
now have 11 million new illegal immigrants in our midst. The irony of this whole
debate, which bitterly splits the country, is that there is a silver bullet that
would not just solve the problem, but also create a national consensus behind
it.
A vast number of Americans who oppose legalization and fear new
waves of immigration would change their minds if we could radically reduce new
-- i.e., future -- illegal immigration. And we can. First, build a barrier. Call
it a wall. Call it a fence. Call it what you will. Add cameras and sensors. Add
drones. Beef up the patrols. All that matters is that we regain control of the
border. Fences work. The triple fence outside San Diego led to a 90 percent
reduction in infiltration. Israel’s border fence with the West Bank produced a
similar decline. Even holier-than-thou Europeans have conceded the point:
Hungary, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Greece, Spain – why, even Norway -- have
all started building border fences to stem the tide of Middle Eastern refugees.
Then enforce two other measures: a national E-Verify system that
makes it just about impossible to work if you are here illegally, and a
functioning visa tracking system, since 40% of illegal immigrants are visa
overstays. The wall/fence will, of course, be ugly. So are the concrete barriers
to keep truck bombs from driving into the White House. Sometimes function has to
supersede form. And don't tell me that this is our Berlin Wall. When you build a
wall to keep people in, that's a prison. When you build a wall to keep people
out, that's an expression of sovereignty.
Of course, no barrier will be foolproof. But it doesn't have to be.
It simply has to reduce the river to a manageable trickle. Once we do,
everything becomes possible -- including dealing with our 11 million illegal immigrants. So, let’s fix that. Track the visas, do E-Verify, build the damn
barrier. It’s ridiculous to say that it can’t be done. And who would certify
that the border is back in our control? I would have a neutral party, perhaps a
commission of retired jurists, issue the judgment. Once they do, we legalize the
11 million, granting them the right to stay and work here.
We can’t give them citizenship. That’s a bridge too far. You don’t get to join
the political destiny of the country by entering it illegally. But any children
born here would be American -- which means that over time the issue resolves
itself.
The American people are legitimately angry at the price American
society has paid due to illegal immigration. But they are also a generous
people. Once they are assured that we do indeed control our borders, that anger
will abate. A national consensus will emerge. Radical border control, followed
by radical legalization. No mushy compromise. A solution requires two acts of
national will: putting up a wall (along with E-Verify and visa tracking) and
absorbing those who broke our laws to come to America.
This is not a compromise meant to appease both sides without
achieving anything. It’s not some piece of hybrid legislation that arbitrarily
divides illegals into those with five-year-old "roots" in America and those
without – or some such mischief-making nonsense. If we do it right, not only
will we solve the problem, we will get it done as one nation.
Since 2007 Visa Overstays have Outnumbered Undocumented Border Crossers by a Half Million - By Robert Warren Donald Kerwin Center for Migration Studies - Visa overstays exceeded illegal border crossings, Entries Without Inspection (EWI), every year since 2007, the report says, and 600,000 more overstays than EWIs have arrived since 2007. Most illegal immigrants in the U.S. come from Mexico, the DHS figures used to compile the report show, about one-third of them visa overstays. This translates into 4.5 million visa overstays from Mexico in the year that was studied. California has the largest number of overstays (890,000), followed by New York (520,000), Texas (475,000), and Florida (435,000). Not surprisingly, California and Texas have the biggest chunk of illegal border crossers from Mexico, with 1.7 million and 1.3 million respectively. Other states, such as Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, also have large numbers of visa overstays, the report states.
Report: Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. Residents Now an Immigrant or Under 18 Child of an Immigrant - By CAROLINE MAY - More than 61 million immigrants and their U.S.-born children under the age of 18 now reside in the United States, according to a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The CIS report estimates that of the 61 million total, three-fourths or 45.3 million, are legal immigrants and their children. The remaining 15.7 million are illegal immigrants and their children.
Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit | Commentary - By Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Dave Brat - America is about to break every known immigration record. And yet you are unlikely to hear a word about it. The Census Bureau projects that the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon eclipse the highest levels ever documented, and will continue surging to new record highs each year to come. Yet activists and politicians who support unprecedented levels of immigration are never asked to explain how they believe such a policy will affect social stability, community cohesion or political assimilation. They can simply cry out, “We must pass immigration reform!” without ever explaining what they believe “immigration reform” means. Immigration reform should mean improvements to immigration policy to benefit Americans. But in Washington, immigration reform has devolved into a euphemism for legislation that opens America’s borders, floods her labor markets and gives corporations the legal right to import new foreign workers to replace their existing employees at lower pay.
Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare - Alan Gomez - USAToday - About 51% of immigrant-led households receive at least one kind of welfare benefit, including Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches and housing assistance, compared to 30% for native-led households, according to the report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for lower levels of immigration. Those numbers increase for households with children, with 76% of immigrant-led households receiving welfare, compared to 52% for the native-born.
No change in 35 years: Just 34% of Hispanic immigrants proficient in English By PAUL BEDARD (11/12/15) Just 34 percent of Hispanic immigrants are proficient in English, the same percentage as in 1980, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. But the share of U.S.-born Hispanics who speak English "very well" is on the rise and high, at 89 percent. And that's important because U.S.-born Latinos outnumber foreign born by two-to-one. Said Pew in its latest survey on Hispanic trends, the "share of foreign-born Latinos who speak English proficiently is little changed since 1980, even though the number that is English-proficient has grown. In 2013, 34 percent of foreign-born Latinos spoke English proficiently, numbering 6.5 million. In 1980, that share was 31 percent and numbered 1.3 million."
Record 63.2 million non-English speaking residents, surge in Arabic, Chinese, Spanish - By PAUL BEDARD - More than one in five U.S. residents speak a language other than English at home, a record, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In an analysis of the recent Census American Community Survey, a huge surge was recorded in those who speak Chinese, Spanish, Arabic and Urdu, Pakistan's national language. The report from the Center for Immigration Studies documented the growth of immigrants in the United States and provided evidence of concerns new immigrants are slow to assimilate into American culture, namely by speaking English at home.
Foundation
14th Amendment - Section 1: All persons born or
naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any
State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of the laws.
"Anchor
babies?"
The words of the very man who authored the amendment in 1866, Michigan Sen.
Jacob M. Howard - The use of the term “anchor
babies” is used to describe citizenship
granted upon birth as it acts as an anchor to keep the family from being deported,
despite their lack of legal status. But that simply isn’t what was intended
by the 14th Amendment, as proven by the words of the very man who authored
the amendment in 1866, Michigan Sen. Jacob M. Howard. Howard explained in
writing exactly what the scope of the law was when he introduced it,
making it quite clear that it was referring to granting citizenship to the
recently freed slaves only, not foreigners or even Native Americans.
Consequences of misinterpreting the 14th Amendment to the United States
Constitution - Births to illegal alien mothers are adding more
to the U.S. population each year than did immigration from all sources in an
average year prior to 1965.
US
imposes visa rules for pregnant women on ‘birth tourism’ - By
MATTHEW LEE and COLLEEN LONG - The Trump administration is imposing new visa
rules aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the
United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship. The
regulations, which take effect Friday (January 24, 2020), address one of
President Donald Trump’s main political priorities. The regulations
seek to chip away at the number of foreigners who take advantage of the
constitutional provision granting “birthright citizenship” to anyone born in
the United States, a particular peeve of Trump’s. Under the new rules,
pregnant applicants will be denied a tourist visa unless they can prove they
must come to the U.S. to give birth for medical reasons and they have money
to pay for it or have another compelling reason — not just because they want
their child to have an American passport.
State Department Right to Tackle ‘Birth Tourism’ - By
Lora Ries -
...U.S. citizenship makes a child eligible for free public education and
loan programs, government food assistance, Medicaid, and other welfare
programs. Costs can run into the billions. Furthermore, when birth-tourist
babies become adults, they may then apply for immigrant visas (green cards)
for their family members, increasing chain migration. The wealth of benefits
offered by the U.S. are a major selling point for the birth tourism
industry. Last January, the Justice Department unsealed indictments for
19 people involved in Chinese birth tourism schemes. The indictments
revealed that the “birthing house” operators told pregnant women that they
could seek U.S. visas to obtain the “most attractive nationality,” “priority
for jobs in U.S. government,” “free education from junior high to public
high school,” and “senior supplement benefits when the parent is living
overseas.” After paying a fee—which ranged from $15,000 to $50,000—each
client received coaching on how to pass visa interviews; overstay visas once
in the U.S.; and apply for federal benefits. This kind of fraudulent
behavior not only undermines the integrity of our immigration system, it
generates national security concerns, as well.
