Posted on 04/07/2006 3:10:22 AM PDT by goldstategop
The Senate has reached a “compromise” on illegal immigration. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (who, by his conduct here, just lost the ’08 nomination) called it a “huge breakthrough” – a moral collapse would be more like it.
Did anyone ask the American people – who have time and again expressed their anger, frustration and outrage over our porous borders – whether they want a compromise on illegal immigration, on an amnesty for an estimated 12 million criminal aliens?
When asked about compromises on the more contentious issues facing the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia responded: How you can reach a compromise between what the Constitution really means and what judicial activists want it to mean?
How do you split the difference between reality and fantasy – between truth and lies?
The same applies to illegal immigration.
In fact, the deal that Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid worked out with Republicans like Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, Chuck Hagel and John McCain (the quintessential un-Republican) is no compromise at all – but a blanket amnesty for border-jumpers, whether they came seven years ago or 7 minutes ago. To claim otherwise is an insult to our intelligence.
At their press conference announcing this rape of our national identity, McCain, Specter, Reid et al. couldn’t even refer to the objects of their beneficence as illegal aliens. They were undocumented workers – the weaseliest of weasel words. Sure, and the man who breaks into my house is an uninvited guest.
Perhaps the most hilarious comments at the press conference came from stand-up comic and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D, NV), who spoke of all the undocumented workers employed by Las Vegas casino-hotels, as maids, dishwashers, etc, and how much the industry has come to rely on their (cheap) labor.
Does he think the average American actually cares about the labor costs, hence the profit-margin, of Caesar’s Palace or the MGM Grand? (Gosh, whatever would we do without a gaming industry?) If they don’t want to pay an American wage and fill those jobs with American workers, why should I care about their bottom-line?
Reid sang a different tune (which sounded more like “The Star-Spangled Banner” than “The Bonaparte’s Retreat”) in 1993, when he observed: “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. … 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.”
What changed for Reid in the interim isn’t the reality of illegal immigration, but the rise of the lawbreakers’ lobby in his home state, combined with his becoming the Senate leader of the party of plunder and shameless pandering.
That master of politico-babble, Ted Kennedy, called the compromise “tough and fair,” which is like saying Chappaquiddick was a shinning example of responsible drinking and safe driving.
That the bill Kennedy helped to craft is an amnesty is indisputable. If an uninvited guest can prove he’s been here more than 5 years (from the effective date of January 7, 2004), he need do nothing to remain but pay a fine. The dictionary defines amnesty as “an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole.”
By definition, coming to America illegally is “an offense.” Calling it a “guest-worker program” (another sniveling euphemism) doesn’t alter the fact that the compromise legislation will allow the criminals to remain here indefinitely, while escaping punishment – hence “an act of forgiveness for past offenses.” Enter national politics, and words suddenly lose any semblance of meaning.
The Great Compromise purports to be forgiveness for past offenses for some trespassers. Actually, it’s a blanket amnesty for all 12 million-plus illegals in the United States. As noted above, immigration criminals who’ve been here more than five years get a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Those who’ve resided here illegally for 2 to 5 years (from 2004) must go to one of 16 designated ports of entry and declare themselves -- as if this means anything. Then they are issued a temporary visa (that isn’t temporary at all), after which they can go home and continue their hostile occupation of American territory, and eventually apply for citizenship under the provisions of the measure.
Where the bill sorta gets tough (but only in theory) is on those who’ve been here less than two years. They are expected to depart forthwith. If they stay and are caught once, it’s a misdemeanor. Twice and it’s a felony.
How hard is it to forge a 1040-form, or a pay stub or a utility bill or a bank statement proving that Jose, who arrived here today, has been an illegal resident of the U.S. since 1999? About as hard as it is to stuff ballot boxes in Cook County.
The Senate compromise is touted as a problem-solving measure. (“Oh dear us,” its proponents wail, “We must do something to regularize all of the undocumented workers.”)
If it becomes law, it will be a major step toward solving the vexing problem of America’s national identity. Soon, we won’t have one any more.
Like the amnesties of the 1980s and the 1990s, it will result in another surge of illegal immigration. Build it, and they will come.
And those who come will have no interest in learning our language and customs, or identifying with our history and heritage. They won’t be Mexican-Americans or Haitian-Americans or hyphenated-whatevers (which would be bad enough), but Mexicans, Haitians or whatevers who happen to reside in the United States.
They and their children, and perhaps their grandchildren, won’t assimilate but be a solvent, eroding our identity as a people, year after year, decade after decade – until, eventually, America comes to be comprised of disparate national groups residing in what used to be a nation. (In less than 20 years, earlier waves that washed over our southern border have made Spanish our unofficial second language.)
Consider the words of Ronald F. Maxwell (writer/director of “Gettysburg” and “Gods And Generals”) commenting in The Washington Times:
“What is happening on the southern border is unprecedented. Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world. No country at any time, anywhere, has sustained the influx of tens of millions of foreigners across its borders … This is invasion masquerading as immigration. It may already be too late to avoid a future annexation of the Southwest by Mexico or the evolution of a Mexican-dominated satellite state.” If not, the Senate compromise will seal our fate.
