BUSH'S AMERICA: ROACH MOTEL
Republicans' defense of President Bush's immigration bill is more enraging than their defense of Harriet Miers. Back then, Bush's conservative base was accused of being sexist for opposing an unqualified woman's nomination to the highest court in the land. Now we're racists for not wanting to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
I don't know why conservatives like Linda Chavez have to argue like liberals by smearing their opponents as racists. Oh wait, now I remember! Their arguments are as strong as liberals' arguments usually are.
Apart from abortion, no subject produces so much disingenuousness as America's immigration policy, both legal and illegal. For nearly 50 years, Americans have been intentionally lied to about our immigration laws.
In 1965, Teddy Kennedy overhauled immigration law with the specific purpose of effecting a dramatic change in the nation's demographics. Bobby Kennedy had civil rights, so Teddy needed something big: He would preside over a civil rights bill for the entire Third World! My word, but that man could drink in those days.
With his 1965 immigration act, Kennedy embarked on entirely transforming American culture for no good reason. (You know how people always say the same arguments against illegal immigrants today were once made about the Irish to show how silly those arguments are? If only the U.S. Senate had had an "Irish Need Not Apply" sign!)
Until that point, immigration law basically took a laissez-faire approach, with country quotas attempting to replicate the traditional immigration patterns. Most immigrants to America had historically come from Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavian countries. Consequently, immigration quotas roughly reflected that balance, with smaller numbers of immigrants admitted from other countries.
But in an angry, long-awaited payback to WASPs, Kennedy decided he was going to radically transform the racial composition of the country. Instead of taking 15 immigrants from England and three from China, America would henceforth take three from England and 15 from China. Payback's a *****, Daughters of the American Revolution!
Some of those hardworking immigrants who just want a chance to succeed were arrested in a plot to blow up JFK Airport last week.
Most immigrants still come from a handful of countries; Kennedy simply changed which countries those would be. In 2005, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the overwhelming majority of immigrants came from only 10 countries, none of which had sent a lot of immigrants to America for the country's first 200 years: Mexico (161,445), India (84,681), China (69,967), the Philippines (60,748), Cuba (36,261), Vietnam (32,784), the Dominican Republic (27,504), Korea (26,562), Colombia (25,571) and Ukraine (22,761).
In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner.
One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population.
We needed to have "more discussion" about Iraq for nearly two years before finally invading. When will we be allowed to begin discussion of a government policy enacted by stealth 40 years ago specifically intended to decimate one particular ethnic group in our own country?
If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.
And as long as we're adopting an open borders policy for immigration, how about opening the borders for emigration? As it stands, anyone can come in and start plotting terrorist attacks or collecting government services right away. But the rest of us can never escape having to pay for it.
You can leave the country, you can renounce your citizenship — but you still owe taxes for 10 years. The government does not allow us to stop supporting welfare recipients in America, millions more of whom it plans to import under Bush's bill. That's not a free market — it's a roach motel.
If these free-marketeers at The Wall Street Journal want the free movement of people, how about letting us freely leave after they've wrecked the country?
In Samuel P. Huntington's book "Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity," he asks: "Would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British Protestants but by French, Spanish or Portuguese Catholics? The answer is no. It would not be America; it would be Quebec, Mexico or Brazil."
I don't want to live in Mexico, Quebec or Brazil. But now I guess I have no choice, since "open borders" means I can never leave.
2007-06-08 08:15:47
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answered by Anonymous
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You are absolutely right.
Mexican government promotes the 'silent invasion' of America. They even distribute literature about how to sneak across the border. Search The Reconquista.
If America took the same stance, there would be no need for a new immigration policy. They need to enforce the existing laws before they can say they do not work.
Mexico also does not put up with protests like La Razza staged here, where the cops shot the demonstrators with rubber bullets. In Mexico they use real bullets against the protesters.
2007-06-07 01:32:12
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answered by citizenjanecitizenjane2 4
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I have no arguement there.
Personally, I think they do need to come down harder on illegal aliens within the USA. The reason why is that it's simply wrong.
When people steal objects from a store, such as gum, prices go up in order to compensate for the missing product. So that 5 cent gum, could be 10 cents one day. The same applies here. When one illegal sneaks in, he makes it harder for the other guys. I'm not even talking about US citizens either, but rather the long list of people who have been waiting to gain entry to this country.
The argument that is illogically made on the side of the illegal immigrant is that they are escaping persecution, poor living conditions, etc. If you are escaping persecution first off, you come here and request asylum, not come here illegally. Second, most people who are on that to gain entry to the USA are also on that list in hopes to escape many of the same poor conditions. Is it really fair that others should "cut in line"?
2007-06-07 01:33:48
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answered by Ryan 4
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You are of course correct. America should not grant amnesty to the millions of illegal immigrants. The immigration bill will most likely not pass both houses of congress, I believe it failed a senate vote today in fact.
I do believe that immigration is important to america and that cultural and racial diversity can help make our nation strong and adaptable. Immigration should be controlled and monitored though, and everyone should have a fair shot at it. One of the greatest things about this country is that pretty much everyone has a fair shot at everything.
to give the illegal immigrants currently in the country a free pass to be here is sending the wrong message to the millions more waiting on lists and taking tests to get in here the correct way. This simply is not fair to them. We should reward people who have broken laws to get here are are subsequently taking advantage of our benevolence. We should remove them from our land and make sure they cant come back.
Then we should let the people waiting to come in here the right way in.
2007-06-07 09:55:43
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answered by andrew r 2
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I under no circumstances reported it replaced into. ALL team A isn't against ALL team B merely because of the fact some individual A which you met is. Creationism being taught in faculties hasn't those days been stated in my disctrict, and it is not at present happening, so it is not a controversy for me. I stay in California, so gay marriage is an annoying difficulty at present, yet i do no longer characteristic it to any particular faith, merely better than one religious association in many cases. ALL atheists do no longer think of precisely alike so do no longer assume ALL team A is aggravated with the aid of ALL team B because of the fact ALL team A do no longer trust one yet another and neither ddoes team B
2016-10-07 01:11:35
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answered by fabbozzi 4
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As in, I can't sneak in to Mexico, continue speaking English, bring all my friends and family to speak English with, set up a community of English speakers without any permission, take local jobs away from the Mexicans, and expect the Mexican government to provide welfare benefits to any of us that haven't found a job? Nah, I just don't see that happening. I figure we'd probably all be in jail and in fear for our lives.
2007-06-07 01:37:32
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answered by skip742 6
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not only will they be thrown in jail but left to rot there as well . Wake up ppl mexico is not our friend look what they tried to do to dog the bounty hunter . Nice to know that mexico also harbors rapists. Just stating facts in evidence ppl .
2007-06-07 01:28:00
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answered by Kate T. 7
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Actually Mexico has a national standing order of 'Shoot To Kill' along their southern border in order to fight against illegal immigration.
Vince
2007-06-07 01:26:29
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answered by vinny_says_relax 7
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Agreed. Bush's plan is a non starter.
I don't see it passing in the Senate either.
Wonder why this is being promoted ?
2007-06-07 01:26:36
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answered by Anonymous
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Exactly, so what is it we are not understanding here.
AND keep in mind that there are many illegals from the Asians countries here as well.
2007-06-07 01:35:17
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answered by Experto Credo 7
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