Theodore Roosevelt
- "We should insist that if the immigrant who
comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he
shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage
to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or
origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an
American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance
here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an
American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have
room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we
have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American
people."
George
Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 - "Citizens by birth or choice of a
common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The
name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always
exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local
discriminations."
George Washington
-
"[T]he policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a
body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so
doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they
bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their
descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon
become one people." ..."You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life,
and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ."
(letter to John Adams, 15 November 1794) Reference: The Writings of George
Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, Fitzpatrick, Ed.,
vol. 34
George Washington
- The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent
and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and
religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and
privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the
enjoyment." --Address to the Members of the Volunteer
Association of Ireland, 1783 -The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
Thomas Jefferson
- "Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in
this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society,
conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these
rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly
be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular." --letter to Hugh White, 1801 Benjamin
Franklin, Those Who Would Remove to America, 1784 - "Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them
all, and therefore the old inhabitants are not jealous of them; the laws protect
them sufficiently so that they have no need of the patronage of great men; and
every one will enjoy securely the profits of his industry. But if he does not
bring a fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live."
"Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to
settle in America."
Random Thoughts By
Thomas Sowell
-
Of all the arguments for giving amnesty to illegal immigrants, the most
foolish is the argument that we can't find and expel all of them. There is
not a law on the books that someone has not violated, including laws against
murder, and we certainly have not found and prosecuted all the violators --
whether murderers or traffic law violators. But do we then legalize all the
illegalities we haven't been able to detect and prosecute?
9 prerequisites for talking amnesty PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
Providing a 'path to citizenship' isn't the 'Christian' thing to do -
Republicans are getting a lot of unsolicited advice about how to recover from
last year's defeat, and most of it is either ignorant or coming from people who
don't have Republican Party victories in their game plan. One of the worst of
these bits of advice is that Republicans should join a bipartisan push for
immigration amnesty...
(more)
Milton Friedman – Illegal Immigration – PT 1 (5m28s) --
Milton Friedman -
Illegal Immigration - PT 2 (3m18s) (2 of 2) Professor Friedman
fields a question on the dynamics of illegal immigration. https://LibertyPen.com
The Immigration number Impact on the American Way of Life: For the first
200 years the immigration level was close to 250,000 a year. After 1990, with
the "extended family" legislation, the LEGAL immigration level has been
ONE MILLION a year AND the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION level has also been ONE MILLION a
year. Do you think that has had an impact on America's economy, social services,
schools, health care, infrastructure, etc. and the American Way of Life? Roy
Beck of NumbersUSA.com demonstrates
these numbers in the video below (4:50).
Immigration "solutions"
- By Thomas Sowell - "Immigrants in past centuries came here to
become Americans, not to remain foreigners, much less to proclaim the rights of
their homelands to reclaim American soil, as some of the Mexican activist
groups have done... Today, immigrant spokesmen promote grievances, not
gratitude, much less patriotism." (04/12/06:
Immigration ‘solutions’, Part IV
04/12/06:
Immigration ‘solutions’, Part III
04/12/06:
Immigration ‘solutions’, Part II
04/11/06:
Immigration ‘solutions’)
How
Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico - By John
Dillin - As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward
over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and
points beyond. President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it
quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less
than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among
veterans of the Border Patrol.
Patrick Henry - "It
cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by
religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity,
and freedom of worship here."
George Washington - "The bosom of America is open to receive not only
the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all
Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our
rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to
merit the enjoyment." "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country,
that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American,
which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just
pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local
discriminations."
Theodore Roosevelt -
"The one absolute way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all
possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to
become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. we have but one flag. We must
also learn one language and that language is English."
Theodore
Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1919: "In the first place we should insist that if
the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates
himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone
else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of
creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's
becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can
be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but is
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag,
the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars
against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag
of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language
here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt, railed repeatedly against "hyphenated Americans"
and the prospect of a nation "brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling
nationalities."
In a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918:
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years
to learn English or to leave the country, English should be the only language
taught or used in the public schools." He also insisted that America has no room for what he called
"fifty-fifty allegiance." In a 1917 speech said, "It is
our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the
native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to
the one flag which floats over all of us."
American institutions rest solely
on good citizenship.