That congressional Democrats favor lawbreaking and national suicide is unsurprising. They are, after all, the party of the alien and the alienated – the marginal, the misfit and the criminal.
But Republicans? Some are groveling before the illegal-immigrant lobby, whilst pursuing the mirage of an Hispanic Republican vote. Others pray in the direction of Wall Street. (Corporate America wants cheap immigrant labor, and damn the social costs -- crime, welfare and national disintegration.)
In the above-quoted commentary, Maxwell addresses these words to George W. Bush: “Mr. President, this is a time for candor. Your immigration policy is viewed as captive to the cheap labor – big business lobby and inimical to the survival of our country.” And so it is.
If Republicans lose either or both Houses of Congress this year, blame on the immigration-sellout of the McCains, Specters and Hegels.
GOP strategists think Middle Americans have no place else to go in November. We don’t have to go anywhere – just stay comfortably at home.
But that will be only the beginning. The Whig Party committed suicide by refusing to take a stand on slavery. Instead, it sought accommodations with evil, like the Compromise of 1850.
Republicans are emulating their pusillanimous predecessors. The party’s conservative base – its very essence – is furious with this unpardonable betrayal.
If this gift to illegal aliens becomes law, there will be no amnesty for the Republican Party.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I have already decided that any Respendicn supports any kind of amnesty I will never support thme for any ofice again.
LEGAL immigration: GOOD
ILLEGAL 'immigration': BAD
www.NumbersUSA.comPhone your Senators one last time before the scheduled 9:30 a.m. vote on the Hagel amnesty. The Senate switchboard is 202-224-3121 . Key messages are: "The Hagel/Martinez substitute is 95% of the Judiciary Committee's amnesty that was voted down Thursday. Oppose the Hagel amnesty and vote NO on cloture that would bring the Hagel amnesty to a vote.
"This offers an amnesty path to citizenship for nearly all the illegal aliens in this country. If you vote for cloture, your constituents will know that you have supported amnesty."
In all my years on FreeRepublic, I have not experienced as much despair over our future as I do now. I hope you join these organizations and set the FAXes and telephones burning before the Senate vote takes place.
Thank you . . . Penny
The first element?
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:
The other, somewhat interlocking element is this one:
"Thunder on the Border," click the picture:
The"Mexican Flag Superior, America in Distress" is in the upper left corner...
Dead on.
There seems to be a very loud silence from those who think that Bush "JR." and the GOP can do no wrong. History is supposed to be our teacher, with the Dems being the ones who ignore its lessons.
As it turns out, America may be history. But, as the saying goes, "when the going gets tough...."
The GOP can kiss Colorado goodby if amnesty passes. I live in Weld County which has traditionally been a GOP powerhouse. That is why President Bush made a campaign stop here before the last election. Weld County is also a premier destination spot for illelgal aliens.
The last election the Democrats gained a state house seat in Greeley that has aleays been in GOP hands. We also lost our U.S. Senate seat to Ken Salazar, and both the state house and senate to the Democrats. This I am afraid is just the start of the end.
I am going to the Weld County GOP assembly tomorrow. They all want my vote to get on the primary ballot. It is not going to be a joyful GOP party this go round. I have had enough of spineless politicians, and intend to tell them to their face how pissed off I am. Once the illegals are given amnesty, this county will fall into Democrat hands forever and I will kiss the GOP goodby too.
That's the word that has done us in. True leaders never compromise. If you are strong, you win. If you are weak, you lose.
We have compromised everything that America stood for away within the past thirty years. Law, order, freedom, private property rights and many, many more...with weak leaders who compromise.
Compromise: I lose a little by giving you a little and you win a little by me giving you a little. Win, win? HELL NO! It's lose, lose.
With each "deal" or "compromise" our "weak kneed" leaders made, American values and culture lost, each and every time.
Border jumpers want food stamps, free education, drivers licenses and free medical care. Many carry forged social security cards and fake 'Green Cards.' They have pushed medical care facilities to the edge of bankruptcy in California.
Don Feder's conservative call to arms is appropriate. If more journalists like Mr. Feder push for nationwide protests, people will march in the streets. 500,000 Mexicans protested in La La Land recently. Big deal. Consider the impact of millions of Americans taking to the streets marching in solidarity against border jumpers. What other choice do citizens have when their Congressional Representatives ignore their views? *
Our representatives just sold the people down the river. It's time for the silent majority to be heard!
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* Far better to protest now than lay around doing nothing.
I think that the GOP is being foolish to be pressing for amnesty bills in an election year.
LOL! Sweet.
Just last week about 100 students walked out of John Evans middle school here in Greeley to protest for amnesty. These kids came marching to downtown Greeley to rally. They had signs saying "Honk if you are Latino". The illegal supporters are trying very hard to turn this into a race issue, and the kids are being used as pawns.
Where will we be when these kids grow up as racists?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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