Posted on 05/19/2006 6:46:23 AM PDT by Irontank
Head for the wide open spaces of the Argentine pampas. Go where they ain't.
How can our "leaders" be such dunces?
Dunces isn't the adjective I'd use.
Ping, you were right, it is the John Birch society...
This is the peak of the mania, Peak Oil will blunt this land rush in the end.
I have a feeling a lot Senate Republicans in office are about to learn a painful lesson over this. VERY painful.
I believe the 20 percent annual increases in "Temporary" workers has been withdrawn. So now we're "only" talking about quadrupling migration levels.
Still, I'm sticking with my label:
The Immigration Explosion Act of 2006
amnesty
n. a blanket abolition of an offense by the government, with the legal result that those charged or convicted have the charge or conviction wiped out. Examples: a) the amnesty given to Confederate officials and soldiers after the Civil War, or b) President Jimmy Carter's granting amnesty (under certain conditions) to those who violated the Selective Service Act in evading the draft during the Vietnam War. The basis for amnesty is generally because the war or other conditions that made the acts criminal no longer exist or have faded in importance. Amnesty is not a pardon as some believe, since a pardon implies forgiveness, and amnesty indicates a reason to overlook or forget the offenses.
It's amazing that anyone is buying this nonsense from these folks. They contrive a new fake straw man definition of Amnesty (instant citizenship etc) and then say that their universal legalization of illegal aliens isn't the Amnesty the dictionary says it is.
Hopefully their dishonest scam will meet its deserved demise at the hand of the House.
n. a blanket abolition of an offense by the government, with the legal result that those charged or convicted have the charge or conviction wiped out. Examples: a) the amnesty given to Confederate officials and soldiers after the Civil War, or b) President Jimmy Carter's granting amnesty (under certain conditions) to those who violated the Selective Service Act in evading the draft during the Vietnam War. The basis for amnesty is generally because the war or other conditions that made the acts criminal no longer exist or have faded in importance. Amnesty is not a pardon as some believe, since a pardon implies forgiveness, and amnesty indicates a reason to overlook or forget the offenses.
MY dictionary, "AMNESTY, the act of an authority (as a Government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals."
Amazing how that number grows EVERY day. Gee the entire population of Mexico is 107 million. Amzing how any lie as long as it validates the Perpetually Pissed feelins is mindlessly accepted and repeated. Sort of like the lie "29% of all prision inmates are illegals." Just another manufatured lie to panic people into hysteria.
Because this is a legal issue, my source is from a legal dictionary:
http://dictionary.law.com/default2.asp?typed=amnesty&type=1
Actually, this estimate is the same estimate Senator Sessions' staff released earlier this week
Sen. Sessions Unveils Massive Numerical Impact Of Senate Immigration Bill
Until now, I've not heard anyone claim this estimate was a "lie"...I take it you've read the proposed bill (which I understand has been amended now to eliminate the automatic cap increases, thanks to conservatives like Senator Sessions) and can let us know why the Senator's estimates are a lie?
and do you think the guest worker provisions are limited to Mexico? The growth rate in Central America is astronomical...the population is expected to double between 2000 and 2025...add 63 million Central Americans to whatever portion of Mexico's population over the next 25 years wants to come to the US...then look at South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East...are you really trying to claim that there would not be enough people in the world over the next 20 years that want to immigrate to the US to reach the potential numbers of immigrants in the Senate bill...or come close enough to radically alter this nation?
Sort of like the lie "29% of all prision inmates are illegals."
Not exactly a lie...but, in fact, its worse for the open borders crowd than saying that 29% are illegal aliens...in fact, according to the report of the National Institute of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons, June 2003, 29% of prison inmates in the US are aliens...legal and illegal. You can, as they say, look it up if you don't want to believe it
C'mon man...don't let your opinions get in the way of facts
I have posted the link on FR before and I won't bother now but you can google easy enough and get the statistics but of course you won't because you would rather call names(liar, perpetually pissed) then actually back you talk with facts. The total of Mexicos population is an unkown to me but I will state this, what ever it is in 20 years it will be bigger it won't stay static.
This article may be an exaggeration but one thing is clear, if you allow 12 to 20 million(the conservative figure) people to come here and then bring another 12 to 20, at a minimum if you imply spouses and don't factor in Children, you are doubling the amount of ILLEGALS here in one fell swoop. If you factor in just two children for each of the 40 million couples then you have added another 80 million so now we are up to 100 million without even tapping into NEW ILLEGALS that will start flowing here as soon as our idiotic government passes this amnesty, which God forbid they don't.
Stick your head in the sand but the problem won't go away.
That is an utterly nonsensical number. Utterly absurd OK? The largest mass migration in world history was Hindus to India and Muslims to Pakistan in the 1940s. No where even near this number 200,000,000. Logistically you simply COULD NOT move this many people without totally disrupting every aspect of the both societies. It's absurd. Making hysterical chicken little claims does NOT help the cause. It makes the screamers look like fools.
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