They were created by people who had a background of self-government. New
arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of
good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this purpose, it is
necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration. It would lie well to
make such immigration of a selective nature with some inspection at the
source, and based either on a prior census or upon the record of
naturalization. Either method would insure the admission of those with the
largest capacity and best intention of becoming citizens. I am convinced that
our present economic and social conditions warrant a limitation of those to be
admitted. We should find additional safety in a law requiring the immediate
registration of all aliens. Those who do not want to be partakers of the
American spirit ought not to settle in America."
"Settlers came here from mixed motives...Generally
defined, they were seeking a broader freedom. They were intent upon establishing
a Christian commonwealth in accordance to the principle of self-government...It
has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into
the wilderness." ..."They had a genius for organized society on the
foundations of piety, righteousness, liberty, and obedience of the law...Who
can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided
by a Divine Providence?"
President Calvin Coolidge - Memorial Day Address, MAY 31, 1923 John F. Kennedy
-
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens
who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation
of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to
consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." Michael
Reagan -
"We are really enabling immigrants to avoid
learning English and assimilating into our culture because we give them
everything they need so they don't have to learn to speak English or become part
of the traditional melting pot. By enabling these people, we build an enclave
for them that looks like the one they ran away from at home..."ť
Howard wrote, in part, “that every person born within the limits of the
United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural
law and national law a citizen of the United States.” But Howard
continued, “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United
States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors
or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States, but
will include every other class of persons.” The 14th Amendment was created to
confer citizenship upon only the former slaves who had recently been freed
during the Civil War. It was not intended to be make a citizen of any person
who just so happened to be born on U.S. soil to foreign parents in the
country, legally or otherwise.
'Operation
Wetback' deported 1 million illegals with only 750 agents - By
Ed Straker -
President Eisenhower, however, deported a million alone in the space of a year,
and with only 750 deportation agents, in an operation with a name we would never
use today:
Operation Wetback. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural
areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000
aliens were caught... Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country. By
September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000
to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily. Unlike today,
Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where
they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for
buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the
Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz,
Mexico, more than 500 miles south. The sea voyage was "a rough trip, and they
did not like it," says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman
in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.
Myths
vs. Facts
World Net Daily article:
Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily Death toll in 2006 far overshadows
total U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan -- Published: 11/28/2006
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
When Congress passed Section 245(i) for illegal alien amnesty, they ignored a
loophole which FAIR
identified and exposed which allows deportable aliens with ties to terrorist
organizations to still be able to obtain green cards. Visit
FAIR for an in-depth report
on the impact of immigration in your state.
Illegal Dirty Little Secrets about Social Security - By Herman Cain - "There are two dirty little secrets behind the debate over the illegal alien issue that even the advocates of securing the borders first have failed to discuss. The first secret is that the estimated twelve to twenty million aliens living and working illegally in the United States have to commit identity theft to secure employment. The second secret is that without illegals' payroll tax contributions, filed under stolen or fraudulent Social Security numbers, the Social Security system would collapse years earlier than estimated... Illegal aliens represent cheap labor for employers and billions of dollars to the government to temporarily prop up the failing Social Security system. Congress is not only doing nothing to restructure Social Security, but its wink-and-nod policy toward illegal aliens and their employers encourages massive identity theft and ruined financial standing for millions of Americans. Common sense solutions exist, but the political will to enact them is missing... Illegal aliens present a challenge to national security, and a false sense of temporary security to our failing Social Security system. Failure to fix the problem just makes the problem worse. That's not a secret. It's common sense."
English in America: A Study of Linguistic Integration U.S. English Foundation Inc.
No argument justifies amnesty for illegal aliens by Phyllis Schlafly (5/3/2004) A favorite argument of the people who support amnesty for illegal aliens goes something like this: Current immigration laws, just like Prohibition and the 55 mph speed limit, cannot be enforced, so we might as well adjust to reality. That is like telling a woman, "You can't fight your rapist, so relax and enjoy it." There must be a better solution.
Muslims: They Immigrate, But Do They Assimilate? by Thomas D. Segel - Islamic fundamentalist hatred of all things western is something, which baffles both Europeans and Americans. This hatred is a rejection of western civilization, not only for what it is, but also for the values it professes. Among the Islamists, those who promote or accept this life style are enemies of God. ...With all of these things unfolding, there is now even a movement to modify language. We are being told that it is not a preaching of Islam to hate. They even tell us that Islam really means łpeace˛. This is a new definition by any stretch. What Islam means is łsubmission˛. It is the objective of Islam to have all non-believers submit. If they will not do so willingly, they will be forced into submission.
