Posted on 10/16/2015 9:13:04 AM PDT by Rockitz
IMMIGRATION is NOT the problem. The problem is ILLEGAL ALIENS!
Big difference.
It is already probably too late. We need to reduce legal immigration substantially, but I see no political will to do so.
She is wrong, it will be more than 100 years.
WRONG. LEGAL IMMIGRATION IS THE BIGGER PROBLEM BY FAR.
Since 1990, we have taken in 35 MILLION LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS, which is the equivalent of the population of Canada. 87% of them are minorities as defined by the USG. Minorities and immigrants vote more than two to one Dem.
In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born in this country, today it is less than one in 8, the highest in 105 years, and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history.
What Obama intended.
Ted Cruz supports amnesty and increased foreign workers.
Unchecked legal immigration is the death of conservatism.
Links? The H1B question is still open, he does not support amnesty.
Cruz reiterated his pro-H-1B-expansion stand this July: “Cruz: ‘Proud to Defend’ Trump, Expand H-1B Visas For ‘Educated,’ ‘Talented’ Job Creators” - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3309118/posts
But for Mr. Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who represents a state with rapidly changing demographics, finding common ground will not be easy. Many of the bedrock Tea Party supporters who helped elect him are immigration hard-liners who object to even the slightest nod toward amnesty, a loaded word that generally means providing an avenue for legal residency to people who entered the United States illegally. Such conservatives tend to favor mass deportation, or “self-deportation,” for the millions of undocumented immigrants.
On the other hand, Hispanics in Texas are projected to eclipse the white population sometime in the next decade, and Mr. Cruz cannot afford to alienate large numbers of Latino voters with a strident anti-immigrant tone and a hard-line legislative approach. Major business interests also are supporting a path to citizenship.
What Mr. Cruz has tried to articulate in both word and deed is a middle ground. It got no support from Democrats in Washington, but it goes further than many on the far right want to go by offering leniency to undocumented immigrants here already: A path to legal status, but not to citizenship. A green card with no right to naturalization.
Immigration-reform legislation from the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight passed that chamber in June and includes a 13-year path to citizenship. Mr. Cruz pushed unsuccessfully for amendments that would have, among other things, eliminated the citizenship component.
Asked about what to do with the people here illegally, however, he stressed that he had never tried to undo the goal of allowing them to stay.
“The amendment that I introduced removed the path to citizenship, but it did not change the underlying work permit from the Gang of Eight,” he said during a recent visit to El Paso. Mr. Cruz also noted that he had not called for deportation or, as Mitt Romney famously advocated, self-deportation.
Mr. Cruz said recent polling indicated that people outside Washington support some reform, including legal status without citizenship. He said he was against naturalization because it rewarded lawbreakers and was unfair to legal immigrants. It also perpetuates illegal crossings, he added.
Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.
The only place you see busy on the weekend are the auto parts stores where people are buying chewing gum and bailing wire to keep their truck limping along another month.
Oh, and upscale restaurants where people who do cheap imitations of Muzzies yelling, "Allah Akbar", by yelling "Free Trade", as they economically behead someones children in front of them hang out eating forty dollar soup and salad lunches while discussing how still more pain for the rabble is always the solution.
Thank you, I had not read this piece.
“What Obama intended”
Sure, but the law of unintended consequences will come into play.
We’ll get to the tipping point the Left intends, but they won’t get the end result they want. There’ll be a reset once Thatcher’s maxim about Socialism working until it runs out of other peoples’ money to spend comes into play.
When that happens there will be auserity riots in the cities and inner suburbs like there were in Greece. But Greece could play for an EU bailout. Who could possibly bailout the US.
What then? Cloward-Piven assumes mass demands for imposition of a new social and economic order. It doesn’t take into consideration though the impact the massive private ownership of firearms, in the hands of those who wont just resist but absolutely refuse to have that new order imposed on them will have.
And the Left will be surprised at how many local, state and Federal enforcers refuse to play along. They really need to look at what happened at the Bundy Ranch, where Federal law enforcement turned and walked away.
The only place you see busy on the weekend are the auto parts stores where people are buying chewing gum and bailing wire to keep their truck limping along another month.
Oh, and upscale restaurants where people who do cheap imitations of Muzzies yelling, "Allah Akbar", by yelling "Free Trade", as they economically behead someones children in front of them hang out eating forty dollar soup and salad lunches while discussing how still more pain for the rabble is always the solution.
Who needs a middle class? Look how well Latin America does without it!
It won’t be our country anyway...
The problem is not millennials.
The problem is the ethnicity of millennials.
To a great extent, kids vote the same way their parents vote, but about 5% more to the Left.
A solid majority of white voters, age 18-29, voted for Romney in 2012. A plurality of white females, age 18-29, voted for Romney, 49%-48%.
Unfortunately, each year, the percentage of young white people goes down, and the percentage of young non-white people goes up.
And this catastrophic political reality has been almost entirely caused by massive LEGAL immigration, an insane policy that huge numbers of Republicans still support!
But not to worry, white folks worship free love and contraception so if someone is "putting it to them" it's because they're so enamored of the idea of "putting it to" one another without any consequences.
White folks will die happy, though. Sterile, bleating "Beeeer, Beeeer, . . .", and bathed in sex.
Well, except for the women dying of various forms of painful cancers caused by contraceptives who are being told, "Obamacare covers contraceptives by the barrel but only a limited supply of pain killers. Have you read about your euthanasia benefit ?"
“And this catastrophic political reality has been almost entirely caused by massive LEGAL immigration, an insane policy that huge numbers of Republicans still support!”
For example, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3349422/posts?page=50#50
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