Immigration is adding to overcrowding schools ($7 billion taxpayer dollars annually), plus roadway gridlock and associated costs, plus raising the cost of living, and undermining homeland security.
According to data from the U. S. Census Bureau, bi-lingual education is costing taxpayers $7.4 billion annually. The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington has calculated that it illegal aliens have cost American workers $133 billion in job losses. Immigrants are 75% more likely to use food stamps, medical benefits, and housing assistance at a cost of $68 billion per year. More than 25% of federal prisoners are illegal aliens. 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the past three years came in from Mexico, India, and Brazil. 16,000 new cases of multiple-drug-resistant, incurable tuberculosis. Contact your Congressmen and ask them to protect our borders.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 cost $27 million in tax revenue to have ballots printed in foreign languages at over 1000 polling locations. H.J. Resolution 94 is a Constitutional Amendment, if ratified would overturn all federal, state, and local multilingual laws and establish English as the official language.
President Clinton's Executive Order 13166 mandates government agencies and even hospitals and venders at government facilities to print documents in foreign languages and provide on-demand translators for non-English-speaking persons. The English Language Unity Act (H.R. 997) would establish English as America's official language of law, "public proceedings, regulations, publications, orders, actions, programs, and policies."
California Scholar Says Most 'New Immigrants' Fail to Assimilate (2003) - Dr. Victor Davis Hanson teaches classics at California State University, Fresno, one of the 23 campuses in the California State University system. He says when he grew up in the nearby San Joaquin Valley, the majority of the population were Mexican immigrants who had become Americans and who made a genuine effort to become "acculturated" and to assimilate into mainstream American society. Hanson believes that type of immigration established a healthy pattern for all concerned. "When people came from Mexico in numbers that were smaller and would allow greater chance for assimilation -- along with legalities so that they didn't live in the shadows of society -- they were less likely to be exploited by employers, they were more likely to vote, and they were more likely to learn English," he says.
But now, the professor says, thanks to uncontrolled immigration, the region's population is composed mostly of illegal aliens who live in separate communities, isolated from mainstreaming influences. "The results have been that today's immigrant from Mexico is less likely to be confronted with an environment that promotes integration, English mastery, and fundamental basic civic education, and is much more likely to be here illegally," Hanson explains. The classics instructor believes another factor that further discourages assimilation is the introduction of the separatist principle of "La Raza." The term, Spanish for "the race," has come to be associated with a movement that exalts Hispanic ethnicity and group identity as a response to societal marginalization.
Subsidizing illegal immigration Americans concerned about our nation's increasingly serious illegal immigration problem – and that's most of us, by the way – are suffering another insult, but it's one you may not have realized. Last week the Mexican central bank made a startling announcement. Officials there reported money sent home from U.S.-based "migrants" – read "illegal aliens" – topped foreign investment and tourism dollars, and is now second only to oil revenues -
"Our borders have overflowed with illegal immigrants placing tremendous burdens on our criminal justice system, schools and social programs. Our federal wallet is stretched to the limit by illegal aliens getting welfare, food stamps, medical care and other benefits often without paying any taxes. Safeguards like welfare and free medical care are in place to boost Americans in need of short-term assistance. These programs were not meant to entice freeloaders and scam artists from around the world. Even worse, Americans have seen heinous crimes committed by individuals who are here illegally." -- ”Senator Harry Reid introducing the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993, which proposed a dramatic reduction in legal immigration, revocation of citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens, and it even called for wiretaps for alien smuggling operations. Of course that was before he was against all those things...Patriot Post Digest 06-14
Facts to Ponder: Alabama Republican Assembly December 20, 2006
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County).
(All the above from the Los Angeles Times)
Other facts to consider:
- Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare.
- Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth (and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration.
- The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was, (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay), a NET $70 BILLION/ year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University ]. The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE number.
- 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
Grassfire.org Alliance: Fact or Fiction: Illegals do the work that Americans won't do? Since picking up the banner in the battle to secure our borders from the steady stream of illegals more than two years ago, Grassfire has heard (as many of you are as well) all the rhetoric from those who disagree with our position. Now in an effort to help you bring greater clarity and understanding to the border crisis when discussing it with friends and family, we dispel some of the more popular half-truths and lies being told about the illegal immigration crisis.
++Myth #1--Illegal aliens pay taxes that benefit our economy Not true.
Most illegals are paid in cash and therefore pay no taxes.Even in instances
where they do pay taxes (only possible if they use a fraudulent social
security number or tax ID) they don't pay enough to cover their expenses. A
visit to any L.A. County maternity ward will give you ample proof of this.
There thousands of women each year have babies free of charge (and many return
to have more).Additionally, the vast majority learn who to use the system to
acquire food stamps and financial assistance.
++ Myth #2--Illegals come to the U.S. for jobs to support their families
back in their homeland. This is partly true. However record numbers of
those illegally crossing the borders are women and children! What's more,
there are also record numbers of dead-beat dads who simply abandon
their families.
++ Myth #3--Illegals don't affect politics because they can't vote Not
true. The fact that they are counted in the census gives them political power.
Since representatives in Congress are fixed, it creates a situation in state's
that have a heavy influence of illegals. Those "illegals" will likely be
represented. As such, it takes away representation from people in other
states--people who are here legally.
++ Myth #4--Illegals do the work that Americans won't do Not true.
Americans will do the work provided they are paid a reasonable wage. But
profit-greedy employers and corporations are increasingly favoring cheap
labor. Their profits soar, but at the expense of American taxpayers who have
to subsidize the labor costs by supplying the illegal workforce (and their
families) with welfare, education, medical, housing assistance. Employers of
these people simply turn a deaf ear.
++ Myth #5--Illegal Immigration doesn't really affect me Not true. As
we have reported in the past, in non-border states like Connecticut, North
Carolina, Georgia and New Jersey, illegal immigration is rampant. That means
in each of these states, benefits allocated to citizens are being taxed and
stressed by illegal infiltration. If the problem becomes severe enough (as in
California and Arizona) those services dry up. In both L.A., and Tucson, AZ
hospitals have been forced to close due to the incredible strain of illegals.
A Comprehensive Immigration Plan The GOP Can Steal (Please) - By Derek Hunter - First: Seal the borders. No one gets in, from anywhere, until we deal with those who are already here. That means heavy patrols on the southern border and immediate removal of those sneaking across. No excuses, no exceptions. Those seeking refugee status have the rest of the world to choose from; we have to get our house in order.
Second: Create a “Purple Card” to be offered to those here illegally who can prove they are employed. For lack of a better word, it is a form of amnesty. It will allow them to continue to work legally for a set number of years, after which it can be renewed if no crimes, not even misdemeanors, have been committed. If convicted of a crime, you’re out, no matter what. Illegal aliens will have one year after the border is sealed to apply for a Purple Card. They must provide fingerprints that will remain on file permanently and be accessible to law enforcement. There will be a processing fee. If they can’t come up with it, they add so little to the country that they should not qualify. After they are checked out and receive a Purple Card, they are free to work in this country for the specified number of years, renewable in perpetuity, as long as they are law abiding. They must verify they are working six months of every year. If they are unemployed for more than two months in any given 12-month period, they’re out. If they’re here to work, as we’re told, a work requirement shouldn’t be an issue. By accepting the Purple Card, they receive the right to work and freely move about the country, as well as to leave and return. But they never, ever can obtain U.S. citizenship. Their children, guests in our country just as they are, cannot become U.S. citizens, even those born here during their Purple Card time. We will educate them, but they are not Americans. For that they must go through the legal process in their home country.
Third: They will pay all taxes owed from their earnings, including all FICA taxes. But they will be barred from ever collecting Social Security, qualifying for Medicaid or enrolling in Medicare. That is the price of admission, the price for violating our laws. If, as Democrats say, immigration reform is about getting people “out of the shadows,” this does that. If, as Republicans say, they’re only here to work and help their families, this does that too. If it’s about something else, like creating voters who will undercut Americans’ votes, this will be opposed. We’re told illegal aliens only want to work to support their families. This allows for that. There will be minimal disruption of the economy since those illegal aliens actually here to work will be free to do just that. Others, criminals and non-contributors, will be weeded out. This must be coupled with an expedited deportation process.
Adios, America! - By
Phyllis Schlafly -
Ann Coulter lives up to her reputation of issuing warnings and political
commentary that nobody else dares to say in her newest book, "Adios,
America!" It's aptly titled; she makes the case that it is goodbye to the
America we know and love if we don't stop diluting our population with
people who don't love America, don't respect our Constitution and laws,
don't even speak our language, and commit all sorts of unspeakable crimes.
...Coulter gives hundreds of specific examples of major crimes committed by
illegal immigrants and, in particular, crimes against very young women and
girls. She shows the devious ways that the media conceal the fact that these
horrendous crimes are committed by illegal immigrants whom our government
never should have let into our country.
...There are many devious ways that foreigners can get into the
U.S. and then cash in on our generous welfare system. One route is the
family unification policy, which qualifies for entry all varieties of
alleged relatives, plus fake marriages by foreigners to U.S. citizens. The
racket called asylum allows a foreigner to claim without proof that he faces
persecution in his home country, and then he can qualify for admission to
the U.S. plus generous financial support by the U.S. taxpayers. The Tsarnaev
family, whose sons bombed the Boston Marathon, were admitted after phony
claims of persecution and then cashed in for $100,000 in U.S. handouts.
Coulter exposes the giant deception covered by the trendy liberal goal of
"diversity," which excused dumping 100,000 Somalis on Minnesota. We've
allowed 30 million Mexicans to settle inside our country; that's one-quarter
of Mexico's entire population of 120 million. In 2011, the Government
Accountability Office reported that the minimum estimate of criminal aliens
in U.S. prisons and jails was 351,000, a figure that includes only a portion
of the criminal aliens incarcerated in state and local facilities.
...Coulter asks a relevant question: "Why can't we adopt Israel's
policy on immigration?" What do you think Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
would do if thousands of Israelis were being murdered by uninvited
foreigners coming illegally into Israel? If you guessed, "Give them in-state
college tuition, driver's licenses, and free medical care," you would be
laughed at. But that's what President Obama gives to our illegal aliens.
Coulter's book quotes scores of news reports describing the horrendous
crimes committed by aliens against U.S. citizens, but somehow the news
reports consistently fail to mention that the criminal was an alien. Here's
a typical headline: "Man wanted for Raping Girl, 11, Robbing Her Family."
The news story never used the word "immigrant," but described the criminal
only as a "man" or "a 26-year-old man."
What if the illegals left? By Tina Griego - I, Tina
Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled,
"Mexican Visitor's Lament."
I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver
last week. Hernandez said, "Illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy
clothes. What happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go
away?"
Hmmm, I thought, what would happen? So I did my due diligence,
buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below. It's a good
question... it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of Americans demand
secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all
20 million or more vacated America? The answers I found may surprise you!
In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico,
it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems,
bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner,
safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English
became the dominant language again.
In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and
grandchilds would move back "home," mostly to Mexico. That would save
Colorado an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in
taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration
costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.
Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror
that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don
Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death,
accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals. Denver Public Schools would
not suffer a 67% dropout/flunk rate because of thousands of illegal alien
students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would
vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado. Denver's 4% unem ployment
rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State
back to America, the rule of law, and English.
In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals,
schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free
experience.
If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home,' the U.S. Economy
would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American
citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes
because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an
additional $401 billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal
amount for local, state and city coffers.
No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion
in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that
degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools
would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in
ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.
We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of
more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who
distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.
In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the '18th Street Gang' would
vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from
Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded
highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American
deaths by illegal aliens!
America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over
$80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash
transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further
drains America 's economy which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.
$8.7 trillion debt!!!
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country,
costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in
California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being
bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.
Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our
country - brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.
Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and
grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns
of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11% of our greenhouse
gases.
Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and
along our border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California, in what
the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods. Trouble is,
those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty,
filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without
sewage, clean water, streets, roads, electricity, or any kind of sanitation.
The New York Times reported them to be America's new 'Third World'
inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they
expect 20 million residents of those colonials. (I've seen them personally
in Texas and Arizona; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.)
By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico. We
should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or
make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our
country legally annually, more than all other countries combined. We cannot
and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders
and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation.
It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our
civilization and our way of life.
Interesting Statistics! Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should
vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they
are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on
welfare to illegal aliens (that's Billion with a 'B')
3. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal
aliens.
4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a
word of English!
5. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal
aliens. That's $1.2 Billion a year.
7. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
8. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for
welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in t he
US.
11. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from
other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those were middle-eastern
terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin, crack, guns,
and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.
12. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost
of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends.
14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex
crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!
Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !
Want
to sneak into U.S.? There's an app for that - American college prof
develops cell-phone tool to help illegals cross border - By Chelsea
Schilling - Ricardo Dominguez with his Transborder Immigrant Tool
(photo: CALIT2) Illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border now have
a cell-phone tool to chart the best route, find food and locate people
who will help them enter the country, courtesy of a
professor at a state-funded university. Ricardo Dominguez, a University of
California, San Diego tenured visual arts professor and activist, designed
the Transborder Immigrant Tool, an application much like a
global-positioning system used in cars, to help illegals find the best
locations for food, water and groups to assist them as they sneak into
America. Dominguez is also co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance
Theater, or EDT, a group that developed virtual-sit-in technologies in
1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He
also helped set up a website-jamming network called the FloodNet system to
attack official sites of the U.S. Border Patrol, White House, G8, Mexican
embassy and others.
Immigration Numbers & Projections NumbersUSA's array of innovative website tools provides animated intros and interactive features to help a new generation of Americans understand the role of immigration policy in all kinds of resource and quality-of-life issues. We've had designers & programmers working on this for a year. And they've tested it with focus groups for effectiveness for all Americans, but especially for our fellow citizens who are under 40 and who may have more centrist and environmentalist inclinations. You understand that the massive immigrations numbers have a far reaching impact on our society. This feature is designed to help you with easy visuals to explain to people who have concerns about resources and quality-of-life the implications of allowing current immigration policy to continue. See special sections on oil use and greenspace destruction. We'll be adding other key indicators later. See also: Immigration Numbers & Projections data pages.
FOX News report. (36 second video). The "new and improved politically correct" Americana Way of Life:
Letter: Undocumented White House Guests
Our founders' solutions for illegal immigration by Chuck Norris (Part 1 of 2) - America's founders were also concerned with properly assimilating immigrants so that their presence would be positive upon the culture. George Washington wrote, "By an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people."
Thomas Jefferson, hailed as one of the most inclusive among the founders, worried that some immigrants would leave more restrictive governments and not be able to handle American freedoms, leading to cultural corruption and "an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and tender it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."
And Alexander Hamilton insisted that "the safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on the love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family."
Therefore, our founders enforced four basic requirements for "enrollment and acceptance" into American citizenry that we still utilize (at least in policy) to this day but desperately need to enforce. The Heritage Foundation summarizes: Key criteria for citizenship of the Naturalization Act of 1795 remain part of American law. These include 1) five years of (lawful) residence within the United States; 2) a good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States; 3) the taking of a formal oath to support the Constitution and to renounce any foreign allegiance; and 4) the renunciation of any hereditary titles.
Just think if such immigration tenets were taught in schools like Live Oak High School in Northern California, where kids are confused about allegiances to flags and countries. And just think if the federal government actually enforced such tenets! Arizona (and now 10 other states following suit) wouldn't even need to go out on a limb and create their own immigration law, as states did prior to our Constitution. If we held citizenship in the same high esteem as our founders, and simply enforced the laws we already have, we wouldn't be in this illegal immigration pickle today. ...
The Price of Illegal Immigrants #2 - According to Rep. Steve King, illegal aliens commit 12 murders every day in the U.S. and kill another 13 daily through drunk driving incidents. That's more than 9,000 people killed every year by illegal aliens. As World Net Daily's Joseph Farah points out, that means more people are murdered by illegal aliens in one year than have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since their inception. Rep. King also notes that on average eight children are sexually abused by illegal aliens every day -- that's over 2,920 annually. And that's just a small portion of the illegal alien crime wave.
+ + 4.1 million crimes by illegal aliens - As we reported in
Grassfire's booklet, "The Truth About The Illegal Invasion," some 325,000
criminal illegal aliens will be incarcerated in state and federal prisons this
fiscal year. A GAO study found that illegal aliens commit, on average, 12.6
criminal offenses. This means incarcerated illegal aliens have committed over
4.1 million crimes -- and that does not include illegal alien criminals who are
not incarcerated. And we learned from Rep. Tom Tancredo that thousands of
illegals are coming from terrorist and suspect nations.
+ + So, what do we do? - It is very clear that the President and the
Democrat-controlled Congress are "chomping at the bit" to pass amnesty. The only
way to stop this is to rally a massive grassroots uprising.